Annual Technical Report 2012 on Patent Information Activities submitted by Lithuania (CWS/ATR/PI/2012/LT)
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The term "patent" covers utility models and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs). Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in their Annual Technical Reports on Industrial Design Information Activities.
I. Evolution of patent activities
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The SPB official patent publications are:
Patent Applications (A documents);
Patent Specifications (B documents);
Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of patent information
BB1A Patent Applications published ;
FG9A Patents published ;
FD9A Patent Applications withdrawn ;
MM9A Patents lapsed ;
PC9A Transfer of Patents ;
QA9A Licensing ;
QB9A Licensing ;
PD9A, TA9A, TC9A TH9A Changes in Patents published ;
BB1A International Patent Applications published ;
BB1D European Patent Applications published ;
FG9D European Patents published ;
BB4D European Patent Applications published ;
FG4D European Patents published ;
MG9D Revocation of European Patent extension;
MG4D Revocation of European Patents;
PD9D, DC9D, TH9A Changes in European Patents published ;
PC9D Transfer of Patents published;
QB9D Licensing ;
MF9D European Patents revoked ;
MM9D Cancellation of European Patent extension ;
ND9D Applications for Supplementary Protection Certificates published;
ND9D Supplementary Protection Certificates published ;
ND1D Decisions not to grant Supplementary Protection Certificates published ;
TH9D, TK9D Rectifications.
Sections of the Official Bulletin have been coded in accordance with WIPO Standard ST.17
(New) techniques used for the generation of patent information (printing, recording, photocomposing, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), etc.)
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Applications are classified in accordance with the International Patent Classification, core level.
The dossiers of the patent applications are kept on paper in numerical order under the application number.
The European patent applications are stored in numerical order under the number of the request for validation.
Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file at Lithuanian technical library (LTL) stocks and have been updated with full text patent documents from countries and organizations (AM, BY, CA, DK, EA, EP, FI, GB, GE, JP, KG, KZ, LT, MD, RU, TJ, UA, UZ).
Bibliographic data and full-text processing
The SPB Official Bulletin Sections have been coded in accordance with WIPO Standard.17
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
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Lithuanian technical library (LTL)- is a specialized library of national significance, open to the public; LTL is the country's largest library, accumulating the collection of printings in areas of technology and economics, descriptions of inventions, standards and other normative documents, company registers and catalogues. LTL is the centre of the methodology of the network of technical libraries and inter-library subscription (TBA). At the end of 2012 LTL had a collection of 48.6 million printings and documents (descriptions of inventions constituting the largest part), and 8,200 registered subscriptions. 1.6 million documents were acquired, around 45 thousand readers visited the library, more than 270 thousand exemplars of documents were issued, around 6.7 thousand requests were carried out, and almost 200 exhibitions and events were organized in the year 2012.
Documents are issued for the subscribers of the library to take away, and to read in specialised reading rooms (general, patent information, electronic information, foreign literature, bibliography), also in the reading rooms of the branches; documents that are not in possession of LTL are ordered from other libraries of the country and of other countries, via the TBA; services are provided to organizations according to yearly agreements; thematic, factual, revisionary, and informational queries, also consultations on search for information are performed; the users have access to subscription databases and other sources of electronic information; thematic exhibitions, seminars, and other events are being organized in the library; thematic digest "Information and the Library" is published quarterly.
Updating
At the end of 2012 LTL had a collection of 48.6 million printings and documents (descriptions of inventions constituting the largest part).
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The SPB published on its website (http://www.vpb.lt/en/) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks and databases of Lithuanian Patents and European Patents entered into force in the Republic
of Lithuania. SPB website Databases have been an exact copy of the data stored in the Common Software Databases. Common Software Databases contained bibliographic, legal status data, abstract data, national patent applications (A documents) and national patent specifications (B documents), translated claims of European Patents entered into force in the Republic of Lithuania included
External databases
SPB regularly uses the Espacenet database that offers the free access to more than 70 million patent documents all over the world
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The Lithuanian Technical library has its divisions in cities of Kaunas, Klaipėda, and Panevėžys.
On January 1, 2013, LTL had a collection of 48.6 million printings and documents (descriptions of inventions constituting the largest part), and 8,200 registered subscriptions. 1.6 million documents were acquired, around 45 thousand readers visited the library, more than 270 thousand exemplars
of documents were issued, around 6.7 thousand requests were carried out, and almost 200 exhibitions and events were organized in the year 2012.
The website of LTL registered around 340 thousand external visits in the year 2012.
The division of the library Patent information centre (PIC) is a depository library of industrial property documents and patent literature, the centre of patent information services, of the compilation, publishing and distribution of patent documentation in Lithuania. Together with the State Patent Bureau (SPB) and LTL branches, the network of country's PATLIB centres is formed, providing patent information and documentation services to the public.
Patent clinics (service of free consultations for inventors on the issues of patenting inventions) are available since year 2007 in LTL in the cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Panevezys . Consultations are carried out by the patent attorneys of the Republic of Lithuania.
Collection management, preservation
Lithuanian Technical Library (LTL) offered for visitors the opportunity to get acquainted with a wide range of Lithuanian publications (SPB Official Bulletin, full text of patent specifications in paper and CD-ROM format, etc.), Official Gazettes, patent bibliography of foreign states and intergovernmental organisations on CD/DVD-ROMs, sets of communications and regulations in 2012.
The visitors of LTL had been consulted on the spot as well as by phone or e-mail and had an opportunity to order patent search.
Interlibrary lending, resource sharing, networks of patent libraries in the country
At Lithuanian Technical Library documents are issued for the subscribers of the library to take away, and to read in specialised reading rooms (general, patent information, electronic information, foreign literature, bibliography), also in the reading rooms of the branches; documents that are
in possession of LTL are ordered from other libraries of the country and of other countries, via the TBA; services are provided to organizations according to yearly agreements; thematic, factual, revisionary, and informational queries, also consultations on search for information are performed; the users have access to subscription databases and other sources of electronic information;
thematic exhibitions, seminars, and other events are being organized in the library; thematic digest "Information and the Library" and information publication „Protection of Industrial Property“ are published quarterly.
Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and patent information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web)
Search for patents in the CD-ROM databases, Internet and other services have been provided by Patent Information Centre of Lithuanian Technical Library (http://www.tb.lt/PIC/PIC.htm)
LTL website (http://www.tb.lt/PIC/PIC.htm) provided scanned Lithuanian patent A and B documents
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of patent applications
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SPB published on its website (http://www.vpb.lt/en/) the Official Gazette Inventions, Designs, Trademarks and databases of Lithuanian Patents and European Patents entered into force in the Republic of Lithuania.
Statistics of national patents has been provided on the SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=321).
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of patent documentation and information
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On September 4-5 2012, Trakai hosted a regional seminar for judges on the implementation of intellectual property rights organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the State Patent Bureau (SPB). The event was attended by 35 judges and their assistants from Lithuania, and 6 judges and their assistants from higher courts of Estonia, Poland and Moldova. At the seminar, reports
were presented by representatives of WIPO, SPB, the Ministry of Justice, scholars and practitioners working in the area of the protection of intellectual property rights.
This is the fifth time that Lithuania together with WIPO organizes a training for judges and law enforcement personnel, with primary goal being – to provide the participants with knowledge of intellectual property, trends and problems of its development; to discuss the global and the European Union case law dealing with intellectual property disputes; and to enable the representatives of the Lithuanian law enforcement institutions to share their experience of handling intellectual property cases with colleagues from other countries
On 6 - 8th November 2012 in Hamburg (Germany) representatives from the State Patent Bureau of Lithuania together with representatives from patent offices of Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia participated in the patent information conference EPOPIC 2012 which was jointly organized by European Patent Office with the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA). Conference main speakers were representatives from European patent office, commercial patent information providers offered an insight on their range of services, providing further evidence of the rapidly growing importance of their business for the expanding global technology market. Also, in parallel with the conference an exhibition was held. During exhibition the European patent office and private commercial companies, related with patent information, and national patent offices introduced audience with their services and activities.
On December 5th 2012 Klaipėda Science and Technology Park hosted a national seminar “Intellectual Property as the Tool for Competiveness and Innovation“ organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the State Patent Bureau (SPB).At the seminar, reports were presented by representatives of WIPO, SPB, scholars and practitioners working in the area of the
protection of intellectual property rights.
In the year 2012 seminars for patent attorneys, state representatives, lawyers were held seeking
to present new patent law of the Republic of Lithuania,industrial property legislation and current issues, establishing a Unified Patent Court.
Studies to identify trends in new technology, e.g., by the use of patent statistics and preparation of monographs
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The SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=EN) provided information on legislation related to
patents in 2012
contain the Annual Report of the Office
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X. Other relevant matters
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| 1. | Classification is allotting one or more classification symbols (e.g., IPC symbols) to a patent application, either before or during search and examination, which symbols are then published with the patent application.
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| 2. | Preclassification is allotting an initial broad classification symbol (e.g., IPC class or subclass, or administrative unit) to a patent application, using human or automated means for internal administrative purposes (e.g., routing an application to the appropriate examiner). Usually preclassification is applied by the administration of an office.
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| 3. | Reclassification is the reconsideration and usually the replacement of one or more previously allotted classification symbols to a patent document, following a revision and the entry into force of a new version of the Classification system (e.g., the IPC). The new symbols are available on patent databases.
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