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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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