Lithuanian Patent Specifications on CD-ROM

After Lithuania declared its independence on 11 March 1990, it started re-establishing national industrial property legislation. In 1991, the State Patent Bureau was established; between 1991 and 1995, the Lithuanian legislation on the protection of Company Names, Trademarks and Service Marks, Patents and Industrial Designs was accepted. During 1992-1994, Lithuania became a member of the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), and a Cooperation and Extension Agreement with the European Patent Organisation (EPO) for the extension of European Patents to Lithuania. This paper reviews the information process of the Industrial Property protected in Lithuania (including European Patent Applications and European Patents), illustrated by statistics on Lithuanian Industrial Property documents published, reports on the qualities of the PRECES CD-ROM on which Lithuanian Patent Specifications are included, and presents directions for the improvement of the Lithuanian Industrial Property Dissemination System.