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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.
The procedures of filing application, examination and patent granting for industrial design have not changed in 2012.
The total number of filed applications for patent granting on industrial designs has made 179 (the highest rate in the last five years), from them on a share of national applicants 82,1 %, the share of applications from foreign applicants has made 17,9 % from total number of the filed applications. The most number of applications are filed on following classes of the International Classification for Industrial Designs: 9th class (javascript:execClass(09)Packages and containers for the transport or handling of goods) - 29 applications, 25th class (Building units and construction elements) - 26 applications, 5th class (textile goods) – 25 applications, 1st class (alimentary products) – 20 applications; the specified classes have made 55,9 % from total number of the filed applications.
The quantity of the registered industrial designs in 2012 has increased in comparison with last year on 15,8 % and has made 110 registered industrial designs. The registered industrial designs by national applicants has made 85,5 %, the share of foreign applicants has made 14,5 %.
The statistical data on industrial designs is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/about/statistic/?ELEMENT_ID=29
The Agency has published the following official publications on industrial design in 2012:
• official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» - 12 issues (on CD-ROM);
• publication sheets to patents for industrial designs - 101 publication sheets (on a paper);
• collection of annual indexes to the official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» (section of the index on industrial designs) on the electronic carrier.
Data on the registered industrial designs are published in section «Industrial designs» of the official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma», which has published on CD-ROM. Data on industrial designs includes bibliographic data and image. Data on 149 industrial designs has published in official bulletins in 2012.
The most important announcements, concerning activity of the Agency on industrial designs are available in section "Official Information" of the bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» and on the website of the office (www.ima.uz).
The Agency has a full collection of patent documents of Uzbekistan on industrial designs on a paper. Patent documents are stored also in bibliographic databases and in electronic storehouses.
During processing applications for concerning industrial design are scanned and saved in facsimile form in format TIFF. Descriptions and the list of essential attributes are distinguished by system ABBYY Fine Reader 7.0 and kept in format MS-Word. Images of industrial samples are entered in format JPG, by means of program Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 Pro.
Collecting chapters of the official bulletin on industrial design is carried out automatically on the workplace of the employee of Publication Division. By specialized inquiry the bibliographic data from database (SUBD MS SQL Server 2000) and texts of documents (abstracts) are selected and sorted from electronic storehouse. The subsequent operations (page makeup, duplicating) are made by means of programs Word and Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
The official bulletin is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/pub/?SECTION_ID=32.
Applications for industrial designs are classified according to 9th edition of the International Classification of Industrial Designs (Locarno Agreement). Other classification systems are not applied.
Bibliographic data are saved in the form of dynamic XML-documents and in the internal database constructed on the basis of SUBD MS SQL Server 2000. Bibliographic data are supported and updated during life of the application by all departments, involved in process. Changes in base will be authorized. Interfaces of access to base are constructed on the basis of Intranet-technologies.
The search file on a paper and optical disks is formed on the basis of collection of the State Fund of the Patent Documentation, which includes materials on the industrial designs, containing the foreign official bulletins of 25 countries (on 16 countries - the retrospective information whereas since the certain moment official bulletins of these countries are exposed on sites of patent offices), WIPO and the incorporated cumulative editions on the industrial designs, prepared by INIC Rospatent; it is placed by a geographical principle.
On national patent documents are conducted the bibliographic database and electronic file (text) storehouses for internal use.
Search files on a paper and a part on CD/DVD-ROM are updated monthly, some CDs/DVD-ROM are updated annually.
Bibliographic data and files of documents in electronic storehouse on national documents can replenish and/or be corrected in process of the reference.
Conditions of storage of fund depend on mostly kinds of data carriers: patent documents on a paper are stored in wall cases, photograph collection on microfilms - in boxes, on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM - in stores in wall cases.
Bases of bibliographic, office work data and file storehouse are stored on specialized a file-server on which with a view of safety reserve copying on an additional server is carried out.
In 2011 the State Fund of the Patent Documentation has replenished with the patent-information publications containing data on industrial designs of 9 countries of the world.
With a view of increase of efficiency of search and processing of patents in Agency the subsystem of automation of patent search and preparation for the publication of patent documents (PIPS) functions.
PIPS - patent-search information system (conducting bibliographic bases, patent search, reports: registers, statistics, decisions of examinations).
The system of automation of search and preparation of documents of Agency has been designed on the basis of technologies Intranet with wide use of language means of the objective structured data presentation - universal language of the description of data XML/XSL and control system of databases of corporate level MS SQL Server.
The followings date bases are used widely by examiners on the Internet: FIPS.ru, EAPATIS.com; and also searching system: Google, Rambler, Yahoo, and Yandex.
The full-function system of administration is in SATOZ, providing authorization, access to the information, safety, and management of the rights of users, groups and options of system.
The active part of technical maintenance of the integrated automated system (the computer, network and peripheral equipment) includes in the structure:
• Workstations of series HP dx2300, dx2400, Pro M3120 MT;
• Server stations of series HP Pro Liant DL 380, HP Pro Liant ML 370;
• Network printers HP LaserJet of series P2015, P1006, P4515x, 4100DTN, Samsung ML-2165, Canon MF-4410, Canon 3010B, Canon LBP 2900, Canon iR 2318;
• Flatbed scanners HP ScanJet 5100C and HP ScanJet 5400C, 4010C, Fujitsu;
• The Switching equipment (switchboards HP, routers 3COM, access servers),sources of no-break power from manufacturers MGE of series Pulsar M3000, M2200 and AVT 15 kWt.
The architectural decision of corporate network of the Agency completely is based on family of operating systems MS Windows. Operating systems MS Windows Advanced Server 2000/2003 support domain structure of network. As a base workstation system MS Windows XP Professional (SP3)/Windows 7, providing multilanguage support is chosen.
For the purpose of protection of local network against interventions from a network the Internet the local computer network of the organization is protected network by screen MS ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration) is used a kind of proxy-server and also the local network is protected by an antivirus - Kaspersky Antivirus Workstation/Server Edition for prevention infection of computers from harmful software.
With a view of improvement of quality of patent office-work in Agency the licensed software is used.
For editing and recognition of documents it is used software ABBYY Fine Reader 7.0, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Pro and processing of images Photoshop CS2, CorelDRAW 12. For work with various types of documents: texts, spreadsheets, databases, etc. use office package of appendices MS Office 2007 Pro. For automation of translation process within the limits of a local network the network version of translation program PROMT NET Pro 7.0 and the independent version of electronic dictionary ABBYY Lingvo 10 is used.
The State Patent Documentation Fund of Agency is collecting the information on industrial designs and Fund is structural division of Agency and also practically has unique full collection of the patent documentation in territory of Uzbekistan. On the basis of State Patent Documentation Fund of Agency is carried out patent- information services for office experts and public.
The collection of Fund includes patent bulletins with data on industrial designs of 26 countries, WIPO and cumulative collection of ROSPATENT (on separate classes), including on CD-ROM disks of 16 countries and WIPO. The collection is replaced on the countries and years. Acquisition is carried out on the international exchange, by way of a subscription and acquisition by own editions. The collection on CD-ROM disks is located in stores in wall cases.
The information services which are carried out under orders of consumers, including carrying out of the automated search on CD/DVD-ROM; classification on international classification of industrial designs; searching in the database of the office, consultation on drawing up and registration of applications for registration (including international) trademark; copying, selection and issue of documents by inquiries of users, and etc.
The information services which are carried out under orders of consumers, include carrying out of patent search, classification on International classification for industrial designs, consultations concerning drawing up and filling of applications, copying, selection and delivery of documents by inquiries of users, etc. In 2012 year over 20 orders for patent-information services on industrial samples have been executed.
Granting of patent documents on traditional carriers is carried out directly in reading room at the State Patent Documentation Fund, which is equipped with electronic fund. The patent documentation and the information on industrial samples on optical disks are presented in the electronic fund.
The information on submission and consideration of applications for industrial designs is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/togovernment/?SECTION_ID=176.
The information on the order of granting is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/legis/?SECTION_ID=223
The information on appeal procedure is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/disputes/?ELEMENT_ID=111.
The information on products and services offered by office in on-line is available: http://www.ima.uz/ru/toapplicant/list.php?ELEMENT_ID=264
On the basis of the bilateral exchange, the Agency has sent the Official bulletins «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» with data on the registered trademarks to 28 countries and international and regional organizations as WIPO, EPO, and EAPO.
In 2012 on the basis of a bilateral exchange, the AGENCY has received the official bulletins with data on industrial designs from offices of 9 countries and WIPO (including 8 on CD-ROM and DVD disks).
Questions on a legal protection of industrial designs are included in the program of the «Center on retraining and advanced training of qualification of the staff of AIP in sphere of Intellectual property.
Besides, these questions are component of lectures, educational seminars, organized by Agency, in particular, in republic educational institutions; in 2012 lectures and practical trainings has visited over 600 listeners.
Activities in the field of industrial designs is part of the seminars, which organized by the Agency, in particular, is lead a regional seminar in Karshi and in the several universities of Tashkent, in 2012.
Information on necessity legal protection of industrial design is published in mass media.
The legislation on industrial designs is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/togovernment/?ELEMENT_ID=311.
The Annual Reports of Agency is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/pub/?SECTION_ID=34.
The news of Agency on industrial design is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/news/.