Annual Technical Report 2013 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Serbia (CWS/ATR/TM/2013/RS)
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I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARK INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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In calendar year 2013, Intellectual Property Office of Serbia received 2203 national applications. Compared to 2012 (1898), national applications fillings increased 16 percent. 1466 national applications were registered, 329 less than in 2012, and 219 were refused, 10 more than in 2012.
At the same time the number of trademark applications filed under the Madrid Agreement and Madrid Protocol is increased for 118 applications. We had 4986 applications in 2012 and in 2013 total number are 5104 trademark applications. On the other hand, the International trademark department issued 3743 Grant of protection statements in 2013, against 4906 in 2012.
Trademark applications:
Year Madrid System National Total
2009 5422 2084 6263
2010 4927 2161 7088
2011 4968 1987 6955
2012 4986 1898 6884
2013 5014 2203 7307
Registered Trademarks:
Year Madrid System National Total
2009 5885 3371 9256
2010 5258 1872 7130
2011 4823 1405 6228
2012 5257 1795 7052
2013 3743 1466 5209
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
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All relevant data considering the trademark protection in Republic of Serbia are on our web site on www.zis.gov.rs. That includes 1) frequently asked questions about trademarks, 2) TM legislation, 3) guidelines and forms, 4) fees; 5) statistics; 6) reports.
National trademark database is on our web site as well.
Third parties can make trademark research in our Office through the intranet.
Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
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The Nice Classification is used for the similarity examination search, for commercial search and for statistics. The translation of the list of goods and services is available on the official web site http://www.zis.gov.rs/upload/documents/pdf_sr/pdf_zigovi/Nic_klas10-2014-6feb%20PDF.pdf
We have been using Vienna Classification in trademark examination procedure for years, but from the beginning of 2010, Trademark Department started to apply Vienna Classification through the IPAS system.
Matters concerning processing of different types of non-traditional marks (e.g., three-dimensional, motion, hologram, color mark, etc.)
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Intranet network of Windows OS working stations, Windows (2003 R2 STD, 2010 R2 STD) based servers (Fujitsu servers, RAID controlled disks, three tiered architecture with Oracle as database server and JAVA application server
Internet access is achieved through direct optical connection to the provider at 20Mbit/sec, 2xCisco ASA 5510 in active/standby firewall configuration.
IPAS server - FujitsuSiemens Primergy TX200 server, 4GB RAM memory, 5x146GB hard disks in RAID 5 configuration, 2 NICs. MS Windows 2003 R2 Server Standard Edition, application software is IPAS (proprietary), database is Oracle.
Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
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Office library is a member of the COBISS system which represents an organizational model of joining libraries into a national information system with shared cataloguing, the COBIB union bibliographic/catalogue database and local bibliographic databases of participating libraries, the COLIB database on libraries, the CONOR authority database, and with a number of other functions. Functioning of the system is preconditioned by the following professional outlines and technological assumptions:
-standardized and shared cataloguing of library materials as well as a uniform management of catalogues and bibliographies,
-adequately skilled cataloguers,
-linking of libraries via computer and communications network.
Each national library information system built on the COBISS platform is co-created by the national COBISS center and the libraries as members of the system.
COBISS (Co-operative Online Bibliographic Systems and Services) is a model of a system representing the platform for the national library information systems in Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Albania. All these systems are interconnected into the COBISS.Net regional network.
Publications related to different business procedures and trademark information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
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