The Irish Patents Office has announced details of its new Junior Inventor 2009 competition, which is aimed at primary school students and is being launched by the office to mark world intellectual property day, which falls on April 26. This year’s theme is the promotion of green innovation as the key to a secure future.
Students can enter any idea or invention concerned with improving the environment; an idea for a new green environmentally friendly product, an improvement for an existing product, a new green procedure, ideas for new environmentally friendly ways of creating or saving energy, or any idea that uses green technology, solves an environmental problem, or makes life better and more eco friendly. This can simply be an idea that can be described and drawn or illustrated.
For more information categories and prizes look at www.patentsoffice.ie
