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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 2011the Israeli Patent and Designs Office received 1,511 industrial design applications .,the figure for 2010 was 1,622
In 2011, 861 industrial design were granted as opposed to 848 in 2010.
The Israel Patent and Design Office publishes information of industrial designs in the Patents and Designs Journal, which is issued once a month. The journal contains only bibliographical information on industrial designs accepted for registration, information about renewals, registrations cancelled and changes in particulars entered in the Register .Images of designs are not published in the Journal.
Judicial decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and Designs are published in Hebrew on the ILPO website.
The Office uses a national classification system to classify industrial design applications.
The major difference between this system and the International Locarno Classification system is that the national classification system forces an objective classification and does not permit the use of the "Miscellaneous " classification.
The search files are manual in the databases of Office and by Internet.
An automated support system was internally developed for industrial design operations using the MS-Access tool and ACDSYSTEM tool which meets the requirements of image processing data and image search.
The Israel Patent and Design Office is the national authority where applications for registrationof industrial designs in Israel are filed , examined and registered.
The internal library provides the public, free of charge, information and general advice in relation to application, examination and registration procedures of Designs.
The Office receives trainees from developing countries under the WIPO training program .
http://www.justice.gov.il/MOJEng/RashamHaptentim/AnnualReport.htm