Annual Technical Report on Trademark Information Activities in 2015 submitted by Egypt / Trademarks and Industrial Designs Office

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I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARK INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

The Egyptian Trademarks office recently has various projects related to IP systems and services, most of these projects running or planned to be deployed in cooperation with WIPO Industrial Property Office Business Solutions Division (IPOBSD), while other projects running or planned to be established under Egyptian Ministry of Internal Trade development policies; 

The office recently has launched IPAS system which has been deployed in last quarter of 2015 in cooperate with WIPO to ease processing the business transactions record and execution. 

The office recently has used WIPO Publish system which has been deployed in last quarter of 2015 in cooperate with WIPO to perform automatic data extraction and upload to WIPO Global Brand database

Statistics:

Total filing of trademarks on 31/12/2015: 328449

Total filing of trademarks in 2015 in comparative with 2014: 19625 (2015) – 19257 (2014)

Total registered trademarks in 2015 in comparative with 2014: 8335 (2015) – 14121 (2014)

 

II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TRADEMARK INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

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Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) - URLs

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Availability of the application dossier in electronic form

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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
(ii) Use of electronic classification systems and pre-defined terms of the classification applied

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Matters concerning processing of different types of non-traditional marks (e.g., three-dimensional, motion, hologram, color mark, etc.)

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Other activities

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III. SOURCES OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

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Main types of publications in the field of trademark information, outline of the content and medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URLs)

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Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online, URL), etc.

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Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external documentation and databases

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Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) and services available to external users; conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)

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Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)

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Other sources

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IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TRADEMARK INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

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Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements

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Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office

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Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources

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Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file: file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file

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Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)

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Other matters

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V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION

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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

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Publications related to different business procedures and trademark information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.

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Cooperation with universities, technology and innovation support centers, etc.

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Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.

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Other activities

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VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION

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International exchange of trademark information in machine-readable form (e.g., Official Gazettes)

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Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to trademark information

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Assistance to developing countries

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Other activities

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VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

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