Annual Technical Report on Industrial Design Information Activities in 2024 submitted by Italian Patent and Trademark Office

I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 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 DesignView platform: https://www.tmdn.org/tmdsview-web/#/dsview.

 

Statistics: 

Industrial Designs

2024

2023

National Filings

1,390

1,261

National registrations

1,034

1,282

Link: https://statistiche.uibm.gov.it/

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

Link: https://servizionline.uibm.gov.it/deposito-online-new/pubblica/index.html (On_line 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=ds&cl=1

III. SOURCES OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

Our main types of publication on designs are:

  • bibliographic data,
  • industrial design applications,
  • design status coverage

Design information are available on-line at the link:

https://www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati/Advanced_search/type_url?type=ds&cl=1

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

Information on the following topics is desired:

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 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION

Information on the following topics is desired:

VI.INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION

Information on the following topics is desired:

VII. ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WIPO STANDARDS CONCERNING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN 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.80: Bibliographic data relating to industrial designs

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard ST.81: Content and layout of industrial designs gazettes

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard ST.86: Processing of industrial design information using XML

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard ST.87: The exchange of industrial design legal status data 

No plan to implement

WIPO Standard ST.88: Electronic representation of industrial designs

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 Patents

Note: Please list any other WIPO Standards related to patents (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. 

None