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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.
Of the total number of 316 industrial design applications filed in 2009, 181 applications were filed by foreign applicants under the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, while 135 applications were filed directly with the IPO by domestic and foreign applicants (of which 28 were multiple applications, making a total of 232 industrial designs).
The year 2009 saw the registration of 268 industrial designs, of which
181 were, registered in accordance with the Hague Agreement, and 87 on the basis of applications filed directly with the IPO.
Compared to 2008, the number of applications filed directly with the IPO in 2009, was less by 18 (11.76%). The number of applications filed under the Hague Agreement was 181, which was by 170 less than in 2008 (48.43%).
http://www.zis.gov.rs/en/pdf_o_nama/annual_report.pdf
Intellectual Property Office of Serbia publishes registered national industrial designs in the Intellectual Property Gazette on paper in 100 copies and publishes on CD-ROM in 200 copies bimonthly, 6 times a year.
Design are published 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. Information from Industrial Design data base are transferred to text processor automatically, then minimal technical preparation follows and the text is sent to printing. 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.
The dossiers are on paper and are stored following the registration number or the application number for the refusals.
The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia uses the national data base of design applications and registered designs, application software IPAS. There are national and international (according to the Hague Agreement concerning Serbia) database with graphical presentations or images.
Web site of the Office provides access to online industrial design gazettes and to other sources of industrial design information, including possibility to download of bulk industrial design data.
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.
Application for the grant of design right is filed to the IPO exclusively in the paper format and it is entered in the application register. It gets the application number there. The examiner determines the class of the Locarno Classification. The image of the design is scanned and entered in the IPAS data base together with the relevant data from the application. The application which meets the legally prescribed conditions for protection (novelty of design and possession of individual character) is registered. The registration number is entered in the Register of Designs and IPAS data base. The bibliographic data of the granted design and its image from the IPAS data base is forwarded to the Publication Department for the publication of registered rights and they publish the registered design in the Intellectual Property Gazette. Applications which have been rejected and refused are entered in the Register of Design Applications and the files are sent to the archive.
Every change concerning the application or the granted design is entered in the appropriate registers and in the IPAS data base.
The storage is in boxes and storage closets.
The most important document for the Office is the one obtained from the WIPO and that is WIPO “INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS BULLETIN” (WO).
The Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Serbia uses the national data base of design applications and registered designs, IPAS. The registered designs are available to the public on the web site of the Office.
There are Internet external databases available. RCD-online is used.
IPAS application.
Hardware: Fujitsu SIEMENS
Server: Fujitsu SIEMENS Primergy
Workstations: Windows XP as OS, MS Office as general document management,
Software: Oracle 10GR1, IPAS application software
Server: WINDOWS 2003 Server Standard edition OS, Oracle 10gi as DBMS
Internet access – dedicated optical connection to the provider.
The information services available to the public through the OFFICE are as follows:
1.Search according to the year of filing of the application,
2.Search according to the applicant,
3.Search according to the holder of rights,
4.Search according to the application number,
5.Search according to the registration number,
6.Search according to classes
7.Search according to the title of the product
8.Combination of the above mentioned
Information on the registered industrial designs in Serbia is available on the site of the Office.
Not available.
http://www.zis.gov.rs/sr/dizajn/dizajn_pitanja.html
http://www.zis.gov.rs/sr/dizajn/dizajn_obrasci.html
In 2009, the Official Gazette of the Intellectual Property Office of
Serbia, “Intellectual Property Gazette” was delivered to the following
countries:
AM, AT,AR, AU, BA, BE, BG, BR, BY, CH, CN, CO, CU, CZ, DE, DZ, EG,
FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, HR, IN, IT, JP, KR, LI, LT, LY, MK, NO, PL, RO, RU, SI, SM, TJ, TR, UA, US, VE.
The Office received gazettes from the following countries: BA, BG, BY, HR, JP, KR, LT, PL, RU, TJ and WIPO.
There is a collection of the “WIPO International designs bulletin” ON CD-ROM.
Two representatives of the Group took part in the OHIM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SEMINAR in The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market held from September 21 till September 25, 2009 in Alicante, Spain.
The experts from the Office have visited the manifestations at the fairs, for example The Fair of Furniture, the Fair of Motor Cars, the Fair of Civil Engineering and other manifestations taking place at the Belgrade Fair.
On several occasions, the experts from the Office gave interviews in the daily papers and specialized magazines on the importance and procedure of protection of industrial designs.
http://www.zis.gov.rs/sr/home/zakoni_i_propisi.html
http://www.zis.gov.rs/sr/pdf_o_nama/godisnji_izvestaj.pdf