Annual Technical Report 2013 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Lithuania (CWS/ATR/ID/2013/LT)
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The expression "industrial designs" covers industrial designs and models. Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in this series of Annual Technical Reports.
I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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Protection of design is provided by the Law on Design of the Republic of Lithuania (Official Gazette, 2002, Nr. 112-4980, as amended), which entered into force on 1 January 2003.
There are three ways to get exclusive rights for design protection in Lithuania: under the Law on Design of the Republic of Lithuania, by filing an application directly with the SPB (national way); under the Council Regulation No. 6/2002 of 12 December 2001 on the Community Design, under which a Community design registered with the EU Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market (OHIM) is protected in Lithuania from 1 May 2004 (regional way). Since 26 September 2008, after Lithuania joined the Geneva act of the Hague Agreement on International Registration of Industrial Design, registration of international design may be extended to Lithuania (international way).
New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies(plans) mentioned above, short description: aims, partners, tasks
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From the establishment of the State Patent Bureau until 31 December 2013, the SPB received 68854 applications for registration of a trademark via national way. Within this period 56416 trademarks have been registered at the Register of Trademarks of the Republic of Lithuania, 33702 of them were valid registrations; 31166 changes at the Register, 11101 transfers of rights and 1114 license agreements were recorded. Also, 1966 marks given as security (withdrawals of security) and 348 seizures (withdrawals of seizures) were entered.
Since 1997, 54285 notifications regarding the extension of international marks registrations in Lithuania have been received from the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); 50940 decisions were adopted to grant protection, having performed the examination.
At the end of 2013, 75461 registrations of trademarks, applications for which have been filed under the national and international ways, and 986496 Community trademarks, registered at the Register of Community trademarks of the EU, were in effect in Lithuania.
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
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Registrations have been classified in accordance with the ninth edition of International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification).
Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of Data (INID Codes) relating to designs were used in the Register of Designs of the Republic of Lithuania and at SPB's Official Bulletin Inventions,Designs, Trademarks in 2013
Other activities
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III. SOURCES OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE
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VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS