Annual Technical Report 2002 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Lithuania (SCIT/ATR/ID/2002/LT)
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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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Registrations have been classified in accordance with the fifth edition of the International (Locarno) Classification.
Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of Data (INID Codes) relating to industrial designs were used in the Register and in the Official Gazette.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
The internal file of SPB contains Lithuanian Official Gazette.
The exchange of the Official Gazette of the SPB with foreign states and intergovernmental organisations is effected by LTL, and this way LTL file is updated with national and foreign documentation.
LTL file contains national and foreign Official Gazettes.
The card index "Protection of Industrial Property in Lithuania" is maintained.
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
The Register of industrial designs is a database (FoxPro 2.0) which contains all bibliographic and legal status data (including changes in names, addresses, licences, transfers).
Public users have a possibility to use the following LTL CD-ROM databases:
"Tekeningen of Modellenblad. Recueil des Dessins ou Modeles";
"Design Gazette";
"Schweizerisches Patent-, Muster- und Markenblatt";
"International Designs Bulletin";
"NIVILO:CLASS ".
VI. Administration of industrial design 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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Lithuanian specialists took part in the following events:
PATLIB2002;
EAC 2002.
Foreign and Lithuanian press published articles on the improvement of the Lithuanian industrial property information system.
IX. Other relevant matters
In 2002, Lithuanian industrial property statistical data were submitted to WIPO to be published in its publication "Industrial Property Statistics".