Annual Technical Report 2011 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Bulgaria (CWS/ATR/TM/2011/BG)
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I. Evolution of registration activities
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The publications in the Official Bulletin comprise bibliographic data and images (in color, if claimed) of national trademark applications and registrations as well as international trademarks registrations designating Bulgaria (as from March 2011). Besides, announcements concerning all entries in the State Trademark Register - changes in the legal status, renewals, modifications, cancellations, transfers of rights, license agreements etc., have been published regularly in the Bulletin .
Mass storage media and microforms used
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- Official Bulletin of the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria -http://www1.bpo.bg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=167&Itemid=269
- Online search tool - BPO On-line - http://212.122.185.80:8080/bpo_online
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of trademark information
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The dossiers of the national trademarks are stored, in two separate collections in paper format only:
Registered trademarks - in numerical order under the registration number;
Refused trademarks - in numerical order under the application number.
The dossiers of the international trademarks designating Bulgaria are stored in numerical order under the number of the international registration - MI (marques internationales) documents.
The dossiers of the international registrations with a subsequent territorial extension for Bulgaria (so called ET (extenension territoriale) documents) are given a separate number forming part of a sequential numbering system and are stored in numerical order.
The dossiers of the trademark applications filed by Bulgarian applicants via the Madrid system are given a separate number forming part of a sequential numbering system and are stored in numerical order. In addition, a correspondence list including the corresponding numbers of the international registrations is available as well.
Updating
The files are regularly updated.
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Common Software (CS) v. 3.30 - administrative management system;
Acsepto v. 7.0.6.7 - search system for examiners;
Romarin, DVD collection - International Trademark Information Database
BPO On-line - web-based service for public access to information of the applications and registered trademarks in BPO.
External databases
USA databases on CD-ROM - CASSIS
CTM ONLINE database on OHIM's web-site;
Article 6-ter database on WIPO's web-site;
ROMARIN database on WIPO's web-site;
NIVILO CD-ROM;
TMView database
Administrative management systems (e.g., register, legal status, statistics and administrative support)
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Hardware: Server: HP rp 3400;
Software: HP UNIX
Workstations: Intel Pentium based PCs under Windows XP/Windows 7, about 60;
Server: UNIX 11.xx as OS, Informix v. 7.31.FD5 as DBMS
Workstations: Windows XP/Windows 7 as OS, MS Office as documents management, etc.;
Carriers used: CDs, DVDs.
VI. Administration of trademark information products and 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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Paid information services on request available to the public through the Patent Office are as follows: Identity and similarity search; Searches related to the legal status; Searches on names; Complex searches, Number search on mark, Search on CTMs and marks under the Madrid Agreement and Protocol; Issuing of certificates for legal status;
All the searches are carried in house and in the available collections of national marks, international marks and CTMs, 6 ter, etc. The security is based on a different level of access.
The trademark information is accessible on the World Wide Web of BPO through the on-line search system for Trademarks - "BPO ON-LINE".
The Central Patent Library provides to the public access to the Official Bulletins from foreign countries, to the CD collections and Internet databases containing trademark information.
Since 2007 the BPO has been participating in the development and successful implementation of a project in the sphere of examinations of marks, called CETMOS (Central European Trade Mark Observation Service), together with eight other countries: Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Republic of Croatia and Czech Republic. CETMOS is an English language platform which enables the clients to order against payment a trade mark search for the territory of the nine countries (for national and/or international marks as well as for CTMs) by filling in an electronic form. The result of the search is sent to the applicant in electronic form within six weeks. The aim of the project is to help the applicant to choose the proper strategy for the registration of its TM and at the same time the TMs owners to keep up with the TMs infringements or abuse.
Collection management, preservation
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BPO-Online - http://212.122.185.80:8080/bpo_online
The BPO was actively involved in the TMView project with a single-handed product and joined the production environment of the system in December 2010.
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of trademark documentation and information
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1. Activities carried out in execution of the Technical cooperation agreement between OHIM and BPO - 2011:
- Organization of 1 workshop on Community trademark (CTM) and Registered Community design (RCD);
- Republication of 3 already published according to previous Technical Cooperation Agreements collections of articles, studies and analyses of OHIM’s practice and the practice of the EU courts in CTM and RCD matters;
- Creation and publication of a Practical Guide including articles, studies and analyses of the application of the legislation in CTM and RCD matters;
- Creation and publication of a Practical Guide for filing oppositions against the registration of CTM before OHIM;
- Creation and publication of 2 brief leaflets on TMView and Euroclass;
- Maintenance of Seniority database.
2. Interregional Symposium on "The Strategic Use of Madrid System for Business Development", jointly organized by WIPO and BPO.
Training courses for national and foreign participants
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X. Other relevant matters