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Throw the TM-ADMIN system for electronic document flow for trademarks and service marks examiners have an access to documents on the electronic processing of applications, including primary application materials, documents related to application correspondence, and structured data.
Matters concerning classifying
(i) Classification and reclassification activities; classification systems used, e.g., International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (Nice Classification), International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks (Vienna Classification), other classification
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The Official Gazette, Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin, is published twice per month.
The The forms of notifications on trademarks published in the Rospatent Official Gazette, Trademarks, Service Marks and Appellations of Origin, are listed below (national registration):
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In 2016, publication of notifications concerning trademarks protected in the Russian Federation by virtue of international registration continued.
Forms of notification on international registrations:
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Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external documentation and databases
In 2016, access was provided to the texts of international and domestic classifications via the Internet:
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- International Classification of Figurative Elements of Trademarks (Vienna Classification), seventh edition, in Russian.
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- Lexicographical information gazette of goods and services (LEXINFORM) for 2016, in Russian (two annual issues).
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In 2015, users of trademark registers made approximately 56% of the overall number of requests (more than 40,628,000 requests).
Users’ Work with Rospatent Official Gazettes
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Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements
In order to support the computer network’s system software at the required level, work was carried out in 2016 to transfer a number of domain controllers to the new versions of the server operating systems, thereby enhancing the level of IT security.
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Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
Fujitsu M10-4S server
(RAM – 64GB, processors – 16, external memory – 14 TB)
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Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
The Rospatent in-house trademark databases are as follows:
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Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file: file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file
For searches of verbal and figurative elements of trademarks, an automated search subsystem of the Automated System, Russian Federation Trademarks, is used (RF TZ). Special search images are intelligently prepared, and automatically indexed by algorithms. In order to examine a claimed designation, intelligently-prepared, special search instructions are generated to search for similar verbal and figurative elements of marks, packaged by date of completion of the formal examination. The search instructions are run on the server, and the examiners are provided with the search results for analysis and selection in a special interface of reference documents.
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Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
At the Office, the following document prosecution systems are used for information on trademarks:
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Office's library (if deals with trademark information): equipment, collection management, network of libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign libraries
The trademarks collection is intended for examiners and other categories of users. Trademark information is provided on a fee-free basis to third-party users at VPTB. The trademark collection is available at VPTB both on paper and electronically, and includes:
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Publications related to different business procedures and trademark information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
The VPTB patent law collection includes books and periodicals on a broad range of issues of legal protection and use of trademarks and service marks in Russia and overseas. The collection is available electronically and in hard-copy, and also includes publications found on the official Rospatent and FIPS websites, and contains different types of information sources: national and international law, commentaries and reviews, guidelines, training aids, standards, patent office reports, conference and seminar materials, compilations of court decisions and collections of statistics, etc.
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Cooperation with universities, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
In 2016, the VPTB department of FIPS held six thematic meetings of heads and specialists of Rospatent and FIPS with representatives of the business community to familiarize themselves with new laws concerning State registration and disposal of the exclusive right in a trademark or service mark, as well as 11 thematic training meetings on the electronic filing system for trademark applications. 258 people took part in these meetings by videoconference, organized by business entities that enjoy the status of Technology and Innovation Support Centers (TISC): Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library (Barnaul), Astrakhan’ State Medical Academy of the Russian Federation, Belgorod State Universal Scientific Library and Belgorod National Research University, State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk), Don State Technical University and Scientific Research Institute, ‘Spetsvuzavtomatika’ (Rostov-on-Don), N.G.Chernyshevsky Saratov State University, Institute of International Business and Law, Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education, ‘St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics’, and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University (Yakutsk), Tatarstan Scientific and Technical Information Center (Kazan’), Tomsk Polytechnic University, and First President of the Russian Federation, B.N. Yeltsin, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg).
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Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
Organization of education and advanced training for FIPS specialists is carried out within the Unified Training System (UTS) under the principle of continuity with the use of internal and external forms of education starting from the date of hiring. Ensuring of conditions for continuous advanced training for employees is provided by the Statute of FIPS.
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International exchange of trademark information in machine-readable form (e.g., Official Gazettes)
In order to fulfill its obligations in relation to exchange of patent information, FIPS posts electronic Gazettes, including trademark information, on the Institute’s FTP server, and has granted log-in and password access to documentation to the offices of 45 foreign countries and three international organizations.
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Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to trademark information
As part of its participation in international and regional activities and projects relating to trademark information, representatives of the trademark division took part in the following events:
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Assistance to developing countries
Rospatent has no special programs to help developing countries. Assistance is provided in response to individual requests from the Offices of developing countries.
VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS
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