Annual Technical Report 2002 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Serbia and Montenegro (SCIT/ATR/ID/2002/YU)

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The expression "industrial designs" covers industrial designs and models. Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in this series of Annual Technical Reports.

I. Evolution of registration activities

NOTE: The two-letter country code YU should be used for Serbia and Montenegro, formerly Yugoslavia, until the ISO 3166/MA has taken a final decision and the Standards and Documentation Working Group of the Standing Committee on Information Technology reaches a decision concerning the revision of WIPO Standard ST.3 and the two-letter code to represent Serbia and Montenegro.

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In 2002, the number of national applications and registrations has
significantly increased in comparison with the previous year. At the same time,
the number of applications filed under the Hague agreement has also slightly
increased.

See Tables I and II in the attached document for Filed Industrial Design Applications and Registered Industrial Design Applications, respectively.

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II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of industrial design documents and of secondary sources of industrial design information, i.e., official gazettes

Nothing to report.

III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied

Nothing to report.

IV. Search file establishment and upkeep

Nothing to report.

V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs

Nothing to report.

VI. Administration of industrial design services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, registering designs, assisting clients with search procedures, obtaining official publications and registry extracts

Nothing to report.

VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information

In 2002, the Official Gazette of the Federal Intellectual Property Office of
Yugoslavia, “Intellectual Property Jornal” was delivered to the following
countries:
AM, AT, AU, BE, BG, BR, BY, CA, CH, CN, CO, CO, CU, CZ, DK, DZ, EG,
FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IN, IT, JA, LI, LT, LY, MK, NL, NO, PL, RO, RU, SE,
SI, TR, UA, US.

The Office received gazettes from the following countries: AM AT, BG,
BR, BY, CH, CZ, DE, FR, GB, HR, HU, JP, LT, MK, NO, PL, RO, RU, SI, TJ,
TR, WIPO.

VIII. Matters concerning education and training including technical assistance to developing countries

Nothing to report.

IX. Other relevant matters

Nothing to report.