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In 2005, the number of applications received increased in comparison to 2004 by more than 15 per cent owing to an increase in filings by Russian and foreign applicants (see Table 1 attached).

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II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of secondary sources of trademark information, i.e., trademark gazettes

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From January 2005 onwards, Rospatent started to publish the Official Gazette Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin on an electronic CD-ROM carrier with a search system.

The Gazette contains information on:

- well-known trademarks;
- trademark and service mark registration (bibliographical data, illustrations or descriptions);
- registration and the grant of the right to use an appellation of origin (bibliographical data etc.)
- announcements concerning changes in the legal status of certificates;
- the corresponding audio and video data are included for sound trademarks.

The Gazette is distributed together with the software IPS MIMOSA.
In addition, a presentation of all the information is included in PDF format.

In 2005, the following trademark publications were issued:

 Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin on CD-ROM – 24 issues;
 Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin on paper – 24 issues;
 An annual index to the Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin Official Gazette on paper – three volumes;
 A set of retrospective information on trademarks for the period 1991-2004 on DVD – one disk;
 An open register of national trademark applications received by Rospatent as of January 1, 2005.

Table 2 shows the number of orders in 2005 for annual sets of official publications, with current acquisitions and retrospective collections.

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Mass storage media and microforms used

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