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- Development of the financial register;
- Development of the WEB interface for online payment;
- Linking with the patent register;
- Improvement of the Federated European Patent Register;
- Development of an on-line tool.
Main Main goal of Institute for intellectual property of Bosnia and Herzegovina was to increase the number of domestic users of the system of intellectual property protection in the field of patents through reviewing the existing technical and information services and by improving the quality and effectiveness of promotional activities through cooperation with relevant regional and international organizations.
The EPO was in the process of implementing the Federated European Patent Register which makes it possible for the user to access national register data in a harmonised way. The project provided a harmonised Europe-wide entry point to access the national registers of the participating member states. The project is presumed to provide better data quality and content in the Federated Patent Register, increased user friendliness and user benefits.
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Currently, there is a fully operational Register in the IIP IIP of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the 2019 year, the existing Register was subject of the improvements and BA IPR worked on developments of the financial register;
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In the year 2019, the main activities related to patent information carried out by the Institute for Intellectual property of Bosnia and Herzegovina were:
-Development Development of the financial register
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In 2019 the BA IPR actively participated in cooperation with the European Patent Office (EPO) in the Project regarding the improvement of the Federated European Patent Register;
Federated European Patent Register - continuation of activities related to the creation of Federative European Patent Register for improving the access to information about the legal status of a granted/validated European patent. BA is one of the countries whose Register is deeply linked via European Patent Register, working on its integration into the second phase, so called parallel retrieval.
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The IIP has scanned their patent documentation and the corpora is available in digital format. The remaining work is related to transformation of the images into digital full-text XML format and therefore the OCR-ing is required.
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- standards and formats used,
- accuracy of the data sent, and
- timeliness and regularity of delivery.
The following activities was were implemented in the following two stages:
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Stage two: targets the covering the back-file scanning and OCR-ing of all patent documents from 1993 to date. Competition of stage is the precondition to move to stage two of the project.
In 2019 the BA IPR in co-operation with the European Patent Office finished the implementation of the "Bilateral Co-operation Plan” (BCP) for the period 2018 – 2019. In the frame of the BCP it was completed various activities such as training, patent-related IT services and tools, patent information services as well as awareness and strengthening of the European Patent Network (EPN).
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EPO supported the participation of the BA IIP at relevant fairs across Bosnia and Herzegovina and relevant fairs in the region and in the EU area. The Institute participated in the International Economic Fair Mostar in 2018 and 2019. As numerous companies from Bosnia and Herzegovina also exhibit at important fairs in Serbia (e.g. the Agricultural fair in Novi Sad) and Croatia, and so Bosnia and Herzegovina represents an equally important market for both the Croatian and Serbian companies.
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Since 2008 all issue are available free of charge at the Office's web site. Upon order and against payment Office provides issues of the Gazette on digital carrier. The Official Gazette is published every three month (quarterly).
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The Office exchanges its patent data in machine –readable form with the European Patent Office. All published documents are sent monthly (every two weeks since October 2013) in PDF format as well as bibliographic data in the XML format.
The European Patent Office (EPEO) supported the participation of the BA IIP at relevant fairs in the region and in the EU area. As numerous companies from Bosnia and Herzegovina also exhibit at important fairs in Serbia (e.g. the Agricultural fair in Novi Sad) and Croatia (SASO-Split) and as Bosnia and Herzegovina represents an important market for the Croatian and Serbian companies.
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