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Inventions
Table 1 shows the data for 2004-2005 for the filing of RF patent applications for inventions by national and foreign applicants.
The largest number of applications for inventions by Russian applicants was filed under Section A of the International Patent Classification (IPC) — Human Necessities, and by foreign applicants under Section C — Chemistry and Metallurgy.
The least popular among both Russian and foreign applicants was Section D — Textiles and Paper. The number of applications filed under this Section in 2005 constituted 1.09 per cent of the overall number of applications filed for inventions.
Utility Models
Growth should also be noted in the overall number of applications filed for utility models in 2005 (see Table 2). The number of applications filed by foreign applicants also increased.
The largest number of patents granted for utility models in the past year was for Section B — Performing Operations and Transporting, and Section A — Human Necessities. The lowest number of applications was again filed for Section D — Textiles and Paper, which was the least numerous in terms of utility model patents granted, and also for Section C — Chemistry and Metallurgy.
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II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, distribution and use of primary and secondary sources of patent information
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In 2005, the following patent information publications were issued:
Inventions and Utility Models Official Gazette – on CD-ROM (with full specifications of inventions) - 36 issues;
Inventions and Utility Models Official Gazette – on CD-ROM (with bibliographical data) - 36 issues;
Retrospective sets of invention specifications for USSR authors’ certificates and RF patents, 1924-2004, on DVD – 96 disks;
An information search system for invention specifications in Russian and English on DVD – quarterly and cumulative;
Title pages of utility model descriptions for RF documents providing protection, 1994-2004, on DVD – one disk;
Invention specifications for patents (hard copy, Internet search system, in Open Registers) – 23,390 specifications;
Title pages of utility model descriptions, hard copy – 7,243 sheets;
Inventions and Utility Models Official Gazette, hard copy – 36 issues;
Annual index to Inventions and Utility Models Gazette (five volumes).
Table 3 shows the number of orders in 2005 for annual sets of official publications with current acquisitions and retrospective collections.
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Mass storage media used (paper, microforms, optical storage, etc.)
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The FGU FIPS VPTB Division currently receives an exchange of documentation from 56 countries, six international organizations and the information firm Derwent. The exchange with Italy and the People’s Democratic Republic of China was stopped.
The volumes of acquisitions of foreign descriptions are determined by the scales of activity of national patent offices and international organizations. Leading positions in this area are occupied by Germany, Japan and the United States of America, as well as the EPO and WIPO.
Table 4 shows the rate of international exchange in 2005 between the FGU FIPS VPTB Division and foreign patent offices.
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Medium used for exchange of priority documents
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