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Table 1 (attached) shows the rate at which applications were filed and patents granted for industrial designs in 2006-2007.
In 2007 the growth in the number of industrial design applications received continued and reached 109.99 per cent. The number of patents granted for industrial designs increased markedly in comparison with 2006 (by 50.28 per cent), mainly owing to foreign applicants (growth of 86.77 per cent).
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URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
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Table 2 (attached) shows Rospatent publications on industrial designs.
In 2007, the annual index to the Gazette for 2006 was issued:
• for the Industrial Designs Official Gazette — one volume.
The Industrial Designs Official Gazette on CD-ROM electronic carrier with search system and the corresponding paper Gazette are distributed by subscription. The latest Gazette is available on the Rospatent site.
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Mass storage media and microforms used
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In 2007, the Office began to publish or continued to supplement the following databases:
- From 2007 onwards the Industrial Designs Official Gazette began to be published on CD-ROM, with 12 disks per year. Alongside the Official Gazette on CD-ROM, the Gazette was published on paper with the same frequency;
- In 2007, the CD-ROM collection continued to be supplemented with disks from the Industrial Designs database with documents providing protection from 1993 to 2007. For 2007 the database was supplemented with 4,020 patents for national industrial designs and illustrations thereof;
- Sets of information on industrial designs for 2005 and 2006 were published on one DVD each;
- A retrospective file of information on industrial designs for 1993-2004 was published on one CD-ROM;
- The International Classification of Industrial Designs (ICID) (seventh and eighth editions) on CD-ROM and paper carrier (eighth edition).
In 2007, the Industrial Designs Official Gazette was published on the Rospatent Internet site and registers of Russian industrial designs continued to be kept with an indication of their legal status.
Data on the FIPS industrial designs database, the number of documents contained therein, a retrospective and frequency of updating are contained in Table 3 (attached).
Data on FIPS open registers, the number of documents therein, a retrospective and frequency of updating are contained in Table 4 (attached).
As part of the program of complex modernization of the automated systems of Rospatent, in 2007 the following work was performed:
• the Judicial Decisions Automated System was brought into industrial operation, and is a system of electronic document exchange, connected by procedures for participation in judicial hearings and the implementation of court decisions on different forms of intellectual property subject matter;
• a system of electronic document exchange was brought into operation, relating to the registration of industrial design applications and input of bibliographical data, with integration into the existing automated processing system (FGU FIPS automated database).
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide access to online industrial design gazettes and to other sources of industrial design information, including download of bulk industrial design data
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The FGU FIPS VPTB is equipped with a special room for work with information on industrial designs, primarily for examiners but also accessible to external users.
Access to official publications of patent officers is unlimited for all categories of users. In 2007:
- the number of gazettes issued constituted 24,000 storage units;
- the number of thematic collections issued constituted 13,800 units;
- the number of design journals issued constituted about 15,400 copies;
- the number of advertising prospectuses and catalogues issued constituted 9,900 copies.
In 2007 the composition of electronic official gazettes was supplemented by the Industrial Designs Official Gazette which began to appear on CD-ROM, with a frequency of 12 disks per year. Alongside the Official Gazette on CD-ROM, the Gazette was published on paper.
Additionally, users were offered sets of information on industrial designs for 2005 and 2006, each on one DVD, and also a retrospective set of files of information on industrial designs for 1993-2004 on one CD-ROM.
All CD-ROMs and DVDs are distributed together with the MIMOSA software which provides a search of bibliographical data, ICID indexes, a list of essential features and also combinations thereof.
In 2007, users were offered the International Classification of Industrial Designs (seventh and eighth editions) on CD-ROM and on paper (eighth edition).
An annual index (one volume) was produced for the Industrial Designs Gazette on paper.
In 2007, the Industrial Designs Official Gazette was published on the Rospatent Internet site and registers of Russian industrial design, with an indication of their legal status, continued to be kept.
Work of users with an information-search system
Access for external users to the industrial designs database is provided by agreement.
Table 5 (attached) contains data on the number of search system database enquiries.
Table 6 (attached) contains data on the number of database enquiries relating to registers of trademarks, appellations of origin, official trademarks, international trademarks and trademark applications.
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
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