среда, 28 апреля 2010 г.

WIPO Unveils New Logo

Geneva, April 26, 2010PR/2010/638
WIPO unveiled its new logo on April 26, 2010 – a date which marks the 40th anniversary of the entry into force of the WIPO Convention and the 10th anniversary of World Intellectual Property Day. The new logo forms the cornerstone of a new visual identity for the Organization, in line with the new directions being taken to keep pace with the rapid evolution of intellectual property in the 21st century.
The new logo reflects the Organization’s dynamism and innovative spirit, and is a powerful symbol of WIPO’s revitalization and strategic reorientation. It is based on a graphic representation of the WIPO headquarters’ building, an iconic structure familiar to all WIPO member states and stakeholders. The color blue links the Organization with the United Nations. The seven curved lines represent the seven elements of IP, as set out in the WIPO Convention:
literary, artistic and scientific works,
performances of performing artists, phonograms, and broadcasts,
inventions in all fields of human endeavor,
scientific discoveries,
industrial designs,
trademarks, service marks, and commercial names and designations,
protection against unfair competition, and all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields.
The gathering sweep of the curves is inclusive - WIPO is an open forum, welcoming all stakeholders and points of view. The dynamic, upward pitch of the curves represents ideas, movement, and the progress which comes from innovation and creativity. This rests on a strong foundation, the name and acronym of the Organization, representing its long-standing role at the center of international IP policy. The logo’s clean modern lines reflect the trust, reliability and efficiency which are keys to WIPO’s corporate image.

Historical Background
The origin of the WIPO logo dates to 1962 when a design representing WIPO’s predecessor organization, the Unions Internationales Propriété Intellectuelle (UIPI), appeared on some of its publications. That image, similar to the WIPO logo, contained the acronym UIPI at the center. In 1963, that acronym was replaced by the acronym of the Bureaux internationaux réunis pour la protection de la propriété intellectuelle (BIRPI). Then, in 1964, the Director of BIRPI officially communicated the BIRPI logo, name and abbreviation to the member states of the Paris Union, for protection under Article 6ter of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
In July 1970, the year the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force, the WIPO logo was communicated to the member states of the Paris Union for protection under Article 6ter of the Paris Convention. Since then, it has appeared on the organization’s documents, publications, buildings and other related materials.

понедельник, 26 апреля 2010 г.

The International Day of Intellectual property

Majority of people know about the existence of intellectual property (IP), copyright, patents, industrial designs and trademarks in particular. However many still consider that these concepts are related to the sphere of business & rights and are insignificant for their day-to-day life. For eliminating this lack in 2000, the state-members of WIPO, have decided to form and to celebrate annually the International day of intellectual property. For this purpose they have chosen 26th of April–the day, when in 1970 the WIPO’s Convention establishment has come into force.
WIPO and its member-states annually celebrate the International day of intellectual property, holding meetings planned for this date, events and campaigns. Their purpose – is to achieve the best understanding in general public, what really represents IP, and to show, how the IP-system promotes not only development in music, art and show business, but also in creation of all products and innovative technologies which define the world surrounding us.
On April, 26th, 2010 WIPO celebrates the 10th anniversary of intellectual property’s International day. Theme of this anniversary year of IP International day is:
Innovations – Connecting the world
Couple of decades ago, to majority of people the world seemed huge and in many respects to be unknown. Knowledge was committed to paper, and it was very difficult to exchange them. Outside of cities access to foreign culture and art has been limited.
Rapid growth of innovations and their global use have changed our outlook. In limited hours we can hey-through continents. Almost from any part our globe we can access any information, using such compact devices that can go fit on our palm. The universal communication supported of web- and wireless technologies, has a great significance on the future. Noegenesis on the basis of world-wide web releases intellectual potential before the isolated societies, helping to reduce rupture in knowledge between nations. Modern means of videoconference technology reduces the necessity for business trips, reducing our carbon "prints". Mobile telephones already changed our life and society: mobile communication working on solar energy helps to find out diseases, which were earlier out of striking distances.
Quick processing and data exchange accelerates innovative cycle, promoting collective innovations and mutually advantageous cooperation between companies, research institutions and separate individuals. An innovative technology really creates a global society. The intellectual property system is a part of this binding process. It promotes information interchange, in particular, providing access to the file of technological know-how containing in free WIPO databases. It provides structure for trade and distribution of technologies. It offers initiatives for innovations and competition. It helps to build-up cooperation necessary for the decision of essential global problems which we face-such as climatic change and spiral requirement for energy.
Therefore WIPO is urged to ensure access, so that the intellectual property system continued to serve the most important purpose to encouragement innovations & creativity and so that the advantages of this system became accessible to everything, helping to put together the world.

среда, 21 апреля 2010 г.

New priority registration rules in domains.РФ

From 12th of May 2010 onwards starts the second stage of priority registration of domains.РФ in which in course will become accessible to trademarks owners whose trademarks contain a verbal part of its symbols, distinct from Cyrillic.

We accept advance orders on registration of domain names.РФ from this category of legal-owners.

Clients, filed with the advanced orders, can register their chosen domain name by 12th May; in case if there will be no other applications from other users. Domains, for registration with more then one applicant for the same trademark, will be exposed for special closed auction.

From 15th July’10, the following persons/entries for domain-name can also be registered in the domain.РФ on priority basis:
• Owners of rights to company names;
• Owners of exclusive rights to the use of place origin name for goods;
• Noncommercial organizations;
• Mass-media communication.

пятница, 9 апреля 2010 г.

Methodical recommendations about work carrying out «Revealing and selection of perspective inventions»

Federal official department «Federal institute of industrial property of the Federal Agency of intellectual property, patents and trade marks»
(FGU FIPS)
The work purpose is propagation of invention and assistance to advancement of the Russian work-outs on the domestic and world markets by database replenishment «Perspective inventions» on the site of Rospatent and FGU FIPS in the Internet-network and uses of the information on inventions from this database for formation of the Russian expositions with the assistance of Rospatent and FGU FIPS in the International exhibitions and salons of inventions, new techniques and technologies held in the Russian Federation and abroad, for formation and publication collection «Priority directions in development of science and technologies and perspective inventions», in various specialized magazines, including magazine "Intellectual property".
Work consists in analysis of application materials and selection of inventions satisfying following criteria:
Conformity to priority directions in development of science and technologies in the Russian Federation, defined by Bases of a policy of the Russian Federation in the field of development of science and technologies for the period till 2010 and further prospect, confirmed by the President of the Russian Federation on March, 30th, 2002 N Pr-576, and since 2007 to the Federal target program «Scientifically-technological base of Russia» for 2007-2012, providing the accelerated formation of technological potential according to national priorities of technological development.
Priority directions of development of a science, technologies and techniques
1) Safety and counteraction to terrorism
2) Live systems
3) Industry nano-system and materials
4) information-telecommunication systems
5) Perspective arms, military and special techniques
6) Rational wildlife management
7) Transport, aviation and space systems
8) Power and power savings
Each of priority directions includes extensive area of researches and work-outs both fundamental, and search-applied character and includes critical technologies, work-outs and which use are directed on maintenance of interests of the state in sphere of national safety, economic and social development.
The list of critical technologies of the Russian Federation
1. Base and critical military, special and industrial technologies
2. Bio-information technology
3. Bio-catalytic, biosynthetic and bio-touch technologies
4. Biomedical and veterinary technologies of life-support and protection of the person and animals
5. Generic and post-generic technologies of creation of medical products
6. Cellular technologies
7. Nanotechnology and technologies of creation nanomaterials
8. Technologies of atomic engineering, nuclear fuel cycle, safe handling of radioactive waste and fulfilled nuclear fuel
9. Technologies of bioengineering
10. Technologies of hydrogen power
11. Technologies mechanotronics and creations of Microsystems techniques
12. Technologies of monitoring and forecasting conditions of atmosphere and hydrosphere
13. Technologies of new and renewed energy sources
14. Technologies of maintenance of protection and ability to live of population and dangerous objects at threats of terrorist displays
15. Technologies of processing, storage, transfer and information protection
16. Technologies of an estimation of resources and condition forecasting lithospheres and biospheres
17. Technologies of processing and recycling of technogenics formations and waste
18. "Know-how" of metals and alloys with the special properties, used by arms and military technology manufacture
19. Software "know-how"
20. "Know-how" fuel and energy from organic raw materials
21. Technologies of distributed calculations and systems
22. Technologies of decrease in risk and consequences reduction of natural and technogenics accidents
23. Technologies of creation of biocompatible materials
24. Technologies of creation of intellectual systems of navigation and management
25. Technologies of creation and processing of composite and ceramic materials
26. Technologies of creation and processing of crystal materials
27. Technologies of creation and processing of polymers and elastomer
28. Technologies of creation of new kinds of transport systems and managements
29. Technologies of creation of membranes and catalytical systems
30. Technologies of creation of new generations of space-rocket, aviation and sea techniques
31. Technologies of creation of electronic componential base
32. Technologies of creation of power saving up systems of transportation, distribution and heat and electric power consumption
33. Technologies of creation of power effective engines and propelling device for transport systems
34. Technologies ecologically safe resource-conserving manufactures and processing of agricultural raw materials and foodstuff
35. Technologies of ecologically safe working out of deposits and mining operations
Conformity to federal and departmental programs of technological re-equipment of the high technology directions in a national economy, being in full or in part in sphere of the state responsibility: the nuclear, space, aviation industry, separate sectors of defense-industrial complex, etc.;
Trail invention
A high technological level of invention in comparison with world analogues
Originality of technical decision
Urgency of the problem solved in the invention
Ready for use in manufacture
Useful in manufacture
Economic benefit
«Trail» invention - an outstanding invention to which in world practice the prototype did not precede, it opens new branch of science and techniques.
Example of trail inventions were: penicillin, plastic, laser-ray, synthesis of diamonds, etc.
To inventions having a high technological level, inventions concerning new directions of science and technicians can be carried; inventions corresponding to world level, and also inventions of diversified use.
The urgency of the problem solved in the invention, is estimated on its conformity to priority problems of economy, ecology and social policy, for example, improvement of quality and competitiveness of let out production, economy material and power resources, preservation of the environment, improvement of working conditions etc.
The conclusion about sufficient technical проработанности the invention and its readiness for use in manufacture can be made on presence in application materials of drawings of the invention, results of tests or results of trial approbation.
Invention, satisfying to criterion at least to one of the criteria listed in items 1 - 9, can be recognized by "perspective".
Order
Works on revealing and selection of perspective inventions
For work carried-out branch expert departments (further - expert department) select perspective inventions from among domestic fillings for inventions on which the decision on patent delivery is accepted. Thus simultaneously at the direction the expert department sends the applicant of the decision on patent delivery the letter, questionnaire, letter-order and the list of priority directions of development of science, techniques and technologies and critical technologies.
Cover of each business application recognized by the expert department perspective, expert marks "П".
The expert department monthly represents to department of economy of industrial property (department 45) lists of numbers of selected applications carried by them to the perspective.
The department 45 after reception of answer of the applicant containing the request for inclusion of its invention in a database «Perspective inventions» prepares about it the information for consideration on Commission created according to the Order on Rospatent from 7/4/2006 № 74. Commission sessions are spent not less often than once quarterly.
After acceptance by the Commission of corresponding decision to the patent-owner, the department 45 sends a letter about it.
The department 45 conducts and quarterly represents to Branch of work-outs of automated systems FGU FIPS of data on the selected perspective inventions for database replenishment "Perspective inventions" on the machine-readable carrier and in the Internet networks.