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Main areas of patent information activities and related information and communication technology (ICT) practices which were in the focus of attention last year
The IT system has provided thenecessary background for the Office’s official and service activity, and supported its tasks related to e-administration. The system supports 135 different services or service families altogether. Out of those, 69 service families provide direct support for the performance of the Office’s official and central tasks, and an additional 66 systems support the operational, service management, information security and ISO certification objectives of the previously mentioned functions. Clients can make use of the following services online: e-search, e-file inspection, e-filing, e-register, TM e-Filing, TMView, and DesignView.
It is of great help in the performance of the Office’s activities that two of its three ISO certifications – the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Information Security Management and the ISO/IEC 20000-1:2013 IT Services Management standards – relate to the IT field.
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Statistics: changes in terms of application filings and grants with respect to previous year; trends or areas experiencing rapid changes
The international patent activity of the Hungarian applicants is low, in 2015 they filed 148 PCT applications. Since the accession by Hungary to the EPC in 2003 the foreign patent applicants have been choosing rather the European way to file requests for the validation of their European patents in Hungary in increasing number. Out of nearly 61 thousand European patents designating HU and granted per year, the number of requests for validation in Hungary was 3,582 in 2015, which is an increase of nearly 8% compared to the previous year. The Hungarian applicants filed 176 European patent applications in 2015 (including the applications filed under PCT).
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Main figures of patent cases aimed at Hungary and filed following the national route – from Hungary and from abroad – under international cooperation (2011–2015)
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Cases filed under international cooperation |
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PCT designations | 182 437 | 195 334 | 205 292 | 214 314 | 216 770 | ||
Granted European patents designating HU | 40 372 | 47 485 | 53 486 | 56 021 | 61 534 | ||
Request for the validations of European patents in Hungary | 3 218 | 3 342 | 3 485 | 3 323 | 3 582 | ||
Filing of the translation of European claims | 11 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | ||
Cases filed following the national route |
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Domestic applications | 660 | 689 | 641 | 546 | 569 | ||
Foreign applications filed following the national route | 33 | 54 | 60 | 42 | 54 | ||
Requests for actual national procedure deriving from earlier PCT designations | 5 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 10 | ||
The number of patent applications filed following the national route was 633 in 2015, which is a slight increase compared to the figure of the previous year. The decrease of the application activity of the domestic customers in the past two years stopped last year: the number of domestic patent applications increased by 4% in 2015.
Number of patents valid in Hungary (2011–2015)
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Valid patents granted following the national route | 5 227 | 4 769 | 5 237 | 4 695 | 4 278 |
Valid European patents | 10 163 | 11 930 | 13 893 | 15 731 | 17 573 |
Valid patents in total | 15 390 | 16 699 | 19 130 | 20 426 | 21 851 |
The number of patents valid in Hungary, granted following the national route and valid European patents, was nearly 22 thousand at the end of 2015. The 7% increase of the valid patents is due to the 12% increase in the number of European patents. The number of valid patents granted following the national route was 4,278, the number of valid European patents was 17,573.
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Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) - URLs
Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) – URLs
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Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
The e-dossier gives inspection and communication platform providing online administration.
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Classification1, preclassification2 (if applicable), reclassification3 activities; classification systems used (e.g., International Patent Classification (IPC)); matters concerning indexing of patent information
The Adavanced level of IPC is used by HIPO. In addition CPC classification system was introduced on 1st January 2015, which replaced the ECLA system. Thus, both IPC and CPC systems are used in the HU Administration System and in data export to the EPO (Espacenet).
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Abstracting, reviewing, and translation of the information contained in patent documents
Patent abstracts of Hungarian patent applications (that have no family members) are translated into English.
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Main types of publications of the Office (patent applications, full text, first pages, abstracts, bibliographic data, granted patents, etc.), medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URLs)
The IP-search is an electronic searchable database, available also on the website of the HIPO. All industrial property rights are accessible in this database. Full text of published patent applications and granted patent documents are also accessible in the IP-search in searchable format. http://epub.hpo.hu/e-kutatas/?lang=HU
Searchable granted HU patents are accessible in electronic format from 1896.
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Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external collections and databases
The Unified Administrative System of the Office covers the bibliographic and image data, the documents and the official letters belonging to the different intellectual property rights (with the additional data that are not accessible for the public). The public electronic-databases GAZETTE, IP-SEARCH, E-REGISTER, E-DOSSIER are also used by the Examiners. The IP-SEARCH database has an internal version covering public and non-public data.
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Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
Intellectual property databases suc as IP-search, Gazette, e-Register and e-Dossier are accessible on the webpage of HIPO free of charge: https://www.sztnh.gov.hu/hu/szakmai-oldalak
Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)
Lagal status information (not certified) can be accessed in e-Ddossier: https://www.sztnh.gov.hu/hu/szakmai-oldalak
Certified statements on the validity of protection can be available on payment of a fee.
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Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements
The IT system has provided thenecessary background for the Office’s official and service activity, and supported its tasks related to e-administration. The system supports 135 different services or service families altogether. Out of those, 69 service families provide direct support for the performance of the Office’s official and central tasks, and an additional 66 systems support the operational, service management, information security and ISO certification objectives of the previously mentioned functions. Clients can make use of the following services online: e-search, e-file inspection, e-filing, e-register, TM e-Filing, TMView, and DesignView.
Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
Unix Tru64 server
Linux server
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Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
The Unified Administrative System of the Office comprise the bibliographic and image data, the documents and the official letters that belong to the different intellectual property rights.
The public electronic-databases GAZETTE, IP-SEARCH, E-REGISTER, E-DOSSIER are also used by the Examiners. The IP-SEARCH database has an internal version for internal use only with the additional data that are not accessible for the public.
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Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file: file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file
The Unified Administrative System of the Office is used for file building covering all industrial property titles of protection. It is updated real-time and has a daily backup storage. All incoming documents are scanned since 2012.
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Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
The Unified Administrative System of the Office is used for file building, which covers all industrial property titles of protection. It has a real-time update system and has a daily backup storage. This system is the source of the public electronic-databases, such as GAZETTE, IP-SEARCH, E-REGISTER, E-DOSSIER.
Other matters
V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF PATENT INFORMATION
Patent library: equipment, collection management, network of patent libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign patent libraries
See: Industrial Property Special Library: http://www.sztnh.gov.hu/en/services/industrial-property-special-library
Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
The partners and customers of HIPO, who are interested in intellectual property, can choose from a variety of services or programs of customer service, information provision and education, ege.g.: AIDA, IP-Panorama, Start-up guide, Partner Search, Tenders, IP-Valuation, etc.: http://www.sztnh.gov.hu/hu/vallalkozoknak/hogyan-kezdjek-hozza
Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)
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Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
The enlargement of knowledge on industrial property and copyright, the improvement of awareness on intellectual property of small and medium sized enterprises are objectives of high importance. In case of these parties it is essential that they can have personal consultation not only at the headquarters in Budapest but they also can find information points or events close to them, in their regions, where they can receive information. In this spirit, the relations with partners strengthened in 2015. HIPO cooperated with 16 chambers of commerce and industry in counties and towns, 7 regional innovation agencies, one professional organisation (SEED Foundation for Small Enterprise Economic Development) 6 PATLIB centres linked to institutions of higher education in the countryside in programs related to awareness raising.
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Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
The courses on industrial property and the education on intellectual property in institutions of higher education are important fora of education and awareness raising in Hungary. They significantly contributed to the improvement of the culture of industrial property, to the education of future IP experts.
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The comprehensive education project attached to the curricula framework for the students of the primary and secondary schools and their teachers was continued. As part of the project, a contest called “Is it your business? It is!” promoting knowledge on intellectual property was launched for students of teacher education.
Other activities
HIPO has established professional, educational and other cooperation with several institutions. Besides the governmental circle, the boards and councils (the National Intellectual Property Council, the Hungarian Design Council and the National Board Against Counterfeiting) the most significant ones are as follows:
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