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There were 1446 applications filed in the year 2009. This was a small decrease from 2008 when 1283 were filed.
The Intellectual Property Office of Suriname publishes accepted trademarks in the general advertisement paper.The marks are only published after acceptance by the office.
The announcements of the office are mostly made through e-mailing or through circulars. There is no official Trademark Gazette. To create awareness concerning trademarks the office sents brochures to schools, bussinesses, institutions and other interest groups.
The main records are submitted and stored on paper. The trademark records and administration are handled by an automated system. For this system there is an database administered on an server. Back ups are made on daily basis.
The office has 9 members and 7 of them have a PC. At this moment the office has a small wired LAN for these 7 computers using Windows server 2003.
The trademark databases are only accessible by members of the office but not for the public.
In preparation of the IPAS data is entered in exell and access. Information is available through access and exell.The data of applications for registration of trademarks from October 2007 has started to be entered in IPAS and the user documents from October 2007.
The classification system used are the International Classification of goods and services for the purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice classification).
The applicant is required to use mostly the wording of the Nice Classification if possible.
Data is stored on paperbasis and in an electronic database.Searches are done manually and electronically.
The public can search manually in the paperbased files.
Searches are done manually and electronical. Manually searching through the paperbased files is also available for the public. Electronic search is only for the members of the office.
Files are updated via the database system.
Other offices documentation do not form part of the existing search file.
The inhouse system currently allows only access to members of the office.
The office is not linked with external databases.
Registers are generated after publication and contains the history of the trademark applications.
Statistics are made in seperate files on monthly basis.
There is a small wired LAN for 7 computers using Windows server 2003 technology. There is a server.
The Intellectual Property Office is located in the main building of the Ministry of Public Works and is situated on the ground floor. The building is secured by security personnel.
Documents are stored in a well-closed room.
There is information available for the public in the form of brochures. Searches in the registers are conducted by the public and trademark agents for free.
There is no international and regional cooperation for providing the trademark information as there is no official trademark gazette.
There is no exchange of machine-readable information.
The office has brochures explaining the different field of intellectual property. These brochures are sent to different schools, institutions and others interested in Intellectual Property.
E-mails with information on Intellectual Property are also sent to different institutions.
Members of the office are encouraged to enroll in the distance learning programes offerde by the WIPO WorldWide Academy