Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) 9th Designs Liaison Meeting – 7 October 2010 – Item No. 4

Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) Innovation SHAREIP WIKI a place for cooperating to innovate in IP processes -Cooperation projects portal -Indicators: -Trade marks -Designs -IT inventory All 31 offices at Liaison Meeting (incl. Observing Offices) have at least one user authorized to use it 144 user accounts opened

Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) Innovation Q: How much the wiki is actually used? -Number of Offices: 21 out of 31 offices have used it by integrating their own data (10 offices have never inserted any data) - Degree of use:not completely used: -while 6 Offices inserted data in all sections (100% use of the wiki), the average rate of use is 40% (60% of the wiki is empty) -the most complete section in terms of data is the IT inventory section, followed by the TM indicator -Designs: -13 offices have introduced data on design indicators

Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) % 90.00% 80.00% 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% 25/11/200922/01/201028/01/201016/02/201026/02/ ,44% % 21.20% 32.26% Sent 25 jan Call NOs 16 feb Evolution of use

Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) Innovation Q: Why to use it? -Information Platform: More immediate exchange of information among Offices (e.g. info on indicators and stats) -Communication Platform: particularly, in cooperation projects (e.g. Cooperation Fund) Q: I do not know how to use it -If need be, assistance can be provided by OHIM

Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) Practical example