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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 431 industrial design applications filed in 2012, 343 applications were filed by foreign applicants under the Hague Agreement. Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, while 88 applications were filed directly with the IPO by domestic and foreign applicants (of which 21 were multiple applications, making a total of 133 industrial designs).
Field Industrial Design Applications:
Year Hague Agreement National applications Total
Foreign Domestic
2010 - 258 23 81 362
2011 - 280 24 78 382
2012 - 343 22 66 431
The year 2012 saw the registration of 387 industrial designs, of which
319 were, registered in accordance with the Hague Agreement, and 68 on the basis of applications filed directly with the IPO.
Registered Industrial Design Applications:
Year Hague Agreement National applications Total
Foreign Domestic
2010 - 225 23 92 340
2011 - 255 19 60 334
2012 - 319 19 49 387
Compared to 2011, the number of applications filed directly with the IPO in 2012, was less by 14 (13.72%). The number of applications filed under the Hague Agreement was 343, which was by 63 more than in 2011 (22.5%).
http://www.zis.gov.rs/about-us/annual-report.106.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/o-zavodu/godisnji-izvestaji.50.html in Serbian
Intellectual Property Office of Serbia publishes registered national industrial designs on CD-ROM, 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 using an IPAS system. 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 and color 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.
http://www.zis.gov.rs/information-services/intellectual-property-gazette.462.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/информационе-услуге/гласник-интелектуалне-својине.48.html in Serbian
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.
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.
Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and industrial design information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web)
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/intellectual-property-rights/designs/most-frequently-asked.76.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/prava-is/dizajn/najcesca-pitanja.18.html in Serbian
http://www.zis.gov.rs/intellectual-property-rights/designs/forms-and-instructions.86.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/prava-is/dizajn/обрасци-и-упутства.20.html in Serbian
The Official Gazette is available as an electronic publication at the IPO web-site.
The Office received gazettes from the following countries: BG,BY, CN, RU and UA.
In course of 2012 Education and Information Center held 83 seminars with different level of expertise for: SMEs, SMEs support institutions, institutes, universities, enforcement institutions and general public with 2533 participants. Also, Office introduced the service of Intellectual Property Pre-diagnosis in 2010 (7), in 2011 this service was delivered to 21 SMEs and in 2012 to 40 SMEs., a. Beside the regular consultancy on daily basis, EIC had 12 Open door events, once a month for consultancy in groups.
IPO had a stand at the following fairs:
- Science is not a bogeyman, Nis March 2013
- Trade fair in Nova Pazova, April 2013
- International Technical fair in Belgrade, May 2012
- International Agricultural fair in Novi Sad, May 2012
- Trade fair in Paracin, October 2012
- TESLA FEST in Novi Sad -the biggest inventor's exhibition in Serbia, October 2012
- INOCOOP Fair of entrepreneurship in Zrenjanin - August 2012
- Business database fair in Belgrade, December 2012
At five regional or trade fairs IPO participated with the lectures upon invitations from organizers.
On several occasions, the experts from the Group for designs and geographical indications gave interviews in the daily papers and specialized magazines on the importance and procedure of protection of industrial designs.
IPO had established the Education and Information Center (EIC) in 2009. EIC has developed in previous three years a range of different type of seminars for different stakeholder groups. Lectures can be tailor made. Also, the IPO is equipped with the modern public library, and the premises for seminars and educational purpose.
http://www.zis.gov.rs/home.334.html
http://www.zis.gov.rs/intellectual-property-rights/designs/legislative-texts.77.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/prava-is/dizajn/прописи.19.html in Serbian
http://www.zis.gov.rs/about-us/annual-report.106.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/o-zavodu/godisnji-izvestaji.50.html in Serbian
http://www.zis.gov.rs/news/news.104.html in English
http://www.zis.gov.rs/вести/вести.46.html in Serbian