Annual Technical Report 2012 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Lithuania (CWS/ATR/ID/2012/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
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35 registrations for 69 designs, including 33 registrations of Lithuanian owners for 53
designs, 2 registrations for 16 designs of foreign owners, were registered in 2012
At the end of 2012 1,934 design registrations, applications for which have been filed by national and international route, also 603,547 Community designs registered in the EU Community design register were in effect in Lithuania.
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
In the year 2012 the Lithuanian applicants have filed design applications in the following areas:
packages and containers for transportation and storage of goods (class 9) – 12; sales and advertising systems, marks (class 20) – 5; articles of clothing and haberdashery (class 2) – 3; furniture (class 6) – 3; ventilation and air-conditioning equipment, solid fuel (class 23) – 2; articles of adornment (class 11)- 3; building units and construction elements (class 25) -3; stationary and office equipment, artists’ and teaching material (class 19) -2; household goods, not elsewhere specified (class 7) -1; apparatus for locomotion by land, air or water equipment for production (class 12)-1; recording, communication or information retrieval equipment (class 14) – 1, fluid distribution equipment, sanitary, heating, , lighting apparatus (class 26) – 2; games, toys, tents and sports goods (class 21) – 3, articles for the care and handling of animals (class 30) - 1.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
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The SPB Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks contained announcements published in 2012:
FG9L Registrations published in accordance with Article 21 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
TC9L, TA9L, PD9Y,TC9Y, TH9Y Changes in the Register of the Republic of Lithuania in accordance with Article 29 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania
MM9L Registrations lapsed in accordance with Article 30 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
MK9L Expiration of Registrations in accordance with the Article 34 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
ND9L Renewal of registration of the design in accordance with Article 35 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
PC9L Transfer of the design in accordance with Article 40 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
QB9L Licensing (sublicensing) in accordance with Article 41 of the Design Law of the Republic of Lithuania;
TK9L Rectifications
Sections of the Official Bulletin have been coded in accordance with WIPO Standard ST.17
Databases and office automation
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The State Patent Bureau of the Republic of the Republic of Lithuania (SPB) published on its website (http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=245) the Official Bulletin Inventions, Designs, Trademarks and on its website
(http://www.vpb.lt/index.php?l=en&n=263) Database of the Design of the Republic of Lithuania
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
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Registrations have been classified in accordance with the ninth edition of International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification).
Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of Data (INID Codes) relating to designs were used in the Register of Designs of the Republic of Lithuania and at SPB Official Bulletin Inventions,Designs, Trademarks in 2012
Bibliographic data and processing
The SPB Official Bulletin Sections have been coded in accordance with WIPO Standard ST.17.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
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The Design Register of the Republic of Lithuania was open to public access only in the following forms:
Extract from the Register (on request);
SPB Official Bulletin.
Design Database on SPB website free of charge.
URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications
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On April 2012 the State Patent Bureau in collaboration with World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has organized conference “Intellectual property protection: 20 years in WIPO”. The aims of the conference were to review the results of the Republic of Lithuania membership in WIPO, evaluate the changes that were made to national intellectual property law during the membership in the international organizations and appraise the impact on Lithuanian economic environment; review national intellectual property laws and the international agreements on intellectual property laws that take effect in Lithuania.
On December 2012 in cooperation with Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market of European Union (OHIM) a seminar “Impact of EU Court of Justice judgments on the development of trademark protection in the European Union " took place in Vilnius. Representatives of the SPB participated at the information day “How to protect trademarks and designs in Lithuania and EU” organized by Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts and “Open-door” days which took place at the patent information centres in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Panevėžys, Šiauliai .
Training courses for national and foreign participants
In 2012 the State Patent Bureau continued cooperation with patent services of other states. Employees of the SPB had business visits to patent services of Serbia, Croatia and Poland and also attended events organized by the national patent officies of other states in Tallinn and Riga.
Representatives of the SPB attended meetings of managers and experts of the patent services of Northern and Baltic states.
IX.Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:
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X. Other relevant matters