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Changes experienced in terms of application filings and grants with respect to the previous year
The number of patent applications filed by domestic applicants in 2017 has increased by 0,25% compared to 2016. Domestic applicants in 2017 filed 794 applications for inventions, with the greatest number in the fields of transport and storage, building and health and amusement. In comparison with the year 2016, there were changes in patent and utility model activities as follows:
2017 | Compared to 2016 | |
National patent applications | 860 | +3 % 839 |
Utility model applications | 1279 | +1% (1264) |
PCT international applications | 25 | -26 % (34) |
Grant national patent | 669 | -14 % (781) |
Registrations utility model | 1107 | -7 % (1187) |
Supplementary protection certificate, application | 60 | +7 % (56) |
European Patent Office granted | 105635 | +19 % (89142) |
IPO CZ received EP translations | 6912 | +16 % (5964) |
EP patents valid in CZ | 35639 | +13 % (31431) |
National patents valid in CZ | 5985 | -8 % (6486) |
National utility models valid in CZ | 8166 | -3 % (8398) |
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
As regards the representation of individual segments, most of patent applications concerned transport and storage (16,16 %); building (6,86 %); health and amusement (6,28 %); %); etc. Regarding utility model applications, most of them came from the sectors of transporting, storing (10,95 %); building (10,71 % ; health and amusement (7,43 %).
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Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
Statistics
Since 2000 the Annual Reports and statistics have been available at the Office’s website: http://www.upv.cz/en/publications/annual-report/annual-report.html
The Bulletin: http://www.upv.cz/en/publications/ipo-bulletin.html
The Office website
The helpdesk: helpdesk@upv.cz
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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
IPC classification, Advanced Level, has been used since January 1, 2006.
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The Bulletin contains the following types of announcements:
Lists of patent documents are published in the Official Bulletin of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic. Starting from 2007 the Bulletin is published weekly in an electronic form only (updated on Wednesdays) and placed at the Office’s website (http://www.upv.cz/en.html). The standard content of the chapters regarding published patent applications, granted patents and registered utility models is:
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No prior registration or subscription to view the Bulletin is needed. The information as published should be the authentic one for legal purposes. As from No. 1/2000, the Official Bulletin has been available on the web site of the IPO CZ as an electronic book in PDF format.
Mass storage media used (paper, microforms, optical storage, etc.)
Mass storage media used are hard discs, magnetic tapes for backup and paper.
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Internal and public Patent and utility model databases.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide access to online publications of patent documents and gazettes, and to other primary and secondary sources of patent information, including patent publication servers and download of bulk patent data:
The Official Bulletin:
http://internet.upv.cz/cs/publikace/vestnik-upv.html (Czech version - since 2000)
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- ISO 9001 – QMS (Quality Management System) helps to assure a constant level of quality of services provided by the Office
- ISO14001 – EMS (Environmental Management System) is used to help organizations to minimize how their operations (processes, etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e., cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); (b) comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements, and (c) continually improve in the above.
- ISO 27001 – ISMS (Information Security Management System) specifies a management system that is intended to bring information security under explicit management control. Fields of concerns are Security policy, Asset management, human resources security, access control, incident management system etc.
- OHSAS 18001 – (Occupational Health and Safety Advisory System) helps companies to propose and implement precautions that, wherever possible, remove, reduce risks or isolate employees from them in a workplace. In case this is not possible, working activities have to be planned and managed through organizational precautions so that employees’ performance was safe and healthy.
The business process management system (BPMS) internally named ADONIS that describes the office’s processes flow structure is also deployed, maintained and improved. Each employee can find information on organizational structure, valid laws, rules and other documents, available applications, databases and information systems.
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Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
In-house systems (online/offline)
The Office maintains an in-house search database of national applications of inventions and utility models, granted patents and registered utility models. The database is not accessible to the public but its structure corresponds to the public database. The following CD-ROM search systems are also available: ESPACE collections, Korean Patent Abstracts, Patents of Russia and other national documents collections.
External databases
The Office provides free access to the database comprising the data concerning the published patent applications since 1991, granted patents, European patents valid in the territory of the Czech Republic and the registered utility models at the IPO CZ website http://www.upv.cz/en/client-services/online-databases/patent-and-utility-model-databases.html.
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File building
Patent library stores more than 40 million patent documents from more than 20 countries including EPO and PCT documents. The collections of paper documents are arranged according to the IPC classification, the collections of national documents are arranged according to the IPC classification and by numbers. The national documents are also available in electronic version (Internet). The CDs and DVDs with full text and searchable collections are also available.
Updating and Storage, including mass storage media
The data is updated daily and stored electronically (official databases, hard discs, magnetic tapes for backup) and in a paper version.
Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file
The older foreign patent documents are stored both in a paper and a digital form (CDs/DVDs, Internet), new collections are available via Internet only.
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The Office uses the internal information system SYPP2 (starting from January 2014) to proceed the applications of patents, supplementary patent certificates, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks and geographical indications. The system has been developed since 2011 as a major upgrade of previous version SYPP which was used from 2004 until 2013. The new application is more flexible, based on Oracle Forms with easier maintaining and more flexible data structure. Data are stored in xml format including the history. The system is also more user-friendly. System is connected with central registers of the Czech Republic (ISZR). The project was co-financed by the European fund for regional development within the EU project Enforcement of Industrial Property Rights.The system enables to maintain official registers of all the industrial property rights. Furthermore it archives all incoming and outgoing communications of the Office, provides the information on the state of proceeding, legal status of registrations and statistical data. The Document Management System (DMS) is integrated as well. The system also processes foreign applications within PCT and the European patents valid in the territory of the Czech Republic. The data are transferred to the electronic Office’s Bulletin and to the public search database. The system is compatible with electronic filing recognizing authorized electronic certificates. The current version of on-line filing system was launched in 2017 and is based on web application. This system has replaced the previous application which was based on pdf forms.. Starting from January 2008, the system produces automatic electronic extracts from registers upon online request.
Information services available to the public
The information centre and the helpdesk operate during the working days. They provide the general information concerning the industrial property rights.
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The “Workshop on the use ePCT filling for registering technical solutions abroad according to the PCT” was held trainings in cooperation with WIPO. The “Online Services User Days” were held in cooperation with EPO.
Every year, a two-year distance learning study of industrial property rights begins within the Industrial Property Training Institute – Office's own educational facility.
The Office presented its information activities, information and educational products at the following exhibitions and trade fairs:
- 59th International Engineering Fair (Brno, CZ)
- 16th International Trade Fair of Engineering Technologies FOR INDUSTRY 2017 (Prague, CZ)
- The Science Research Innovation Trade Fair (Brno, CZ)
- Science Trade Fair (Prague, CZ)
- Science Festival (Prague, CZ)
- For Interior (Prague, CZ)
- Innovation 2017 (Prague, CZ)
- 20th Moscow International Inventions and Innovative Technology Salon (Moscow, RU)
- KIWIE - Korean International Women’s Invention Exposition (Seoul, KR)
- INTARG (Katowice, PL)
- IWIS (Warsaw, PL)
- IENA (Nuremberg, DE)
- INFOINVENT (Chisinau, MD)
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The IPO CZ continued its activities for children and youth (elementary school pupils and secondary school students). The Office offers to them short training sessions on industrial rights, guided field trips to the Office's headquarters and an example search in patent databases, as well as courses for teachers interested in adding the topic of industrial rights to their curricula. A special section for youth which is maintained on the IPO CZ website was launched with a new design. The leaflet and comics books on the topics of patents, trademarks and copyright can be downloaded in this section. All the materials mentioned are also available for children and youth during their excursions to the IPO or during the fairs and exhibitions. The new e-learning course on industrial property for elementary and secondary school students was launched. The course acquaints young people with the principles or individual institutes of industrial property rights protection in an entertaining way. The IPO also kept on cooperating with the RVP.CZ Methodological Portal, operated by the National Institute for Education to support of teachers.
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