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Development of integrated information system for Industrial Design for Bulgarian Patent Office

Customer profile: Bulgarian Patent Office Bulgaria
www.bpo.bg

Industry: Government sector

Key Benefits

Complete automation of the document processing in; faster and more reliable communication; shortened time for administrative operations execution; improved document processing, decision processing and performance control; dossiers current status monitoring; improved reporting

“The new automated system for Industrial Design developed and implemented by Fadata has allowed us the flexibility of being able to enable information support for all activities, relating to industrial design much faster."

--Anna Nenova, Director, Information Technology Department, Bulgarian Patent Office

The Patent Office of Bulgaria turned to Fadata for development and implementation of Information Management Solution to administer for Industrial Design related processing in the Office.

"Implementing of integrated information system for industrial designs was essential to respond to the pending requirements to our institution." said Ms. Nenova, "We needed a to ensure the automatic processing of the activities, related to industrial designing, at the Patent Office of the Republic of Bulgaria via the adoption of a new and modern technological platform and the incorporation of all activities (administering and registration), as well as the opportunity to offer information Offices, related to industrial design.”

Why Fadata

Bulgarian Patent Office engaged Fadata for the development and implementation of an integrated document management information system."The Patent Office performed evaluation via tender procedure. Fadata proposal matched our requirements more closely and delivered greater value for money.” Ms. Nenova said. "Fadata proposed an extensive expertise in the field of information technology, professional team with necessary qualification and experience to provide reliable services."

Project details

The system has been designed to support the operations performed by the following departments: “Industrial design”, “Formal expertise”, “Information services”, “Information and publishing” and “Disputes”. The mere intent, scope and functions of the ASID have, to a considerable extent, been defined by the legislative norms, in force as of 1999 (The Law of Industrial design, regulations for the elaboration, depositing and expert investigations on applications for the registration of industrial design solutions). The system has adopted the functions of a transitional unit between the previously active system of industrial samples and the process of integrating the latest technologies, used for administering the activities, related to the information servicing of the other units (trade marks, new sorts and breeds, etc.), as well as the possibilities, granted by the WEB-based digital libraries for patents and trade marks.

In most general terms, the Automatic system for industrial design ensures information support for all activities, relating to industrial design/samples: administering deposited applications according to the national and internationally accepted order; support for the performance of investigations expertise; support for the various information research activities, statistics and information references; maintenance of a state electronic register; preparation of publications on paper and in electronic form; research in various bibliographic data and others, via combined criteria, including bibliographic data and classes of industrial design; the automatic search for similar design solutions, giving an opportunity for achieving considerable accuracy and observation of whole series of images of various designs simultaneously on the monitor; maintenance of an electronic archive of design solutions, which have a consumer classification for combined selection; processing taxes and direct connection with the financial and accounting system; Browsing in the Internet/Intranet for and in other digital libraries.

The services provided include:Analysis of requirements; Review of the entire operation system and business processes, Documenting current systems, Identifying and detailing missing information and processing needs of management, Detailing and documenting broader MIS requirements, Preparing and presenting findings and recommendations to senior management for review and concurrence, Developing and presenting a high-level design specification, Development, Configuration set-up, Reporting, SW supply, System administration, Implementation, Distribution, Training, Data migration, Documentation, Maintenance.

Operational environment: Oracle 8i DBS, Oracle DS/C++; Networking:100 Mb/s Ethernet; Architecture:3-tier; HW: HP RISC Server, PC workstations