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The Office has begun a major project of migrating data and functionality from the existing sytem system to a new, open-source platform which will improve a number of services of the Office.
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In order to facilitate the access to European patent information by providing a harmonised patent search and retrieval service to their user, SIPO is part of the Espacenet service, which is much appreciated patent information service among its users. The EPO plans to merge two current versions – Espacenet level 1 (national data) and level 2 (worldwide data collected by the EPO) into new Espacenet service, and SIPO is actively engaged in this project. However, most of activities in this project were implemented in previous annual periods. SIPO continuously monitors the quality and the completeness of the documents and data. Succesfuly Successfully implemented machine translation facility by the European language technology service for patents enables users all over Europe to have access to Croatian patent documents in their own language.
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General information regarding the Patents and patent protection procedures is provided free of charge. It can be obtained face-to-face at the Office's informationcentre (acronym INCENTIV), by phone, via fax, e-mail or posted letter, and are also available at the Office's web site: http://www.dziv.hr/en/intellectual-property-protection/patents/the-application-process/.
Access to the patent document collection for external users is provided free of charge by a public database containing published data and documents (http://www.dziv.hr/en/e-services/on-line-database-search/patents/)
National patent collection and related data are also publicly accessiblefree accessible free of charge through Espacenet, a public patent document service of the European Patent Office containing a worldwide set of national patent collections (http://hr.espacenet.com/ or at EPO). Links to other on-line available non-commercial databases are provided at http://www.dziv.hr/en/sipo-information-services/non-commercial-ip-db
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Under the cooperation with the European Patent Office (EPO) in the frame of the Bilateral Cooperation Plan (BCP) between EPO and SIPO, for the term between 2013 and 2015, SIPO participated in several regional actitivities activities related to patent information. Those activities are already explained under previous bullets: Patent Translate service, New Espacenet, Federative European Patent Register.
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Date of visit | State | Delegation |
26.-30. May | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Institute of Intellectual Property, |
30.June-4.July | The Republic of Macedonia | State office of industrial property |
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