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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 the year 2003, the number of applications, in total, increased with a rate of 10% with respect to previous year. Figures for applications and registration are as follows:
Applications:
2002 3903
2003 4284
Registrations:
2002 3182
2003 3546
Detailed table according to domestic and foreign applications is attached.
tableoffigures - table of figures
The most popular areas of design applications (according to the Locarno Classes) are furnishing (Class 6), textile piecegoods (Class 5), clothings (Class 2), packages /(Class 9) and household goods (Class 7). Design applications for these areas formed about 65 per cent of total design applications received in the year 2003. These five areas are generally the most demanded areas for design applications in Turkey.
Information concerning industrial designs is published in monthly Official Bulletins on paper. Documents for this Bulletin are generated in electronic environment and sent to the printing office which is an external company. Scanning the images of registered designs and other relevamt documents continued in the year 2003, for electronic archiving an documentation purposes. This study is also a part of the project of preparing the electronic data collecting for industrial designs.
Announcement of the Institute for industrial designs is mainly made on the Official Bulletins. The bibliographic information concerning design applications is published in the Bulletin in the format which is compatible with WIPO standards. In addition to the registrations, corrections, changes in address or names of the holder, transfers, cancellations, legal actions and renewals are published in the Bulletin.
The classification system used is the Locarno Classification.This classification is used for administrative purposes.
Bibliographic data is stored on main database. These are: application number, application date, applicant (name, adress, nationality), attorney (if applicable), data for priority claim (if claimed), article, class code, and others.
All the information concerning legal status, statistics, images of design aplications is stored in an in-house ORACLE database which allows bibliographic search only.
General information about application procedure and legal framework of industrial design protection is available on the official website of the Institute.
By beginning to use the new software program, it is planned to provide industrial design services on electronic environment.
Statistical information concerning industrial design activities is forwarded periodically to WIPO and OHIM. Also the Official Bulletins are sent to Offices upon request.
Several seminars and training programs had been organized in the year 2003.