Annual Technical Report 2002 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by China (SCIT/ATR/TM/2002/CN)
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I. Evolution of registration activities
1. General Information on Trademark Application and Registration
In 2002, the Trademark Office accepted a total of 371,936 applications for goods and services trademark registration, more than ever with a 37.5% increase compared with that of 2001. In addition, the Trademark Office approved a total of 212,533 applications for registration in 2002. By the end of 2002, China had 1,664,810 registered trademarks in force.
2. Realization of Paperless Workflow in Trademark Registration
After Phase II of the Automation System for Trademark Registration and Administration was put into operation on a trial basis in November 2001, the Trademark Office began the substantive examination in March 2002, which marked the formal operation of Phase II. Based on the computerized trademark search and examination system of Phase I, a standard trademark data management system was set up in Phase II, which realized the automation of the procedures of trademark registration. After receiving an application filed for trademark registration, the Trademark Office immediately inputs and records the information in the trademark database, turning it into an electronic file and the paper document is archived. At each step of the procedure of trademark registration, the staff just hand over the business with electronic files through the computer system. The orderly instructions made dynamically in the trademark database limit and maintain the orderly proceeding of every link in the trademark registration procedure. When the staff need to send for the relevant trademark files for inspection, they can get them through a search on their own computer terminals. All the files generated separately by examiners in all stations are printed and sent collectively by the dispatch department.
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of secondary sources of trademark information, i.e., trademark gazettes
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At present, the China Trademark Office mainly exchanges international or regional trademark information with the International Bureau of WIPO on international trademark registration information, circulars, laws, regulations as well as protected symbols or signs by means of CD-ROMs, faxes and paper.
The Trademark Office also exchanges documentation and information with other IP offices through visiting delegations.
VIII. Matters concerning education and training including technical assistance to developing countries
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IX. Other relevant matters