Annual Technical Report 2012 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Brazil (CWS/ATR/ID/2012/BR)
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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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(1)Paper Industrial Design Documents
INPI has a paper collection of BR industrial designs with approximately 85,000 documents, published between 1924 and 1973, classified according to a National Industrial Design Classification.
The paper collection is not available for searches, however paper copies of entire documents can be provided for internal or external demands.
(2) Industrial Property Gazette
Official notices and selected bibliographic data relating to BR industrial design applications and registrations are internally generated and published in the official weekly electronic Brazilian Official Gazette (Revista da Propriedade Industrial - RPI). The gazettes are available on the Brazilian Patent Office website in PDF and TXT format, at http://revistas.inpi.gov.br/rpi, and all the published official gazettes are stored in the library and are available to the public.
(3) Internet
Bibliographic data of Brazilian Industrial Design is available for consultation at an internal database (SINPI) and at internet (http://pesquisa.inpi.gov.br/MarcaPatente/jsp/servimg/servimg.jsp?BasePesquisa=Desenhos). Keyword searches in titles are available only in Portuguese. Brazilian patent documents’ first pages contain bibliographic data, according to WIPO standards.
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of industrial design information
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All Brazilian documents of industrial designs, filed since 1974, have been digitized and can be accessed through internal electronic procedures.
Further available information see below the item: Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), data carriers used
Databases and office automation
Search tools are available to technical staff and technical personnel performing industrial design information activities to external users. There is a corporate database (Integrated System of Industrial Property - SINPI) for processing the life of a BR industrial design application, where searches can also be performed. The Office's intranet contains a large collection of useful information for the INPI staff.
Copies of the documents cited in the search reports are produced in-house to supply the applicants.
All staff accesses the Internet and the Office’s intranet and have their own official e-mail addresses. The Office uses Microsoft Windows XP; 7 and BROffice open source software, which provides an integrated and extensive network of applications that are available to all staff. All personnel have their own workstation on which numerous applications are available. Word processing can be carried out using Microsoft Word and BROffice Writer; PowerPoint, Excel, BROffice Impress and BROffice Calc are also available.
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
Brazilian industrial designs database (bibliographic information) is available through Internet at:
http://formulario.inpi.gov.br/MarcaPatente/jsp/servimg/servimg.jsp?BasePesquisa=Desenhos
Gazettes can be accessed at: http://revistas.inpi.gov.br/rpi/.
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
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Industrial Design documents are classified by INPI staff according to Locarno Classification.
If necessary, some documents are reclassified.
Bibliographic data and processing
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File building and updating of search file, classified under the Locarno Classification is centralized. BR industrial design documents collection is arranged according to Locarno Classification (9ª Edition) and is available in paper.
In 2012 the collection of industrial design documents increased 5.201 paper documents.
Updating
Administrative staff carries out updating of the search file centrally.
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In order to carry out searches in industrial design documents or other publications, the INPI staff access a number of Internet free industrial design databases. Official policy is that a worldwide online search should be carried out as whole or part of every industrial design search or substantive examination (assessing novelty and originality after the grant) done in this Office.
A list of Internet industrial design databases is given below:
UK industrial design database at: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/design/d-os/d-find.htm
US Patent full text and full image database at: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html
European Union industrial design database at: http://oami.europa.eu/RCDOnline/RequestManager
FR industrial design database at: http://bases-modeles.inpi.fr/
AU industrial design database at: http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/adds2/adds.adds_simple_search.paint_simple_search
Administrative management systems (e.g., register, legal status, statistics and administrative support)
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Data Processing by HP Blade Servers:16 Blades
Two processors Intel Xeon Quad-core 2.83 Ghz; 32GB RAM;
120 virtual servers
Data Storage IBM and HITACHI: 33.6TB
80TB to be implemented
Internet: Current link: 68Mps;
14 branch offices connected to the Regional Data Center in Rio de Janeiro;
Wireless Internet :
100 access points, ensuring that all floors have Internet access via wireless network;
1700 network users
Workstations with Windows XP migrating to Windows 7;
BR Office / Microsoft Office 2010;
Interconnection between 3 buildings in Rio de Janeiro
Local Network Area (LAN):1Gbps.
The PCs used for all patent examiners and staff information are Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz. Computers with two 22" monitors and DVD drivers.
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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The Office's Search and Advisory Service continues to promote its activities in providing priced industrial design investigations.
INPI has developed a service (Central Enquiry Unit) to provide answers to customers’ doubts, available at INPI's homepage (http://faleconosco.inpi.gov.br/faleconosco//).
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
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Contacts:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/guia_basico_desenho_industrial
Questions about Industrial Designs:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/acessoainformacao/artigo/desenho_industrial_1351691999842
Industrial Designs procedures:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/guia_basico_desenho_industrial
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
Industrial design search services:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/busca_de_patentes
Industrial design copy service:
Copies of the Industrial Designs documents can be requested to copdocpat@inpi.gov.br
Industrial design forms:
Downloads of forms for applications filed on paper in INPI, are available at:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information
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INPI delivers seminars and workshops and working meetings including developing countries. By the means of a WIPO-INPI Cooperation Agreement, six events about subjects and themes that concerns developing countries took place, which involved around 45 experts from developing countries.
A cooperation project among IP offices in the South American continent is growing in importance and can be access at: http://www.prosur.org.ar.
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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Industrial design-related news regarding the Office are available at:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/guia_basico_desenho_industrial
X. Other relevant matters
All Brazilian documents of industrial designs, filed since 1974, have been digitized and can be accessed through internal electronic procedures.
Several actions were taken in 2012 in order to improve the procedures related to industrial design’s registrations as well as to offer the users an easier way to obtain the related information.
The Directorate of Contracts, Geographical Indications and Registries (DICIG) has competence to register three other intellectual property assets: Geographical Indications – GI, Topography of Integrated Circuits and Software.
Information can be found at:
1- Geographical Indications - http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/guia_basico_indicacao_geografica
The GI Registries are available to consultation at:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/images/docs/lista_com_as_indicacoes_geograficas_concedidas_13-06-2013.pdf
The GI Applications are available at:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/images/docs/planilha_de_ig_11-06-2013.pdf
2- Topography of Integrated Circuits http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/guia_basico_topografia_de_circuitos_integrados
3- Software
http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/guia_basico_programa_de_computador
Official notes and registries of GI, Topography of Integrated Circuits and Software are published in the official weekly electronic Brazilian Gazette (Revista da Propriedade Industrial-RPI) at Patents Section.
Further information about 2012 INPI’s statistics are available at:
http://www.inpi.gov.br/images/docs/relatorio_anual_2012.pdf