Annual Technical Report 2011 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Lithuania (CWS/ATR/ID/2011/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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The SPB Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks contained announcements published in 2011:
FG9L Registrations published in accordance with Article 21 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
TC9L, TA9L, PD9Y,TC9Y, TH9Y Changes in the Register of the Republic of Lithuania in accordance with Article 29 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania
MM9L Registrations lapsed in accordance with Article 30 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
MK9L Expiration of Registrations in accordance with the Article 34 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
ND9L Renewal of registration of the design in accordance with Article 35 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
PC9L Transfer of the design in accordance with Article 40 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
QB9L Licensing (sublicensing) in accordance with Article 41 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
TK9L Rectifications
Sections of the Official Bulletin have been coded in accordance with WIPO Standard ST.17
Mass storage media and microforms used
SPB Official Bulletin has been published in an electronic format and has been accessible on SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245).
Databases and office automation
The SPB provide database of national and international design registration on it's website free of charge.
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
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Industrial Property search and other services have been also provided by Patent Information Centre of Lithuanian Technical Library (http://www.tb.lt/PIC/PIC.htm).
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
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In 2011, SPB published on website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks.
The SPB has provided databases of national and international design registration on it's website free of charge.
Statistics of national designs has been provided on SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=321).
Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), data carriers used
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The Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania was open to public access only in the following forms:
Extract from the Register (on request);
SPB Official Bulletin.
Design Database on SPB website free of charge.
LTL also offered to its visitors the opportunity to get acquainted with a wide range of Lithuanian publications (SPB Official Bulletin, etc.), Official Gazettes of foreign states, sets of communications and regulations in 2011.
Public users had a possibility to use the following CD/DVD-ROMs received in 2011:
Promyšlennaja sobstvennost. Oficialnyj biuleten (AM);
Schweizerisches Patent-, Muster- und Markenblatt (CH);
Industrial Property Bulletin (GR);
Buletin Oficial de la Propiedad Industrial. (ES);
Buletin Oficial de Proprietate Industriala (MD);
Glasnik intelektualne svojine (RS);
IPPO Glasnik (MK);
Published registered design applications (JP);
Buletin Oficial de Proprietate Industriala (RO);
Promislova vlastnist (UA);
Rasmij achborotnoma (UZ);
International Designs Bulletin (WO).
In 2011, the visitors of LTL had been consulted on the spot as well as by phone or e-mail and had an opportunity to order design search.
SPB published on its website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks.
Search for the international and Community designs and other services have been provided by Patent Information Centre of Lithuanian Technical Library (http://www.tb.lt/PIC/PIC.htm)
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
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Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks has been published on SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245).
Exchange of machine-readable information, e.g., data contained on CD-ROM or magnetic tape
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Employees of the State Patent Bureau attended 13 sessions of WIPO committees, meetings and sessions of working groups and other events organized by WIPO.
In year 2011 the SPB cooperated with WIPO intensively in implementing the bilateral plan for year 2011 conducted between Lithuania and WIPO; an international conference on the issues of intellectual property was organizes, WIPO award was presented to most innovative Lithuanian entity and gold medal to the young inventor of Lithuania; seminar was organized for Lithuanian science and education institutions on the issues of commercialising intellectual property; WIPO publication “Inventing the Future” was translated and adapted.
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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In 2011, Lithuanian industrial property statistical data had been submitted to WIPO to be published in its publication Industrial Property Statistics.