Категориите в които се състезават 12 номинирани са: промишленост, малки и средни предприятия/научни изследвания, неевропейски държави и цялостна изобретателска дейност.
Имената на номинираните са следните:
Industry
- Fiona Fairhurst (UK)
- Hendrikus Koenraad A. Meijer, Huibert Willem Den Hartog (Netherlands)
- Jürg Zimmermann, Brian J. Druker (Switzerland)
SMEs/research
- John Daugman (UK)
- Bartolomej Janek (Slovakia)
- Joseph Le Mer (France)
Non-European countries
- Shoichi Sasaki (Japan)
- Yiqing Zhou, Dianxi Ning, Shufen Wang, Deben Ding, Guofu Li, Chengqi Shan, Guangyu Liu (China)
- Marion Franklin Rudy (US)
Lifetime achievement
- Adolf Goetzberger (Germany)
- Raoul Parienti (France)
- Maria-Regina Kula (Germany)
European Patent Office and the European Commission announced the nominations for the inventor of 2009.
Categories that compete 12 nominees are: Industry, SMEs / research, non-European countries and the overall inventive activity.
The names of nominees are as follows:
информация на EPO.
