Annual Technical Report on Trademark Information Activities in 2014 submitted by Industrial Property Office CZ
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In 2014 the average registration procedure time period was 11,6 months from the date of submitting the trademark registration application. This time period includes formal and substantive examination of the applications, technical procedure concerning the preparation for publication, three month statutory time limit for opposition and registration time. In comparison with 2013 the regisration registration procedure time has not significantly changed. On the other hand, there is a growth of decisions related to pending applications.
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Trademark information services for the public are provided within the information centre, in the public reading room, common questions can be addressed to the helpdesk (helpdesk@upv.cz) and search requests to the search section. The Office received a total of 71 trademark search requests in 2014.(Since 2014 there has been a change in the methodology of statistical records of searches). A total of 1200 serches searches (for patents, designs, trademarks) was provided for the State administrative bodies.
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Various courses and seminars were organized for students and representatives of SMEs or research institutions; Groups of university students were accepted for excursions and guided toura tours in the Office’s premises.
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The Industrial Property Office continued to fulfil fulfill responsibilities resulting from the Czech Republic's membership in the European Union especially related to the area of industrial property protection. It participated in the meetings of the EU Council Working Group on Intellectual Property.
In 2014 the first results of the Convergence Program organized by OHIM were put into practice; its goal is the harmonizationof harmonization of decision practice in the trademark areas in the European Union. This is especially with regards to changes in the approach to the classification of goods and services for the purposes of registering trademarks from the point of view of assessing the specificity and accuracy of terms used, the active participation of National Offices in the setting-up and management of the TM Class common database of goods and services, the assessment of the scope of protection of black and white trademarks, and the assessment of relative grounds for rejecting trademark applications.