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As a whole there is a rise in the number of applications for inventions and utility models, which is over 32 % as compared with 2001.
The breakdown of filed applications received in 2002 (and in 2001) is done in Sections of the International Patent Classification (IPC) by following:
Section A. 67 (60)
Section B. 22 (11)
Section C. 56 (31)
Section D. 2 (6)
Section E. 11 (8)
Section F. 19 (12)
Section G. 16 (23)
Section H. 29 (17)
Faster changes are visible in Sections A, B, C, F and H as compared with 2001.
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, distribution and use of primary and secondary sources of patent information
In 2002, four numbers of the Official Bulletin "Industrial Property" were published: No 1 (21), No 2 (22), No 3(23) and No 4 (24), the last issue is in the form of CD-ROM. The bulletins were published in two languages: Armenian and Russian. In these Bulletins, official data were published on patents for 150 inventions, 19 utility models. In the bulletins, the following legislative and normative documents were also published:
- Order to carry substantive examinations of inventions
- Rules for execution, filing and examination of industrial design
- Rules for execution, filing and examination of utility models
- Rules for filing and examination of protests and applications to Appeal Council under the Intellectual Property Agency of the Republic of Armenia
- Rules for infliction and registration of penalties of state customs, connected with the legal protection of industrial design subject matters and integral micro diagrams topologies.
For the purpose of laying out to the public acknowledgement of the applications with reference to article 24 of the "Law on Patents" of the Republic of Armenia, 12 issues on "Applications for Inventions" of the Official Bulletins were published.
The Annual Report for 2002 of the Intellectual Property Agency is published in Armenian, English and Russian.
III. Matters concerning abstracting, classifying, reclassifying and indexing of technical information contained in patent documents
From 2002, an electronic database on inventions and utility models is used in the Agency. The database contains bibliographical data, abstracts and sketches with reporting options in three languages (Armenian, Russian, English) as well as with transmission options of bibliographic data for publishing in the Official Bulletins, issued by agency, and transmission of information for optical CD-ROMs production under series CISPATENT (CISPATENT CD-ROM series), which contain full description of patent documents, including bibliography and abstracts in national language, Russian and English in well-known "MIMOSA" environment. The "Invention Applications" Official Gazette is published each month by the agency where abstractions of inventions are produced for the purpose of public consideration. The agency also publishes the "Industrial Property" Official Gazette in Armenian and Russian every quarter where abstracts on inventions and utility models is published.
Received applications for inventions and utility models are classified and reclassified using the 7-th edition of IPC.
Coordinated indexing is carried out under the standards of WIPO. ST.9 (Annex 1. INID codes), ST.3 (two-letter codes for indication of country). ST.16 (instructions for preparation of patent documents abstract) ST.16 (standard codes for identification of various types of patent documents).
Agency experts use hybrid system indexing when performing the examination of certain objects.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
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WIPO
1. Interregional intermediate seminar on industrial property (1 participant)
2. WIPO Training Course on Patent Documentation and Information (1 participant)
EPO
3. Seminar 8/2002 “Search and Examination in biotechnology” (1 participant)
4. Seminar 9/2002 “Patents in electronics, computer technology&telecommunications” (2 participants)
5. Seminar 10/2002 “International forum on protection of computer – related and business model inventions” (2 participants)
Others
6. Studies in Russian State Institute of Intellectual Property (2 participants)
IX. Other relevant matters
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| 1. | Classification is allotting one or more classification symbols (e.g., IPC symbols) to a patent application, either before or during search and examination, which symbols are then published with the patent application.
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| 2. | Preclassification is allotting an initial broad classification symbol (e.g., IPC class or subclass, or administrative unit) to a patent application, using human or automated means for internal administrative purposes (e.g., routing an application to the appropriate examiner). Usually preclassification is applied by the administration of an office.
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| 3. | Reclassification is the reconsideration and usually the replacement of one or more previously allotted classification symbols to a patent document, following a revision and the entry into force of a new version of the Classification system (e.g., the IPC). The new symbols are available on patent databases.
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