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Please see tables in document attached below.
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
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A- Hardware:
We have two LANs as follows:
1-Internal LAN on which local applications are running
2-External LAN that supports Internet browsing and search.
Those LANs consist of 150/213 PC/ person (Dell, HP, IBM) and 5 servers specified in the table attached below.
B-Software:
We use Oracle and ASP in our database and web site.
Online services:
The Egyptian Patent Office provides online services including:
1-Online search on the Egyptian Patents Data base
2-Online filing for the bibilographic data
These services are available through:
A) Egyptian Patent Office website (www.Egypo.gov.eg)
B) Egyptian E-Government portal (soon at www.Egypt.gov.eg)
VI. Administration of the industrial property office library and services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, for assisting clients on searching procedures, for obtaining official publications and registry extracts)
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Please see Table I (attached below) concerning the acquisitions by the library in the Egyptian Patent Office in 2005.
Please see Table II (attached below) for total number of documents.
TableIofItemVIcollecting,acquisitions.docTableIIofItemVIcollecting,acquisitions.doc
Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and patent information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web)
The Patent Office searches and advisory services are continuous. We have a Web site for our Office which includes published patents and searchable database where we can find the bibliographic data for any granted patent. Also, it includes all information needed to register patents and others. The web site is: www.Egypo.gov.eg
We made 252 state of the art searches for users as can be seen from the table attached below.
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of patent documentation and information
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Please see Table I (training courses for national and foreign participants) and Table II (conferences abroad attended by our employees), attached below.
TableIofItemVIIItrainingcourses.docTableIIofItemVIIItrainingcourses.doc
Assistance to developing countries (sending consultants and experts, receiving trainees from developing countries, etc.)
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