Annual Technical Report 2006 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Lithuania (SCIT/ATR/ID/2006/LT)
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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
Application filings and registrations in 2006:
32 applications filed direct with the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania (SPB), from which 65.6 6% applications originating in Lithuania
40 designs registered.
Compared with 2005 the number of:
filings increased by 6.7 7%
filings originating in Lithuania decreased by 4.5 5%
design registrations increased by 37.99%.
Packages and containers for the transportation of goods, furniture, sales and advertising equipment, paper products, jewelry, brushes, appliances for animal care were the leading areas as reflected in design application filings in 2006.
Statistics of the year 2006 (national design applications and national designs, national designs in force) is provided on the SPB website (http://www.vpb.gov.lt/en/index.php?c=statistics.php).
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The Register of Designs of the Republic of Lithuania is a database (FoxPro 2.0) which contains all bibliographic and legal status data (including changes in names, addresses, licences, transfers).
Statistics of national designs is provided on the SPB website (http://www.vpb.gov.lt/en/index.php?c=statistics.php).
The SPB Official Gazette publications (Adobe PDF format) is included in the SPB website (http://www.vpb.lt/en/index.php?c=gazette.php).
Public users have a possibility to use the following LTL CD-ROM and DVD-ROM databases:
Promy�lennaja
Promyshlennaja sobstvennost. Oficialnyj biuleten (AM);
Schweizerisches Patent-, Muster- und Markenblatt (CH);
The Patents and Designs Journal (DK);
Industrial Property Bulletin (EE);
CD-BOPI (ES);
Buletin Oficial de Proprietate Industriala (MD);
Glasnik intelektualne svojine (ME, RS);
IPPO Glasnik (MK);
Published registered design applications (JP);
Buletin Oficial de Proprietate Industriala (RO);
Poleznyje modeli. Promy�lenyje Promyshlenyje obrazcy (RU);
Promislova vlastnist (UA);
Rasmily ahborotnoma (UZ);
Tekeningen of Modellenblad. Recueil des Dessins ou Modeles. (BX);
Community Trade Marks Bulletin (EM);
International Designs Bulletin (WO).
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During the year 2006 the replies of the Lithuanian party to Standing Committee on Information Technologies Circulars were directed to WIPO and the formats of the publication and exchange of the Lithuanian industrial property data based on WIPO standards were determined.
In 2006, Lithuanian industrial property statistical data were submitted to WIPO to be published in its publication Industrial Property Statistics.