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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 2007 of procedure of filing of applications, carrying out of examination and granting of patents on industrial designs have remained constant.
The number of the filed applications for granting of patents on industrial designs in 2007 was 69 applications that the indication is fewer than past year (69 applications).
Most of applications were filed in following classes of the International Classification of Industrial Designs (ICID): 9th class (container, packing and containers) - 24 applications and 7th class (subjects of house equipment) - 6 applications; on the specified classes 46,2 % from total of the filed applications are necessary.
76 industrial designs were registered in 2007, that is more 5,6 % than in the past year.
Address of web-page on which statistical data on industrial designs is contained: http://www.patent.uz/statistics.htm
In 2007 official publications of the office on industrial designs joined in following editions:
• official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» - 12 issues (on CD-ROM);
• publication sheets to patents for industrial designs - 46 publication sheets (on a paper);
• collection of annual indexes to the official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» (section of the index on industrial designs) on the electronic carrier.
Data on the registered industrial designs are published in section "Industrial designs" of the official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» which from 2004 is issued on CD-ROM. Data on industrial designs includes bibliographic data and image. In 2007 in official bulletins data on 79 industrial designs were published.
The most important announcements, concerning activity of the office on industrial designs are placed in section "Communiques" of the bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» and on the website of the office (www.patent.uz).
The SPO has a full collection of patent documents of Uzbekistan on industrial designs on paper. Patent documents are stored also in bibliographic databases and in electronic storehouses.
During processing of applications, all the documents, concerning industrial designs, are scanned and kept as facsimile form in format TIFF. Descriptions and the list of essential attributes are recognized by system OCR and kept in format MS-Word. Images of industrial designs are entered in format JPG, by means of program Adobe PhotoShop.
Assembly of the chapter of the official bulletin on industrial designs is carried out in the automated mode on the workplace of the employees of the office of publication division. By specialized inquiry, bibliographic data from a database (SUBD MS SQL Server 2000) are selected and sorted. The subsequent operations (page makeup, replication) are made by means of programs Word and Adobe Acrobat.
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 editions ».
Applications for industrial designs are classified according to 8th edition of the International Classification of Industrial Designs (Locarno Agreement). Other classification systems are not applied.
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, which are maintained and updated during life cycle of the application by all departments involved in process. Changes in base will be authorized. Interfaces of access to base are constructed on the basis of Intranet-technologies.
The search file on a paper and optical disks is formed on the basis of collection of the State Fund of the Patent Documentation and includes materials on the industrial designs, 24 countries containing in foreign official bulletins, WIPO and the incorporated cumulative editions on the industrial designs, prepared by INIC Rospatent; is placed by a geographical principle. The retrospective part is presented by photograph collection of industrial designs.
Under national patent documents the bibliographic database and electronic file (text) storehouses for internal use are conducted.
Search files on paper and a part on CD/DVD-ROM are updated monthly, some CDs/DVD-ROM are updated annually.
Bibliographic data and files of documents in electronic storehouse on national documents can replenish and/or be corrected in process of the reference.
Conditions of storage of fund depend mostly on kinds of data carriers: patent documents on a paper are stored in wall cases, photograph collection on microfilms - in boxes, on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM - in stores in wall cases.
Bases of bibliographic, office work data and file storehouse are stored on specialized file-server on which with a view of safety reserve copying on an additional server is carried out.
In 2007 the State Fund of the Patent Documentation has replenished with the patent-information publications containing data on industrial designs, of 21 countries of the world and WIPO.
In a stage of operational testing there is Internal portal SPO which realizes functions of the patent-information search system, regulated statistics and is integrated with working system of document circulation and office-work SATOZ ("Through automated technology of processing of applications").
The following concern to popular databases most widely used by examiners on the Internet: Google, Rambler, Yahoo, and Yandex.
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, a 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 patent information on industrial designs the State Fund of Patent documentation SPO which practically is a unique full collection of the patent documentation in territory of Uzbekistan and carries out patent-information service both examination staff of the office, and the broad audience of the public, i.e. carries out functions of public library.
The collection of Fund includes patent bulletins with data on industrial designs of 24 countries, WIPO and cumulative collection INIC of Rospatent, including on CD-ROM disks - 9 countries and WIPO. The collection is placed on 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 microforms is located in basement storehouses, and on CD-ROM disks - in stores in wall cases.
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 industrial designs on optical disks is presented.
The address of web-page on which the information on filing and consideration of applications on industrial designs is contained: http://www.patent.uz/promobraz.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section " IP objects ".
The address of web-page on which the information on the order of granting of patents 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 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 of validity » .
The address of web-page on which the form of application for carrying out of patent-information services carried out by the office in on-line 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 tariff / Tariffs for SPO services ».
Official bulletin SPO «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» with data on the registered industrial designs by way of bilateral exchange is dispatched in patent offices of 27 countries, also to international organizations WIPO, EPO and EAPO regional organization.
Official bulletin of the SPO «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» with data on the registered industrial designs on CD-ROM disks by way of bilateral exchange is sent to patent offices of 27 countries, EPO, WIPO and EAPO. On bilateral exchange in SPO in 2007 official bulletins with data on industrial designs from offices of 21 countries and WIPO (from them on 9 on CD-ROM disks), and also incorporated edition INIC of Rospatent "Industrial designs of foreign countries" have acted.
Activity of SPO in the field of industrial designs is by means of seminars, organized for experts, specialists, businessmen, etc.
Publications on necessity of industrial designs protection are published in mass media.
The manual " How to get a patent of Republic Uzbekistan on the industrial designs. Its legal protection" is published for a wide range of experts.
Experts of the office lecture in courses to students of higher educational institutions on industrial design.
http://www.patent.uz/zakons.htm. Access on the given page is carried out through the main page web-site SPO from section " Legislation / Legislation acts of 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 "
The address of web-page on which Annual industrial design-related news regarding the Office contain: 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"