Colleagues from the Laboratory of Applied Entomology - Petr Doležal and Markéta Davídková - have a unique know-how and have come up with a unique solution in the form of a trap used for selective trapping of the large pine weevil. This innovative technical solution was already protected in August in the form of a European industrial design, which was registered in the EUIPO Register of Industrial Designs on 12 August 2021 as the Community industrial design "Trapping device (trap) for the large pine weevil". This protects its appearance, respectively. design. The very essence of the technical solution is then protected by a utility model, which was entered into the register of utility models of the Czech Republic on 5 October 2021 under the name "Trap for catching large pine weevil". The combination of both forms of industrial property protection thus provides the necessary degree of legal certainty and a solid basis for subsequent communication with entities from the application sphere and the effective application of given research and development results in practice. These negotiations are currently underway, and a related license agreement is also being prepared. At the same time, we would like to congratulate the inventors on the double protection of their technical solution and thank them for the perfect cooperation in the process of transferring their knowledge and skills into practice.
The large pine weevil is an important pest of coniferous seedlings and, in specific cases, deciduous seedlings in Eurasia. Together with the bark beetle, which causes billions of dollars of damage every year and which now leaves large clearings after prematurely harvested stands, the large pine weevil threatens not only the primary production functions of the forest and sustainable management, but by damaging seedlings and making forest regeneration more difficult, it also greatly reduces the ecological functions of the forest (climate, soil and water conservation). This is another major challenge in the context of current global climate change, requiring rapid and effective solutions.
