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- to secure quality, efficient and financially acceptable procedure for the granting of patents, registration of TPP and of SCP by increasing the efficiency of business processes and in the execution of duties and tasks and by establishing a comprehensive system of formal tools for managing the performance and quality of jobs;
- to increase the number of domestic users of the system of intellectual property protection in the field of patents through reviewing the existing technical and information services and by improving the quality and effectiveness of promotional activities through cooperation with relevant regional and international organizations.
The Office has begun a major project of migrating data and functionality from the existing sytem system to a new, open-source platform which will improve a number of services of the Office.
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- Patent Translate service - further development of the European language technology service - Patent Translate, that was launched in January 2014 (available through the EPO online patent database Espacenet and European Publication Server) for the reason of improving the quality of translations from Croatian language to English and vice versa;
- Federative European Patent Register - continuation of activities related to the creation of Federative European Patent Register for improving the access to information about the legal status of a granted/validated European patent. Croatia is one of the countries whose Register is deeply linked via European Patent Register, working on its integration into the second phase, so called parallel retrieval.
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In order to facilitate the access to European patent information by providing a harmonised patent search and retrieval service to their user, SIPO is part of the Espacenet service, which is much appreciated patent information service among its users. The EPO plans to merge two current versions – Espacenet level 1 (national data) and level 2 (worldwide data collected by the EPO) into new Espacenet service, and SIPO is actively engaged in this project. However, most of activities in this project were implemented in previous annual periods. SIPO continuously monitors the quality and the completeness of the documents and data. Succesfuly Successfully implemented machine translation facility by the European language technology service for patents enables users all over Europe to have access to Croatian patent documents in their own language.
EPO intends to provide a harmonised Europe-wide entry point to access the national registers of the participating member states by establishing Federative European Patent Register for improving the access to information about the legal status of a granted/validated European patent. Croatia is one of the countries whose Register is deeply linked via European Patent Register, currently working on its integration into the second phase, so called parallel retrieval.
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The application dossier is available in the Office database containing public data from Registers (Patent Applications Register, Patent Register and SPC Register), accessible through the Office website, free of charge. The Office maintains a complete history of its patent files in paper form and all information for patents applied from 2000 to date in electronic form.
Free of charge searchable data base containing published information on patents applied for or granted is available at:
http://www.dziv.hr/en/e-services/on-line-database-search/patents/
A range of search options available: Publication number; Croatian title; Publication date; IPC; Inventor; Applicant; Applicant/Holder (State); English title; Application date; Date and number of earlier application from the former FPO; European patent application/publication number; European patent application date; Priority - country/application number/application date; PCT - application/publication number; PCT - application/publication date, Patent representative, Abstract
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General information regarding the Patents and patent protection procedures is provided free of charge. It can be obtained face-to-face at the Office's informationcentre (acronym INCENTIV), by phone, via fax, e-mail or posted letter, and are also available at the Office's web site: http://www.dziv.hr/en/intellectual-property-protection/patents/the-application-process/.
Access to the patent document collection for external users is provided free of charge by a public database containing published data and documents (http://www.dziv.hr/en/e-services/on-line-database-search/patents/)
National patent collection and related data are also publicly accessiblefree accessible free of charge through Espacenet, a public patent document service of the European Patent Office containing a worldwide set of national patent collections (http://hr.espacenet.com/ or at EPO). Links to other on-line available non-commercial databases are provided at http://www.dziv.hr/en/sipo-information-services/non-commercial-ip-db
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-Physical Servers: -Dell PowerEdge R610 64GRAM; 12 x CPU Intel Xeon E5645
-Dell PowerEdge R620 64GRAM; 8 x CPU Intel Xeon E5645
-Dell PowerEdge R620 64GRAM; 8 x CPU Intel Xeon E5645
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Under the cooperation with the European Patent Office (EPO) in the frame of the Bilateral Cooperation Plan (BCP) between EPO and SIPO, for the term between 2013 and 2015, SIPO participated in several regional actitivities activities related to patent information. Those activities are already explained under previous bullets: Patent Translate service, New Espacenet, Federative European Patent Register.
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Date of visit | State | Delegation |
26.-30. May | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Institute of Intellectual Property, |
30.June-4.July | The Republic of Macedonia | State office of industrial property |
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