Annual Technical Report 2005 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Australia (SCIT/ATR/ID/2005/AU)
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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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For 2004
Design applications filed = 5627
Design applications granted = 3323
For 2005
Design applications filed = 5828
Design applications granted = 5843
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
Filings increased 3.6% as compared to the previous year.
Registrations/grants increased 75.8% as compared to the previous year.
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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Australian registered designs are published in the Australian Official Journal of Designs and on microfiche (historical).
Bibliographic data and images for registered designs post 1985 are also available on the Australian Designs Data Search (ADDS) system on the internet
Databases and office automation
The Canberra Office has an ethernet-based LAN providing high speed bandwidth for each user desktop connection. A frame relay-based WAN provides connections from Canberra to each State Capital. A DMZ-based, DSD approved firewall using IAN ports (Internet IEFT Assigned Numbers) provides the secure means to allow access from internal systems/users to external entities such as the Internet or public/private organisations.
Current standard desktop software includes Windows XP and Lotus Notes.
The strategic server infrastructure environment includes Sun Solaris, Oracle RDBMS, J2EE, BEA Weblogic, and Objective EDMS.
The Office's publication system is partially mainframe based. The mainframe provides the following functions using "XICS" typesetting software:
- production of camera ready copy of the Australian Official Journal of Designs;
- production of design certificates and original register entries; and
- production of notices for design applicants or their agents.
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
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26 – 29 January - IP Australia attended the WTO Trips workshop for Forum Island Countries (FICs) and led discussions on IP developments in the Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
17 March - Visit by the Director General of the Intellectual Property Office of Indonesian for discussions on capacity building programs.
18-22 April - IP Australia conducted a visit to Samoa & Tonga under the AusAID Pacific Governance Support Program for discussions on IP development in the Pacific.
1-6 May - IP Australia conducted a visit to Fiji & Vanuatu under the AusAID Pacific Governance Support Program for discussions on IP development in the Pacific.
16-22 May - IP Australia conducted a visit to Fiji & Kiribati under the AusAID Pacific Governance Support Program for discussions on IP development in the Pacific.
30 May-2 June - IP Australia conducted a visit to PNG under the AusAID Pacific Governance Support Program for discussions on IP development in the Pacific.
7-16 July - As part of the APEC TILF funded PE&A Program, TILF II Project, a scoping visit to Chile and Mexico was undertaken.
31 July - 6 Aug - A delegation of Chinese IP Experts from the Singapore Intellectual Property Office, conducted seminars in Sydney and Melbourne on ‘Protecting & Enforcing IP in China’. The delegation also discussed FTA related issues with IP Australia and DFAT officers.
15 Sept - IPA hosted a delegation from the Australian Technical Experts Network (ATEN) led by Deputy Department Director of Patent Bureau, SIPO for comparative discussions on AU & China’s IP systems.
25-27 Oct - IP Australia co-sponsored and gave presentations at the ASEAN-USPTO workshop on intellectual property office administration and enforcement, Bangkok.
9-11 Nov - Asia Pacific IP Forum, New Zealand. This forum focussed on operational issues for IP Offices. IP Australia gave several presentations at the Forum.
5 Dec - IP Australia hosted high level delegation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Trade to better understand Australia’s IP rights protection system
5 Dec - IP Australia hosted Korean IP Office delegation to discuss approach to patent and trade mark hearings and operational functions
IX. Other relevant matters