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In the year 2005, the number of designs included in applications, in total, increased with a rate of 15% with respect to previous year.
numberofapplications2005.doc - Table of figures indicating the number of applications/registrations
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Design register is updated upon each request such as; renewal, withdrawal, oppositions, chnges in the name, address, transfer, licence or other legal actions on the registration. Therefore the register is always kept updated. Also the system automatically signs the registration if it is not renewed in given period(s).
The system supplies statistics according to given time intervals on both application and design, registration, Locarno code, breakdown by cities (for domestic applications) and countries. Also number of operations performed in a given period can be supplied as a statistic.
For administrative support, workload of each staff can be seen from the program.
VI. Administration of industrial design services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, registering designs, assisting clients with search procedures, obtaining official publications and registry extracts)
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IX. Other relevant matters