Annual Technical Report 2006 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Uzbekistan (SCIT/ATR/ID/2006/UZ)
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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. Evolution of registration activities
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Quantity of the filed applications for granting of patents on industrial designs in 2006 has made 69 applications and was practically kept at a level of the last year (70 applications).
The most part of applications are filed on following classes of the International Classification of Industrial Designs (ICID): 9th class (container, packing and containers) - 21 applications and 11th class (subjects of ornament) - 12 applications; on the specified classes 47,8 % from total of the filed applications are necessary.
In 2006 72 industrial designs are registered, that on 35,8 % is more, than in the past to year.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
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In 2006 official publications of the office on industrial designs joined in following editions:
• official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» - 6 issues (on CD-ROM);
• publication sheets to patents for industrial designs - 46 publication sheets (on a paper);
• collection of annual indexes to the official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» (section of the index on industrial designs) on the electronic carrier.
Data on the registered industrial designs are published in section «Industrial designs» of the official bulletin «Rasmiy Ahborotnoma» which from 2004 is issued on CD-ROM. Data on industrial designs includes bibliographic data and image. In 2006 in official bulletins data on 66 industrial designs are published.
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of industrial design information
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During processing applications all the documents, concerning industrial designs, are scanned and kept as facsimile form in format TIFF. Descriptions and the list of essential attributes are recognized by system OCR and kept in format MS-Word. Images of industrial designs are entered in format JPG, by means of program Adobe PhotoShop.
Assembly of the chapter of the official bulletin on industrial designs is carried out in the automated mode on a workplace of the employee of the office of publication division. By specialized inquiry bibliographic data from a database (SUBD MS SQL Server 2000) are selected and sorted. The subsequent operations (page makeup, replication) are made by means of programs Word and Adobe Acrobat.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide access to online industrial design gazettes and other sources of industrial design information, including download of bulk industrial design data
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The search file on a paper and optical disks is formed on the basis of collection of the State Fund of the Patent Documentation and includes materials on the industrial designs, 22 countries containing in foreign official bulletins, WIPO and the incorporated cumulative editions on the industrial designs, prepared by INIC Rospatent; is placed by a geographical principle. The retrospective part is presented by photograph collection of industrial designs.
Under national patent documents the bibliographic database and electronic file (text) storehouses for internal use are conducted.
Updating
Search files on a paper and a part on CD/DVD-ROM are updated monthly, some CDs/DVD-ROM are updated annually.
Bibliographic data and files of documents in electronic storehouse on national documents can replenish and/or be corrected in process of the reference.
Storage, including mass storage media
Conditions of storage of fund depend mostly on kinds of data carriers: patent documents on a paper are stored in wall cases, photograph collection on microfilms - in boxes, on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM - in stores in wall cases.
Bases of bibliographic, office work data and file storehouse are stored on specialized a file-server on which with a view of safety reserve copying on an additional server is carried out.
Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file
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The equipment: Server group, network infrastructure (cable communications, routers), workstations (from P-II, up to P-V), periphery (printers, scanners).
Operational system: Windows 2003 (servers SQL Server 2000/2003, Exchange 2003, ISA, IIS, a server of reserve copying/restoration of the information), Windows 2000/XP (workstations).
The applied software: SATOZ/Landocs, an external site www.patent.uz, an internal site (PIPS), System of testing of knowledge, 1C:book-keeping 7.7.
Applied systems: "LAW", system of machine translation Promt 10, system of dictionaries Lingvo 10, ORT-system Fine Reader, office system MS Office (professional), MS Visio, MS Project.
VI. Administration of industrial design information products and 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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The collection of Fund includes patent bulletins with data on industrial designs of 24 countries, WIPO and cumulative collection INIC of Rospatent, including on CD-ROM disks - 9 countries and WIPO. The collection is placed on the countries and years. Acquisition is carried out on the international exchange, by way of a subscription and acquisition by own editions. The collection on microforms is located in basement storehouses, and on CD-ROM disks - in stores in wall cases.
The information services accessible to public (including the computerized services and the files of search containing in libraries, remote from your office and the patent information sent by mail by your office on www)
Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and industrial design information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web).
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The address of web-page on which the information on filing and consideration of applications on industrial designs contains: http://www.patent.uz/pravobraz.htm
The address of web-page on which the information on the order of granting of patents contains: http://www.patent.uz/akt11.htm
The address of web-page on which the information on official publications of the office contains: http://www.patent.uz/akt15.htm
The address of web-page on which the information on appeal procedure contains: http://www.patent.uz/pravsovet.htm
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide a description of information products and services offered by the Office (e.g., industrial design search service(s), industrial design databases, etc.), as well as information on how to access and utilize them
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The address of web-page on which Annual Reports of the office contain: http://www.patent.uz/document/godotchet-2006.pdf
contain industrial design-related news regarding the Office
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X. Other relevant matters