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The main policies and plans of the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office given in the Annual Work Plan for 2014 were focused on the following objectives: evaluation of end-users needs with regard to industrial design information aimed to improve the Office’s guidelines and instructions related to industrial design registration and maintenance procedure; alignment with the other EU national offices for the harmonization of practice concerning certain aspects of industrial design examination; the development of internal tools to assess the duration and quality of the proceedings phases related to the registration and maintenance of industrial design rights. 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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