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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
Operational Systems
A statistical overview
A presentation by Nicolas Vigneron – GAERD (OHIM) Alicante – June 2007
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
I) OHIM Website
Around 500 000 visits/month 12000 11000 10000 9000 8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 Jan-06 Feb 06 M ar 06 A pr-06 M ay 06 Jun-06 Jul-06 A ug 06 number of request number of visits 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 Sep 06 Oct-06 No v 06 Dec 06 Jan-07 Feb 07 M ar 07 A pr-07 M ay 07 0
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
I) CTM-ONLINE – RCD-ONLINE CTM-ONLINE
is the most used (40% of visits to OHIM website) Last version from September 2006 A new release has just been put in production: changing the list of statuses (introduction of CTMs in status “File Closed”) - displaying information regarding partial transfer and division of CTMs - Displaying the representative before OHIM for IRs correcting some bugs (possiblity to search CTM “acquire distinctiveness”…)
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
I) CTM-ONLINE – RCD-ONLINE CTM-ONLINE
is the most used (40% of visits to OHIM website) Main problems: 1- Problems of daily refresh (many failures) 2- Problem of some CTMs that cannot be retrieved.
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
I) CTM-ONLINE – RCD-ONLINE RCD-ONLINE
Around 15 000 visits/month. 10 times less than CTM ONLINE Main limitations are that : - no recordals are published (including change of representative/ownership) - RCD disappears from the database when declared invalid. This issue will be solved Q3/2007.
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
I) CTM-ONLINE – RCD-ONLINE RCD-ONLINE
Around 15 000 visits/month. 10 times less than CTM ONLINE Main problems: 1- Search recently published RCD. This problem has been solved last week 2- Limitation when doing some searches in DE, FR, ES and IT. Should be solved on September
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
CTM E-FILING
Around 75% use – 5000 e-filing/month On May 2006: implementation of e-payment – 3% use 90.00% 80.00% 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% 20 02 20 -1 1 02 20 -1 03 2 20 -0 03 1 20 -0 2 03 20 -0 03 3 20 -0 4 03 20 -0 5 03 20 -0 6 03 20 -0 7 03 20 -0 8 03 20 -0 9 03 20 -1 0 03 20 -1 1 03 20 -1 04 2 20 -0 04 1 20 -0 2 04 20 -0 04 3 20 -0 4 04 20 -0 04 5 20 -0 6 04 20 -0 04 7 20 -0 04 8 20 -0 9 04 20 -1 0 04 20 -1 1 04 20 -1 2 05 20 -0 1 05 20 -0 05 2 20 -0 3 05 20 -0 4 05 20 -0 05 5 20 -0 6 05 20 -0 05 7 20 -0 05 8 20 -0 9 05 20 -1 05 0 20 -1 1 05 20 -1 06 2 20 -0 1 06 20 -0 2 06 20 -0 06 3 20 -0 4 06 20 -0 5 06 20 -0 6 06 20 -0 7 06 20 -0 8 06 20 -0 9 06 20 -1 06 0 20 -1 1 06 20 -1 07 2 20 -0 1 07 20 -0 07 2 20 -0 07 3 20 -0 4 07 -0 5
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
CTM E-FILING
Geographical breakdown by country of CTM applicant 90.00% 80.00% 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% DE ES FR GB IT US
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
CTM E-FILING
Geographical breakdown by country of representative 100.00% 90.00% 80.00% 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% DE ES FR GB IT
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
B2B CTM E-FILING
Version 1 in production with Dennemeyer: - 4 representatives using it - 4 representatives testing it Version 2 in production - Ready for production with CPA Inprotech - Test going on with 11 companies Edital, Dennemeyer, Patrix, ORDIPAT, EPONA
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
RCD E-FILING
Still first version of the system : no integration with back office, no automatic allocation of RCD number
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
E-OPPOSITION
Launched in July 2006.
14.00% 12.00% 10.00% 8.00% 6.00% 4.00% 2.00% 0.00% 2006-06 2006-07 2006-08 2006-09
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
MYPAGE
MYPAGE (launched 12/04): - Over 2000 users - 70% representatives/30% owners - 77% use e-communication - representing 40% of CTM filed
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
MYPAGE
New improvements -Possibility to modify personal details via MyPage (since end March) - E-Mail notification for search reports - Possibility to visualize documents of non published CTMs – Only for representative and owner Main problems: - Problems when opening large mailboxes with no automatic archiving in folders.
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Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
E-RENEWAL
Since 1/11/2005 95% via e-renewal.
E-Renewal:
electronic renewal of CTM Main issue: - Print option after having filed is not working. Should be fixed soon
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs)
ONLINE ACCESS TO CTM FILES
Since 18/06/2006 Only documents of CTM filed or published in part A after 01/01/2004.
During the first week, 2791 documents have been opened.
45% opposition documents 30% CTM documents No problems have been reported so far.
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) Information: (+ 34) 965 139 100 (switchboard) (+ 34) 965 139 400 (e-business technical incidents) (+ 34) 965 131 344 (main fax) [email protected]
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) Avenida de Europa, 4 E-03008 Alicante SPAIN