CWS.ATR.ID.2012.BA

Annual Technical Report 2012 on Industrial Design Information Activities submitted by Bosnia and Herzegovina (CWS/ATR/ID/2012/BA)

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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

289 applications for industrial designs were filed in 2012.Of total number, 236 applications were filed by foreign applicants under the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration on Industrial Design, while 38 applications were filed directly with the IPO by dometic and foreign applicants(including multiple applications, making a total of 154 industrial designs).
Filed Industrial Design Appliacation:
Year Hague Agreement National Applications Total
Foreign Domestic
2009 31 13 9 53
2010 210 9 16 235
2011 227 6 14 247
2012 236 15 38 289

267 applications for industrial designs were filed in 2012, of which 236 were, registred in accordance hith the Hague Agreement, and 31 on the basis of application filed directly the IPO.

Year Hague Agreement National Applications Total
Foreign Domestic
2009 31 27 5 63
2010 210 22 6 238
2011 227 14 3 244
2012 236 21 10 267

Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year

The number of applications filed directly with the IPO in 2012 ,was more by 33(165%) compared to 2011.The number of applications filed under the Hague Agreement was 236,which was by 9 more than in 2011(3,96 %).

URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide statistics related to industrial designs

http://www.ipr.gov.ba/images/statistika/statistika_dizajn_2011.pdf

II. Matters concerning the generation, reproduction, and distribution of industrial design documents and of secondary sources of industrial design information, i.e., official gazettes

Publishing, including printing, copying techniques and electronic printing

Registered industrial designs are published 4 times a year in the Institute's Official Gazette on paper carrier and on CD-ROM in 50 copies.

Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of industrial design information

The Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina Official Gazette is forthwith available free of charge in PDF format on the Online Services Portal http://www.ipr.gov.ba/en/glasnik-intelektualnog-vlasnistva-en.html

Mass storage media and microforms used

The bibliographic data together with the classification symbols and a short description of the design are stored in the industrial design data base on the host system on hard discs. The images are stored on a Windows-Server environment

Databases and office automation

The for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina uses the national data base of design applications and registered designs, application software deveped by BiH IP Institute. There are national and international database with graphical presentations or images.

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

Website of Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina provides access to online industrial design gazettes and to other sources of industrial design information, including possibility to download of bulk industrial design data.
http://www.ipr.gov.ba/en/glasnik-intelektualnog-vlasnistva-en.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)

Industrial design applications are classified according to the International Classification for Industrial Designs (Locarno Classification).

The classification symbols are allotted by the applicant. The symbols are checked afterwards by the office and, if necessary, corrected.

Bibliographic data and processing

Bibliographic data elements and classification symbols are searchable. The images are displayed together with these data elements.

IV. Search file establishment and upkeep

File building

The paper file is kept for each design application. Information is stored on our internal databases and within the file.

Updating

Every change concerning the application or the granted design is entered in the appropriate registers and in the data base developed by Institute.

Storage, including mass storage media

Mass storage media: hard disks, disk arrays, CD-ROMs, DVDs, paper (until complete replacement by the electronic storage).

Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file

The most important document for the Office is the one obtained from the WIPO and that is WIPO INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS BULLETIN.

V. Activities in the field of computerized search systems for industrial designs

In-house systems (online/offline)

The Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina uses the national database of design applications and registered designs. The registered designs are available to the public on the website of the Institute.

External databases

RCD-online is used also there are Internet external databases available.

Administrative management systems (e.g., register, legal status, statistics and administrative support)

Application developed by the Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Equipment used (hardware, including the types of terminal and network used, and software), data carriers used

-50/2Mbit/s Mostar; 5/5Mbit/s Sarajevo; 10/2Mbit/s banja Luka used for Internet connection, CISCO Network Equipment(LAN based on Fast Ethernet – 1000/100/10Mbit/s)
-MICROSOFT enviroment:
-Servers: HP DL 180 G6, IBM x236 series, HP ML 350 series/ OS – Win SERVER 2003 R2 and Win SERVER 2008 R2 Enterprise
-Workstations: Desktop - PC Pentium Dual Core with Windows XP Professional and Windows7 Enterprise; Notebooks – OS MS WIN7 Enterprise. Chechpoint utm1 270 firewall.
- SQL 2008 R2 Express and SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise databases: Daily backup is stored at NAS(Network Attached Storage).
-Backup software is Symantec BACKUP EXEC 2010 server

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)

Planning, administration, automation, security

Information services available to the public

Collection management, preservation

Backing up of data changes is every day. Full back up of data is on weekly basis.

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)

Information on the registered industrial designs in Bosnia and Herzegovina is available on the site of the Institute.

URLs of web pages of the Office's website for electronic filing of industrial design applications

Not available.

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.