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Where URLs are requested below, it is preferred that either URLs which a= re likely to remain stable over time (three years or more) are provided, or= home (main) page URLs are provided with a short explanation of how to acce= ss the corresponding information.
The term "patent" covers utility models and Supplementary Protection Cer= tificates (SPCs). Offices which issue design patents should report their de= sign patent information activities in their Annual Technical Reports on Ind= ustrial Design Information Activities.
In 2005 a number of 984 patent applications were filed under the Patent =
Law no. 64 of 1991. Of the sum of 984 filed patent applications, 916 patent=
applications were filed by Romanian applicants, the difference of 68 paten=
t applications being filed by foreign applicants (30 applications filed by =
national route and 38 applications filed by PCT route).
In 2005, Romania was designated in 111,228 european patent applications( 8=
6.4 % from the total).
The Official Publications of OSIM:
OFFICIAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY BULLETIN (BOPI) =E2=80=93 Section =E2=80=9CIn=
ventions=E2=80=9D
It contents: Abstracts of patents applications and granted patents, variou=
s information on the changes of the legal status of patents, lists containi=
ng the Romanian industrial property attorneys and other useful information.=
OFFICIAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY BULLETIN (BOPI) =E2=80=93 Section =E2=80=9CNe=
w Plant Varieties=E2=80=9D. New plant varieties applications, proposed name=
s and accepted names, granted patents for new plant varieties, or granted l=
icences for use of new plant varieties and other specialized information, e=
x: Law no. 255/1998 regarding the protection of new plant varieties, implem=
enting of the Law, technical norms in the examination of new plant varietie=
s, others.
OFFICIAL INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY BULLETIN (BOPI) - Section =E2=80=9CEuropean P=
atent Applications and european patents with effects in Romania=E2=80=9D. I=
t contains: Data on the European patent applications and european patents w=
ith extended effects in Romania, according to the Law no. 32/1997, as well =
as data on the European patent applications and European patents with effec=
ts in Romania, according to the Law no. 611/2002.
ROMANIAN REVUE OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY. It contains: Articles in the field =
of industrial property protection, legal news, others.
CD-ROMs are also edited in Romania as follows:
- RO-BULLETIN is a disk issued quarterly, comprising all BOPI sections. Th=
e last
annual disk contains a complete collection of all the official bulletins p=
ublished by
OSIM during the year; said disk also comprises the Romanian Industrial Pro=
perty
Review. There are search means for it. The required software and the speci=
fic fonts
are delivered together with the disk, free of charge.
- RO-PATENT-IMAGES is the disk which offers you a complete collection, in =
facsimile, of all the patents published by OSIM in one year. There are adeq=
uate search means. The required software is delivered along with the disk, =
freely.
- RO-INDEX is a disk which allows the identification of the patents publis=
hed by OSIM starting with 1994, by using the bibliographic data. CD-ROMs ma=
de in cooperation with other offices:
- RO - PATENT BULLETIN =E2=80=93 monthly publication (PDF format); electro=
nic version of BOPI- Section =E2=80=9CInventions=E2=80=9D
- RO - VARIETIES OF PLANTS - BULLETIN =E2=80=93 monthly publication (PDF f=
ormat); electronic version of BOPI - Section =E2=80=9CNew Plant Varieties=
=E2=80=9D
- CD-ROM ERRATUM =E2=80=93 (Yearly) Disck comprising all the errata publis=
hed by OSIM
- ESPACE-PRECES - a disk which comprises the facsimile copies of the paten=
ts published by OSIM and other patent offices: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hu=
ngary, Latvia. Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia
- ESPACE ACCESS PRECES - disk which comprises all the bibliographic data o=
f the ESPACE-PRECES collections; it is a search mechanism which helps ident=
ify the patents in facsimile in the PRECES collection by searching accordin=
g to various criteria such as the patent number, the international class, t=
he filing date, the date of publication, the key-words in a title or abstra=
ct, etc.
- CD-ROM RRPI - Electronic version of the Romanian Property Revue
Starting with 1996, the publication, i.e. the whole process of publication=
, is carried out in-house (for both publication on paper and on CD-ROMs) as=
well as text setting, editting and desktop publishing, printing and delive=
ry. As all the documents are processed in electronic format exclusively, th=
ey can be turned into html and pdf format for publication in the INTRANET a=
nd INTERNET.
The data printed in the Official Industrial Property Bulletin (BOPI) are t=
aken from the Common Software database exclusively.
Corel Word Perfect is employed in desktop publishing and Corel Draw in ima=
ge processing. Several years ago, OSIM started to store the complete patent=
collection (patents granted in Romania) in electronic format. In the year =
2001, more than 50,000 patents for invention (about 250,000 pages) were sca=
nned and processed; the whole process was finished in 2003.
The modifying documents are also scanned and integrated into the document =
database. The data in the database are searched during the substantive exam=
ination procedure but they are also the primary source employed in manufact=
uring some CD-ROMs.
Facsimile documents are searched in two ways:
- directly, by using Acrobat Reader (you have got to know the number of th=
e searched patent);
- using the RO Patent Search database developed by OSIM specialists. For a=
limited number of documents, round 12700, and over a short period of time,=
namely 1996-2005, one can make use of the full-text search system.
The Office classifies all the patent documents exclusively by using the =
International Patent Classification. OSIM uses the 7th IPC edition currentl=
y.
The Office continues to reclassify the old national documents according to=
the 7th IPC edition and in Q4 2005 started reclassifying national document=
s according to the IPC reform.
V. 1.1. The management of the patent applications filed with OSIM is bas=
ed on the
Common Software System. Our system relies on the SGBD-lnformix Online DSA =
v.9.4 system; the interface is created by means of Hyperscript Tools. Said =
database is employed in managing the examination process, the publication a=
nd the dissemination of information. The information stored in that databas=
e enables the upgrading of other databases (see below), making preparations=
for other CDs such as ESPACE-PRECES and also the international exchange of=
data, a.s.o.
V. 1.2. RO Patent Search is a database designed for electronic search; it =
has two
components:
- one comprising the bibliographic data required in the formulation of the=
search equations;
- the other one comprising the facsimile documents. Said database contains=
about 120,000 records; in 2005 it will cover the period 1906-2005, complet=
ely. The
database comprising bibliographic data works on an Informix 9.4 platform f=
or Linux.
The facsimile document database comprises about 120,000 documents stored b=
y
scanning (as already described above). The facsimile document database als=
o comprises the facsimile image of the official bulletins published by OSIM=
.
In 2001 OSIM also succeeded in putting an end to the first stage of the ge=
neration of the database designed for the Legal and Technical Library; said=
database provides access to the list of books or periodicals extant in the=
Library of OSIM and also enables the on-line formulation of the requests f=
or books/periodicals even for publications which are not retrievable in the=
Library. In such cases, the publications are borrowed by the Library on th=
e basis of the inter-library exchange system. Starting from 2001 that datab=
ase can be accessed in the INTERNET as well.
V.1.3. A part of the RO Patent Search (the one comprising the bibliographi=
c data of the patents starting with no. 105544 to date and the related facs=
imile documents are available in the INTERNET) and can be accessed at www.o=
sim.ro. The Ro- ESPACEnet is accessible too. At OSIM headquarters we also h=
ave patent collections on CD-ROMs.
V.1.4. Using MIMOSA Authoring software and benefiting of training from EPO=
Vienna sub office, OSIM developed the Espace- RO CD-ROM. As an important f=
eature of this product it is worth mentioning that, using MIMOSA retrieval =
software, users may perform full text searches.
V. 1.5. The index databases on CD-ROM that can be accessed by internal use=
rs in the network are the following ones:
-Access A - IPC Class - Access Europa
-Access B - Bulletin
-Access Preces - Casis - Bib - Global Patent
The full-text databases, stored in juke-boxes can be accessed from local P=
Cs:
-Espace-EPA complete Espace CH 1994- to date
-Preces complete Espace DK 1990- to date
-Espace UK 1974- to date Espace ES 1990- to date
-USAPAT complete Espace EPS complete
-COSMOS 1992- to date
-DEDEPAROM 1993- to date
-World 1991- to date
-Espace AT 1992- to date
-Espace IT 1993-1995
-Espace RU 1996-1997
-Espace SI 1993-1998
-Espace OAPI 1994- to date
-GLOBALPAT
All the collections are available for search by internal users and the pub=
lic.
- EPOQUE database
Commercial ones:
-STN
Other free databases in the INTERNET:
-ESPACE-NET and other databases in the INTERNET, made available by other i=
ndustrial property
offices.
HARDWARE
- S AN system with 7 servers in a group
- EPTOS hardware platform
- 300 PCs (220 Pentium IV, 80 PIII and PII). For patent related activities=
there are used about 110 PCs;
- 40 network printers;
- 8 scanners;
- 8 Juke-boxes: one JVC-type and seven NSM, each having a capacity of 600 =
disks, provided with DVD and CDROM readers, connected with the internal net=
work by 4 servers;
- INTERNET Subsystem uses 10 Mb/s metropolitan, 4Mb/s external radio lease=
d line. The INTERNET Subsystem comprises "www" and e-mail server, database =
server, proxy server, routers, firewalls.;
- Internal Network: 100 MB optical fiber backbone, NORTEL technology.
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SOFTWARE
- HP Unix (former True 64 DIGITAL Unix) operating system for GS80 server; =
- Linux operating system for the Server of the INTERNET/INTRANET database,=
for the www and e-mail server, for the proxy server;
- Windows 2003 server for domain controller servers
- RDBMS Informix Dynamic Server V.9.4
- Windows 2000 Professional for client PCs;
- Corel Word Perfect Office for DTP;
- Common Software application by Hyperscript Tools on client PCs;
- EPOQUE-NET application for searches in EPO's databases;
- Acrobat Exchanger for converting patents into PDF format;
- Netscape v.6 and Microsoft Internet Explorer for INTERNET/INTRANET;
-Software specific to the CD-ROM collections namely Mimosa, Data Ware, etc=
.
Administration of the Patent Collection and of the Services Rendered to th=
e Public (for applications, assistance on search, ways and means of getting=
the official publications and of gaining access to records/statistics).
OSIM exchanges documents with more than 45 foreign patent offices and in=
ternational
industrial property organizations. As a result of this international excha=
nge OSIM received in 2004:
- All the patent collections in CD-DVD;
-1,300 official journals;
- 80 specialized reviews (paper/CD-ROMs).
The received patent documents (paper) are entered in a key-card in sequent=
ial order and then classified according to the International Patent Classif=
ication. The patent collection of Romania comprises 173,000 patent applicat=
ions and 119,000 patents and is arranged both sequentially and according to=
the IPC classes.
The National Patent Collection comprises more than 20 million documents =
(on paper) grouped in national collections (countries) ordered by years, ac=
cording to the IPC or sequentially.
The storage rooms are protected against fire; they are provided with air-c=
onditioners and partially with moving shelves.
In 1998 OSIM set up a document preservation-restoration team and the Natio=
nal Industrial Property Archives Bureau in charge of protecting and exploit=
ing information in the OSIM archives.
The team was trained in document restoration at the National Archives Scho=
ol; its entire activity is under the control of the National Archives.
OSIM exchanges documents with the National Library which has a complete =
collection of the official bulletins printed by the Office; OSIM also excha=
nges documents with other national offices, regional organizations and the =
WIPO Library.
The Office also cooperates with other Romanian public libraries and especi=
ally with the libraries of other offices aiming at having a regular exchang=
e of information and documents on industrial property.
According to its development programme OSIM set up 14 regional information=
centres all over the country thereby extending the dissemination of the pa=
tent literature information in the territory.
At its reading-room OSIM makes all its documentation available to the pu=
blic and makes xerox copies of the patent documents, search reports and pat=
ent literature surveys, upon request. Upon paid order, the Offices makes se=
arches on infringement risks in the teritory of Romania.
The reading-room makes available to the public computer-aided services, pr=
oviding access to the in-house databases: Access A/B, Espace Bulletin, EP-A=
full-text, BIB, Patents Assist, ASSIGN, CD-ROM (local search), assistance =
and use of external databases in the INTERNET.
In its INTERNET page - www.osim.ro the Office allows for the access of the=
public to a wide range of useful information: BOPI, patents, national legi=
slation, etc.
Some of the documents were already stored in the moving shelves, the full =
security of those documents being under strict supervision.
OSIM exchanges, on bilateral basis, Official Gazettes and patent descrip= tions (on paper and/or CDROM) with 44 other industrial property offices.
In 2005, OSIM had a rich promotion activity all over the national territ=
ory: more than 10 seminars on topics specific to the industrial property fi=
eld, participation in many exhibitions home and abroad, organization of tra=
ining courses for beginners and advanced learners in the field of industria=
l property and computer search, etc. OSIM participated in the international=
fairs organized in Geneva and Bucharest, and in some important national fa=
irs.
In the year 2005, OSIM sent patents on paper and the related bibliographic=
data in electronic format to ARCANUM and EPIDOS, monthly, to have them inc=
luded in the PRECES CD-ROM.
The Office published the database of patents granted in Romania in the INT=
ERNET, said database starts with the patent no. 105544, which was the first=
patent granted under the Patent Law (Law no. 64/1991).
In addition, there is a colaboration program between the OSIM and 10 count=
y libraries.
1. | Classification is=
allotting one or more classification symbols (e.g., IPC symbols) to a pate=
nt application, either before or during search and examination, which symbo=
ls are then published with the patent application.
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2. | Preclassification=
is allotting an initial broad classification symbol (e.g., IPC class or su=
bclass, or administrative unit) to a patent application, using human or aut=
omated means for internal administrative purposes (e.g., routing an applica=
tion to the appropriate examiner). Usually preclassification is appli=
ed by the administration of an office.
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3. | Reclassification =
is the reconsideration and usually the replacement of one or more previousl=
y allotted classification symbols to a patent document, following a revisio=
n and the entry into force of a new version of the Classification system (e=
.g., the IPC). The new symbols are available on patent databases. &= nbsp; |