Annual Technical Report 2012 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Poland (CWS/ATR/ID/2012/PL)
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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. Evolution of registration activities
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In 2012, The Polish Patent Office received 1,350 industrial design applications, which is 13.5% less than in 2011. 1,599 decisions were issued, including 1,355 positive ones. After paying a fee,
1,544 industrial designs have been assigned numbers and entered into the Register. 1,792 certificates of registration of industrial designs were issued.
The Patent Office received from domestic applicants 24 applications for Community Industrial Designs, which were transmitted to the Office of Harmonisation for the Internal Market.
The number of industrial design registration rights in force on 31 December 2012 was 12,321.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
- Statistics are accessed at the following URLs:
http://www.uprp.pl (Annual Reports’ box)
- Detailed statistics may be bespoke provided (write to http://ipu.uprp.pl/portal/web/guest/kontakt).
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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- Online Services Portal with: IP information on industrial design, access to patent gazettes, classifications, e-filings and patent attorney's directory: http://ipu.uprp.pl
- Publication Server - Polish industrial design (S): http://pubserv.uprp.pl (user interface in 3 languages - PL, EN and FR).
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
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Annex No. 3 to the Ordinance of the President of the Council of Ministers of 30 January 2002 (as amended, Official Journal No 40, item 358 and No 106 item 893 of 2005) on filing and considering industrial designs applications applies in the Polish Patent Office in the scope of industrial designs.
PPO uses its own classification based on the 6th edition of Locarno Classification. The existing files are not reclassified. Application documents and other corresponding documents are indexed, scanned and loaded to the e-Phoenix.
Bibliographic data and processing
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- Workstations run under Windows XP environments, and server's operational systems are Microsoft Windows Server (2003 and 2008), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (10 and 11) and Debian (5 and 6) GNU/Linux. Replacement of the operating systems on MS Windows 7 is in progress. The SAN mass storage network was configured in order to make disk-arrays available to the computing systems. All of workstations are secured by McAfee antivirus and antispam system. All network connections are based on CISCO and Alcatel equipment with 1050 Mb access to the Internet.
Server infrastructure for the Online Portal includes 9 application servers; 5 database servers; 10 TB build-up array; back-ups for HP Data ProtectorTivoli Storage Management, Fujitsu FI-5900C scanner, 125 packages for the purposes of qualified signatures. On-Line Portal servers are supported by local UPSs and they are also hooked to Main power supply unit for the PPO.
- Back office hardware located in secured/zoned Data Centre with fire alarm and CTV system, redundant air-conditioning and technical floor.
- Modernization of the software edge firewall.
VI. Administration of industrial design information products and services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, registering designs, assisting clients with search procedures, obtaining official publications and registry extracts)
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Applications for design registration can be made electronically, by post, by fax or in person at the Office's premises.
Both paper and electronic collections are located in our main building and are thus secure.
Collection management, preservation
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- The Office continues to offer its services on designs via Online Services Portal at: http://ipu.uprp.pl
- Databases: http://ipu.uprp.pl
- The latest Locarno classification edition is published at: http://ipu.uprp.pl/
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
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Information on filings, post-grant procedure, opposition and appeal procedures, etc. are in detail described within specific sections of our website which is also linked to our search services and databases at: http://www.uprp.pl, and at: http://ipu.uprp.pl (Online Services Portal).
Variety of guides and other information materials are offered in PDF format through the Office website.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide a description of information products and services offered by the Office (e.g., industrial design search service(s) and industrial design databases), as well as information on how to access and utilize them
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In 2012, after completing two-year training, 9 Office's employees obtained examiner's qualifications and 12 employees, who completed their training and passed the qualifying examinations, obtained assistant examiner's qualifications. In 2012 the aforementioned group gained access to "STN" platform, which comprises more than 200 scientific data bases.
Additionally, language courses for PPO employees (languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian) were organised.
Within the framework of the training program for the PPO employees and patent attorneys 9 open lectures for 827 participants in total were given by external experts in innovation and industrial property.
Moreover, 303 staff members benefited from many specialist training courses organised by professional educational centres such as: National School of Public Administration, Mazovian Voivodeship Centre for Personnel Training, Operational Centre for Public Procurement, to name a few. The subject matter of the trainings included the issues of public procurement, administrative proceedings management, finances, information technologies and labour law.
In the framework of in-house trainings, 409 staff members were trained in: etiquette and diplomatic protocol, public procurement, public presentations, nanotechnology, copy right, labour law.
Assistance to developing countries (sending consultants and experts, receiving trainees from developing countries, etc.)
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X. Other relevant matters