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In order to enable electronic record-keeping during the provision of State services, the following work was undertaken at FIPS in 2014:
- a A system of paperless prosecution during the examination of applications for registration of agreements in respect of industrial property (Agreements) has been put into operation;
- work Work continued on populating the Electronic State Register for RF Trademarks and Service Marks, State Register for RF Appellations of Origin, and the Electronic List of Well-Known Trademarks in the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as EGR TZ) with entries signed electronically by the responsible person. As at the end of December, 2014, 142,153 new registrations had been entered into the EGR TZ, and 229,989 registrations had been transferred from the paper version of the State Register;
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The following pages of the Office’s website contain:
- legal Legal information- Regulation section: http://www.rupto.ru/docs/tz_nmpt;
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- Electronic Interaction with Applicants section/ Filing Applications for Trademark and Service Mark Registration section heading:
http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/el_zayav/tm_ap_new;
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In 2014, access was provided on the FIPS website to:
- the The Register of Trademark Applications filed between 2005 and 2014, supplemented by information on the prosecution of applications filed between 2008 and 2014, updated daily.
- the The Register of Applications for the Registration of Appellations of Origin of the Russian Federation filed between 2005 and 2014, supplemented by information on the prosecution of applications filed between 2008 and 2014, updated daily.
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Rospatent publications on trademarks are presented in Table 2.
Тable2
Publication Title | Form of Publication | Frequency of Publication |
Official publications of Rospatent on trademarks, service marks, appellations of origin and certificates for the right to use an appellation of origin | ||
Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin Official Gazette, including the following sections: Applications for Trademarks and Service Marks |
Bibliographic data; images (where available); list of goods and/or services (where available). |
Twice per month |
Applications for Appellations of origin
| Bibliographical data; appellation of origin; indication of goods, for individualization of which appellation of origin has been registered and/or exclusive rights therein have been granted (except information containing a description of the product’s special properties) (where available); indication of place of origin (production) of good (borders of geographical subject) (where available). | |
Trademarks and service marks | Bibliographical data, images, list of goods and/or services. | |
Appellations of origin
| Bibliographic data, appellation of origin, indication of goods, and also indication of place of origin (production) of a good (borders of the geographical subject). Information concerning certificates for the right to use an appellation of origin is also published. | |
Trademarks Well-Known in the Russian Federation | Published with a selection of exhibits approved by the normative documents of Rospatent. | |
Notifications
| Information on the changes made to the Electronic State Registers of Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin and the List of Trademarks Well-Known in the Russian Federation is published. Information is supplied by the corresponding subdivisions of the Institute and Rospatent in the established form. | |
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The addresses of web pages of the Office’s site providing access to online publications:
- Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin in the Official Publications section:
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- the information-search system (IPS).
- registers of Russian trademarks;
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The addresses of web pages of the Office’s site containing information on information products and services provided by the Office:
- information Information on subscribing to patent information products–in the Patent Information Products section: Catalog of Publications and Databases:
http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/publishing_activities/;
How to Access Publications and Databases subsection: http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/publishing_activities/porayad_pr/;
- how How to carry out a search – in the Information Resources section, Databases subsection:
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http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/ofic_pub/ofic_bul/tz_zo_nmpt;
- patent Patent databases – in the Information-Search System section, Databases subsection:
- information Information on how to access and use resources – in the Information-Search System section, Services:
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- RF TZ automated system for prosecuting applications for trademarks and appellations of origin.
- the The Agreements automated system for paperless prosecution of agreements on forms of intellectual property subject matter that come under the Office’s mandate, including trademarks;
- the The Amendments to Trademark Registrations automated system for the prosecution of requests received following registration of a trademark (e.g. extension, change of owner or termination of validity).
- the The Madrid Paperless Prosecutions of International Registrations automated system.
- TM-ADMIN, the electronic document flow system for registering and handling documents, including scanning, recognition and data entry procedures, document consideration processes, and preparing and sending outgoing correspondence.
- the The electronic trademark application filing service, KPS RTZ, is intended for the filing of trademark applications and for electronic correspondence with applicants from the applicant’s personal area, and to provide the processes for exchanging electronic documents between applicants and the Office. It functions using a means of cryptography and electronic signatures, and is integrated into the hardware and software environment of the automated system for paperless prosecution of trademark applications, TM-ADMIN.
- the The ‘Personal Office’ service on the FIPS website is intended for electronic correspondence relating to paper applications, and for a number of documents submitted electronically which require original documents to be submitted with hard-copy signatures.
- electronic Electronic exchange of data with WIPO on the international registration of trademarks is carried out using MECA technology and WIPO Standard ST.66. Decisions on preliminary and final refusal are sent to WIPO electronically.
- the The Electronic State Register of RF Trademarks and Service Marks, the State Register of RF Appellations of Origin, and the electronic list of trademarks well known in the Russian Federation (EGR). Each entry in EGR is signed with the electronic signature of the inputter, which allows the signatory to be identified and his/her authority to be verified at the time of signing.
- the The integrated Fees accounting system, establishing the use of electronic payment documents received from the Russian Treasury, and allowing the recording of fees for legally significant acts relating to applications for trademarks and appellations of origin.
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- Rospatent Official Gazettes;
- pаtent Pаtent gazettes from foreign countries and international organizations, both special gazettes and ordinary gazettes on industrial property with sections dedicated to trademarks;
- databases Databases containing information on trademarks of Russia, foreign countries and international organizations.
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- 12th session of the Working Group on the Legal Development of the Madrid System for the International Registration of Trademarks (WIPO headquarters in Geneva, October 20-24, 2014);
- participation Participation in the Seminar on Trademarks, dedicated to the exchange of ideas and intellectual property practices from March 10-14, 2014 at the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM, Alicante, Spain);
- participation Participation of a Trademark Division representative from April 1, 2014, to April 1, 2015, in the WIPO program for exchanging specialists under the Madrid System (secondment to WIPO headquarters in Geneva for one year);
- participation Participation in a Seminar to discuss the results of a comparative analysis of the legislative provisions of the EU and Civil Code of the Russian Federation in the field of trademarks and industrial designs, held at Rospatent on December 11, 2014.
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