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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.
289 applications for industrial designs were filed in 2012.Of total number, 236 applications were filed by foreign applicants under the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration on Industrial Design, while 38 applications were filed directly with the IPO by dometic and foreign applicants(including multiple applications, making a total of 154 industrial designs).
Filed Industrial Design Appliacation:
Year Hague Agreement National Applications Total
Foreign Domestic
2009 31 13 9 53
2010 210 9 16 235
2011 227 6 14 247
2012 236 15 38 289
267 applications for industrial designs were filed in 2012, of which 236 were, registred in accordance hith the Hague Agreement, and 31 on the basis of application filed directly the IPO.
Year Hague Agreement National Applications Total
Foreign Domestic
2009 31 27 5 63
2010 210 22 6 238
2011 227 14 3 244
2012 236 21 10 267
The number of applications filed directly with the IPO in 2012 ,was more by 33(165%) compared to 2011.The number of applications filed under the Hague Agreement was 236,which was by 9 more than in 2011(3,96 %).
http://www.ipr.gov.ba/images/statistika/statistika_dizajn_2011.pdf
Registered industrial designs are published 4 times a year in the Institute's Official Gazette on paper carrier and on CD-ROM in 50 copies.
The Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina Official Gazette is forthwith available free of charge in PDF format on the Online Services Portal http://www.ipr.gov.ba/en/glasnik-intelektualnog-vlasnistva-en.html
The bibliographic data together with the classification symbols and a short description of the design are stored in the industrial design data base on the host system on hard discs. The images are stored on a Windows-Server environment
The for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina uses the national data base of design applications and registered designs, application software deveped by BiH IP Institute. There are national and international database with graphical presentations or images.
Website of Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina 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.ipr.gov.ba/en/glasnik-intelektualnog-vlasnistva-en.html
Industrial design applications are classified according to the International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification).
The classification symbols are allotted by the applicant. The symbols are checked afterwards by the office and, if necessary, corrected.
Bibliographic data elements and classification symbols are searchable. The images are displayed together with these data elements.
The paper file is kept for each design application. Information is stored on our internal databases and within the file.
Every change concerning the application or the granted design is entered in the appropriate registers and in the data base developed by Institute.
Mass storage media: hard disks, disk arrays, CD-ROMs, DVDs, paper (until complete replacement by the electronic storage).
The most important document for the Office is the one obtained from the WIPO and that is WIPO INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS BULLETIN.
The Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina uses the national database of design applications and registered designs. The registered designs are available to the public on the website of the Institute.
RCD-online is used also there are Internet external databases available.
Application developed by the Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Information services available to the public
Backing up of data changes is every day. Full back up of data is on weekly basis.
Information on the registered industrial designs in Bosnia and Herzegovina is available on the site of the Institute.
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http://www.ipr.gov.ba/en/industrijski-dizajn-en.html
There is no such exchange of information
There is no such exchange of information.
Ohim, IP Seminar 15.10.-26.10.2012 Alicante,Spain
Seminar on the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, 08.11.2012 Geneve,Switzerland.
http://www.ipr.gov.ba/en/pravna-regulativa-en.html
http://www.ipr.gov.ba/images/statistika/zig_statistika_2012.pdf