Annual Technical Report 2006 on Trademark Information Activities submitted by Czech Republic (SCIT/ATR/TM/2006/CZ)
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I. Evolution of registration activities
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The trademarks information is accessible in the Official Bulletin.
Official Bulletin of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic is published exclusively in electronic form as from the beginning 2007. The paper version has been discontinued.
The Bulletin is published on a weekly basis (updated every Wednesday) instead of the monthly basis as it was before. The files are downloadable free of charge with no prior registration / subscription needed. The Acrobat Reader viewer enabling you to open, view and print PDF files. The information as published shall be the authentic one for legal purposes. You can fin it here: http://isdvapl.upv.cz/servlet/page?_pageid=82,116&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&447__102.menu_f=4314&448__102.folder_f=28831
The Bulletin contained the following types of announcements:
Survey of the INID codes for identification of bibliographic data
Survey of the chapters
Codes of the states
Refused or partially refused trademark applications before publication
Survey of the published trademark applications
Published trademark applications
Refused or partially refused trademark applications after publication
Rejected oppositions
Survey of the trademark registrations without change in relation to published applications
Registrations of trademarks without change in relation to published applications
Survey of the trademark registrations with change in relation to published applications
Registrations of trademarks with change in relation to published applications
Recording of license contracts concerning trademarks
Recording of license contracts concerning internationally registered trademarks
Trademarks cancelled and declared invalid
Survey of the renewals of trademark registrations
Renewals of trademark registrations
Laps of trademarks due to expiration of the period of protection
Surrender of the right to the trademark
Changes in the wording/reproduction of the trademarks and the list of goods and services
Changes in the ownership of the trademarks
Changes in the ownership of the trademarks for a part of goods and services
Amendments in the data concerning trademark holders
Excuse of failure to comply with a time limit
Other relevant data and official rectification
Appellations of origin/geographical indications
Survey of the published applications of the coloured trademarks
As from No. 1/2000, the Official Bulletin has been available on the web site of the IPO CZ as an electronic book in PDF format.
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of trademark information
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Foreign official bulletins in paper or electronic form were received on exchange basis.
The IPO CZ participated in the CD-ROM TRACES project (electronic data sending) and in the Project for Eastern
Europe of the Compu-Mark company (electronic data sending).
VIII. Matters concerning education and training including technical assistance to developing countries (please indicate URLs of web pages of the Office’s website wherever appropriate)
Various courses and seminars were organized for the students and representatives of SMEs or research institutions; Groups of university students were accepted in the premises of the IPO CZ.
In 2004, the two years study course of industrial property rights was conducted within the Office's own educational facility - the Industrial Property Training Institute.
The IPO CZ presented its information activities and products at the following exhibitions and trade fairs:
- International Machinery Trade Fair (Brno, CZ)
- MACH 2006 (Prague, CZ)
- FOR ARCH 2006 (Prague, CZ)
- Innovation 2006 (Prague, CZ)
- IENA - Exhibition of Inventions and Innovations (Nurnberg, DE)
- Exhibition of Inventions (Geneva, CH)
- PATLIB 2006 (Vilamoura, PT)
- EPO Patent Information Conference 2006 (Budapest, HU)
The IPO CZ issued the Industrial Property Journal every week.
IX. Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:
The helpdesk (helpdesk@upv.cz)
The Bulletin: http://isdvapl.upv.cz/servlet/page?_pageid=82,116&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&447__102.menu_f=4314&448__102.folder_f=28831
X. Other relevant matters