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The expression "industrial designs" covers industrial designs and models= . Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent info= rmation activities in this series of Annual Technical Reports.
Merely 242 applications for industrial designs were filed with the Offic=
e in 2003, which is in total 14.2 % decrease in comparison with 2002. From =
the foreign applicants the most active are Germans (28), Czechs (24) and Du=
tch (15).
The Slovak applicants filed 49 applications less than in 2002. The share o=
f domestic application is 54 %.
By 31. December 2003 there were 1 512 valid industrial designs in the Slov=
ak Republic.
For the comparison we provide statistics of the years 1999 - 2003 in indus=
trial design area.
Table= s_3 - Industrial design statistical data
Publication of industrial designs
The Office publishes registered industrial designs in the Official Gazette=
.
Industrial designs information forms part of the Official Gazette - =E2=80=
=9C Vestn=C3=ADk =C3=9APV SR=E2=80=9D, covering all industrial property rig=
hts in one publication. Paper form issued monthly is published in standard =
size A4, paperback and usually in cca 300 pages. In 2003 the Gazette had a =
circulation of 250 copies, of which 113 were distributed by subscription. O=
ther copies were sent free of charge to patent information centres and cont=
act and information points of the IPO, within the frame of industrial prope=
rty information exchange to foreign offices and as the statutory copies acc=
ording to the act as well. Electronic form of Official Gazette, available t=
o the public in the Internet free of charge, contains searchable data.
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The following number of industrial designs were published in the Official =
Gazette 2003:
Registered industrial designs 184
MS Office 97, QuarkXpress 5.0 for Windows and Corel Draw 10, Photoshop 6.0=
, FineReader 6.0, Adobe Acrobat 5.05 CE, SLEX99 =E2=80=93 Lexicon of Slovak=
language are used for the data processing; the photocomposing and printing=
are carried out by the Office.
The Desk-Top Publishing technology is used for data and image inputs proce=
ssing, for the Gazette and first pages of the design documents.
The Gazette contains industrial design announcements arranged in followi=
ng main chapters:
- list of registered industrial designs (numerical series with classificat=
ion symbols)
- registered industrial designs (arranged according to the classes of the =
Locarno Classification)
- registered designs with postponed publishing
- published registered designs after expiration of adjournment term of pub=
lishing
- official decisions (cancellation, etc.)
- assignments of rights and other changes of owners
- extension of the term of validity of the industrial design registration =
- licence contract registered in the register
- the partial cancellation of the trademark registration
- the termination of sub-licence contracts
- the right of lien
The actual version of the International Classification for Industrial De= sign (Locarno Classification) is used for classifying of industrial designs= , which are classified by Office=C2=B4s experts.
The WIPO Standard ST.80 is used for patent and utility model bibliograph= ic data coding in all relevant outcomes or records. All bibliographic data = are being processed in electronic database form. The fully searchable data = are updated and made available to the public each 15 minutes in the Interne= t.
Industrial design search file of the Office comprises the industrial des=
ign collection of the Slovak Republic and also former Czechoslovak Republic=
.
The IPO SR built in 2003 the manual industrial design search system in the=
card catalogue form, arranged according to international industrial design=
classification, updated regularly.
In 2003, within the frame of mutual exchange, the IPO SR received indust= rial design gazettes from the following states and organizations: AT, BA, B= E, BG, BR, BX, CH, CZ, DE, EE, FR, GB, HR, HU, IT, LT, LV, MD, MK, PL, PT, = RO, RU, Sl, UA, US and WIPO.
The online industrial design database serves for all industrial design p=
rocedures and searches. Select registry data are available to the public in=
the Internet.
It is possible to carry out searches according to bibliographic data in al=
l the databases used for industrial designs.
Czech registered industrial designs database in the Internet is used. WIPO International Design Bulletin CD-ROM.
Office automation management system contains industrial designs registry=
(data since 1993).
Administrative databases based on Lotus Domino.
Fast ETHERNET 1000/100/10 Mbit/s, WINDOWS 2000 for servers; workstations= PC Pentium, Windows 2000; HP Unix for database, Informix Dynamic Server 9.= 21, Citrix Metaframe 1.8.
In 2003, the office=E2=80=99s reading room has been visited by 2028 user=
s and 1539 of them were from the public. In total there were provided 9671 =
borrowings of patent and other literature made available to the public and =
31558 copies of patent documents for the manual and computer search purpose=
s, as well as copies from technical periodicals and other associated and no=
n-patent literature were made. In 2003 there were performed 296 patent sear=
ches, 2627 trademark searches and 74 design searches based on 1200 written =
and 136 personal requests.
The office=E2=80=99s reading room including the search workstation opens d=
aily from 7:30 to 15:00 except Wednesday (8:00-16:00).
All online services and other basic information are available via Internet=
address of IPO SR www.upv.sk.
The library provides following services to the public:
- sales of the Official Gazette in paper form
- on-line searches in Office=E2=80=99s search system, self-service during =
a personal visit
- general information - provided by Office=E2=80=99s experts
- searches upon request - orders in written and online form.
Industrial Design information on the World Wide Web:
- general information
- information about Office activities (seminars, training courses, etc.) <=
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- application guide and forms
- relevant laws
- Annual Reports
- selected registry data
- Official Gazette
- order forms (searches, non-patent literature)
- Locarno Classification (7-th edition)
In 2003, four patent information centres and 10 contact and information po=
ints of the IPO SR were established under assistance of the EPO for the pur=
pose of raising awareness about IP rights. The new form of co-operation was=
initiated by Office with regional, state and district libraries; with the =
State Scientific Library in Bansk=C3=A1 Bystrica and Ko=C5=A1ice and with o=
ther libraries in Zvolen, =C5=BDilina, Pre=C5=A1ov, Tren=C4=8D=C3=ADn, Trna=
va and Nitra as well as Slovak National Library in Martin and Slovak Centre=
of Scientific and Technical Information in Bratislava.
Patent information centres
The main goal of patent information centres is to provide complex informat=
ion services in the field of patent, trademark and industrial design inform=
ation, search services, consultation and methodical assistance concerning t=
he searching of information, making copies of required patent documents, pr=
inting records from electronic form etc. Every patent information centre se=
rves as a contact and information point.
Contact and information points
The main goal of contact and information points of the Office is to inform=
the public about where they can apply for protection of the results of cre=
ative activity, and particularly to inform the general public about the exi=
stence of the national institution, which protects immaterial goods, indust=
rial property.
The Office supported the activity of centres and contact and information p=
oints by regular sending of Slovak patent specifications in paper also on o=
ptical discs (fulltext ESPACE-PRECES CD-ROM, bibliographic data thereof on =
ESPACE ACCESS PRECES ) as well as announcements concerning industrial prope=
rty rights in the Official Gazette form, all information materials and reso=
urces made available to the public, publications published by Office, infor=
mation pamphlets, documents and forms relating to applying for protection o=
f industrial property rights, access to office=C2=B4s databases via Interne=
t etc.
In 2003 followed the mutual exchange of patent documentation and officia= l gazettes between the IPO SR and other offices, also international organiz= ations, including the WIPO.
The IPO SR received from JPO registered industrial designs and from USPT= O granted design patents stored on CD-ROM in the past year.
Training courses for national participants
Four Module Accredited COURSE ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY conducted by the In=
tellectual Property Institute of the Industrial Property Office for office =
employees and professional public continued in 2003 with 42 participants, o=
ut of which were 27 employees of IPO SR. An excursion to M.O.C Star=C3=A1 T=
ur=C3=A1 =E2=80=93 a factory manufacturing dental and medical machinery =E2=
=80=93 was introduced for the first time in order to become acquainted with=
IP processes in SMEs conditions.
Supporting activities:
CONFERENCE
The Conference on INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN SLOVAKIA IV. was organized by t=
he office celebrating April 26, the World Intellectual Property Day. The co=
nference was attended by 20 lecturers and more than 60 participants, out of=
which were 36 external ones.
The Conference on INNOVATORY ACTIVITIES IN SLOVAKIA in the framework of UM=
INEX exhibition with exchange of practical information among 10 lecturers a=
nd 60 participants was organized by IPO SR.
Two day seminar on ENFORCEMENT OF IP RIGHTS for judges with 13 lecturers, =
3 judges and 40 other participants, mainly from the Bureau of Customs was o=
rganized by IPO SR.
LECTURES
Lectures outside Industrial Property Office SR for seminars covering IP ri=
ghts and their enforcement.
Lectures for students of economic, technical, pedagogical, environmental a=
nd law faculties of universities in Slovakia.
Special lectures in cooperation with the Slovak Association of Inventors a=
nd Innovators, Chamber of Patent Attorneys aimed at ministries and branches=
of economy and defense.
JOURNAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY magazine (=E2=80=9CDu=C5=A1evn=C3=A9 vlastn=
=C3=ADctvo=E2=80=9D) published by Industrial Property Office was issued 4 t=
imes in 2003 covering all relevant fields in IP rights, copyright, trade na=
mes, domain names, logos, licenses, creativity and management with 50 origi=
nal extensive papers and a number of translations, news, decisions of Indus=
trial Property Office, Grur International and Supreme court etc.
EXHIBITIONS
Participation at INCHEBA Fair in Bratislava, the International Engineering=
Fair in Nitra, the FOR ARCH Fair in Bansk=C3=A1 Bystrica, IENA Fair in N=
=C5=B1rnberg (Germany) and EUREKA in Brussells (Belgium) with aim to provid=
e free information and consultations in IP field.
Organisation of the third exhibition UmInEx - national invention and techn=
ical novelties exhibition in Bansk=C3=A1 Bystrica.
PUBLICATIONS
Updates of brochures on Industrial Property Office ACTIVITIES, PATENTS, UT=
ILITY MODELS, TRADEMARKS, DESIGNS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES and OFFICE HOME PA=
GE were published for the purposes of awareness campaign aimed at universit=
ies, SMEs, regional libraries, companies and broad public.
The Office issued publication 10 YEARS OF IPO SR on the occasion of decenn=
ial activity of IPO SR.
In June the first COLLECTION OF SELECTED DECISIONS of IPO SR was issued. <=
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Two new publications covering Slovak translation of LEGAL REGULATIONS VALI=
D IN THE EUROPEAN UNION IN INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FIELD and CONVENTION ON GRAN=
TING EUROPEAN PATENTS as well as eighth edition of INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICA=
TION FOR INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS (Locarno classification) were issued.
Two COLLECTIONS OF SPEECHES presented at conferences were issued.
OTHER
The OPEN DOOR DAY celebrating the World Intellectual Property Day was held=
on April 25, 2003 in IPO SR premises.