Annual Technical Report 2006 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Philippines (SCIT/ATR/ID/2006/PH)
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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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23.89% decrease in filings (1,264 in 2005 and 962 in 2006 )
20.98% decrease in registration (758 in 2005 and 599 in 2006)
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
Trends in our e-services:
Patent Search on-line (includes Industrial Design search on-line)
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
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Office notices and changes to office procedures are published through the IP Philippines website (www.ipophil.gov.ph)
Some of these office notices and many other patent related notices, are posted directly on the IP Philippines WEB site.
Mass storage media and microforms used
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The IP Philippines uses PACSYS, Patent Administration Computerized System.
IPCDL or the IP Case Digital Library is a web-based search tool that enables users to conduct a simple and user-friendly search on IP Case Database containing violation on intellectual property.
The IP Adjudication Case Monitoring and Management System is an automated system for the data entry and retrieval of relevant data related in IPPhil's inter Partes Cases and IP Volation Cases. It will also include the automation of the administrative process related to case inventory, monitoring, decisions, disposal and reports requirements for processing and management. The system will generate reports but not limited to pending and/or decided cases, turn-around time, and ageing.
Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), data carriers used
The hardware used:
Terminals 15 units
Server 2 sets
Communication lines used:
Leased line 2mbps
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)
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The IP Philippines Library is available to users daily.
The Library is open from 8:00 to 17:00.
The user – The library is open to both internal clients (IPO Philippines -officials, patent and Trademark examiners, patent researchers, Industrial Design examiners) and external clients (patent and trademark applicants, patent and trademark practitioners, lawyers, paralegal staff, inventors/scientists, researchers, students, Businessmen/ entrepreneurs, IP Philippines employees and general public).
Collection management, preservation
The IP Philippines library’s collection consist of :
Patent documents
• Registered Philippine Inventions,Utility Model, Industrial Design,
• INPADOC(bibliographic pages),
• Published pending patent applications (filed 1997 and earlier)
• Index cards (registered, cancelled, Pending, Abandoned)
Books
• General references
• Law books
• Foreign and local gazettes
• WIPO Publications
• Foreign and local seminar-workshop/ Training materials on IP
Other Library Materials
• Decisions of Inter Partes Cases
• Annual Reports of Foreign and Local Newsletters
• IP Journals
• News papers clippings/articles
• Non print Materials
• CD_ROM of foreign gazettes, official journals
• VHS (IP information material)
Databases
• PDESys for issued inventions, utility Model and Industrial Designs
• Maelisa for books and other library materials
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information
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X. Other relevant matters