...
Outline of main policies and plans aimed at development of industrial design information activities and expected time frames for their realization
Development of information technology (hereinafter referred to as ‘IT’) has been carried out in five main areas in 2016:
...
New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies(plans) mentioned above, short description: aims, partners, tasks
In order to enable electronic record-keeping during the provision of State services, the following work was undertaken at FIPS in 2016:
...
Main areas of industrial design information activities and related information and communication technology (ICT) practices which were in the focus of attention last year
Electronicinteractionwithapplicants.
...
Statistics: changes in terms of application filings and grants (registrations) with respect to previous year; trends or areas experiencing rapid changes
Table 1 shows the trends in the filing of applications and grant of patents for industrial designs in 2015 and 2016.
Table 1
| 2015 | 2016 | % 2016/2015 |
Total number of industrial design applications filed, including: | 4,929 | 5,464 | 110.85 |
- by Russian applicants | 2,015 | 2,391 | 118.66 |
- by foreign applicants | 2,914 | 3,073 | 105.46 |
Total number of patents granted, including: | 5,459 | 4,455 | 81.61 |
- to Russian applicants | 2,031 | 1,780 | 87.64 |
- to foreign applicants | 3,428 | 2,675 | 78.03 |
The total number of applications filed for industrial designs increased compared to 2015 by 10.85 per cent, mainly due to a decline in Russian applicants (by 18.66 per cent), but also in foreign applicants (by 5.46 per cent).
...
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
The following pages of the Office’s website contain:
...
Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) - URLs
The web page addresses of Office websites providing information on filing applications are as follows:
...
http://www.rupto.ru/docs/regulations/pr_minek_695#I;
- Requirements relating to documents included in an industrial design patent application:
...
Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
Access is provided on the Rospatent and FIPS websites to a database of industrial design applications filed between 2007 and 2016, which contains information on 47,000 applications, and is updated daily.
...
Classification and reclassification activities; classification system used, e.g., International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification), other classification
At Rospatent, the International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification) is used to classify industrial designs. In 2016 the 10th edition of Locarno classification was used for classification of the current patent applications. All patent documents were published with Locarno classification symbols of the its10th edition.
...
Rospatent publications on industrial designs are presented in Table 2.
Тable 2
Publication Title | Form of Publication | Frequency of Publication |
Official Rospatent publications on industrial designs | ||
Industrial Designs Official Gazette (primary publication section), including the following sections: RF Industrial Design Patents |
Bibliographic data, image of an industrial design, list of essential features of an industrial design (for applications received before October 1, 2014). |
Once per month |
Notifications
| Information is published on changes made to entries in the State Register of Industrial Designs of the Russian Federation.
Information is provided by the appropriate subdivisions of the Institute and Rospatent in the established form. | |
Court decisions on infringement of the rights of patent owners | Court decisions on the infringement of the rights of patent owners (at the patent owner’s request) | |
During 2016, the Industrial Designs Official Gazette has been posted on the website of the Federal State Budgetary Institution, the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (hereinafter, ‘FIPS’), which is subordinate to Rospatent, in the Official Publications section, and is freely available, constituting a functional and comprehensive information source. The ISSN number is 2313-7460.
...
Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc.
The Official Gazette, Industrial Designs, is published once per month.
The forms of notifications on industrial designs published in the Rospatent Official Gazette, Industrial Designs, are presented in Table 3:
Table 3
1. Notifications containing communications on changes to information concerning State registration of an industrial design |
PD4L Change of denomination, first name, surname or patronymic of patent owner |
ТС4L Change of author’s(s’) details |
ТЕ4L Change of correspondence address |
2. Notifications containing communications on termination and restoration of validity of an industrial design patent |
MZ4L Premature termination of validity of a patent for an industrial design (group of industrial designs) on the basis of the patent owner’s request |
ММ4L Premature termination of validity of a patent owing to non-payment within the prescribed period of the fee for maintenance of the patent in force |
MF4L Revocation of a patent |
NF4L Restoration of validity of a patent |
3. Notifications containing communications on extension of the term of validity of a patent for an industrial design, grant of a duplicate patent |
ND4L Extension of term of validity of a patent for an industrial design (group of industrial designs) on the basis of the patent owner’s request |
RH4L Grant of a duplicate patent |
4. Notifications containing communications on agreements relating to disposal of the exclusive right in an industrial design, transfer of an exclusive right in an industrial design, without the conclusion of an agreement with the patent owner |
PC4L State registration of an agreement on alienation of an exclusive right |
QB4L State registration of an agreement on disposal of an exclusive right |
PC4L State registration of the transfer of an exclusive right without an agreement being concluded |
QZ4L State registration of changes to a registered agreement |
RL4L Recognition of a registered agreement as invalid |
QC4L State registration of cancellation of a registered agreement |
QC4L Cancellation of a registered agreement |
QC4L State registration of termination of validity of a registered compulsory license |
QA4L Registration of an open license |
QZ4L Registration of a request for withdrawal of a request for an open license |
QZ4L Insertion of amendments in a registered agreement |
5. Notifications containing other communications on registered industrial designs |
ТK4L Correction of obvious and technical errors in publications of information on industrial designs in the Industrial Designs Gazette |
RZ4L Other changes relating to registration of industrial designs |
The web page addresses of the Office’s websites providing information relating to access to online publications:
...
http://www1.fips.ru/wps/portal/ofic_pub_ru/#page=classification&type=PO;
Open Registers of Russian Patent Documents subsection
...
Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external documentation and databases
FIPS examiners can access all free available resources in the Internet, containing information about industrial designs.
...
Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) and services available to external users; conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
In 2016, subscribers were provided with the Industrial Designs Official Gazette, based on official Rospatent information, on CD/DVD with search system. They are distributed with a frequency of 12 issues (disks) per year.
...
Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)
All patent document databases contain information on legal status that is updated monthly.
...
Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements
In order to support the computer network’s system software at the required level, work was carried out in 2016 to transfer a number of domain controllers to the new versions of the server operating systems, thereby enhancing the level of IT security.
...
Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
Equipment used (industrial design search systems):
...
Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
In 2016, work continued on populating the database of an automated paperless document flow system for examining industrial design applications (Industrial Design Applications), providing examiners with a wide range of features.
...
Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file: file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file
Examiners of applications for industrial designs are provided with the results of information searches in the automated system for verbal searches, RF Trademarks, and the system for formalized linguistic descriptions of trademark images, SILOIZ, for similarities between verbal or figurative elements of trademarks and verbal and figurative elements of industrial designs that have been the subject of applications.
...
Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
Industrial design applications are registered in the TM-ADMIN system, and procedures to export data to the automated database systems, and the Industrial Design Applications automated paperless prosecution system, have been developed and introduced.
...
Office's library (if deals with industrial design information): equipment, collection management, network of libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign libraries
The industrial designs collection is intended both for examiners and other categories of users. Information on industrial designs in the All-Russian Patent Technology Library (VPTB) is provided to all categories of users on a fee-free basis.
...
Publications related to different business procedures and industrial design information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
The VPTB patent law collection includes books and periodicals on a broad range of issues of legal protection and use of industrial designs in Russia and overseas. The collection is available electronically and in hard-copy, and also includes publications found on the official Rospatent and FIPS websites, and contains different types of information sources: national and international law, commentaries and reviews, guidelines, training aids, standards, patent office reports, conference and seminar materials, compilations of court decisions and collections of statistics, etc.
...
Cooperation with universities, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
In 2016, as part of the Program for Regional Information Support, Rospatent provided 7 new accesses to FIPS’ full-text databases (hereinafter, DB) to business entities in the Russian regions free of charge, including an additional opportunity for TISC to conduct industrial design searches.
...
Education and training: training courses, e learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
Organization of education and advanced training for FIPS specialists is carried out within the Unified Training System (UTS) under the principle of continuity with the use of internal and external forms of education starting from the date of hiring. Ensuring of conditions for continuous advanced training for employees is provided by the Statute of FIPS.
...
http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/science/teach/;
- the "Training seminars" section for TISCs of the RF:
...
http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/fonds/archiv_meetings;
- conferences and seminars in the regions of the Russian Federation in 2016:
...
International exchange of industrial design information in machine-readable form (e.g., Official Gazettes)
In order to fulfill its obligations in relation to exchange of patent information, FIPS posts electronic Gazettes, including trademark information, on the Institute’s FTP server, and has granted log-in and password access to documentation to the offices of 47 foreign countries and two international organizations.
...
Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to industrial design information
In 2016, Rospatent organized and held two national seminars in conjunction with WIPO on ‘Promoting Efficient Use of the Madrid System for the International Registration of Trademarks, and the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs’ in two regions of the Russian Federation, at which 4 FIPS employees delivered addresses:
...
Assistance to developing countries
Rospatent has no special programs to help developing countries. Assistance is provided in response to individual requests from the Offices of developing countries.
VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS
...