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Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements
Electronic reference data transmission software improved so as to ensure that EPO receives the most comprehensive data about Lithuanian patents.
Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
The web service developed in 2015 , which allows presenting the data about the legal status of the European patents to the European Patent Federal Register, was maintained.
Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
In 2016, SPB continued the development of information systems. The main task of the IT Division employees was to upgrade and maintain the systems and workstations and to ensure their operation.
Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file: file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file
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Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
The SPB published on its homepage (http://www.vpb.lt/en/) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks and databases of Lithuanian Patents and European Patents entered into force in the Republic of Lithuania.
Other matters
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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
Lithuanian Technical Library (LTL) is a library of national significance, which accumulates the collection maintenance of books, technical and economy periodic, documents on industrial property, company catalogues, normative and other documents.
The collection maintenance of printings is accumulated in accordance with the developing trends of economy, agriculture, industry and science.
LTL is a public library, available for all the citizens and legal entities of Lithuania and foreign countries. The Library performs the functions of the methodology center of technical libraries network, Interlibrary Exchange System (ILL) and International Interlibrary Exchange System (IILL).
Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
As every year, the SPB prepared an annual review publication containing statistics for 2016 and 24 official bulletins of the SPB
Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)
Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
The SPB collaborates with various institutions in the scope of promotion of knowledge on Intellectual Property (organisation of conferences, workshops, trainings,)
In 2016, the SPB collaborated with the following entities, to name a few:
- collaboration with universities (Vilnius University, etc.);
- collaboration with science and business related institutions, including:, Association of Polish Inventors and Rationalisers, Polish Patent Attorney Chamber; National Information Processing Institute, National Chamber of Commerce, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Institute of Industrial Design, etc.;
- collaboration with governmental administration institutions: Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Regional Development.
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Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
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Assistance to developing countries
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Other activities
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VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS
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