Annual Technical Report 2002 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Australia (SCIT/ATR/TM/2002/AU)
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I. Evolution of registration activities
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The Canberra Office has an ethernet-based LAN providing high speed bandwidth for each user desktop connection. A frame relay-based WAN provides connections from Canberra to each State Capital. A DMZ-based, DSD approved firewall using IAN ports (Internet IEFT Assigned Numbers) provides the secure means to allow access from internal systems/users to external entities such as the Internet or public/private organisations.
Current standard desktop software includes Windows 98 SE with IE 5.0 SP2, Microsoft Office 97 and Lotus Notes. Migration to Windows XP is planned this financial year
VI. Administration of trademark services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, registering trademarks, assisting clients with search procedures, obtaining official publications and registry extracts)
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Two senior marketing officials from IP Australia presented papers to the WIPO Asia Regional Workshop on the Use of IT and Management of IP by SMEs in Thailand in February 2002. Delegates from 23 countries and attendees from SME organisations attended the workshop.
Two senior IP Australia officers provided practical training in Samoa on patents, trade marks and industrial designs as part of an AusAID funded In-Country Training Project in April 2002.
IP Australia has provided public education and awareness training as part of an APEC Trade and Investment Liberalisation and Facilitation (TILF) two year project for Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia. The core component of the program relates to the development of websites, promotional documentation and information, structures and implementation strategies for seminars to enable economies to effectively deliver IP public education and awareness programs.
IP Australia hosted a visit from 15 officials from the Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights (DGIPR) in Indonesia for practical on-the-job training and consultations. A senior IP Australia also undertook a WIPO mission to DGIPR in August 2002 relating to the administration of trade marks and geographical indications.
As part of the Regionally Focussed Action Plan (RFAP) IP Australia has been providing assistance to 14 Forum Island countries in relation to improving IP awareness.
IP Australia has continued to provide support for the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore in relation to search and examination of patents. As well, IP Australia has provided assistance to the IP offices of Papua New Guinea and Tonga on aspects of search, examination of patents and administration of the system.
IX. Other relevant matters