Annual Technical Report 2010 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Ukraine (CWS/ATR/ID/2010/UA)
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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
Changes experienced in terms of application filings and grants (registrations) with respect to the previous year
Statistical evolution concerning:
Applications filed:
in 2009 – 1669, in 2010– 1686, i.e. 1,02% increase with respect to the previous year.
Patents granted:
in 2009 –1754, in 2010 – 1431, i.e. 18,4% decrease with respect to the previous year.
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
In 2010, the highest percentage of applications were filed according to the following classes of the Locarno Classification:
Class 09 “Packages and containers for the transport or handling of goods” (20,1%); Class 19 “Stationery and office equipment…” (16,6%); Class 06 “Furnishing” (7,6%); Class 11 “Jewellery” (6,4%); Class 05 ”Textile piece goods, artificial and natural sheet material (6,1%); Class 02 “Articles of clothing and haberdashery” (5,7%); Class 08 “Tools and hardware” (4,8%); Class 25 “Building units and construction elements” (4,5%).
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/ua/plans_reports.html
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/en/plans_reports.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/ua/statistics.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/en/statistics.html
II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of industrial design documents and of secondary sources of industrial design information, i.e., official gazettes
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of industrial design information
The Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist” (“Industrial Property”) contains announcements related to industrial designs in the following sections of its Book 2: “Information on the Grant of Patents of Ukraine for Industrial Designs”, “Indexes”, “Notifications”, “Colour Representations of Industrial Designs”.
The Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist” was issued both on paper and electronic carriers with the same frequency – twice a month.
A cumulative optical DVD “Industrial Designs Registered in Ukraine” was also issued. It contains information about all the registrations of industrial designs recorded in Ukraine since January 1993 up to the completion of the current registration.
The official web-portal of the State Department of Intellectual Property (the State Department) (http://www.sdip.gov.ua) and the web-site of the State Enterprise “Ukrainian Industrial Property Institute” (the Institute) (http://www.ukrpatent.org) contain a number of free databases (DB) and information and reference systems (IRS) on industrial designs:
- interactive DBs: “Electronic Version of the Cumulative Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist”; “Industrial Designs Registered in Ukraine”;
- DB “Information about Court Decisions on Cases Concerning Industrial Property Rights”;
- interactive IRSs: “Industrial Designs Applications Processing State”, “Information about Patents of Ukraine for Industrial Designs Deemed Invalidated and about Lapsed Patents”, “International Classification of Industrial Designs (the Locarno Classification). Ninth Edition”.
Mass storage media and microforms used
Mass storage media for information about industrial designs in the Institute are servers of electronic databases, Storage Area Network disc data storage systems, optical DVDs and magnetic tapes. To satisfy information needs of the general public, the interactive DB “Industrial Designs Registered in Ukraine” is accessible via the Internet.
Databases and office automation
The processing of applications for industrial designs is carried out in the environment of the “Industrial Designs” automated system (AS).
Incoming documents flow on paper carriers is processed by the system of current scanning and recognition of text documents based on the ABBYY Recognition Server 3.0. Digitized documents of applications are accumulated in "electronic dossiers" of applications and stored in the central electronic archive of documents.
Information on industrial designs is contained in the following DBs and IRSs:
- technological DB of the “Industrial Designs” AS;
- DBs and IRSs accessible via the Internet:
- interactive DB “Industrial Designs Registered in Ukraine”
- DB “Electronic Version of the Cumulative Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist”;
- DB “Information about Court Decisions on Cases Concerning Industrial Property Rights”;
- IRS "Industrial Design Applications Processing State";
- IRS “Information about Patents of Ukraine for Industrial Designs Deemed Invalidated and about Lapsed Patents”;
- IRS “International Classification of Industrial Designs (the Locarno Classification). Ninth Edition”.
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide access to online industrial design gazettes and to other sources of industrial design information, including download of bulk industrial design data
The on-line publications on industrial designs are accessible in free access from the web-pages of the web-portal of the State Department and the web-site of the Institute:
http://www.ukrpatent.org/ua/bases2.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/en/bases.html
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/ua/info_resurses.html
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/en/info_resourses.html
III. Matters concerning classifying, reclassifying and indexing of industrial design information according to the classification systems applied
Classification and reclassification activities; Classification system used, e.g., International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification), other classification (please indicate whether industrial designs are classified by your Office and, if so, which classification is used)
The Ukrainian translation of the 9th edition of the Locarno Classification, which was implemented in the environment of the “Industrial Designs” AS, was used for classifying industrial designs. Within the “Industrial Designs” AS, a software system for checking the classification symbols is operative. It includes directories with the schemes of the Locarno Classification and a special software for checking classification symbols.
To satisfy information needs of the general public, the IRS “International Classification for Industrial Designs (the Locarno Classification). Ninth edition” was placed on the State Department’s web-portal and the Institute’s web-site.
Bibliographic data and processing
During the input into the technological database, the bibliographical data are processed by the software tools. The database structure allows storage of all bibliographical data and provides extended search facilities.
IV. Search file establishment and upkeep
Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file
The search file consists of the array of applications placed in the DB of the in-house “Industrial Designs” AS and the reference and search tools. No documentation of other Offices is included in the industrial designs search file.
V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs
In-house systems (online/offline)
The in-house computerized search systems for industrial designs are the search systems of the “Industrial Designs” AS, the central electronic documents archive integrated with the “Industrial Designs” AS and the “Indicators” AS. All these systems are operative on-line.
External databases
- DB “Electronic Version of the Cumulative Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist”;
- interactive DB “Industrial Designs Registered in Ukraine”;
- DB “Information about Court Decisions on Cases Concerning Industrial Property Rights”;
- IRS "Industrial Design Applications Processing State";
- IRS “Information about Patents of Ukraine for Industrial Designs Deemed Invalidated and about Lapsed Patents”;
- IRS “International Classification of Industrial Designs (the Locarno Classification). Ninth Edition”.
These systems are freely accessible via the Internet.
Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), data carriers used
The procedures of the State Register of patents for industrial designs are realized in the environment of the “Industrial Designs” AS. Legal status data are formed on request.
For statistical data generation in the “Industrial Designs” AS, an integrated subsystem “Statistics” is used. The subsystem supports the activities of the examination, of the Registry and of the planning and economic department.
The operating systems Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and virtualization technology on virtualization platforms Hiper-V and VMware are used. Up-to-date personal computers with the operating system Windows XP Professional and Windows 7 are used as workstations.
The data storage network is built on the basis of the Storage area network and Fiber Channel technology.
The following models of scanners are used for scanning of documents and industrial design images:
Fujitsu fi-6240; Fujitsu fi-6140; HP Scanjet G 2710.
VI. Administration of industrial design information products and 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)
Collection management, preservation
In the Public Patent Documentation Collection (PPDC) the users had access to information about industrial designs published in the Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist” and the Official Bulletins of 45 foreign intellectual property offices and organizations.
The management of the contents, coverage and structure of the document collection was carried out with the due consideration of the users’ needs.
A large-scale replacement of the information collection hardware by up-to-date computer equipment suitable for operating with sophisticated software products on CD-ROM and DVD used by patent offices of different countries was carried out.
Great attention was paid to the popularization of the collection: subject collections of patent documentation and a digest of annotations of publications on topical issues of intellectual property rights protection in our country and abroad were published. Publications of prominent specialists from various patent offices – books and magazine articles received for the collection – were annotated.
With the aim to preserve the collection, modern technologies of protecting library holdings from theft, damage etc. are used. Video surveillance, ventilation and air conditioning is continuously carried out, fire safety (fire alarm, fire notification, fire fighting) is ensured.
Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and industrial design information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web)
Industrial design information was available to the general public by free access to the official bulletins and via the Internet in the interactive DBs: “Electronic Version of the Cumulative Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist”, “Industrial Designs Registered in Ukraine” and “Information about Court Decisions on Cases Concerning Industrial Property Rights”, IRSs: “Industrial Design Applications Processing State” and “Information about Patents of Ukraine for Industrial Designs Deemed Invalidated and about Lapsed Patents". Besides, the users had access to the IRS "International Classification of Industrial Designs (the Locarno Classification). Ninth Edition".
Apart from the above-mentioned, the PPDC provides the following services:
- consultations as to the holdings of the PPDC, the most efficient ways of carrying out information search, the reference and search tools exploitation;
- free use of the PPDC reading halls and information materials of free access. These, in the first place, include national patent documentation (Official Bulletin), Official Bulletins of foreign patent offices, patent information periodicals, normative, scientific and methodical literature, subject and alphabetical catalogues.
The list of services provided to the general public is presented in the document placed on the Institute’s web-sites and on the Institute’s branch “Ukrainian Centre of Innovatics and Patent Information Services” at:
http://www.ukrpatent.org/ua/perelik.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/en/perelik.html
http://www.ip-centr.kiev.ua
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide information on business procedures such as: filing, publication, examination and registration procedures related to industrial designs; opposition and appeal procedures related to industrial designs; etc.
http://www.ukrpatent.org/ua/industrial.html
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide a description of information products and services offered by the Office (e.g., industrial design search service(s) and industrial design databases), as well as information on how to access and utilize them
http://www.ukrpatent.org/ua/publications.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/en/publications.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/ua/perelik.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/en/perelik.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/ua/bases2.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/en/bases.html
http://www.ip-centr.kiev.ua.
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of industrial design documentation and information
Exchange of machine-readable information, e.g., data contained on CD-ROM or magnetic tape
In the framework of international exchange the Official Bulletin “Promyslova Vlasnist” on DVD, containing industrial design information, was sent to 25 foreign intellectual property offices and organizations (29 copies). In return, official bulletins containing such information were received from 19 foreign intellectual property offices and organizations.
VIII. Matters concerning education and training, including technical assistance to developing countries (please indicate URLs of web pages of the Office’s website wherever appropriate)
Assistance to developing countries (sending consultants and experts, receiving trainees from developing countries, etc.)
In the reporting year the State Department within its competence, made efforts to development and further improvement of the personnel training and skill upgrading system in the sphere of intellectual property
In 2010, pursuant to the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the state higher educational institution “The State Institute of Intellectual Property” was reorganized into the Intellectual Property Institute of the National University «Odessa Law Academy» in Kyiv (the Institute). It made possible for the first time in the higher educational system of Ukraine to start training of the Bachelors of Law and Masters of Law, educational and professional training programs of which stipulate the specialization in the intellectual property right.
In order to upgrade knowledge in the intellectual property field, the speciality “Intellectual Property” was taught in 2009/2010 academic year in 145 higher educational institutions of Ukraine of the III-IV accreditation level. Over 120 thousand students studied by Master and Specialist educational and professional programs. Duration of the course in the majority of higher educational institutions was 54 hours.
As on 01.10.2010, the license for educational activities related to training and retraining of professionals specializing in the specialty «Intellectual Property» of the Specialist and Master education and qualification degree was issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine to 15 higher educational institutions.
Licenses for the right of realization of the educational activity at the level of qualifying requirements concerning improvement of qualification of specialists in the sphere of intellectual property (in total 550 persons per year) were granted to two educational institutions – the Institute (250 persons) and the Interbranch Institute for Postgraduate Education at the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (300 persons).
Just these two educational institutions also received in 2010 the right for carrying out educational activities in training foreign citizens in the speciality “Intellectual Property” in the educational qualification level master's degree (in total 55 persons).
Altogether, in the reporting year, the state higher educational institutions have trained 520 specialists in the sphere of intellectual property, 180 of which (35 %) were graduates of the Institute (49 masters and 131 specialists).
As in the previous years, the State Department together with the Institute paid special attention to the training of intellectual property specialists for various fields of activities, in particular:
• for the executive bodies and the judicial power authorities – 61 persons graduated the Institute, among which employees of the State Intellectual Property Service of Ukraine, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine, National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, State Custom Service of Ukraine, judges etc
• for manufacture, business, innovative, scientific and scientific and technical activity - 7 professional appraisers of intellectual property rights as well as 15 intellectual property representatives (patent attorneys) were prepared.
In the reporting year the Institute continued to support the distance learning programme of the WIPO Academy course DL-101 “General Course on Intellectual Property” (Ukrainian-language modules).
In July of the reporting year, the Second Summer School on intellectual property issues was successfully held in Odessa on the basis of the Odessa National Academy of Law. Its aim was to provide opportunity for senior students and young professionals to improve their knowledge in the field of intellectual property, to estimate intellectual property as the tool of economic, social, cultural and technological development of the society. Ukraine became the first country in the CIS where this important mission is realized. This year representatives of Bulgaria, India, Italy, Latvia, Nigeria, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Sweden and Ukraine took part in the work of the Summer School.
Within the framework of experience exchange, training and improvement of qualification of specialists, the representatives of the State Department and the Institute took part in the curriculums and actions organized by the patent offices of the world, in particular, in the curriculum of the USA World academy of intellectual property on patents and trade marks, in the European patent academy trainings.
In 2010, the State Department organized and held 6 conferences, among them 3 international ones, and 24 specialized seminars, including 13 regional events on the current problems related to the acquisition, exploitation and enforcement of IP rights.
In particular, on April 20, 2010 within the framework of the 10th anniversary of the World Intellectual Property Day celebration and the 40th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO Convention), grand actions on the subject «Innovation – Linking the World» were held.
The important representative and useful forums for discussion the scientific, methodological and practical issues in the field of intellectual property are the international scientific and practical conferences which are traditionally held in Ukraine twice a year (in winter in Svaliava, Zakarpatye area and in summer in Yalta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea).
The XV International conference “Actual Problems of Intellectual Property” organized by the State Department together with WIPO and the EPO was held from February 22 to 26, 2010. The main subject of the conference was the strategy of the development of the State system of intellectual property rights protection.
Over 150 participants from the Republic of Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Republic of Moldova, Germany, Switzerland, Romania, Spain, Armenia, United Kingdom and representatives of international organizations - WIPO and the EPO participated in the conference.
From September, 6 to September, 10 the State Department together with WIPO, the EPO, the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other governmental organizations of Ukraine organised and held the XVI International Scientific and Practical Conference “Actual Problems of Intellectual Property” in Yalta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea. This remarkable forum was represented by specialists and managers in the field of intellectual property from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Belarus, United Kingdom, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Germany, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Romania, United States of America, Uzbekistan and Switzerland, as well as WIPO, the EPO – about 200 participants.
The issues under discussion included the current status, problems and prospects of the development of the State system of intellectual property rights protection in Ukraine; improvement of the legal regulation in this sphere; methodology and practical aspects of examination of applications for industrial property rights, the patent information support and automation of the examination body operation; marks for goods and services: development of the legislation and rights legal protection; use of intellectual property rights, etc.
Among other conferences and seminars, organized and held by the State Department, special attention is deserved to the following:
- The X all-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference «Problems of Training of Intellectual Property Specialists, Research-and- Information and Innovation Activities in Ukraine». 93 persons from all over Ukraine – representatives of 51 higher educational institutions of Ukraine – took part in the conference.
- The Scientific and Practical Conference «The Inventive Activity is a Basis of the State Development” devoted to the Inventor and Innovator Day which was organized by the State Department together with the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
Detailed information about all events on education and training, seminars, exhibitions, visits, promotion of creative activities etc., can be found in the relevant section of the Annual Report - 2010 of the State Department at its web-portal:
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/ua/year_reports.html
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/en/year_reports.html
IX.Other general information related to the Office that is available on the Internet -- URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that:
provide information on legislation related to industrial designs
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/en/laws_special_4
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/ua/normative_acts.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/en/legistation.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org/ua/legistation.html
contain the Annual Report of the Office
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/ua/year_reports.html
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/en/year_reports.html
Publication of the Annual Technical Reports on industrial design information activities is carried out on the web-portal of the State Department beginning from ATR-2008:
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/ua/plans_reports.html
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/en/plans_reports.html
contain industrial design-related news regarding the Office
The above-mentioned information can be found on the web-sites at the following addresses:
http://www.sdip.gov.ua/index.html
http://www.ukrpatent.org
http://www.ip-centr.kiev.ua