Annual Technical Report 2011 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Lithuania (CWS/ATR/ID/2011/LT)
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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
Application filings and registrations in 2011:
39 design applications for 61 designs filed direct with the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania(SPB), all applications originated in Lithuania.
56 international industrial design registrations were filed under the Hague Agrement(29 in 2010).
64 national and 52 international registrations of industrial design had been granted in Lithuania in 2011.
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
It was observed changes in the following areas where the Lithuanian applicants have filed design applications:
packages and containers for transportation and storage of goods (class 9);
sales and advertising systems, marks (class 20);
games, toys, tents and sports goods (class 21)
International registrations extended in the following areas:
Means of transport or hoisting (class 12) , lighting apparatus (class 26) packages and containers for transportation or handling of goods (class 9)
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
Statistics of the year 2011 (national design applications and national designs, national designs in force) has been provided on SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=321)
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
Information on designs has been published in the SPB Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks, which was published in an electronic format and has been accessible on SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245).
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of industrial design information
The SPB Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks contained announcements published in 2011:
FG9L Registrations published in accordance with Article 21 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
TC9L, TA9L, PD9Y,TC9Y, TH9Y Changes in the Register of the Republic of Lithuania in accordance with Article 29 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania
MM9L Registrations lapsed in accordance with Article 30 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
MK9L Expiration of Registrations in accordance with the Article 34 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
ND9L Renewal of registration of the design in accordance with Article 35 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
PC9L Transfer of the design in accordance with Article 40 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
QB9L Licensing (sublicensing) in accordance with Article 41 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
TK9L Rectifications
Sections of the Official Bulletin have been coded in accordance with WIPO Standard ST.17
Mass storage media and microforms used
SPB Official Bulletin has been published in an electronic format and has been accessible on SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245).
Databases and office automation
The SPB provide database of national and international design registration on it's website free of charge.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide access to online industrial design gazettes and to other sources of industrial design information, including download of bulk industrial design data
The State Patent Bureau of the Republic of the Republic of Lithuania (SPB) published on its website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks and on its website
(http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=263) Database of the Design of the Republic of Lithuania
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)
Registrations have been classified in acordance with the ninth edition of International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Calssification).
Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of Data (INID Codes) relating to designs were used in the Register of Designs of the Republic of Lithuania and in SPB Official Bulletin Inventions,Designs, Trademarks in 2011
Bibliographic data and processing
The SPB Official Bulletin Sections have been coded in accordance with WIPO Standard ST.17.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
File building
The SPB website Designs Database has been an exact copy of the data stored in the Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania and contained data on designs registered and application filed directly with the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania
Storage, including mass storage media
The bibliographical data of industrial design were stored in CS software.Files are stored in paper format.
Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file
Industrial Property search and other services have been also provided by Patent Information Centre of Lithuanian Technical Library (http://www.tb.lt/PIC/PIC.htm).
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
In-house systems (online/offline)
The SPB published on its website (http://www.vpb.lt/en/) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks
Administrative management systems (e.g., register, legal status, statistics and administrative support)
In 2011, SPB published on website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks.
The SPB has provided databases of national and international design registration on it's website free of charge.
Statistics of national designs has been provided on SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=321).
Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), data carriers used
The work area of the Lithuanian Patent Office requires the use of many information technology facilities. In 2011 the Patent Office had 60 computer workplaces, supplied with the required software, external devices and means for data communication.
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
Design, patents, trademarks data stored at magnetic tapes
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 Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania was open to public access only in the following forms:
Extract from the Register (on request);
SPB Official Bulletin.
Design Database on SPB website free of charge.
LTL also offered to its visitors the opportunity to get acquainted with a wide range of Lithuanian publications (SPB Official Bulletin, etc.), Official Gazettes of foreign states, sets of communications and regulations in 2011.
Public users had a possibility to use the following CD/DVD-ROMs received in 2011:
Promyšlennaja sobstvennost. Oficialnyj biuleten (AM);
Schweizerisches Patent-, Muster- und Markenblatt (CH);
Industrial Property Bulletin (GR);
Buletin Oficial de la Propiedad Industrial. (ES);
Buletin Oficial de Proprietate Industriala (MD);
Glasnik intelektualne svojine (RS);
IPPO Glasnik (MK);
Published registered design applications (JP);
Buletin Oficial de Proprietate Industriala (RO);
Promislova vlastnist (UA);
Rasmij achborotnoma (UZ);
International Designs Bulletin (WO).
In 2011, the visitors of LTL had been consulted on the spot as well as by phone or e-mail and had an opportunity to order design search.
SPB published on its website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks.
Search for the international and Community designs and other services have been provided by Patent Information Centre of Lithuanian Technical Library (http://www.tb.lt/PIC/PIC.htm)
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
It is not possible to file design applications with the SPB electronically. Some documents related to the Register of Design could be filed electronically.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide information on business procedures such as: filing, publication, examination and registration procedures related to industrial designs; opposition and appeal procedures related to industrial designs; etc.
http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?n=169&l=lt (only in Lithuanian)
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
http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?n=169&l=lt and http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?n=473&l=lt (in Lithuanian only)
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
Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks has been published on SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245).
Exchange of machine-readable information, e.g., data contained on CD-ROM or magnetic tape
At present information concerning the Lithuanian industrial design on machine-readable carriers is not being forwarded to our exchange partners
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.)
In year 2011 the SPB organized seminars, attended exhibitions and other events, namely:
On February 24 2011 a seminar “Protection of intellectual property in Russian Federation” was organized by SPB, Federal Office for Intellectual Property of Russia (ROSPATENT) and Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists;
On April 12-13, 2011 international conference “Industrial Property for Competitiveness: EU and Global Experience” took place. It was organized by WIPO and the State Patent Bureau;
On April 19-21, 2011 Baltic conference organized by International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property took place, where a representative of SPB made a presentation.
On May 10, 2011 SPB representative made a presentation on SPB activities in a conference-discussion “Intellectual property: means and possibilities of protecting innovative ideas”, which was organized by Agency for science, innovations and technology and Lithuania-Israel chamber of commerce.
On May 16, 2011 SPB representative made a presentation in a conference “Criminal sanctions in protecting intellectual property rights in digital environment“, organized by US Patent and Trademarks Office and US State Department.
On May 18, 2011 SPB participated in exhibition “Balttechnika 2011”, where a seminar “How to protect design in European Union” took place;
On October 10-14 an event of Patent information week PATINFO took place in Lithuanian technical library. The possibility was provided to learn about ways of searching for information on the world’s newest inventions, trademarks, designs, to get acquainted with services provided by Patent information centre of LTL (searches of patents and trademarks, various consultations), new publications of WIPO, EPO and LTL were presented;
On December 8, 2011 a seminar “How to protect trademarks in European Union” took place in Vilnius.
Training courses for national and foreign participants
Employees of the State Patent Bureau attended 13 sessions of WIPO committees, meetings and sessions of working groups and other events organized by WIPO.
In year 2011 the SPB cooperated with WIPO intensively in implementing the bilateral plan for year 2011 conducted between Lithuania and WIPO; an international conference on the issues of intellectual property was organizes, WIPO award was presented to most innovative Lithuanian entity and gold medal to the young inventor of Lithuania; seminar was organized for Lithuanian science and education institutions on the issues of commercialising intellectual property; WIPO publication “Inventing the Future” was translated and adapted.
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
SPB website (http://www.vpb.gov.lt/index.php?n=296&l=en) provided information on legislation related to designs
contain the Annual Report of the Office
The Annual Review of the Office has been included on the SPB website (http://www.vpb.gov.lt/index.php?l=en&n=318).
contain industrial design-related news regarding the Office
The SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=EN) contained designs-related news in 2011.
X. Other relevant matters
In 2011, Lithuanian industrial property statistical data had been submitted to WIPO to be published in its publication Industrial Property Statistics.