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Annual Technical Report 2012 on Patent Information Activities submitted by Uzbekistan (CWS/ATR/PI/2012/UZ)

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The term "patent" covers utility models and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs). Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in their Annual Technical Reports on Industrial Design Information Activities.

I. Evolution of patent activities

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Inventions

In 2012 AIP has received 510 applications for granting patent. 257 applications are submitted by national applicants that makes 50,4 % from total number of submitted applications. Foreign applicants submit 253 applications (49,6 %), from which the applications on the international procedure (РСТ) make 94,5 %. The greatest quantity of applications for inventions from national applicants has been submitted on section A « Human necessities» of International patent classification, the foreign applicants has been submitted on section C « Chemistry, Metallurgy ». Total number of the registered inventions has made 175, from its on a share of national applicants 74,9 % ; foreign applicants - 25,1 %. It should be noted that over the past four years the ratio of registered inventions in the name of national applicants has changed in a big way: in 2009 the share was 54.9%, in 2010 - 57.8%, in 2011 - 60.3%; then in 2012 - 74.9%.

Utility models

In 2012 the total of filed applications on utility model is 183, which is the largest significative in the last five years. 173 applications (94,5 %) were filled by national applicants, on a share of foreign applicants 5,5 % from total number of submitted application. The most of number of applications were filled according section A “ Human necessities” – 51 applications and section D “Textiles, Paper”– 44 applications and B “Various technical processes; transportation” - 37 applications; the share of the submitted applications on these sections makes 72,1 % . In 2012 the total of the registered useful models has increased for 5,4 % in comparison with the last year and it has made 97 useful models from which 96,9 % are registered by national applicants and 3,1 % are a share foreign applicants.

URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to patents

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The AIP has published the following official publications in 2012:
• The official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» - 12 issues (on CD-ROM);
• Descriptions of inventions to patents - 145 descriptions (on a paper);
• Descriptions of utility models to patents - 95 descriptions (on a paper);
• The collection of annual indexes to the official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma» for 2012 (sections of lists on inventions and utility models) on the electronic carrier.

Data on the registered inventions have published in sections "Inventions" and “Utility models” of the official bulletin «Rasmiy Akhborotnoma», which is posted on the Agency's website and published on CD-ROM. Data on inventions includes bibliographic data and abstracts, data on granted inventions include bibliographic data and formula and data on utility models include bibliographic data and abstract; all data are translated in Russian and Uzbek languages. Data on 508 submitted applications for invention, 171 granted inventions (patents) and 108 granted utility models are published in bulletins in 2012 year.

AIP participates also in issuing of CISPATENT, which is joint regional patent-information product on CD-ROM disks, being the collection of official publications of patent offices of the states-participants of CIS and Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO). 303 abstracts of inventions and useful models in two languages (english, russian) are prepared in 2012. Also full descriptions of inventions and useful models in Russian and the processed document files send to Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (ROSPATENT).

Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of patent information

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AIP has a full collection of patent documents of Uzbekistan (originals) on a paper. Furthermore all patent documents are stored in bibliographic databases and in electronic storehouses.

Word processing and office automation

During processing applications, the all the documents, concerning industrial designs are scanned and saved as facsimile form in format TIFF. Collecting chapters of the official bulletin on invention and utility models is carried out automatically on a workplace of the employee of the office of Publication Division. By specialized inquiry bibliographic data from a database (SUBD MS SQL Server 2000) are selected and sorted. The subsequent operations (page makeup, replication) are made by means of programs Word and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Pro.

(New) techniques used for the generation of patent information (printing, recording, photocomposing, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), etc.)

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Applications for inventions and utility models are classified according to the International Patent Classification of corresponding edition, The 8-th edition of IPC - a base level is used since January 1, 2006.

Preliminary classification is used before carrying out the substantive examination, which is used for the internal purposes and also at the publication of applications for inventions.

Reclassification is not carried out in connection with introduction of new editions IPC.

Coordinate indexing (domestic deep indexing systems, keyword indexing)

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Bibliographic data are saved in the form of dynamic ХМL-documents in internal database which are supported and updated during a life of the application by all departments involved in process. Changes in base will be authorized. Interfaces of access to base are constructed on the basis of Intranet-technologies. Search on contents of text files of documents is essentially possible, but now is not accessible.

IV. Search file establishment and upkeep

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The search file on a paper and optical disks is formed on the basis of collection of the State Fund of the Patent Documentation, which structure includes current and retrospective files of the national patent documentation, the foreign patent documentation, which entering into the list of the countries - PCT minimum. Besides it, there is patent associated literature including the scientific, technical literature in the form of books and periodicals, reference books.
The Fund of national patent documents on a paper is presented: descriptions of inventions to patent both preliminary patents and descriptions of utility models to certificates and patents (from 1993) systematized on classification indexes of IPC and on numbers of protection documents. Storehouses of bibliographic databases and electronic file (text) for internal use are conducted. The collection of patent documents on CD/DVD-ROM is systematized by the countries and years.

Updating

Search files on a paper and a part on CD/DVD-ROM are updated monthly, some CD/DVD-ROM are updated annually.
Bibliographic data and files of documents in electronic storehouse can replenish and correct according call.

Storage, including mass storage media

Conditions of storage of fund depend mostly on kinds of data carriers: patent documents on a paper are stored in folders on metal racks, on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM - in stores in wall cases.
Bases of bibliographic, office work data and file storehouse are stored on specialized file-servers (the magnetic disks organized in the form of a RAID-file) on which with a view of preservation of data reserve copying on an additional server is carried out.

Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file

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With a view of increase of efficiency of search and processing of patents in Agency the subsystem of automation of patent search and preparation for the publication of patent documents (PIPS) functions.
PIPS - patent-search information system (conducting bibliographic bases, patent search, reports: registers, statistics, decisions of examinations).
The system of automation of search and preparation of documents of Agency has been designed on the basis of technologies Intranet with wide use of language means of the objective structured data presentation - universal language of the description of data XML/XSL and control system of databases of corporate level MS SQL Server.

External databases

Agency experts provided access to patent and non-patent databases online. The most widely used expert public patent databases on the Internet include network Espacenet, database Rospatent, the U.S. Patent Office, WIPO, the Eurasian Patent Office. Temporarily had access to the database Questel Intellectual Property Portal. The followings date bases are used widely by examiners on the Internet: FIPS.ru, EAPATIS.com; and also searching system: Google, Rambler, Yahoo, and Yandex.

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The SATOZ has a full-function system of administration, providing authorization, access to the information, safety, and management of the rights of users, groups and options of system.

Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), carriers used

The active part of technical maintenance of the integrated automated system (the computer, network and peripheral equipment) includes in the structure:
• Workstations of series HP dx2300, dx2400, Pro M3120 MT;
• Server stations of series HP Pro Liant DL 380, HP Pro Liant ML 370;
• Network printers HP LaserJet of series P2015, P1006, P4515x, 5 SiMX, 5000DN, Canon iR 2318;
• Flatbed scanners HP ScanJet 5100C and HP ScanJet 5400C, 4010C, Fujitsu;
• The Switching equipment (switchboards HP, routers 3COM, access servers), sources of no-break power from manufacturers MGE of series Pulsar M3000, M2200.

The architectural decision of corporate network of the Agency completely is based on family of operating systems MS Windows. Operating systems MS Windows Advanced Server 2000/2003 support domain structure of network. As a base workstation system MS Windows XP Professional (SP3)/Windows 7, providing multilanguage support is chosen.
For the purpose of protection of local network against interventions from a network the Internet the local computer network of the organization is protected network by screen MS ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration) is used a kind of proxy-server and also the local network is protected by an antivirus - Kaspersky Antivirus Workstation/Server Edition for prevention infection of computers from harmful software.
With a view of improvement of quality of patent office-work in Agency the licensed software is used.
For editing and recognition of documents it is used software ABBYY Fine Reader 7.0, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Pro and processing of images Photoshop CS2, CorelDRAW 12. For work with various types of documents: texts, spreadsheets, databases, etc. use office package of appendices MS Office 2007 Pro. For automation of translation process within the limits of a local network the network version of translation program PROMT NET Pro 7.0 and the independent version of electronic dictionary ABBYY Lingvo 10 is used.

VI. Administration of the industrial property office library, and information products 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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The State Fund of the Patent Documentation (SFPD) is structural division AIP and practically unique full collection of the patent documentation in territory of Uzbekistan. On the basis of SFPD patent-information service, both expert structure of Agency, and the broad audience of the public is carried out, i.e. functions of public library are carried out.
The total area of fund, including office accommodations, reading rooms and storehouses of patent and other information, makes 231 sq. m.

Collecting, acquisitions, preparation

Collection SFPD is presented by the domestic and foreign patent documentation, official and abstract editions of patent departments, legal-patent documentation, methodical and reference books, periodicals. The volume of fund for January, 1st, 2013 made more than 74,8 million copy of patent documents on various kinds of carriers.
The basic sources of acquisition of fund are: official publications AIP; the patent documentation received on the international exchange; a subscription to periodic both specialized editions and purchase of the special literature through news agencies-subscription. All received documentation is registered, classified and grouped for the purposes of storage.
In 2012 has acted more than 3,7 million copies of patent documents on optical disks. Receipts on a paper, except for periodicals, the practical-methodical literature and patent bulletins of some countries at the same time have practically stopped. The collection of fund on СD-ROM and DVD-ROM makes more than 20,8 thousand the disks containing full descriptions of inventions to applications, the patents useful to models, official and abstract editions of patent departments.

Collection management, preservation

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AIP carries out bibliotheca-information and reference-bibliographic service of experts of various areas of a science, manufacture, business on the basis of SFPD. Delivery of patent documents is carried out directly in the reading room of fund combined with electronic fund, and also under the interlibrary subscription. Visiting SFPD and bibliographic service of all categories of users is carried out free of charge.
The quantity of visitings SFPD in 2012 has made from above 2,4 thousand; it has been given out more than 302 thousand patent documents, from which from above 279 thousand on CD/DVD-ROM disks. It is rendered more than 700 consultations on various questions. It is executed from above 4,8 thousand spears of descriptions of inventions.
With the purpose of expansion of patent-information service AIP carries out a lot of services under orders of the consumers including automated patent search on CD/DVD - ROM, and also patent search with use of the removed databases. Besides render services on a traditional mode - thematic a selection, selective distribution of the patent information by inquiries, copying, selection and delivery of documents by inquiries of readers, to consultation of users. More than 120 orders for patent-information services on inventions and useful models have been executed in 2012.

URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide information on business procedures such as: filing, publication, examination and grant procedures related to patents; opposition and appeal procedures related to patents; etc.

The information on filing and consideration of applications for inventions is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/togoverment/?ELEMENT_ID=278
The information on filing and consideration of applications for utility models is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/togoverment/?SECTION_ID=212
The information on the order of granting of patents is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/legis/?SECTION_ID=223
The information on appeal procedure is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/disputes/?ELEMENT_ID=111

URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide a description of information products and services offered by the Office (e.g., patent search service(s) and patent databases), as well as information on how to access and utilize them

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Works on submission applications on machine-readable carriers (as the third copy) had continued in 2012. 260 applications on the electronic carrier were submitted.

VIII. Other relevant matters concerning education and training in, and promotion of, the use of patent information, including technical assistance to developing countries (please indicate URLs of web pages of the Office’s website wherever appropriate)

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In a view of increasing awareness of the role and importance of IP in stimulation creation and innovation and sharing knowledge in field of rights IP among public, the AIP organizes a different kind of competitions, seminars, meetings for representatives of government, science-research organization, Higher Education, patent attorney, enterprisers and developer of technology.
In accordance with the Decision of President of Republic of Uzbekistan dated July 15, 2008 №PP-916 “Additional measures on stimulation encouragement innovation projects in technology” the AIP participated in V Republic fair of innovation ideas of technology and projects (May 3-5, 2012). It was organized the exhibition of patent-information resources including banners concerning legislation in the field of legal protection of IP objects and cooperation AIP with international and other organizations, publications of AIP (collections of legal acts, scientifically-practical magazine «IP Management», the collection «Perspective Inventions and utility models of Republic Uzbekistan», Official bulletins, and etc.), foreign publication. As a handout were presented booklets on the activities of the Agency, SUE «Intellekt-Ekspert» and SUE «IP-Center», also the booklets describing the objects of intellectual property and the order of their legal protection in the country. Experts of AIP gave a consultations to participants of Fair concerning the legislation in the field of legal protection of IP objects, registration of applications for IP objects, license contracts, etc.
Within the limits of the actions, devoted to the International day of intellectual property (on April, 26th, 2012),on April 25-26th, 2012 AIP organized and held a scientifically-practical conference « Problems and challenges of the development of intellectual property ». Organizers of conference: Judicial Training Center of Republic Uzbekistan, International Legal Cooperation Foundation of Germany, AIP of Republic of Uzbekistan. At a plenary the questions, concerning legislations in the field of protection of the rights to intellectual property in the European Union and CIS countries, improvement of legislation in the field of intellectual property and etc. were discussed. The conference was attended by scientists, experts in the field of intellectual property, law enforcement and educational institutions.

The Republic Annual Competition “NEW INTELLECT” was organized and held on the best objects of intellectual property on nominations: "The Best Invention", "The Best Utility Model" and "The Best Industrial Design". Rewarding of winners of competition took place in the Palace of creativity of youth in December, 2012; awards of Agency in the form of monetary premiums, and also diplomas and memorable gifts have been handed over to winners of competition.

It is held a regional seminar on theme «Protection rights of objects of intellectual property» in Karshi city, which organized by the Agency cooperative with khokimiyat of Kashkadarya. At a seminar were discussed the questions, concerning legislations in the field of protection of the rights to intellectual property in Uzbekistan, also suppression of smuggling and trafficking of infringing goods in the territory of Republic.

In connection with making amendments in the constituent documents of scientifically- practical magazine "IP Management" held its re-registration, currently the magazine is published under a new name - «Intellekt-Info». In 2012 are published four numbers of magazine, which more than 20 scientifically-practical articles are issued on the concerns of intellectual property.

Work on rendering assistance in creation of conditions for development of scientific and technical creativity among youth proceeded. Employees of Agency have taken part as judges on competition of youth which are held in the Republic in a direction:
- Information technologies, technical development and efficiency proposals of " Republican competition of youth « Kelajak Ovozi », organized by the Center of youth initiatives «Kelajak Ovozi» at Fund «The Forum of culture and art of Uzbekistan» (Fund " FORUM.UZ ") and social movement of youth «Kamolot»;
- Competition «Йилнинг энг яхши иктидорли, ижодкор ёш ихтирочиси» (“The best talented, youth creative inventor of the year”) for the students of schools, high schools and colleges of the Republic, organized by the Center for Technical Creativity of Youth "Barkamol avlod" and the University of Information Technologies of Tashkent.

With a view of informing the public on the most important inventions and the useful models created by the Uzbek inventors in 2012, the fourth release of the collection « Perspective inventions and useful models of Republic Uzbekistan » is released. Inventions and the useful models included in number perspective, correspond to priority directions of development of a science and technologies in Uzbekistan.

To improve the patent and legal expertise in the field of protection of intellectual property Agency has published the manuals: "How to get a patent for an invention, its legal protection and defense of the Republic of Uzbekistan", "How to get a patent for utility model, its legal protection and defense of the Republic of Uzbekistan" "How to get a design patent, its legal protection."

In mass media of republic the materials reflecting actions, spent by Agency, and also on various questions of a right protection of intellectual property (56 publications) were on a regular basis placed. Employees of Agency took part in transfers of teleradio channels "Uzbekistan", «Toshkent», «Youth» (7 performances).

Representatives AIP accepted active participation in the various actions spent by the foreign organizations of republic.

IX. Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:

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The information under the legislation on inventions is available on the following link: http://www.ima.uz/ru/togoverment/?ELEMENT_ID=446
and utility models: http://www.ima.uz/ru/togoverment/?ELEMENT_ID=292

contain the Annual Report of the Office

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Official information on invention and utility models is available on the following link: http://ima.uz/ru/news/

X. Other relevant matters

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