Annual Technical Report 2010 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Kazakhstan (CWS/ATR/ID/2010/KZ)
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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.
I. Evolution of registration activities
Changes experienced in terms of application filings and grants (registrations) with respect to the previous year
In 2010, were filed to 16.9 percent more than in 2009 (167), 149 applications were filed by the national applicants, 101 applications filed by the foreign applicants. The number of preliminary patents for industrial designs issued in the year 2010 made up 3 for national applicants, the number of patents issued for industrial made up 257 patents.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
Statistics related to industrial designs can be found in Annual Report at www.kazpatent.kz
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of industrial design documents and of secondary sources of industrial design information, i.e., official gazettes
Publishing, including printing, copying techniques and electronic printing
Industrial design information is available on paper and optical carriers.
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of industrial design information
The main source of information on industrial designs registered in the Republic of Kazakhstan is Industrial Property Official Gazette, which is published monthly in Kazakh and Russian. Announcements are published in the Official Gazette. NIIP also issues an Annual Index to the Official Gazette.
Mass storage media and microforms used
In 2010, NIIP prepared and published 2009 Annual Report, four numbers of Journal Intellectual Property of Kazakhstan, and some guidelines.
Databases and office automation
Bibliographic data for Gazette is generated automatically from the database. Abstracts, full descriptions and claims are scanned, recognized and edited. Texts can be typed in case the recognition is not possible. The Office uses program ABBYY FineReader 7.0 for Optical Character Recognition.
It is expected to develop an open industrial design database register for efficient work with the national and foreign applicants. This database will make it possible to computerize the office management as well as develop an electronic gazette on industrial designs.
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
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 Office uses International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification) for classifying industrial designs.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
Updating
When a design application is received all information on it is entered into the national Industrial designs database. The information is updated in the course of office procedures.
Storage, including mass storage media
Information on registered industrial designs, including bibliographic data, descriptions is stored on CD-ROMs as well as on paper carriers.
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
In-house systems (online/offline)
There is used an on-line automated system for search procedures, which includes information on patents filed with NIIP.
External databases
Examiners use following external databases for examination purposes: EAPATIS, esp@cenet, PATENTSCOPE, and open registers of Rospatent, RUPAT and RUPAT_OLD.
Administrative management systems (e.g., register, legal status, statistics and administrative support)
Automated Information System AIS NIIP automates and simplifies the work, the prosecution of these documents and the organization of electronic documents between Services of the Institute.
Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), data carriers used
Hardware: system block P4 Core2Duo 1,8GHz, 160 HDD, 526 Mb, DVD-RW, video 128, m/k, LAN. Software: WINDOWS, Microsoft Office 2003, FOX PRO.
VI. Administration of industrial design information products and services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, registering designs, assisting clients with search procedures, obtaining official publications and registry extracts)
Collection management, preservation
Republican patent fund is generated at the Republican Scientific Technical Library (RSTL).
Currently it comprises more than 21 million patent documents from 50 countries and three organizations - WIPO, EPO and EAPO.
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)
At the NIIP's Branch Office Databases Patents of Kazakhstan: Bibliography, Patents of Kazakhstan: Full descriptions and Database Patents of Kazakhstan: Abstracts are generated, which are then recorded on optical disks and distributed around Kazakhstan and abroad.
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
Currently the System for electronic filing of industrial design applications is being developed.
Instructions on filing application for industrial property subject matters is at: http://www.kazpatent.kz/index.php?lang=rus&uin=1208951998&id=1209467172
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide a description of information products and services offered by the Office (e.g., industrial design search service(s) and industrial design databases), as well as information on how to access and utilize them
The list of services offered by NIIP in the field of industrial property is at: http://www.kazpatent.kz/index.php?lang=rus&uin=1216034056
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information
International or regional cooperation in the exchange of industrial design information, e.g., in the form of official gazettes
NIIP's publications are distributed on the basis of mutual exchange, free of charge as defined in the Law on Print (compulsory distribution), and on a commercial basis.
NIIP carries out mutual exchange of Official Gazettes, Annual Reports and databases with near and far abroad countries and the international organizations.
In the year 2010, about 2711 copies of NIIP's publications were distributed including Journal Intellectual Property of Kazakhstan and Official Gazette.
Exchange of machine-readable information, e.g., data contained on CD-ROM or magnetic tape
The exchange of patent information is carried out on paper as well as optical carriers.
VIII. Matters concerning education and training, including technical assistance to developing countries (please indicate URLs of web pages of the Office’s website wherever appropriate)
Promotional activities (seminars, exhibitions, visits, advertising, etc.)
An important event for the promotion of invention and the Patent System is an Annual National Contest on Invention Achievements “Shapagat”, which is held on April 22. The Contest promotes the role of Innovation and Invention in the country, investment promotion and implementation of development in the manufacturing sector. “Shapagat-2010” was marked by the fact that WIPO has established seven awards and certificates of honour for Kazakh inventors.
During the year some videos were developed and further rotated on the national channels.
Training courses for national and foreign participants
In 2010, the Training Center held 14 charged workshops and round-tables. The information about the upcoming courses is always available on the site of NIIP.
In 2010 10 examiners and specialists of NIIP successfully completed distance learning program DL-101 General course on Intellectual Property and received WIPO certificates of completion.
3 employees took professional development courses at the Russian State Institute of Intellectual Property in Moscow.
IX.Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:
provide information on legislation related to industrial designs
Information on legislation in the field of industrial designs, Annual Report and other general information can be found on the official web-site of the Institute at www.kazpatent.kz