Annual Technical Report 2011 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Serbia (CWS/ATR/TM/2011/RS)
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I. Evolution of registration activities
Changes experienced in terms of application filings and registrations with respect to the previous year
In calendar year 2011, Intellectual Property Office of Serbia received 1989 national applications. Compared to 2010 (2167), national applications fillings decreased 8.2 percent. 1405 national applications were registered, 467 less than in 2010, and 236 were refused, 122 less than in 2010.
At the same time the number of trademark applications filed under the Madrid Agreement and Madrid Protocol is increased for 41 applications. We had 4927 applications in 2010 and in 2011 total number are 4968 trademark applications. On the other hand, the International trademark department issued 4352 Grant of protection statements in 2011, against 332 in 2010.
Trademark applications:
Year Madrid Agreement National Total
2009 5422 2084 6263
2010 4927 2161 7088
2011 4968 1987 6955
Registered Trademark Applications:
Year Madrid Agreement National Total
2009 5885 3371 9256
2010 5258 1872 7130
2011 4823 1405 6228
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to trademarks
http://www.zis.gov.rs/about-us/annual-report.106.html
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of secondary sources of trademark information, i.e., trademark gazettes
The Intellectual Property Office of Serbia (henceforward "Office"), on the basis of Trademark Law, publishes its official gazette: Intellectual Property Journal. The Intellectual Property Journal is published bimonthly, 6 times a year. The Intellectual Property Journal, in the part referring to trademarks, is prepared by means of computer, using an IPAS system. The following information and bibliographical data concerning registered domestic and international trademarks are published in the Intellectual Property Journal: registration number, registration date, expected expiration date of registration, application number, date of filing of the application, date concerning exhibitions, data relating to priority under the Paris Convention, list of goods and services according the Nice Classification of Goods and service, disclaimer, reproduction of the mark, information concerning the colors claimed, indication relating to the nature or kind of mark, name and address of the holder of the registration, name and address of the representative. Trademarks are published in grayscale and color technique. Official gazette is also available on CD ROM issued at the same time as paper version and which contains same information. From the beginning of the 2010 gazettes published in 2010 can be found on our official web site zis.gov.rs
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of trademark information
The Nice Classification is used for the similarity examination search, for commercial search and for statistics.
We have been using Vienna Classification in trademark examination procedure for years, but from the beginning of 2010, Trademark Department started to apply Vienna Classification through the IPAS system.
IV. Trademark manual search file establishment and upkeep
In the Office, it is not possible to search manually the signs, because all searches are done by computer.
V. Activities in the field of computerized trademark search systems
Since January of 2006. Trademark Department uses an IPAS system in order to examine conflict with prior trademarks rights. Industrial Property administration system (referred to as IPAS) is developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization (referred to as WIPO).
Since June 2010 our Office applies new JAVA IPAS.
JAVA IPAS basically serves for:
1. Reception applications, user documents, notification of Office documents, corrections, daily logs;
2. File management (marks, user documents, auxiliary Registers, delivery lists, file renumbering, missing files detection, import data from the article 6ter);
3. Application and pre-application search;
4. Process management;
5. Journal;
6. Statistics.
By using the JAVA IPAS system, Trademark Department improves quality and efficiency of its work.
ICT infrastructure supporting trademarks database:
Local Area Network: L3 switches and VLANs, Microsoft Active Directory, DHCP, WSUS, ISA proxy services implemented, WEB VPN towards EPO (EpoqueNet), Windows XP workstations;
Internet connection: Direct optical connection to the provider at 8Mbit/sec, 2xCisco ASA 5510 in active/standby firewall configuration;
Server for IPAS: FujitsuSiemens Primergy TX200 server, 4GB RAM memory, 5x146GB hard disks in RAID 5 configuration, 2 NICs;
Software: MS Windows 2003 R2 Server Standard Edition, application software is IPAS (proprietary), database is Oracle 10g.
Publication server for trademarks:
Hardver: FujitsuSiemens Primergy TX300 server, 4 GB RAMS 5x146GB hard disks in RAID 5 configuration, 2 NICs
Software: MS Windows 2003 R2 Server Standard Edition, web browser as a client, application server Apache/Tomcat, MySql database.
Intranet access:
Hardware: IBM workstation as a server (2 GB of RAM, 2x146GB hard disks).
Software: MS Windows XP as an operating system, Active Directory database member, web browser as a client, application environment is IPAS, database is Oracle 10g.
VI. Administration of trademark information products and services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, registering trademarks, assisting clients with search procedures, obtaining official publications and registry extracts)
All relevant data considering the trademark protection in Republic of Serbia are on our web site on www.zis.gov.rs. That includes 1) frequently asked questions about trademarks, 2) TM legislation, 3) guidelines and forms, 4) fees; 5) statistics; 6) reports.
National trademark database is on our web site as well.
Third parties can make trademark research in our Office through the intranet.
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of trademark documentation and information
During 2011, the Official Gazette of the Intellectual Property Office of Republic of Serbia, “Intellectual Property Journal” has been delivered to the following countries in CD ROM:
Armenia, Argentina, Australia, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Norway, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovenia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, England, United States, Macedonia, South Korea, Venezuela, San Marino, Croatia.
The Office has received gazettes from the following countries: Russia, Romania.
VIII. Matters concerning education and training, including technical assistance to developing countries (please indicate URLs of web pages of the Office’s website wherever appropriate)
Through 2011, Intellectual Property Office of Republic of Serbia organized many lectures concerning trademark legal protection. Experts from Trademark Department and Section for International Trademarks attended many professional meetings, both in country and abroad, including Committee on Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications-SCT and Madrid Union Assembly. Some of the most important events can be found in English on our official web site: zis.gov.rs
IX. Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:
X. Other relevant matters