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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.
In 2002, SIPO received 138 national applications, a 43.7 % increase from the previous year.
Compared to the previous year, the number of registered national designs increased by 51 %.
At the end of 2002, there were 4896 industrial designs in force, out of which 744 were filed through national route and 4152 under the Hague Agreement.
Information on industrial designs are published bimonthly in the Bulletin of Industrial Property and are also available on SIPO Website (www.uil-sipo.si). The Bulletin as well as other documents are prepared with the Ventura Publisher software.
Industrial designs are classified according to the last edition of the Locarno Classification.
SIPO does not perform manual searches anymore.
SIPO has computer aided possibilities for searching industrial design information. There are also Internet external databases available.
On-line information service including bibliographic data on published and registered designs as well as searchable database on designs on SIPO website are available to the public. SIPO Webite also enables public to get general information on industrial design protection in Slovenia.
SIPO sends the Bulletin of Industrial Property to 16 countries.
In 2002, SIPO organized several seminars on industrial property protection for the public, and participated in three fairs.
SIPO offered assistance (workshop) to the examiners of Industrial Property Protection Office of the Republic of Macedonia.