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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1989
HE NOTED THAT DISCUSSIONS WITH STAFF CIVIL SERVICE BRANCH WOULD START SOON.
REPRESENTATIVES
AND THE
NEW POSTS, AT LIKELY ΤΟ BE
MR MACLEOD ADDED THAT A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF BOTH DIRECTORATE AND NON-DIRECTORATE LEVELS, WERE ALSO NEEDED.
"DETAILS HAVE TO BE FINALISED WITH FINANCE BRANCH," HE SAID.
CIVIL
SERVICE BRANCH AND
THE OF
NEW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REFERRING TO THE WORKLOAD
OUT THAT A HEAVY SCHEDULE OF NEW DEPARTMENT, MR MACLEOD POINTED LEGISLATION IN THIS AREA HAD BEEN SET FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS,
IMPLEMENT
NEW
PROPOSALS
THE NEW IPD WOULD HELP SERVICE MARKS, COPYRIGHT, INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND DESIGNS.
ON
PATENTS,
THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE DEPARTMENT WOULD REMAIN RESPONSIBLE
MR MACLEOD CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIME, SAID.
FOR
THE
THE
ARE AND EXCISE
THE
THE IPD WOULD BECOME THE FOURTH EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT UNDER
THREE EXISTING SECRETARY FOR
AND TRADE
INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT, THE TRADE DEPARTMENT AND THE CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT.
APPLICATIONS FOR TRADE MARKS INCREASE IN 1988
THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED FOR TOTALLED 8,956 COMPARED WITH 8,510 IN 1987.
GLEESON,
THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, MR NOEL (WEDNESDAY), IN RELEASING THE 1988 FIGURES FOR PATENTS REGISTRIES OF HIS DEPARTMENT.
TRADE MARKS IN 1988
REPORTED THIS TODAY THE TRADE MARKS AND
AT 4,360, THE NUMBER OF NEW TRADE MARKS REGISTERED THAN IN 1987, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TRADE MARKS NOW TO 51,493.
IN THE PATENTS REGISTRY, THE NUMBER OF UNITED RE-REGISTERED LOCALLY DURING 1988 WAS 1,070, COMPARED
1987.
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF "LIVE" OR VAILD PATENTS NOW APPROXIMATELY 14,000, MR GLEESON SAID.
WAS HIGHER REGISTERED
KINGDOM PATENTS WITH 1,020 IN
RE-REGISTERED WAS
IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO GIVE A PRECISE FIGUre as ORIGINALLY ON THE LIVES OR VALIDITY OF THE PATENTS AS THE UK PATENTS OFFICE IN LONDON,
THIS DEPENDED REGISTERED IN
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