Annual Technical Report 2002 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Armenia (SCIT/ATR/ID/2002/AM)
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The expression "industrial designs" covers industrial designs and models. Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in this series of Annual Technical Reports.
I. Evolution of registration activities
In 2002, 15 applications for industrial designs were filed with the Patent Office of the Republic of Armenia.
In 2002, 10 patents were granted on industrial designs.
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of industrial design documents and of secondary sources of industrial design information, i.e., official gazettes
In 2002, 4 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 Armenian and Russian. There were published data on 10 patents for industrial designs. In the bulletins, the following legislative and normative documents were also published:
- Rules for execution, filing and examination of industrial design
- 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, connected with the legal protection of industrial design subject matters and integral micro diagrams topologies.
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
International classification for Industrial Designs ICID (Locarno Agreement) is used for registration of industrial designs.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
VI. Administration of industrial design services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, registering designs, assisting clients with search procedures, obtaining official publications and registry extracts
Patent information of the agency is available to the wide public via internet (http//www.armpatent.org). The page contains the following information chapters:
- Statistics
- Annual report
- Bank requisites
- Patent attorneys
- Contact information
- Laws
The information is available in three languages (Armenian, Russian, English).
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information
The Official Bulletins containing notifications on industrial design subject matters are sent to the Armenian Research Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, the Fundamental Library of the National Academy of Sciences, the libraries of the Armenian State University, the State Engineering University of the Republic of Armenia, the Armenian Academy of Agriculture, the State Public Library and to the Book Palace of Armenia free of charge.
According to the preliminary arrangements on patent information exchange, 21 copies of the official Bulletin were sent to the Patent offices of foreign countries, as well as to WIPO, EPO and EAPO.