Annual Technical Report 2011 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Bulgaria (CWS/ATR/ID/2011/BG)
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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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In 2011 208 applications for industrial designs were filed under the national route (203 in 2010), 202 of them were submitted by domestic applicants (193 in 2010). 15 applications were filled under The Hague Agreement (34 in 2010).
271 industrial designs were registered (181 in 2010), of them. 263 owned by national applicants (149 in 2010) and 8 - from foreign applicants (32 in 2010).
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
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Two files on paper:
- dossiers of registered industrial designs in numerical order arranged under the number of the registration;
- dossiers of the refused industrial designs applications arranged by application's number.
A paper card file includes the bibliographic data and the graphical presentation of all expired registered industrial designs. The file is arranged according to the classes and subclasses of the Locarno Classification.
Updating
The files are regularly updated depending on the number of registrations and refusals.
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WIPO "INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS BULLETIN" (WO);
OAMI- ONLINE- DATABASES;
Official bulletins of other national offices containing information about Industrial Designs .
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
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The Office maintains an specialized in-house searchable database of national applications and registered industrial designs - IDIS. The database is not available to the public but its structure corresponds to the public database.
BPO_online - web-based service for public access to information of the published industrial design in BPO.
External databases
OHIM database on CD-ROM which is loading every month in the database of national Industrial Designs;
BPO On-line - web-based service for public access to information of the applications and registered Industrial Designs in BPO.
WIPO database
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The Central Patent Library is a part of the Bulgarian Patent Office.
There are no special requirements for the library use.
There is free access to the library's reading room. Mostly of services provided in the library are free of charge.
Collection management, preservation
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The services in the field of the industrial designs are generally provided by the examiners. In 2010, the searches for novelty and infringement of IP rights were 153 and the searches for legal status, by name of owner, author and etc. were 377. In the Central Patent library’s reading room personal assistance and consultations were provided to the clients on how to use the on-line the BPO- on-line - designs; Hague express - WIPO; RCD- (OHIM). During the year under revue 231 searches in the field of Industrial Designs were provided to the public.
A wide range of information is available at the BPO's website - basic information on Industrial Designs, filing and registration instructions, fee information and full texts of National and International legal documents. All application forms can be saved and filled in on the computer screen.
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
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Information:
http://www1.bpo.bg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=360
Fees:
http://www1.bpo.bg/images/stories/tariff/tariff_of_fees_may_07.pdf
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) and industrial design databases), as well as information on how to access and utilize them
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Training courses in the field of industrial design for IP representatives (attorneys).
Training courses for national and foreign participants
Assistance to developing countries (sending consultants and experts, receiving trainees from developing countries, etc.)
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general information:
http://www1.bpo.bg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=360
international registration procedure:
http://www1.bpo.bg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=186&Itemid=367
registration procedures:http://www1.bpo.bg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=364
provide open source codes related to industrial design information systems
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X. Other relevant matters