Annual Technical Report 2011 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Israel (CWS/ATR/ID/2011/IL)
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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 2011the Israeli Patent and Designs Office received 1,511 industrial design applications .,the figure for 2010 was 1,622
In 2011, 861 industrial design were granted as opposed to 848 in 2010.
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 Israel Patent and Design Office publishes information of industrial designs in the Patents and Designs Journal, which is issued once a month. The journal contains only bibliographical information on industrial designs accepted for registration, information about renewals, registrations cancelled and changes in particulars entered in the Register .Images of designs are not published in the Journal.
Judicial decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and Designs are published in Hebrew on the ILPO website.
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
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The Office uses a national classification system to classify industrial design applications.
The major difference between this system and the International Locarno Classification system is that the national classification system forces an objective classification and does not permit the use of the "Miscellaneous " classification.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
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X. Other relevant matters