Annual Technical Report 2012 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Serbia (CWS/ATR/ID/2012/RS)
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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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Of the total number of 431 industrial design applications filed in 2012, 343 applications were filed by foreign applicants under the Hague Agreement. Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, while 88 applications were filed directly with the IPO by domestic and foreign applicants (of which 21 were multiple applications, making a total of 133 industrial designs).
Field Industrial Design Applications:
Year Hague Agreement National applications Total
Foreign Domestic
2010 - 258 23 81 362
2011 - 280 24 78 382
2012 - 343 22 66 431
The year 2012 saw the registration of 387 industrial designs, of which
319 were, registered in accordance with the Hague Agreement, and 68 on the basis of applications filed directly with the IPO.
Registered Industrial Design Applications:
Year Hague Agreement National applications Total
Foreign Domestic
2010 - 225 23 92 340
2011 - 255 19 60 334
2012 - 319 19 49 387
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
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http://www.zis.gov.rs/about-us/annual-report.106.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/o-zavodu/godisnji-izvestaji.50.html in Serbian
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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Web site of the Office provides access to online industrial design gazettes and to other sources of industrial design information, including possibility to download of bulk industrial design data.
http://www.zis.gov.rs/information-services/intellectual-property-gazette.462.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/информационе-услуге/гласник-интелектуалне-својине.48.html in Serbian
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
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Classification and reclassification activities; Classification system used, e.g., International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification), other classification (please indicate whether industrial designs are classified by your Office and, if so, which classification is used).
The Intellectual Property Office of Serbia uses the International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification) since 1973. All the documents are classified according to class and subclass of the Locarno Classification. Now the IPO uses and classifies according to the last edition of the Classification.
Bibliographic data and processing
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Hardware: Fujitsu SIEMENS
Server: Fujitsu SIEMENS Primergy
Workstations: Windows XP as OS, MS Office as general document management,
Software: Oracle 10GR1, IPAS application software
Server: WINDOWS 2003 Server Standard edition OS, Oracle 10gi as DBMS
Internet access – dedicated optical connection to the provider.
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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The information services available to the public through the OFFICE are as follows:
1. Search according to the year of filing of the application,
2. Search according to the applicant,
3. Search according to the holder of rights,
4. Search according to the application number,
5. Search according to the registration number,
6. Search according to classes,
7. Search according to the title of the product,
8. Combination of the above mentioned.
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.zis.gov.rs/intellectual-property-rights/designs/most-frequently-asked.76.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/prava-is/dizajn/najcesca-pitanja.18.html in Serbian
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
http://www.zis.gov.rs/intellectual-property-rights/designs/forms-and-instructions.86.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/prava-is/dizajn/обрасци-и-упутства.20.html in Serbian
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information
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IPO had established the Education and Information Center (EIC) in 2009. EIC has developed in previous three years a range of different type of seminars for different stakeholder groups. Lectures can be tailor made. Also, the IPO is equipped with the modern public library, and the premises for seminars and educational purpose.
http://www.zis.gov.rs/home.334.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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http://www.zis.gov.rs/intellectual-property-rights/designs/legislative-texts.77.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/prava-is/dizajn/прописи.19.html in Serbian
contain the Annual Report of the Office
http://www.zis.gov.rs/about-us/annual-report.106.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/o-zavodu/godisnji-izvestaji.50.html in Serbian
contain industrial design-related news regarding the Office
http://www.zis.gov.rs/news/news.104.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/вести/вести.46.html in Serbian
X. Other relevant matters