Annual Technical Report on Industrial Design Information Activities in 2015 submitted by
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Republic of Serbia, Intellectual Property Office
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Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) - URLs
All relevant data considering industrial design protection in Republic of Serbia are on our web site on www.zis.gov.rs . That includes most frequently asked questions, design legislation, guidelines and forms, fees, statistics and reports.
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Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
Application dossiers are not available by the official website of the IP Office. In the future the plan is to develop an electronic Industrial design register, similar to the one we did for trademarks.
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Classification and reclassification activities; classification system used, e.g., International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification), other classification
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.
The classification is used for the novelty examination search, for commercial search and for statistics.
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Main types of publications in the field of industrial design information, outline of the content (industrial design applications, design patents, registrations, etc.) and medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URLs)
Intellectual Property Office of Serbia publishes registered national industrial designs on CD-ROM, 6 times a year.
Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc.
Design are published electronically (on the Office's website) in the Intellectual Property Gazette contained bibliographical data and graphical presentations or images of the industrial design registrations. The Intellectual Property Gazette, in the part referring to industrial designs, is prepared by means of computer using an IPAS system. The following information and bibliographical data concerning registered domestic and international Industrial Design are published in the Intellectual Property Gazette – registration number, application number, filing date, registration date, date of granted priority right, validity date, information on the holder of title, information about the design has been registered. Industrial designs are published in grayscale technique and color technique.
Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external documentation and databases
Examiners use national data base of design applications and registered designs and also use IPAS, internal data base which contains more information available through workflow.
Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) and services available to external users; conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
The information services available to the public through the Office are as follows:
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Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)
Legal status information is available in official registers in paper form.
Other sources
IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements
IPAS (Industrial Property Administration System) – acquired from WIPO
Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
The server capacity of the Office is increased with two Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S8 servers in addition to the existing servers. This new hardware is configured with several virtual servers of the MS Hyper-V and VMware host type and HP P2000 G3 iSCSI MSA Dual Controller LFF NAS storage discs.
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Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
Oracle database, IPAS case management system
Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file: file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file
MySQL database that is regularly updated, periodically, by transferring/converting appropriate dataset from internal Oracle database. Available for external use via hyperlink on IPO web site.
Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
IPAS case management system
Other matters
General information related to industrial design are posted to IPO web site by employees of design group by means of CMS software.
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Office's library (if deals with industrial design information): equipment, collection management, network of libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign libraries
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:
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Publications related to different business procedures and industrial design information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
Various publications related to industrial design such as studies, brochures, newsletters and leaflets are available in paper form or in electronic form on the IPO website http://www.zis.gov.rs/publications.446.html
Cooperation with universities, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
The Education and Information Center was founded in January 2010 with the aim of raising general awareness and developing professional skills in the field of intellectual property. Offers a whole range of services in the area of intellectual property helping to upgrade Serbia’s innovation capacities, vigorously supporting the development of its economy as one that is competitive, dynamic and knowledge-based. The fundamental principles guiding the EIC in its work are transparency, objectivity, openness and completeness.
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Education and training: training courses, e learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
EIC has developed 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.
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On several occasions, the experts from the Group for designs and geographical indications gave interviews in the daily papers and specialized magazines on the importance and procedure of protection of industrial designs.
Other activities
In 2015, Intellectual Property Pre-diagnosis was provided to 42 business companies. The aim of this service was to show to the business companies the possibilities of the improvement of competition on the market by using and managing own resources of intellectual property. Business companies for which this service has been provided belong to the different fields in industry, and most of them were in the field of food and dietary supplements, metal industry, construction, chemical and textile manufacturers.
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International exchange of industrial design information in machine-readable form (e.g., Official Gazettes)
The Office has received gazettes from the following countries: Czech Republic and Belarus in paper and from Bulgaria, Belarus, Slovenia, Russia, China and Ukraine on CDs.
Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to industrial design information
The officials of the IPO participated at the 10th Liaison Meeting on Technical cooperation and 14th Liaison Meeting on Designs in the OHIM.
Assistance to developing countries
Other activities
VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS
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