On 18.10.2012 Gabriela Milcev presented “Ideas that could be protected and ideas that cannot be protected through intellectual property tools” as part of the Conference on Managing Intellectual Property, Ist Edition. The presentation was focused on the allegation that all ideas could be protected through different intellectual property tools depending on the materialization of the idea. Recent decisions related to trademarks, copyrights, design, unfair competition were also discussed.

A special attention was paid to less original ideas though protected and also to objects protected through commercial secret.