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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.
In the course of 2006, 808 applications for industrial designs were file=
d with the State Office of Industrial Property of the Republic of Macedonia=
. The total number of the filed applications for industrial designs in 2006=
, compared with the previous year was increased by 1.4%. In the total numbe=
r of filed applications for industrial design with the Office, the number o=
f national ones in 2006 compared to the previous year, marks an increase of=
31.9%, and there was a drop with the foreign ones of 76.9%. In the total n=
umber of filed applications, 35 were filed with the Office, and 773 through=
the Hague Agreement for international registration of industrial design, 3=
80 of which were new, and 393 were industrial designs for which the validit=
y was extended for the territory of the Republic of Macedonia.
Typically for the designs, with one application for granting industrial de=
sign right, protection for several designs of products can be requested (mu=
ltiple application), with all the designs on the application necessary clas=
sified in the same class of the International Classification (Locarno Class=
ification). Given this, of the 35 applications filed with the Office, most =
are multiple, with a total of 91 industrial designs.
In 2006, the Office reached 42 decisions for granting industrial design ri=
ght, 32 of which were national and 10 were foreign. Of that, 773 were inter=
national registrations, filed under the Hague Agreement, 380 (of the total =
1756 industrial designs) were newly registered industrial designs on the te=
rritory of Republic of Macedonia, and 393 were extensions of the industrial=
designs validity. A total number of granted industrial designs in that yea=
r were up for 2.1%, resulting from the increased number of nationally and i=
nternationally registered industrial designs.
Granted industrial designs by origin in 2006, Switzerland has the biggest =
share in the total number of industrial designs valid on the territory of t=
he Republic of Macedonia, with 220 registered industrial designs or 52.13%.=
Next are: Germany with 87 or 20.62%, Macedonia with 42 or 9.95%, Netherlan=
ds with 24 or 5.69%, France with 18 registered industrial designs or 4.26%,=
Italy with 13 or 3.08%, and the rest of the countries (Greece, Belgium, Bu=
lgaria, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Turkey, Estonia and Hungary) participate=
with 4.27%.
According to the International Classification (Locarno Classification) in =
the State Office of Industrial Property of the Republic of Macedonia in 200=
6, industrial designs of the class 9 and 25 account for the biggest share o=
f 40.6%. The industrial designs of class 9 refer to the packing and goods t=
ransportation containers, due to the increased development of the packing p=
roduction, thus an increased market competition. Industrial designs of clas=
s 25 refer to the building industry and building materials, due to the rise=
in the construction sector in the Republic of Macedonia, and therefore an =
increased competition in the production of building materials. Other classe=
s account for 18.8% of the total number of granted industrial designs (clas=
s 6 covers furniture, class 7 covers household appliances which are not cov=
ered by other classes, class 13 covers production machines, distribution an=
d transformation of electricity, class 14 covers devices for registration, =
telecommunication or information processing) etc.
For the foreign filed under the Hague Agreement, the highest position be-l=
ongs to the industrial designs of class 10 (47,1%) which refers to the cloc=
ks and watches and other measuring instruments, checking and signalling ins=
truments, followed by class 12 (11,6%) related to the means of transport or=
hoisting; class 11 (6,1%) articles of adornment; class 23 (5,8%) related t=
o fluid distribution equipment, sanitary, heating, ventilation and air-cond=
itioning equipment, solid fuel; class 9 (5,5%) related to packaging and tra=
nsport containers. Other classes account for 23,9% of the total number of g=
ranted industrial designs.
State Office of Industrial Property of the Republic of Macedonia issues = the official gazette =E2=80=9CGlasnik=E2=80=9D. The Gazette is issued four = times yearly, every three months. This official gazette contains data conce= rning: industrial design applications, industrial design registration, rene= wals, change of data concerning industrial design owners, official decision= s, and information regarding other activities of the Office, in the country= and abroad. There are very often commentaries of actual activities in prot= ection of the industrial property rights. The Office issues Annual Report f= or its activities from the previous year. In this Report there is basic dat= a for industrial designs.
In The State Office of Industrial Property, industrial designs are class=
ified according to the International Classification for Industrial Designs =
(Locarno Classification, last edition).
WIPO Standard ST.80 is used for bibliographic data coding.
Industrial design files are kept in paper form in the library, and they =
are updated continuously.
There is industrial design data of applied and registered industrial desig=
ns, but in the lack of software, the research is done manually.
This was the third consecutive year since the implementation of the IPAS=
software in the Office of both Trademarks and Patents and it is planned to=
gradually encompass Industrial Designs too, but for Industrial Designs the=
IPAS software is not complete yet.
-Administrative management system:
IPAS Software
The Office library has industrial design data from the bulletins for int=
ernational registration of industrial design through Hague Agreement concer=
ning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, which are suppli=
ed by WIPO, on CDrom, as well as industrial design data supplied by exchang=
e of official gazettes with Slovenia, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, Moldavia, Bu=
lgaria, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Romania, Estonia, Germany, etc., which are =
available to all interested persons.
The Office cannot provide computerized searches in the industrial database=
, because of having no software for this matter. Additional information (as=
application procedures and such) is available at the Office Web-site:
http://www.ippo.gov.mk.
The Office sends and receives gazettes in paper form. The official gazet= tes, as well as the Annual Report are distributed to the next countries: AR= , AZ, AU, RS, HR, SI, BG, CZ, PL, DE, SE, TR, AT, AL, BA, BY, BR, BX, BE, C= A, CY, RO, IT, IL, LV, LU, LT, KR, FR, HU, CH, UA, GB, GR, GE, US, JP, PT, = KP, RU, SK, SM, EG, EE, ES, MD and FI. The Office is receiving gazettes and= annual reports from the next countries: AT, BG, ES, EE, BA, BY, DE, MD, LT= , PL, HU, UA, FI, CZ, RO, RU, SK, JP, RS, HR and SI.
During 2006, the educational and training activities of the employees of=
the Industrial design Department were as follows:
- WIPO Seminar/WIPO Subregional Seminar on the Use of Industrial Designs i=
n Business and Trade and their International Registration under the Geneva =
Act of the Hague Agreement/ Sophia/Bulgaria/February 27-28
- CARDs Seminar/ SEMINAR ON THE COMMUNITY TRADEMARK AND DESIGN /Pristina/M=
ay 27-28
On March 22, 2006, The Geneva Act enter into force in respect of The Rep= ublic of Macedonia, because on December 22, 2005, the Governement of the Re= public of Macedonia deposit its instrument of accession to the Geneva Act o= f the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industri= al Designs, adopted at Geneva on July 2, 1999 (the =E2=80=9CGeneva Act=E2= =80=9D).