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In order to enable electronic record-keeping during the provision of State services, the following work was undertaken at FIPS in 2015:
- operability Operability and fitness for purpose of FIPS information systems and resources was ensured, including the Electronic State Registers for Industrial Designs (hereinafter referred to as ‘EGR PO’).
- a A system for official Internet publication of information on IP subject matter from the EGR PO of the Russian Federation was installed and trialled.
- In 2015, operation continued of the automated system of paperless document flow for reviewing industrial design applications (abbreviated to ‘ASBBD Industrial Design Applications’), as part of which electronic correspondence is provided, as well as signing by electronic signature.
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In 2015, 68 industrial design applications were filed electronically through EPGU services (1.4 per cent of the total number of industrial design applications).
Inter-agency electronic interaction.
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The following pages of the Office’s website contain:
- legal Legal information- Regulation section: http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/industrial_designs/norm_doc_pm;
- Office Annual Report- Rospatent Annual Reports section:
http://www.rupto.ru/about/reports;
- information Information on open sources relating to industrial design information systems- Links section: http://www.rupto.ru/links;
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- Procedure for accessing documents for patent applications for inventions, utility models, and industrial designs, and issuance of copies of said documents: http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/documents/russian_laws/order_mert/prik_mert_614_28082015#poryadok;
- Guidelines on issues concerning examination of industrial design applications: http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/industrial_designs/metod_rek_pm;
- Specimen Applications and Requests, and Completed Examples section heading: http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/file_library/obr_zaya/#3;
- Fees section: http://www.rupto.ru/activities/dues;
- Fee calculator: http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/poshl_s/k_p;
- Patent Law subject matter section: http://www.rupto.ru/activities/objects;
- Frequently Asked Questions section: http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/about/right_vopr.
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Details of seminars and other similar events held in 2015 can be found in Part 5(d).
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Rospatent publications on industrial designs are presented in Table 2.
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Тable2
Publication Title | Form of Publication | Frequency of Publication |
Official Rospatent publications on industrial designs | ||
Industrial Designs Official Gazette (primary publication section), including the following sections: RF Industrial Design Patents |
Bibliographic data, image of an industrial design, list of essential features of an industrial design (for applications received before October 1, 2014). |
Once per month |
Notifications
| Information is published on changes made to entries in the State Register of Industrial Designs of the Russian Federation.
Information is provided by the appropriate subdivisions of the Institute and Rospatent in the established form. | |
Court decisions on infringement of the rights of patent owners | Court decisions on the infringement of the rights of patent owners (at the patent owner’s request) | |
During 2015, the Industrial Designs Official Gazette has been posted on the website of the Federal State Budgetary Institution, the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (hereinafter, ‘FIPS’), which is subordinate to Rospatent, in the Official Publications section, and is freely available, constituting a functional and comprehensive information source. The ISSN number is 2313-7460.
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The forms of notifications on industrial designs published in the Rospatent Official Gazette, Industrial Designs, are presented in Table 3:
Table 3
1. Notifications containing communications on changes to information concerning State registration of an industrial design |
PD4L Change of denomination, first name, surname or patronymic of patent owner |
ТС4L Change of author’s(s’) details |
ТЕ4L Change of correspondence address |
2. Notifications containing communications on termination and restoration of validity of an industrial design patent |
MZ4L Premature termination of validity of a patent for an industrial design (group of industrial designs) on the basis of the patent owner’s request |
ММ4L Premature termination of validity of a patent owing to non-payment within the prescribed period of the fee for maintenance of the patent in force |
MF4L Revocation of a patent |
NF4L Restoration of validity of a patent |
3. Notifications containing communications on extension of the term of validity of a patent for an industrial design, grant of a duplicate patent |
ND4L Extension of term of validity of a patent for an industrial design (group of industrial designs) on the basis of the patent owner’s request |
RH4L Grant of a duplicate patent |
4. Notifications containing communications on agreements relating to disposal of the exclusive right in an industrial design, transfer of an exclusive right in an industrial design, without the conclusion of an agreement with the patent owner |
PC4L State registration of an agreement on alienation of an exclusive right |
QB4L State registration of an agreement on disposal of an exclusive right |
PC4L State registration of the transfer of an exclusive right without an agreement being concluded |
QZ4L State registration of changes to a registered agreement |
RL4L Recognition of a registered agreement as invalid |
QC4L State registration of cancellation of a registered agreement |
QC4L Cancellation of a registered agreement |
QC4L State registration of termination of validity of a registered compulsory license |
QA4L Registration of an open license |
QZ4L Registration of a request for withdrawal of a request for an open license |
QZ4L Insertion of amendments in a registered agreement |
5. Notifications containing other communications on registered industrial designs |
ТK4L Correction of obvious and technical errors in publications of information on industrial designs in the Industrial Designs Gazette |
RZ4L Other changes relating to registration of industrial designs |
The web page addresses of the Office’s websites providing information relating to access to online publications:
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http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/ofic_pub/ofic_bul/prom_obr;
- in In the Information Resources section, subsections:
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In 2015, subscribers were provided with the Industrial Designs Official Gazette, based on official Rospatent information, on CD/DVD, with a frequency of 12 issues per year. .
For new subscribers, and also for the purposes of keeping patent collections up to date, series of Industrial Designs Official Gazette published in previous years (2012-2014) were offered on CD/DVD.
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- Rospatent Official Gazette, Industrial Designs.
Registers of Russian industrial designs contain the following databases:
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- a database of applications for industrial designs filed between 2007 and 2015 (includes information on the prosecution of 41,000 applications, updated daily).
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The FIPS website provides users with access to:
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- Rospatent Official Gazette, Industrial Designs ".
IPS users are given access to:
- a database of industrial designs containing information on 61,000 patents from 1993 to 2015, updated monthly;
- the ICID database.
Users’ work with the information-search system
Examiners are able to work with all industrial design databases. Access to the industrial design databases is provided to third-party users on a contractual basis.
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- full-text industrial design databases:
- 126 Technology and Innovation Support Centers
- two Two organizations of Rostekhnologiya
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- 44 users of the Court for Intellectual Rights
- two Two users of the Federal Agency for the Supply of Arms, Military and Special Equipment and Supplies (RosOboronPostavka)
- two Two organizations of the Federal Customs Service
- four Four users of the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations
Third-party users are granted free access to the following industrial design databases:
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- A database containing information on RF industrial design patents No.87456, published in issues of the Industrial Designs Gazette.
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- ICID database.
In 2015, users of industrial designs registers made approximately 1% of the total number of requests (more than 40,628,000 requests).
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Services, http://www1.fips.ru/wps/wcm/connect/content_ru/ru/inform_resources/article_6/;
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Industrial design applications are registered in the TM-ADMIN system, and procedures to export data to the automated database systems, and the Industrial Design Applications automated paperless prosecution system, have been developed and introduced.
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Paper documents are transferred into electronic format and uploaded onto the Industrial Design Applications automated paperless prosecution system using Data Center software, and, in particular, primary industrial design application materials and additional documents relating to industrial design applications are transferred and uploaded to electronic applications.
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The Industrial Design Applications automated paperless prosecution system registers incoming mail, prepares outgoing correspondence, and monitors all stages of an application’s lifecyclelife cycle, from filing of the application to the examination decision (grant, refusal, or withdrawal), monitoring deadlines for reviewing correspondence and conducting examinations.
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- thematic collections containing publications from the national Gazettes of a range of foreign countries with a translation into Russian of the name of the industrial design;
- methodology and reference literature.
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A TSPF collection contains official publications on industrial designs produced by different countries for various retrospective periods.
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A room has been specially equipped at VPTB for all categories of users working with industrial design information.
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Internet publications from the All-Russian Patent Technology Library Division are available on the FIPS website in the State Patent Collection and VPTB Information Products sections at:
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Internet publications from the All-Russian Patent Technology Library Division are available on the FIPS website in the State Patent Collection and VPTB Information Products sections at:
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The opportunity to access databases on the FIPS website free of charge via the Internet was provided to 302 organizations in nine federal districts of the Russian Federation as at December 31, 2015. Access was provided to: 48 support organizations; eight science cities; 41 State scientific centers (SSC), 35 scientific centers of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SC RAS), 18 organizations within the framework of the Federal Target Program, Development of Nanoindustry Nano-industry Infrastructure in the Russian Federation for 2008–2011 (FTP), 133 TISC and 19 other organizations.
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- 457 sessions directly in the FIPS subdivisions in accordance with the quarterly in-house training plans focused on studying newly released regulatory documents, issues in the performance of examinations, as well as analyzing the results of internal and external examination quality control in specific subdivisions.
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Professional Development of Newly-Recruited FIPS Examiners
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Under FIPS higher professional education programs:
- two Two FIPS employees gained a first degree in intellectual property management and Law respectively;
- 18 FIPS employees are continuing their studies on the masters’ program (in Law).
Two - Two FIPS employees are continuing their studies as post-graduates.
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