Annual Technical Report on Trademark Information Activities in 2024 submitted by Italian Patent and Trademark Office

Please provide links to your website where the requested information can be found in English, French, or Spanish.  Alternately, you may provide text responses instead of URLs if desired.  If the information is not available on your website in an ATR language, then please provide text.

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I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARK INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARK INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE 

New IT Platform

Work began in November 2023. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2025, with production go-live scheduled for early 2026.

The main improvements expected after go-live include:

• Improving the reliability and completeness of data. Currently, not all information is easily accessible, and data must be previously analyzed, retrieved, and enhanced to become useful and understandable.
• Simplifying platform usability for both internal and external users, making information easier to use.
• Enhancing existing services (filing and archiving system, examination system, databases, data/document/bulletin publication), including the introduction of new functionalities.
• Providing new services to external partners (companies, researchers, development agencies, attorneys, etc.), even beyond the institution’s traditional scope.

Development Drivers:

• Human-centric
• Services that support citizens throughout the entire lifecycle of industrial property rights
• Compliance with AGID guidelines for website design and digital public services
• Compliance with WIPO standards
• Interoperability with external systems
• 24/7 service continuity
• Benchmark analysis of international best practices

Digital Archive of the Case Law Digest of the Appeals Commission

A new application has been implemented for the Digital Archive of the Case Law Digest of the Appeals Commission.

Link: https://www.uibm.gov.it/massima/

Blockchain infrastructure improvements.

The project was developed in partnership with EUIPO.
The core of the project is the CTI (Common Tools Integration), which is responsible for extracting pre-processed data from the internal database and sending it to the shared blockchain network between EUIPO and other European Intellectual Property Offices.
The data is made accessible on EUIPO’s TMView platform:

 https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview

Customer care support service based on webchat

Released to production in June 2024. The service was introduced alongside the call center with the goal of replacing it.

Statistics: 

Link: https://statistiche.uibm.gov.it/Information on the following topics is desired:

II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TRADEMARK INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:

Link: https://servizionline.uibm.gov.it/deposito-online-new/pubblica/index.html (Online filing -in Italian)

Link: https://uibm.mise.gov.it/index.php/it/deposito-titoli/modulistica-per-il-deposito-cartaceo (Paper-filing - In Italian)

The applications dossiers are available at the link:

https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/Advanced_search/type_url?type=tm&cl=1 (in Italian)

III. SOURCES OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

Our main types of publications on trademark are:

• bibliographic data,
• trademark applications,
• trademark status coverage,

Trademark information are available on-line:

https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/Advanced_search/type_url?type=tm&cl=1 (in Italian)

Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online, URL), etc.

A database with daily publication on official gazettes are available at the link:

https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/bollettini/index/

All the calls and the incentives referred to trademarks above are announced on the Italian Official Gazette and on the MIMIT-UIBM websites.

Information on the following topics is desired:products (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external documentation and databases

A tool called NSARA is available for examiners exclusively on the Office premises.

Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) and services available to external users; conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)

To the link below is available a database, free of charge, containing all the bulletins.

https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/bollettini/index/

IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TRADEMARK INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:

An on-site tool called NSARA is used that consists of the back-end for patent examination and the front-end for online filing.

IT infrastructure:

• Cluster on-site Qemu (KVM-based)
• Galera MariaDB Cluster
• ElasticSearch and Solr
• SNMP-Based (Nagios, Observium), NetBox

V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION

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WIPO Standard ST.3: Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations

Planning to implement

In the new IT Platform, this Standard is planned to be implemented.

WIPO Standard WIPO Standard ST.13: Numbering of applications for IPRs

Implemented

WIPO Standard Standard ST.60: Bibliographic data relating to marks

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard Standard ST.61: The exchange of trademark legal status data 

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard Standard ST.63: Content and layout of trademark gazettes

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard Standard ST.66: Processing of trademark information using XML

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard Standard ST.67: Electronic management of the figurative elements of trademarks

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard Standard ST.68: Electronic management of sound marks

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard Standard ST.90: Recommendation for processing and communicating Intellectual Property data using Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard Standard ST.91: Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard Standard ST.96: Processing of Industrial Property information using XML

On implementation phase

This Standard will be implemented in the new IT Platform.

Other WIPO Standards Related to Trademarks

Note: Please list any other WIPO Standards related to trademarks (not mentioned above) that your Office or Organization has implemented, is currently in the process of implementing, or plans to implement in the future.  For each Standard, please indicate the implementation status with an option: Implemented, On implementation Phase or Planning to Implement.

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