Annual Technical Report 2012 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Ukraine (CWS/ATR/ID/2012/UA)
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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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Information related to industrial designs is published in the Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist” (“Industrial Property”) in the following sections of its Book 2: “Information on the Grant of Patents of Ukraine for Industrial Designs”, “Indexes”, “Notifications”, “Colour Representations of Industrial Designs”.
Like in the previous year, the Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist” was issued both on paper and electronic (DVD) carriers twice a month – during 2012 24 issues of the Bulletin were published. The Annual Index to the paper edition of the Official Bulletin for the previous year, 2011, was also published.
A cumulative retrospective optical disc DVD “Industrial Designs Registered in Ukraine” was also issued. It contains information (bibliographic data and industrial designs images) about all the registrations of industrial designs recorded in Ukraine since January 1993 up to the completion of the current registration.
The quarterly review “Industrial Property in Figures. The basic indicators of the activities of the State Intellectual Property Service of Ukraine and the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Industrial Property Institute” was also published. Its publication, starting from the 2nd half of 2012, was carried out exclusively in electronic form at the web-portal of the State Intellectual Property Service of Ukraine (State Service) and web-site of the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Industrial Property Institute” (UIPI).
Mass storage media and microforms used
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The operating server systems: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and virtualization technology on virtualization platforms Hiper-V and VMware are used. Up-to-date personal computers with the operating system Windows XP Professional and Windows 7 are used as workstations.
The data storage network is built on the basis of the Storage Area Network (SAN) and Fiber Channel technology.
The following data base management systems (DBMS) are used:
Microsoft SOL Server enterprise edition 2008 R2;
Microsoft SOL Server Standard Edition 2005 Win32;
In 2012, two new severs were implemented into operation (HP DL 380 G7).
The following models of scanners are used for scanning documents and industrial design images:
Fujitsu fi-6240;
Fujitsu fi-6140;
HP Scanjet G 2710.
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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In order to satisfy public needs for patent information in Ukraine, the Public Patent Documentation Collection (PPDC) functions within the structure of the UIPI branch “Ukrainian Centre of Innovatics and Patent Information Services” (Branch). The PPDC is the most comprehensive patent library in Ukraine available to the public (intellectual property office library).
During 2012 the PPDC was updated by a national and foreign patent documentation, first of all on optical discs. As on 29.12.2012, the PPDC numbered over 20.5 thousand copies of official bulletins on paper and optical carriers that have sufficiently deep retrospective.
In the PPDC the users had access to information about industrial designs published in the Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist” (on paper carrier and DVD) and the Official Bulletins of 47 foreign offices and WIPO.
Information about the content of the PPDC and its quarterly updates was published in the “Information Resources” section of the web-portal of the State Service (http://www.sips.gov.ua) and the web-sites of the UIPI (http://www.uipv.org) and the Branch (http://www.ip-centr.kiev.ua).
The PPDC is located in the premises of the Branch in three specially adapted and equipped offices (two stores with a total area of 81 sq. m. and a reading room of 40 sq. m. in area).
The fire safety (fire alarm, alert, fire fighting) was assured; checking of the fire and protection alarm, alarm systems in emergency situations is carried out every year; proper ventilation and air conditioning is ensured.
Proper storage of the PPDC documents meeting specified requirements and guaranteeing their safety was ensured.
In particular, visual control of an access of unauthorized persons to the PPDC premises was carried out constantly, made their access to the documents repositories impossible, and the documents were provided to the users solely in the reading room. Modern technologies for ensuring protection of library collections from theft and damage (video surveillance) were also used.
The PPDC is equipped with 11 up-to-date computers with appropriate licensed software, as well as scanners, printers and xerographic copying machines. In 2012, replacement of 3 computers with licensed software was carried out.
To enable users to make online access to the electronic patent-information resources, such as a Digital Patent Library, the Internet network based on Wi-Fi technology was provided in addition to the traditional Internet access for users’ convenience.
Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and industrial design information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web)
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http://www.sips.gov.ua/ua/industrial_prototypes.html
http://www.sips.gov.ua/ua/normative_acts.html
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
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In the year under review the State Service, within its competence, took actions on the development and further improvement of the training system and skill upgrading in the field of intellectual property.
The training and retraining activity under the specialty “Intellectual Property” of the Specialist and Master educational programs was carried out in 14 higher education institutions of Ukraine.
In 2012, 269 persons were qualified as Masters under the specialty “Intellectual Property” and 180 persons as Specialists. Intellectual Property Institute of the Odessa National Academy of Law in Kyiv (Institute), which is the base for training, retraining and skill upgrading in the sphere of intellectual property, trained 98 Specialists and 80 Masters, including 42 persons under the order of the central government authorities, namely the State Intellectual Property Service of Ukraine, Courts, Security Service of Ukraine, the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Customs Bodies, the State Tax Service of Ukraine and the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.
In the reporting period, 4 specialists from Kazakhstan graduated the Institute and were qualified as Masters under the specialty “Intellectual Property”.
Skill upgrading for intellectual property experts was rendered by two education institutions – the Institute and Intersectoral Institute of Postgraduate Education of the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”.
In 2012, 62 researchers and teachers from higher education institutions in all regions of the country, and 40 other experts in the field of intellectual property, information analytics and innovation activity completed the advanced courses under the professional program “Intellectual Property” and “Consolidated Information” in the Institute. 27 persons, candidates to the representatives on IP matters (patent attorneys), completed the preliminary courses, and 5 persons completed courses for appraisers of intellectual property rights.
On April 23-25, 2012 the Institute hosted the XII All-Ukrainian Research-to- Practice Conference “Aspects of Training Specialists in Intellectual Property, Information Analytics and Innovation Activity in Ukraine”. The Conference was organized under the auspices of the State Service to analyse the situation and prospects of training specialists in intellectual property, information analytics and innovation activity in Ukraine within the reform of the higher education system and development of national economy based on innovations. Teachers and researchers from higher education institutions, experts from other institutions and organizations took part in the work of the Conference.
In 2012, the State Service organized and conducted 4 conferences and 14 workshops devoted to the wide range of issues relating to intellectual property rights protection.
In September 2012, the XIX International Research-to-Practice Conference “Topical Issues of Intellectual Property” took place in Yalta. Each year Ukraine holds this high-level international event that is important and useful forum for discussion of science, methodical and practical issues in the sphere of intellectual property. It became traditional, and the number of the Ukrainian and foreign participants increases year by year. Thus, experts from Poland, Germany, USA, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and other countries took part in the Conference.
The basic themes of the conference were: Current status and prospects for the development of the State intellectual property system legal protection; Substantive examination of indications and legal examination: views, approaches and range of problems; Acquiring, use and protection of rights to inventions and utility models; Acquiring, use and protection of rights to indications (trademarks and service marks, brand names, geographical indications), industrial designs and domain names; Prospects for the improvement of the legal protection of copyright and related rights in the information society; International cooperation in the sphere of intellectual property.
In July, the fourth regular International Summer School on Intellectual Property took place in Odessa under the aegis of the National University “Odessa Law Academy”. Representatives from Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, France, India, Iran, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia took part in the work of the Summer School. Besides, the WIPO Summer School in Ukraine welcomed Mr. Marcelo Di Pietro, Director of the WIPO Academy that proves the acknowledgement of the successfulness of our school by the WIPO management.
During the year, workshops on other actual issues, round-table discussions, sessions, meetings and press conferences of the management staff of the State Service involving the leading information agencies were held.
Specialists of the State system of intellectual property rights protection participated actively in more than 15 conferences and workshops, including international ones, in working meetings and other events, arranged by other organizations in Ukraine.
Detailed information about all the events concerning education and training, seminars, exhibitions, visits, promotion of creative activities etc can be found in the relevant section of the 2012 Annual Report of the State Service at its official web-portal:
http://www.sips.gov.ua/ua/year_reports.html
http://www.sips.gov.ua/en/year_reports.html
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