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Annual Technical Report on Trademark Information Activities in 2019 submitted by Poland

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Where URLs are requested below, it is preferred that either URLs which are likely to remain stable over time (three years or more) are provided, or home (main) page URLs are provided with a short explanation of how to access the corresponding information.

I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARK INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

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The Polish Patent Office uses the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Classification) current edition (Polish version of Nice Classification is collected from WIPO pages once a month) as well as International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (Vienna Classification) 8th edition. During the procedure, the office employees change the classes of goods and services.

Matters concerning processing of different types of non-traditional marks (e.g., three-dimensional, motion, hologram, color mark, etc.)

N/Aprocedure, the office employees change the classes of goods and services.

III. SOURCES OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

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V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION

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N/A

Publications related to different business procedures and trademark information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.

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-          17th edition of the annual competition for the best artistic poster as well postdoctoral, doctoral, master’s and student’s theses on the subject of industrial property protection and the 7th edition of a short movie and press release competition organized by the Patent Office.

In 2019 the PPO maintained the Internet Educational Platform (http://ipe.uprp.gov.pl, from 2020 https://uprp.gov.pl/pl/platforma-edukacyjna ) which is a compendium of knowledge about intellectual property issues. The target group includes enterprises (especially MSEs) and businesses related to public institutions (including schools of higher education) and other entities.

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The PPO also maintained an e-learning platform, IPPanorama, dedicated to broadening and promoting the knowledge about the protection of intellectual property and it is available at http://ippanorama.uprp.pl and from 2020 at https://uprp.gov.pl/pl/platforma-edukacyjna

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Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to trademark information

See point I above.

Assistance to developing countries

N/A

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