Annual Technical Report 2004 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Turkey (SCIT/ATR/TM/2004/TR)
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I. Evolution of registration activities
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year are as follows;
The number of trademark applications received in 2004 was 46.456, which is increased 22.5 % with respect to the year 2003.
The number of trademark registrations issued in 2004 is 27.236, which is increased 26 % with respect to 2003.
The number of the applications applied by foreigners in 2004, including international applications filed through Madrid Protocol, is 9558, which is increased 19.7 % with respect to the year 2003.
In 2004, the number of applications of the first three classes, which were applied mostly,
· Class 35 (in 2004): 14.527, (in 2003): 11.831increase: 22.8 %
· Class 25 (in 2004): 8.970, (in 2003): 7.679 increase: 16.8 %
· Class 30 (in 2004): 7.038, (in 2003): 5.139 increase: 36.9 %
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of secondary sources of trademark information, i.e., trademark gazettes
Turkish Patent Institute (TPI) publishes Official Trademark Bulletins monthly and informs the public about the trademarks which will be registered in case of no objection. All trademark applications are published on the Trademark Bulletin before registration;
TPI also publishes Official Trademark Gazette bi-monthly. All trademark applications for which the last decision is taken and the decision is registration, are published on Official Trademark Gazette.
TPI publishes two kinds of information guides about trademark applications, one for domestic applications and one for international applications. These documents include necessary information (like fees, list and class of goods and services, sample of application form etc.) to file a trademark application.
All these documents about trademarks are printed. TPI has its own web site, (http://www.turkpatent.gov.tr and http://www.tpe.gov.tr) containing basic information about all types of industrial property issues.
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of trademark information
Since January 1, 2002, TPI has been using 8th edition of the Nice Classification (International Classification of Goods and Services For The Purposes of The Registration of Marks) which contains new additional service classes (no 43 to 45). The other classification system which TPI applies is Vienna Classification (International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks).
In examination procedures, TPI uses sub-class system, which is prepared in accordance with Nice Classification.
There is no use of electronic classification systems in TPI currently.
There is no obligation for applicants to use pre-defined terms of the classification.
Bibliographic data of the registered and applied trademarks are recorded into the trademark database. Similarity search process for the word marks can be done by using this database. But the similarity search for the figurative part of the trademarks is done manually.
IV. Trademark manual search file establishment and upkeep
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IX. Other relevant matters