Annual Technical Report 2013 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Poland (CWS/ATR/ID/2013/PL)
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The expression "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
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A number of projects were established within The Cooperation Fund, a lot of them have already been implemented but still on some of them the work is carried out. The Cooperation Fund covers work in collaboration between OHIM and national offices. Main goals of this project are: harmonization of practices, adaptation to the digital environment, barrier removal, improvement of technical system. Such objectives create a good strategy especially in order to adapt to the competitive internal European and digital market. That’s why here in Poland, the Office decided to participate in all of the 20 CF projects.
Since 2013 Polish Patent Office uses new databases as follows:
• Quality Standard for Trade Marks and Designs - Transparent and harmonized information about services and quality standards provided by participating offices.
• Common User Satisfaction Survey - Harmonized User Satisfaction Survey - a Cooperation Fund project, the Common User Satisfaction Survey allows for a common approach to carrying out surveys across participating IP offices. The project also allows for the cross-linkage of other CF projects, like Quality. An analysis of the completed survey will allow the participating office to: measure customer satisfaction draw attention to areas for improvement plan future work of the office
• eLearning - tool providing online training for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) on the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). This e-Learning tool is divided into two main sections: "Why is Intellectual Property important", where you can find information about Intellectual Property throughout the different stages of production, and "What and How to protect" where you can find information targeted towards Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), covering the different types of Intellectual Property rights.
• Enforcement Database - an up to date database to help enforcement agencies to better identify counterfeit goods. The tool holds data on registered IP rights, contact information, supplementary product information and logistics. This information can be used by enforcement authorities in order to detect counterfeit products.
• Anti – Counterfeiting Intelligence Support Tool - with this tool enforcement authorities can see how counterfeited goods are moving within the internal market so that they can use their resources more efficiently. The system enables end users (enforcement authorities, the OHIM Observatory, etc.) to upload the relevant data via a user friendly interface.
New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies(plans) mentioned above, short description: aims, partners, tasks
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The works are still pending on implementation the following projects:
• BackOffice - The Polish Patent Office (PPO) has completed the final stages of the parallel go-live of the Back Office project. The Back Office, developed by OHIM´s Cooperation Fund, is a workflow-based system for handling trademarks and designs throughout the whole lifecycle of the process, from application to registration and publication. It also streamlines the working process, by helping users to create and monitor correspondence with clients. Its auto completion system automatically fills in trademark and design data into letters. The tool calculates fees, holding all information on one single page, and handles files, organising notes and correspondence. The PPO team has already begun to register trademarks through the system, and has migrated many more. The Back Office was implemented thanks to huge efforts from Warsaw-based IT and IP experts, with support from OHIM colleagues in Alicante and on the ground in Poland.
• DesignView - a common search system for designs, based on information pooled from different sources. Also, a complementary examination/invalidation tool for participating IP offices. Designview is an online consultation tool allowing any Internet user to search, free of charge, the designs of all participating offices. It is a multilingual and easy-to-use tool, and gives access to design applications and registrations provided by the participating offices through a single and unique platform. Each office owns the content it makes available and is responsible for its daily update.
Modification of the Publications Server enabling publishing and retrieval of industrial design.
Statistics: changes in terms of application filings and grants (registrations) with respect to previous year; trends or areas experiencing rapid changes
In 2013, The Polish Patent Office received 1,333 industrial design applications, which is 1.3% less than in 2012.
Polish applicants made 1,317 applications and foreign applicants made 16 applications under national procedure.
1,477 decisions were issued, including 1,263 positive ones. The Patent Office received from domestic applicants 39 applications for Community Industrial Designs, which were transmitted to the Office of Harmonisation for the Internal Market.
The number of industrial design registration rights in force on 31 December 2013 was 11,396.
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
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VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS