Annual Technical Report 2005 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Poland (SCIT/ATR/TM/2005/PL)
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I. Evolution of registration activities
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The provisions of Industrial Property Act of 17 December 2004 (as amended in Official Journal 2005 No 163, item 1392 and No 167, item 1398) applied in the field of industrial property protection in 2005.
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
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Trademark information is stored on paper carrier and machine-readable form (discs, CD-ROM and DVD). In 2005 the information was accessible to:
1.External users:
- on the premises of the PPO in the Office's Library, in the form of official bulletins on paper
- in the PPO, for retrieval on the databases contained on CD-ROM (TRACES, DEMAS, CASSIS TRADEMARK PENDING, CASSIS TRADEMARK ASSIGN, CASSIS TRADEMARK REGISTERED, COMMUNITY TRADEMARKS BULLETIN, TRADEMARKS OF RUSSIA, OMPI)
-via the Internet, 8 workstations installed in the Office's Library to perform retrieval from the PPO database containing the complete verbal and graphic data on all trademarks filed and protected in Poland as well as information service on trademarks designating Poland prepared on the basis of the data received from the WIPO.
- from the user's computer via the Internet
2. Polish Patent Office Examiners
- in-house database ROMARIN accessible in the network from examiners' workstations
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of trademark information
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Modernisation of the Office's Internet homepage (administration of services for outside users of the Office's information sources) - extended to data retrieval from the CTM DOWNLOAD
Databases on subjects of industrial property filed and under protection in Poland
Administrative management systems (e.g., register, legal status, statistics, administrative support, etc.)
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In 2005 the following training activities were conducted:
-17 newly employed underwent civil service training and 24 employees took internal civil service examination
-52 PPO employees participated in trainings organised by national training centres, such as : National School of Public Administration, Provincial Center for Staff Training, Office of the Civil Service etc. The subjects of the trainings included: "European Integration", "New Aspects of Patent Protection"
-numerous trainings on new technologies were organised (MS xchange, C#. XML etc.), financed mainly within the multilateral cooperation programmes with EPO
-3 lectures were organised with 170 participants in total: "Infringement of trademark law without the use of goods", "Diplomatic Protocol", "Nanotechnology"
IX. Other relevant matters