Annual Technical Report on Trademark Information Activities in 2024 submitted by Italian Patent and Trademark Office
I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADEMARK INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
New IT Platform
Work began in November 2023. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2025, with production go-live scheduled for early 2026.
The main improvements expected after go-live include:
- Improving the reliability and completeness of data. Currently, not all’information is easily accessible, and data must be previously analyzed, retrieved, and enhanced to become useful and understandable.
- Simplifying platform usability for both internal and external users, making information easier to use.
- Enhancing existing services (filing and archiving system, examination system, databases, data/document/bulletin publication), including the introduction of new functionalities.
- Providing new services to external partners (companies, researchers, development agencies, attorneys, etc.), even beyond the institution’s traditional scope.
Development Drivers:
- Human-centric
- Services that support citizens throughout the entire lifecycle of industrial property rights
- Compliance with AGID guidelines for website design and digital public services
- Compliance with WIPO standards
- Interoperability with external systems
- 24/7 service continuity
- Benchmark analysis of international best practices
Digital Archive of the Case Law Digest of the Appeals Commission
A new application has been implemented for the Digital Archive of the Case Law Digest of the Appeals Commission.
Link: https://www.uibm.gov.it/massima/
Blockchain infrastructure improvements.
The project was developed in partnership with EUIPO.
The core of the project is the CTI (Common Tools Integration), which is responsible for extracting pre-processed data from the internal database and sending it to the shared blockchain network between EUIPO and other European Intellectual Property Offices.
The data is made accessible on EUIPO’s TMView platform:
https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview
Customer care support service based on webchat
Rreleased to production in June 2024. The service was introduced alongside the call center with the goal of replacing it.
Statistics:
Trademarks | 2024 | 2023 |
National TM Applications | 42,567 | 41,811 |
National Renewals TM Filings | 22,041 | 21,624 |
National TM registrations | 33,943 | 38,912 |
National Renewal of TM Registrations | 20,525 | 25,664 |
Link: https://statistiche.uibm.gov.it/
II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TRADEMARK INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
Link: https://servizionline.uibm.gov.it/deposito-online-new/pubblica/index.html (Online filing -in Italian)
Link: https://uibm.mise.gov.it/index.php/it/deposito-titoli/modulistica-per-il-deposito-cartaceo (Paper-filing - In Italian)
The applications dossiers are available at the link:
https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/Advanced_search/type_url?type=tm&cl=1 (in Italian)
III. SOURCES OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE
Our main types of publications on trademark are:
- bibliographic data,
- trademark applications,
- trademark status coverage,
Trademark information are available on-line:
https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/Advanced_search/type_url?type=tm&cl=1 (in Italian)
Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online, URL), etc.
A database with daily publication on official gazettes are available at the link:
https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/bollettini/index/
All the calls and the incentives referred to trademarks above are announced on the Italian Official Gazette and on the MIMIT-UIBM websites.
Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external documentation and databases
A tool called NSARA is available for examiners exclusively on the Office premises.
Information products (coverage, medium, etc.) and services available to external users; conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
To the link below is available a database, free of charge, containing all the bulletins.
https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/bollettini/index/
IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO TRADEMARK INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
An on-site tool called NSARA is used that consists of the back-end for patent examination and the front-end for online filing.
IT infrastructure:
- Cluster on-site Qemu (KVM-based)
- Galera MariaDB Cluster
- ElasticSearch and Solr
- SNMP-Based (Nagios, Observium), NetBox
V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION
Information on the following topics is desired:
VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF TRADEMARK INFORMATION
Information on the following topics is desired:
VII. ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WIPO STANDARDS CONCERNING TRADEMARK INFORMATION
Note: For each Standard listed below, please enter one of the following values:
- "Implemented";
- "On implementation phase";
- "Planning to implement"; and
- "No plan to implement"
WIPO Standard ST.3: Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations
Planning to implement
In the new IT Platform, this Standard is planned to be implemented.
WIPO Standard ST.13: Numbering of applications for IPRs
Implemented
WIPO Standard ST.60: Bibliographic data relating to marks
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.61: The exchange of trademark legal status data
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.63: Content and layout of trademark gazettes
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.66: Processing of trademark information using XML
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.67: Electronic management of the figurative elements of trademarks
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.68: Electronic management of sound marks
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.90: Recommendation for processing and communicating Intellectual Property data using Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.91: Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images
No plan to implement
WIPO Standard ST.96: Processing of Industrial Property information using XML
On implementation phase
This Standard will be implemented in the new IT Platform.
Other WIPO Standards Related to Trademarks
Note: Please list any other WIPO Standards related to trademarks (not mentioned above) that your Office or Organization has implemented, is currently in the process of implementing, or plans to implement in the future. For each Standard, please indicate the implementation status with an option: Implemented, On implementation Phase or Planning to Implement.