Annual Technical Report 2006 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Australia (SCIT/ATR/ID/2006/AU)
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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
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The Official Journal contains the following announcements:
- Applications Filed
- Applications Registered or Published
- Amendments and Changes
- Applications Lapsed/Withdrawn
- Assignment, Transmittals and Transfers
- Cancellation of Entries in Register
- Renewal of Registration
- Official Notices
Mass storage media and microforms used
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The Canberra Office has an ethernet-based LAN providing high speed bandwidth for each user desktop connection. A frame relay-based WAN provides connections from Canberra to each State Capital. A DMZ-based, DSD approved firewall using IAN ports (Internet IEFT Assigned Numbers) provides the secure means to allow access from internal systems/users to external entities such as the Internet or public/private organisations.
Current standard desktop software includes Windows XP and Lotus Notes.
The strategic server infrastructure environment includes Sun Solaris, Oracle RDBMS, J2EE, BEA Weblogic, and Objective EDMS.
The Office's publication system is partially mainframe based. The mainframe provides the following functions using "XICS" typesetting software:
- production of camera ready copy of the Australian Official Journal of Designs;
- production of design certificates and original register entries; and
- production of notices for design applicants or their agents.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide access to online industrial design gazettes and other sources of industrial design information, including download of bulk industrial design data
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All journals and official notices & online services
https://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/ecentre/content/olsHome.jsp
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information
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Education Products
Smart Start, IP Australia’s small business education product was updated, with a new web site and email newsletter launched to make information widely available. Smart Start continued to be IP Australia’s most popular public information product, and was selected as a case study for the European Commission’s Benchmarking IP Support Services for SMEs project.
The IP Toolbox publication was converted to an online resource in July 2006. It features extensive information on effective IP management as well as a range of business resources. This online resource is a key tool in educating IP owners on how to best exploit and protect their IP assets.
Home-Based Business Seminars Initiative
IP Australia supported the Home-Based Business seminar initiative of the Office of Small Business by hosting presentations on intellectual property issues for small business. The seminars were delivered in more than 70 locations across regional Australia enabling home-based businesses to learn how intellectual property affects them.
World IP Day 2006
A public relations campaign was undertaken for World IP Day, which is celebrated each year on April 26, to increase public awareness of intellectual property and its role in supporting Australian innovation. In support of this campaign, a series of events were held in capital cities in cooperation with the Australian Innovation Festival, which was officially aligned with World IP Day for the first time. The campaign was highly successful and resulted in broad media coverage and strong participation rates for World IP Day events.
New IP Media Centre web site and Journalists’ Guide
IP Australia launched a new Journalists’ Guide to Intellectual Property supported by a new IP Media centre web site to promote better understanding and reporting of intellectual property issues in the media. There was a noticeable increase in the number of media enquiries received by IP Australia since the launch of the Journalists’ Guide and IP Media Centre.
Training courses for national and foreign participants
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From 26 - 30 June 2006, IP Australia’s officials visited the National Office of Industrial Property (NOIP) in Viet Nam under the auspice of the APEC TILF Public Education and Awareness program. This project aims to provide resources and training to assist Viet Nam to undertake their own public education and awareness programs.
The Registrar and the Copyright Officer from the PNG IP Office visited IP Australia from 17 - 19 July 2006. Discussions focused on the development of public education and awareness programs, the development of supporting resources and to undertake training to support the management of web sites.
IP Australia, in conjunction with the IP Office of Singapore and the Hong Kong IP Department, delivered an APEC IPR Public Education and Awareness Platform project in 2006. The project equipped developing APEC Member Economies with the skills, tools and resources to implement public education and awareness campaigns which promote the protection and enforcement of IPR in the region. The principal activities of the project were:
• A workshop on Effective Strategies for IPR Public Education to share experiences and knowledge on IPR campaigns with developing economies – November 2006 in Hong Kong, China.
• An online communications platform of IPR public education and awareness resources, which can be tailored to meet the needs of developing economies –delivered just prior to the workshop in November 2006
Main industrial design and industrial property information magazines/journals published in the country or region of the Office
All journals and official notices & online services
https://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/ecentre/content/olsHome.jsp
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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annual reports and publications
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/resources/forms_general.shtml
contain industrial design-related news regarding the Office
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X. Other relevant matters