Annual Technical Report on Industrial Design Information Activities in 2024 submitted by Italian Patent and Trademark Office
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The term "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. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 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
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- 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 DesignView platform: https://www.tmdn.org/tmdsview-web/#/dsview.
Statistics:
Industrial Designs | 2024 | 2023 |
National Filings | 1,390 | 1,261 |
National registrations | 1,034 | 1,282 |
Link: https://statistiche.uibm.gov.it/
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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 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION
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In the new IT Platform, this Standard is planned to be implemented.
WIPO Standard Standard ST.13: Numbering of applications for IPRs
Implemented
WIPO Standard ST.80: Bibliographic data relating to industrial designs
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard Standard ST.81: Content and layout of industrial designs gazettes
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.86: Processing of industrial design information using XML
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard Standard ST.87: The exchange of industrial design legal status data
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard Standard ST.88: Electronic representation of industrial designs
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
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