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Table 1 shows the trends in the filing of applications and grant of patents for industrial designs in 2012 and 2013.
The total number of applications filed for industrial designs rose compared to 2012 by 7.63 per cent, due to an increase in foreign applicants (by 14.01 per cent), whereas Russian applicants declined slightly (by 1.35 per cent).
The number of industrial design patents granted rose 2.37 per cent compared to 2012, likewise due to foreign applicants (up 9.64 per cent).
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
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Rospatent publications on industrial designs are presented in Table 2.
The Industrial Designs Official Gazette on CD-ROM electronic carrier with search system, and the corresponding paper Gazette are distributed by subscription. The most recent Gazette is available on the Rospatent site.
The following pages of the Office’s websites provide information regarding Office publications:
• the Administrative Regulations for performance by the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks of State functions relating to the keeping of registers of registered intellectual property subject matter, publication of information on registered intellectual property subject matter, applications filed and patents and certificates granted, on the validity, termination and renewal of validity of legal protection in relation to intellectual property subject matter, the transfer of rights in protectable subject matter, and the official registration of intellectual property subject matter, ‘Regulations on official publications of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks’, in the Patent Information Products section:
http://www.rupto.ru/norm_doc/sod/prikaz/minobrnauka/346_07/Po_vedeniyu_reestrov_zaregistrirovannih_obektov.htm#1;
• Patent Information Products: http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/publishing_activities/ .
Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc.
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