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In connection with joining the Republic Uzbekistan to the Protocol to the Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Signs (Madrid, June 27, 1989) SPO within 2007 accepted applications on the Madrid system as under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol to the Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Signs. Since January 1, 2008 the Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Signs is denounced in territory of Uzbekistan
The total of the filed applications for registration of trademarks in 2007 was 3942, that is 33 % more in comparison with 2006. Thus the increase in the filed applications as on national procedure (from 1478 in 2006 up to 2062 in 2007), and on procedure of Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Signs (from 2464 in 2006 up to 3180 in 2007) is marked. 343 applications are filed on Protocol to the Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Signs.
The number of the registered trademarks on national procedure in 2007 was 1085. Protection is given to 2200 trade marks on the Madrid Agreement on the International Registration of Signs.
The address of web-page on which statistical data on trademarks is contained: http://www.patent.uz/statistics.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section « About office » - Statistics.
In 2007 official publications of the office on trademarks joined in following editions:
• The official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» - 12 issues
• The collection of annual indexes to the official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» (section of the index on trademarks) on the electronic carrier.
Data on the registered trademarks are published in section "Trademarks" of the official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» which from 2004 is published on CD-ROM. Data on trademarks include bibliographic data and image. In 2007 in official bulletins data on 1080 trademarks were published.
The most important announcements, concerning activity of the office on trademarks are placed in section "Communiques" of the bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» and on the website of the SPO (www.patent.uz).
Data on national trademarks are stored in existing bibliographic database "Trademarks" of SPO and in electronic storehouses.
During processing of applications all the documents, concerning trademarks, are scanned and kept in facsimile form in format TIFF.
Assembly of the chapters of the official bulletin on trademarks is carried out in the automated mode in the workplace of the employees of the publication division. By specialized inquiry, bibliographic data from database (SUBD MS SQL Server 2000) and texts of documents (abstracts) from electronic storehouse are selected and sorted. The subsequent operations (page makeup, duplicating) are made by means of programs Adobe PageMaker, Word and Adobe Acrobat.
Images of trademarks are entered in format JPG by means of program Adobe PhotoShop. Bibliographic data are kept and processed in format XML and in parallel in DB SQL Server.
The address of the web-page on which the official bulletin is placed: http://www.patent.uz/bul.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section « Electronic publication».
Goods and services are classified according to the International classification of goods and services (Nice Classification, 9th edition). The Figurative elements of trade marks are classified according to the International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (Vienna Classification).
Examiners of the SPO use electronic version of ICGS of 9th edition for updating the classification headings specified by applicants
In application documents on trademarks, the applicant should put down classification indexes according to ICGS (Nice Classification) operating edition.
Bibliographic data are kept in the form of dynamic XML-documents and in the internal database constructed on the basis of SUBD MS SQL Server 2000. Primary filling of base is made by a special group of input. Bibliographic data are supported and updated during the life of the application by all departments involved in the process. Changes in the base will be authorized. Interfaces of access to the base are constructed on the basis of Intranet-technologies.
Search on trademarks on traditional carriers by examiners of the SPO is not carried out, spent only by foreign users on the basis of collections of the State Fund of the Patent Documentation in reading rooms.
In a stage of pre-production operation there is Internal portal of the SPO which realizes functions of the patent-information search system, regulated statistics and is integrated with the operating system of document circulation and office-work SATOZ ("Through automated technology of processing of applications").
Access through the Internet to examiner to database of WIPO international trademarks - International Trademark Information Database (ROMARIN) is provided. Search is carried out by examiners of the office with use as indexes of Nice classification, and Vienna classification of graphic elements of signs. Indexes of the Vienna classification are on regular basis brought in a database "Trademarks".
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 equipment: Server group, network infrastructure (cable communications, routers), workstations (from P-II, up to P-V), periphery (printers, scanners).
Operational system: Windows 2003 (servers SQL Server 2000/2003, Exchange 2003, ISA, IIS, server of reserve copying/restoration of the information), Windows 2000/XP (workstations).
The applied software: SATOZ/Landocs, an external site www.patent.uz, an internal site (PIPS), System of testing of knowledge.
Applied systems: "LAW", system of machine translation Promt 10, system of dictionaries Lingvo 10, ORT-system Fine Reader, office system MS Office (professional), MS Visio, MS Project.
Completes the information on trademarks the State Fund of Patent Documentation of SPO.
The collection of Fund includes patent bulletins with data on trademarks of 25 countries and WIPO, is placed by 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 a paper is stored on metal racks and in wall cases, collection on CD/DVD-ROM disks - in stores in wall cases.
The information services which are carried out under orders of consumers, include: carrying out of the automated search on CD/DVD-ROM; classification on ICGS; search in 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.
Issue of patent documents on traditional carriers is carried out directly in reading rooms, and also in electronic fund in which the patent documentation and the information on trademarks on optical disks is presented.
The address of the web-page on which the information on submission and consideration of applications for trademarks is contained: http://www.patent.uz/tovarznaks.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section " Objects IP / Statistics ".
The address of the web-page on which the information on the order of granting of certificates is contained: http://www.patent.uz/vedomakts.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section « Legislation » - Office acts.
The address of the web-page on which the information on appeal procedure is contained: http://www.patent.uz/pravsovet.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section « Adjudication validity »- Statistics
The address of the web-page on which the form of application for carrying out of the patent-information services which are carried out by the office in on-line mode is contained: http://www.patent.uz/vremenie/htm (http://www.patent.uz/uslugs.htm). Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section « Patent fee and tariffs »-Tariffs for SPO services.
Official bulletin of SPO «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» with data on the registered trademarks by way of bilateral exchange is dispatched in patent offices of 27 countries, also international and regional organizations - WIPO, EPO, and EAPO.
From 2004 the SPO publishes the official bulletin on CD-ROM disks. On bilateral exchange in SPO in 2007 official bulletins with data on trademarks from offices of 22 countries and WIPO, from them on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM disks from ten countries and WIPO have arrived.
Activity of SPO in the field of trade marks is a part of seminars, organized for experts, businessmen, etc.
Information on the necessity of legal protection of trade marks is published in mass media.
http://www.patent.uz/zakons.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section " Legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan ".
http://www.patent.uz/bul.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section " Electronic publication ".
http://www.patent.uz/bul.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section " Electronic publication ".