Annual Technical Report 2009 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Croatia (CWS/ATR/ID/2009/HR)
Where URLs are requested below, it is preferred that either URLs which are likely to remain stable over time (three years or more) are provided, or home (main) page URLs are provided with a short explanation of how to access the corresponding information.
The expression "industrial designs" covers industrial designs and models. Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in this series of Annual Technical Reports.
I. Evolution of registration activities
Changes experienced in terms of application filings and grants (registrations) with respect to the previous year
Number of industrial design applications (inc. multiple applications)
Number of designs contained in industrial design applications
Industrial designs in force (according to number of industrial design applications)
Industrial designs in force (according to number of industrial designs contained in industrial design applications)
Changes_experienced_interms_of_application_filings_and_grants(registrations).doc
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
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URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
Monthly official Gazette published on web pages of SIPO Croatia provide statistics:
http://www.dziv.hr/webcontent/file_library/izvori_inf/pdf/HGIV/Glasnici.asp
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of industrial design documents and of secondary sources of industrial design information, i.e., official gazettes
Publishing, including printing, copying techniques and electronic printing
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Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of industrial design information
Office notices on industrial design are published in the Official Gazette of the Office, as well as on the Office's web site within the Data base on published application and registrations of Industrial property rights in the Republic of Croatia.
Mass storage media and microforms used
The bibliographic data are stored in Ingres 2.6 database and industrial design images are stored in a LINUX network file directory.
The Office maintains a complete history of its industrial design files in paper form and all information for industrial design applied from 2000 up to date in electronic form.
Databases and office automation
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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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III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
Classification and reclassification activities; Classification system used, e.g., International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification), other classification (please indicate whether industrial designs are classified by your Office and, if so, which classification is used)
8th edition of the Locarno Classification is currently used for the classification of industrial designs. Designs are scanned and Locarno classification allocated.
Bibliographic data and processing
No ex officio search on novelty is carried out.
Free of charge public access to a database containing published information about registered industrial designs is available.
There is a possibility to file search request to the Office based on one (or more) of 4 criteria (name of holder, name of product, Locarno Class and Subclass, appearance of design). Such an information service is payable.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
All searches performed by examiners are completed using an automated search system.
File building
Design applications are made in paper forms that are available on our web site page. Cannot be filed electronically for the time being.
Applications are built into paper case files and kept in the office area until the procedure for registration is finished. Afterwards they are stored in the archive area in the same building.
Updating
The search files contain HR domestic designs updated daily, designations to the HR under the Hague system are updated monthly. All searches performed by examiners are completed using an automated search system.
Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file
No documentation from other offices is maintained or considered part of any search file.
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
In-house systems (online/offline)
See under Administrative management.
External databases
No external databases are searched.
Administrative management systems (e.g., register, legal status, statistics and administrative support)
Applications that have been used in SIPO are developed in INGRES OpenROAD. SIPO uses an INGRES database. An application “Industrial design’s Register” is used for filing all bibliographic data concerning the particular industrial design. All industrial design changes (change of ownership, change of name, address, licence, etc.) are recorded and are maintained by Industrial design Register user interface.
Since year 2000 SIPO has developed its own document management system in electronic form that is meeting office needs (all incoming and outgoing documents have been scanned in Adobe Acrobat).
International industrial design data in XML format are monthly loaded from the WIPO’s ftp site. After processing data are available through the application “HAGUE”. Those data are used for examination and publication purposes.
MS Word is used for automatic generation of output documents. MS Excel is used for (automatic) generation of specific reports that are used for annual SIPO’s report, WIPO statistics and for other purposes (improving industrial design processes).
Published industrial design data (applications/grants) can be searched at the SIPO’s internet site http://www.dziv.hr/digitallibrary through the SIPO's web-server application (MS Windows 2003 server and mySQL database).
Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), data carriers used
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VI. Administration of industrial design information products and services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, registering designs, assisting clients with search procedures, obtaining official publications and registry extracts)
Planning, administration, automation, security
SIPO Croatia offers free information services on legal matters, registration procedures, status of registered designs (national as well as international).The inquires can be made by phone, at the SIPO premises or by e-mail( infor@dziv.hr). Registry extracts are available upon request and payment. Copies of the file contents and commercial industrial design search services are available upon written request and payment.
Collection management, preservation
The industrial design search collection is managed in electronic form. Data are refreshed at the end of the month (the publication date). A structured backup regime is in place to ensure preservation of the information.
Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and industrial design information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web)
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URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
Not applicable, no electronic filing of industrial design applications. The electronic filing project will be launched during 2010.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide information on business procedures such as: filing, publication, examination and registration procedures related to industrial designs; opposition and appeal procedures related to industrial designs; etc.
http://www.dziv.hr/en/default.aspx?pArtID=53&selection=1 (in English)
http://www.dziv.hr/default.aspx?pArtID=146&selection=1 (in Croatian)
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide a description of information products and services offered by the Office (e.g., industrial design search service(s) and industrial design databases), as well as information on how to access and utilize them
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VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information
International or regional cooperation in the exchange of industrial design information, e.g., in the form of official gazettes
There is no formal exchange of industrial design information.
Exchange of machine-readable information, e.g., data contained on CD-ROM or magnetic tape
Not applicable.
VIII. Matters concerning education and training, including technical assistance to developing countries (please indicate URLs of web pages of the Office’s website wherever appropriate)
Promotional activities (seminars, exhibitions, visits, advertising, etc.)
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Training courses for national and foreign participants
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IX.Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:
provide information on legislation related to industrial designs
http://www.dziv.hr/en/default.aspx?pArtID=58&selection=5
Office's web-site: http://www.dziv.hr/
contain the Annual Report of the Office
http://www.dziv.hr/webcontent/file_library/izvori_inf/
contain industrial design-related news regarding the Office
News are available at the Office web site on the "news page" http://www.dziv.hr/
X. Other relevant matters