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Table 1 shows the rate at which applications were filed and Russian Federation patents granted for industrial designs.
In 2005, the number of applications for industrial designs received increased by 113.44 per cent in comparison with the previous year. The increase was largely the result of growth in the activity of foreign applicants. The number of foreign applications received increased by 23 per cent.
The sharpest increase in the number of applications was for classes 19-08 “Other types of printed products (Printed matter, including advertising materials) and 9-03 “Boxes, tins, containers and preserve cans”.
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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
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During 2005, 2,469 announcements were published for registered RF industrial design patents.
In the reporting year work was done to convert the Rospatent Official Gazette Industrial Designs into electronic form. In January 2006, the first issue of this Gazette was published on CD-ROM with a search system.
In 2005, the following official publications were issued:
Industrial Designs Official Gazette on paper – 12 issues;
Annual index to the Industrial Designs Gazette on paper - one volume;
Russian Industrial Designs electronic Gazette on CD-ROM - 12 disks;
A set of Russian Industrial Designs for the period 1993-2004 on DVD – one disk.
Table 2 shows the number of orders in 2005 for annual sets of official publications on paper and CD-ROM with current acquisitions and retrospective collections.
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Mass storage media and microforms used
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