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The main trends in the development of activities in the field of industrial design information are defined by the Comprehensive Plan for Development of the Rospatent System up to 2015, the Rospatent Computerization Plan for 2011, and the Plan of Measures by the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS) for the enhancement and development of its activities for 2011.
The main trends in the Plans include:
the creation of conditions to assist natural persons and legal entities in the fullest possible implementation of their rights to protection of the results of intellectual activity and means of individualization, and their enforcement;
a reduction in the time taken to examine applications, bearing in mind the forecast growth in the volume of applications received;
the provision of high-quality examination and protection titles issued;
increasing the effectiveness of information technology resources within the Rospatent system;
establishment of a State patent collection and provision of access thereto;
training specialists in the use and protection of intellectual property;
implementation of monitoring in the sphere of the use and legal protection of the results of scientific research, and design and technology work for civilian purposes, financed by the Federal Budget;
implementation of international cooperation.
Depending on the type of measure, the anticipated deadlines for implementation are planned between 2010 and 2015.
Work continues on extending the functions of the system for prosecuting applications for inventions, utility models and industrial designs in the Automated Database (ABD), while the patent information data published on the FIPS website on the latest annual fees paid has been expanded.
In 2011, operation continued of the Unified System for the Accounting of Fees in the context of using electronic bank payments for examinations of inventions, utility models and industrial designs, and the maintenance of patents in force, using web services as a means of integrating the prosecution systems for automated databases and the automated fees system.
Further work on the automated fees system is planned for 2012 in connection with the introduction of changes to the Regulations on Fees, and ending requests for copies of payment documents from applicants.
The automated fees system is designed to support the processes for preparing data and administering the income from the payment of patent and other fees for performing legally significant acts: checking the receipt of funds by the Office, reserving funds, automatic tracking of the status of payments, automatic recording of funds on transmission of decisions regarding the performance of legally significant acts, and bookkeeping.
In 2011, an automated system for paperless prosecution was introduced for the Chamber of Patent Disputes (PPS). The introduction of the system provides the possibility of paperless prosecution during the consideration of objections and appeals filed with PPS. Information on the decisions of the PPS automated paperless prosecution system is posted on the FIPS website in the Decisions of the Chamber of Patent Disputes section.
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
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The following pages of the Office’s websites contain:
• information on patent legislation – Normative Documents section:
http://www.rupto.ru/norm_doc/sod/norm_doc/iz_pm_po.html;
• statistical information – Rospatent Annual Reports section:
http://www.rupto.ru/about/sod/otchety.html;
heading Statistical Information on the Use of Intellectual Property: http://www.rupto.ru/rosp_reg/sod/Statistika/Stat_infa.html;
• information on open sources relating to industrial design information systems – Links section:
http://www.rupto.ru/ssilki/ssilki.htm;
http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/link_resources/;
• information notices in the Industrial Designs section:
http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/industrial_designs/.
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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The forms of notifications on industrial designs published in the Rospatent Industrial Designs Official Gazette are presented in Table 3.
Databases and office automation
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National and foreign patent gazettes, and gazettes from International Organizations, both as special editions and ordinary industrial property gazettes with sections dedicated to industrial designs, are added to the collection through international exchange or the downloading of data from office websites.
In 2011, approximately 200 complimentary optical disks of national industrial designs were provided to various RF higher education institutions.
Exchange of machine-readable information, e.g., data contained on CD-ROM or magnetic tape
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X. Other relevant matters