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Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
In the year 2013, the number of industrial designs applications filed by national route decreased by 26 % compared to the previous year, whereas the number of designs contained in industrial designs applications decreased by 17% compared to the previous year.
The number of application filed by international route (Hague Agreement) remained almost at the same level compared to the previous year, whereas the number of designs contained in internationally filed application increased 8 % compared to the previous year.
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
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Filing on paper (instructions, Guidelines on the basic requirements of industrial design protection in Croatia with the practical examples):
http://www.dziv.hr/files/File/obrasci/industrijski/uputa_dizajn.pdf
http://www.dziv.hr/files/File/obrasci/industrijski/Industrijski_dizajn_vodic.pdf
E-filing :
http://www.dziv.hr/hr/e-usluge/e-prijava/
WIPO's Leaflet: “Looking Good: An Introduction to Industrial Designs for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises“.
http://www.dziv.hr/files/File/obrasci/industrijski/Dobar_izgled.pdf (HR)
Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
Official Gazette:
http://www.dziv.hr/en/the-croatian-intellectual-property-gazette/
Industrial Designs search:
http://www.dziv.hr/hr/e-usluge/pretrazivanje-baza-podataka/industrijski-dizajn/ (HR)
http://www.dziv.hr/en/e-services/on-line-database-search/industrial-designs/ (EN)
Classification and reclassification activities; classification system used, e.g., International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification), other classification
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Industrial Designs Register available to examiners and formality officers is used for filing all bibliographic data concerning the particular design application. The Register is interlinked with the electronic depository of the design documents. The coverage of the national industrial design documents in electronic form is complete since year 2000 and partially since 1991 when the Office was established. The document collection is maintained by an in-house developed document management system.
International industrial designs data in XML format are weekly downloaded from the WIPO’s ftp site. After processing data are available through the related software tool. Those data are used for substantive examination of the international industrial designs designated for Croatia.
Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) and services available to external users; conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
General information regarding the industrial designs and industrial designs registration procedures are provided free of charge. They can be obtained face-to-face at the Office’s information centre (acronym INCENTIVE), by phone, via fax, e-mail or posted letter, and are also available at the Office’s web site: http://www.dziv.hr/hr/intelektualno-vlasnistvo/industrijski-dizajn/. Professional search services of the industrial designs databases as well as registry extracts are available upon user’s request against payment.
Standard design search services, based on the appearance and description, include the following search criteria: applicant/owner, class, subclass, or name of the product according to the Locarno Classification, and bibliographic data printouts. Tailor-made search services are also available, if requested.
Data regarding published industrial designs applications and grants are available to the public free of charge through the Office’s web site http://www.dziv.hr/en/e-services/on-line-database-search/industrial-designs/(EN)
Access to the databases of the other relevant authorities, available from the relevant web pages, are also offered to the users (Hague Express Database http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/hague/search-struct.jsp and DesignView Database https://www.tmdn.org/tmdsview-web/welcome?lang=hr)
Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)
Detailed legal status information are available in the Industrial Designs Register ,while the basic information on the legal status are available on the Office's web site:
http://www.dziv.hr/en/e-services/on-line-database-search/industrial-designs/
IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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The Office’s Library:
http://www.dziv.hr/hr/informacije-usluge/knjiznica (HR)
http://www.dziv.hr/en/sipo-information-services/library/ (EN)
The Office’s Library operates within the Office’s information centre (acronym INCENTIV). Library public services include access to the collections and in the reading room, available to public during the working hours of INCENTIV. Browsing of Library collections is available at the premises and on-line at Office’s web page (http://knjiznica.dziv.hr/). User inquiries and reservation requests could also be made via e-mail knjiznica@dziv.hr. The collections contain numerous books and periodicals, primarily in the field of IP or related fields, and are catalogued in the database which is regularly maintained.
Publications related to different business procedures and industrial design information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
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Some of the lectures and related events organized in 2013:
„Retrieval and use of IP information“,
Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, February, 2013;
„Intellectual Property and innovations in the light of state aid“,
in cooperation with Ministry of entrepreneurship and crafts, Zagreb, February, 2013;
„Basics of Intellectual Property for entrepreneurs and scientists“,
Tera Tehnopolis (technology center), Osijek, April 2013;
„Trademark and Industrial Design“,
Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, May, 2013;
„Searching of IP data bases“,
Vern Polytechnics, Zagreb, June, 2013;
Study visit of the students of Law Faculty in Rijeka to the Office, Zagreb, December 2013.
Workshops organized in 2013:
„Value of Intellectual Property, for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises“, June 2013
„Training of Trainers „ for Consumers Society, Zagreb, June 2013
„Intellectual Property Rights“, Workshop for Judicial Academy, Zagreb, October 2013.
Promotional events organized in 2013:
“Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy”, public awareness campaign, Rovinj, July 2013;
“SASO2013 - International trade fair”, information boot, Split, December 2013.
VI.INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION
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VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS