Annual Technical Report 2012 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Uzbekistan (CWS/ATR/TM/2012/UZ)
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I. Evolution of registration activities
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The procedures of filing application, examination and registration of trademarks have not changed in 2012.
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
In 2012 the total of the filed applications for registration on trademarks has made 5305, that is more on 5,8 % in comparison with last year. The increase has occurred at the expense of the increased activity of foreign applicants: on national procedure by foreign applicants filed 2007 applications that on 16,7 % more than last year; on the international procedure 2678 applications have filed that above an indicator of 2011 on 1,4 %. By national procedure were filed 2007 applications that made 76,4 % of the filed applications on national procedure. In a share of the foreign applicants, filled applications on national procedure makes 23,6 %.
1353 trademarks are registered in 2012, that is less on 14,5 % than last year. From total number of the registered trademarks, registration of national applicants have made 61,3 % and foreign applicants - 38,7 %. The legal protection is given to 1933 international trademarks.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to trademarks
The statistical data on trademarks is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/about/statistic/?ELEMENT_ID=29
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of secondary sources of trademark information, i.e., trademark gazettes
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The Agency has published the following official publications on trademarks in 2012:
• The official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» - 12 issues
• The collection of annual indexes to the official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» (section of the index on trademarks) on the electronic carrier.
Data on the registered trademarks are published in section "Trademarks" of the official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma», which is published on CD-ROM. Data on trademarks includes bibliographic data and image. Data on 1327 trademarks are published in official bulletins in 2012.
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of trademark information
The most important announcements, concerning activity of the office on trademarks are published in section "Official news" of the bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» and also available on the website of the office (www.ima.uz).
Mass storage media and microforms used
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During processing applications all the documents, concerning trademarks, are scanned and saved in facsimile form in format TIFF.
Collecting chapters of the official bulletin on trademarks 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.
Techniques used for the generation of trademark information (printing, recording, photocomposing, etc.)
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The official bulletin is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/pub/?SECTION_ID=32.
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of trademark information
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An applicant should put down classification indexes in application documents on trademarks according to ICGS (Nice Classification) operating edition.
Bibliographic data and processing
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Searching trademarks at traditional carriers is not carried out by examiners of the Agency; it is carried out only by other users on the basis of collections of the State Fund of the Patent Documentation in reading rooms.
There is conducted the bibliographic database and electronic file (text) storage on the national documents for internal use.
V. Activities in the field of computerized trademark search systems
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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
Examiners access through the Internet to database of WIPO international trademarks - International Trademark Information Database (ROMARIN) is provided. Search is carried out by examiners of the office through using indexes of Nice classification, and Vienna classification of graphic elements of signs. Indexes of the Vienna classification are regularly bringing in a database "Trademarks".
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The information services which are carried out by order of consumers, which includes carrying out of the automated search on CD/DVD-ROM; classification on international classification of trademark; searching in the database of the office, consultation on complication the applications for trademark (filling application for international registration); copying, selection and issue of documents by inquiries of users, and etc. About 400 patent-information services were done on trademarks in 2012.
Issue of patent documents on traditional carriers is carried out directly in reading rooms, and also in electronic fund, which presents the patent documentation and the information on trademarks on optical disks.
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 trademarks; opposition and appeal procedures related to trademarks; etc.
The information on filling and consideration of applications for trademarks is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/togovernment/?ELEMENT_ID=323.
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., trademark search service(s) and trademark databases), as well as information on how to access and utilize them
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Agency has published the official bulletin on CD-ROM disks. In 2012 on the basis of bilateral exchange AGENCY has received official bulletins with data on trademarks from offices of 10 countries and WIPO, from its official bulletins on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM disks from 9 countries and WIPO.
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 trademarks 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 have visited over 600 listeners.
Activities in the field of trade marks 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 trade marks 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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X. Other relevant matters