Annual Technical Report 2012 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Uzbekistan (CWS/ATR/ID/2012/UZ)
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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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The total number of filed applications for patent granting on industrial designs has made 179 (the highest rate in the last five years), from them on a share of national applicants 82,1 %, the share of applications from foreign applicants has made 17,9 % from total number of the filed applications. The most number of applications are filed on following classes of the International Classification for Industrial Designs: 9th class (javascript:execClass(09)Packages and containers for the transport or handling of goods) - 29 applications, 25th class (Building units and construction elements) - 26 applications, 5th class (textile goods) – 25 applications, 1st class (alimentary products) – 20 applications; the specified classes have made 55,9 % from total number of the filed applications.
The quantity of the registered industrial designs in 2012 has increased in comparison with last year on 15,8 % and has made 110 registered industrial designs. The registered industrial designs by national applicants has made 85,5 %, the share of foreign applicants has made 14,5 %.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
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The Agency has published the following official publications on industrial design in 2012:
• official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» - 12 issues (on CD-ROM);
• publication sheets to patents for industrial designs - 101 publication sheets (on a paper);
• collection of annual indexes to the official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» (section of the index on industrial designs) on the electronic carrier.
Data on the registered industrial designs are published in section «Industrial designs» of the official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma», which has published on CD-ROM. Data on industrial designs includes bibliographic data and image. Data on 149 industrial designs has published in official bulletins in 2012.
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of industrial design information
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During processing applications for concerning industrial design are scanned and saved in facsimile form in format TIFF. Descriptions and the list of essential attributes are distinguished by system ABBYY Fine Reader 7.0 and kept in format MS-Word. Images of industrial samples are entered in format JPG, by means of program Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 Pro.
Collecting chapters of the official bulletin on industrial design is carried out automatically on the workplace of the employee of Publication Division. By specialized inquiry the bibliographic data from database (SUBD MS SQL Server 2000) and texts of documents (abstracts) are selected and sorted from electronic storehouse. The subsequent operations (page makeup, duplicating) are made by means of programs Word and Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide access to online industrial design gazettes and to other sources of industrial design information, including download of bulk industrial design data
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The search file on a paper and optical disks is formed on the basis of collection of the State Fund of the Patent Documentation, which includes materials on the industrial designs, containing the foreign official bulletins of 25 countries (on 16 countries - the retrospective information whereas since the certain moment official bulletins of these countries are exposed on sites of patent offices), WIPO and the incorporated cumulative editions on the industrial designs, prepared by INIC Rospatent; it is placed by a geographical principle.
On national patent documents are conducted the bibliographic database and electronic file (text) storehouses for internal use.
Updating
Search files on a paper and a part on CD/DVD-ROM are updated monthly, some CDs/DVD-ROM are updated annually.
Bibliographic data and files of documents in electronic storehouse on national documents can replenish and/or be corrected in process of the reference.
Storage, including mass storage media
Conditions of storage of fund depend on mostly kinds of data carriers: patent documents on a paper are stored in wall cases, photograph collection on microfilms - in boxes, on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM - in stores in wall cases.
Bases of bibliographic, office work data and file storehouse are stored on specialized a file-server on which with a view of safety reserve copying on an additional server is carried out.
Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file
In 2011 the State Fund of the Patent Documentation has replenished with the patent-information publications containing data on industrial designs of 9 countries of the world.
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
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With a view of increase of efficiency of search and processing of patents in Agency the subsystem of automation of patent search and preparation for the publication of patent documents (PIPS) functions.
PIPS - patent-search information system (conducting bibliographic bases, patent search, reports: registers, statistics, decisions of examinations).
The system of automation of search and preparation of documents of Agency has been designed on the basis of technologies Intranet with wide use of language means of the objective structured data presentation - universal language of the description of data XML/XSL and control system of databases of corporate level MS SQL Server.
External databases
The followings date bases are used widely by examiners on the Internet: FIPS.ru, EAPATIS.com; and also searching system: Google, Rambler, Yahoo, and Yandex.
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The collection of Fund includes patent bulletins with data on industrial designs of 26 countries, WIPO and cumulative collection of ROSPATENT (on separate classes), including on CD-ROM disks of 16 countries and WIPO. The collection is replaced on the countries and years. Acquisition is carried out on the international exchange, by way of a subscription and acquisition by own editions. The collection on CD-ROM disks is located in stores in wall cases.
Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and industrial design information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web)
The information services which are carried out under orders of consumers, including carrying out of the automated search on CD/DVD-ROM; classification on international classification of industrial designs; searching in the database of the office, consultation on drawing up and registration of applications for registration (including international) trademark; copying, selection and issue of documents by inquiries of users, and etc.
The information services which are carried out under orders of consumers, include carrying out of patent search, classification on International classification for industrial designs, consultations concerning drawing up and filling of applications, copying, selection and delivery of documents by inquiries of users, etc. In 2012 year over 20 orders for patent-information services on industrial samples have been executed.
Granting of patent documents on traditional carriers is carried out directly in reading room at the State Patent Documentation Fund, which is equipped with electronic fund. The patent documentation and the information on industrial samples on optical disks are presented in the electronic fund.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide information on business procedures such as: filing, publication, examination and registration procedures related to industrial designs; opposition and appeal procedures related to industrial designs; etc.
The information on submission and consideration of applications for industrial designs is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/togovernment/?SECTION_ID=176.
The information on the order of granting is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/legis/?SECTION_ID=223
The information on appeal procedure is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/disputes/?ELEMENT_ID=111.
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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On the basis of the bilateral exchange, the Agency has sent the Official bulletins «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» with data on the registered trademarks to 28 countries and international and regional organizations as WIPO, EPO, and EAPO.
Exchange of machine-readable information, e.g., data contained on CD-ROM or magnetic tape
In 2012 on the basis of a bilateral exchange, the AGENCY has received the official bulletins with data on industrial designs from offices of 9 countries and WIPO (including 8 on CD-ROM and DVD disks).
VIII. Matters concerning education and training, including technical assistance to developing countries (please indicate URLs of web pages of the Office’s website wherever appropriate)
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Questions on a legal protection of industrial designs are included in the program of the «Center on retraining and advanced training of qualification of the staff of AIP in sphere of Intellectual property.
Besides, these questions are component of lectures, educational seminars, organized by Agency, in particular, in republic educational institutions; in 2012 lectures and practical trainings has visited over 600 listeners.
Activities in the field of industrial designs is part of the seminars, which organized by the Agency, in particular, is lead a regional seminar in Karshi and in the several universities of Tashkent, in 2012.
Information on necessity legal protection of industrial design is published in mass media.
IX.Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:
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The news of Agency on industrial design is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/news/.
X. Other relevant matters