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The Trademark Directorate currently use the following systems for trademarks administration and examination: » IPAS JAVA (Industrial Property Automation System) – Trademark examination system used since June 2013 to replace the previously used system, SINPI, which was developed in Delphi and used client-server technology. The IPAS was developed by WIPO, it uses web technology, was written using Java language and runs on an Oracle database. It has integration with all other systems used by the Trademarks Directorate. The IPAS uses a document management system named EDMS, which is based on the Nuxeo Platform. » eMarcas – Electronic online filing system for trademarks. The eMarcas system was built using web technology. It was developed using JAVA and runs on Oracle database. It has integration with IPAS and the payment system control, PAG. This system was developed internally at INPI. » PUSH – System that allows the customer to track the progress of his trademark application process, and informs electronically every time there is a publication in the journal. » PAG – It is the online payments system and is used for the reception of paper documents. Also developed internally at INPI using web technology. » pPI is a web based search engine for Trademarks, Patents, Industrial Design and Computer Program applications since 1986. This database is available through Internet and allows searching bibliographic text and viewing Trademark images.
Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
In order to support business processes related to the IPO, the core ICT solutions are divided in the following levels:
(i) Information Security Infrastructure: Essentially, this environment guarantees that information is protected from intentional or accidental modifications, by using the Fortnet firewall (Fortigate 1000C) for filtering, VPN controlling and Spam controlling. This hardware also acts as an IDS agent to inspect the inbound and outbound network activity identifying suspicious patterns, including Internet traffic. The INPI uses another kind of firewall to isolate networks like PROSUR, where the support is obtained from the pfSense-br.org. To complement this structure, the FortiAnalyzer guarantees the integration of network logging, analysis and reporting into a system with the view to create knowledge of security events throughout the network.
(ii) Networking Infrastructure: The focus of this structure is to maintain connectivity between LAN and the server farm, employing the central switch Matrix N-7 from Enterasys. As this switch is located in the INPI 's Datacenter, it has the function of concentrating all the incoming connections from the offices of INPI. This infrastructure is complemented by the SAN switches from Brocade to support connections in fiber channel to the Virtualization Infrastructure, Storage Infrastructure and Backup Infrastructure. A Wireless Internet network with 100 access points ensures that all floors of the two main buildings have Internet access. The Internet link consists on a High Load Balance through one internet connection links with 100Mbps speed. The Central Data Center in Rio de Janeiro is interconnected with 14 branch regional offices with a MPLS connection with 30Mbps.
(iii) Virtualization Infrastructure: The DataCenter has HP Blade Servers with 16 Blades under two Intel Xeon Quad-core 2.83 Ghz processors and 32GB RAM. All hosts are builded in virtual machines running operating systems over the virtualization platform from vMware mounted with vSphere 5.1 and vCenter 5.1. With more than 160 virtual machines, the operating systems are distributed through Windows Server 2012 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters.
(iv) Storage Infrastructure: To provide rapid response in all IT environments, INPI invested in the Hitachi High End VSP solution, that is responsible to maintain the information stored in 80 Terabytes with Raid 6 array ensuring availability required to the business process. The backup architecture is base on a tape robot storage.
(v) Desktop Infrastructure: The computers used to support the business process are based in the solution from Itautec Infoway ST4273 with two monitor with 21 inches per research.
V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION
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