Recent Developments in Information Technology - WIPO [PDF]

Recent Developments in Information Technology (IT) and the Effective Use of Global IP Protection Systems - From PCT perspectiveTokyo 11-12 November Tokyo

Takashi YAMASHITA Director, PCT International Cooperation Division

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Contents Overview of IT in PCT PCT-SAFE PCT-ROAD PCT-EDI Digitization PATENTSCOPE® Possibilities for future developments

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Overview of IT in PCT IPEA ISA EDI EDI

PCT-SAFE

EDI

DO/EO

EDI EDI

IB RO Applicant

E-dossier

PCT-ROAD International Publication

PATENTSCOPE®

DO/EO

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PCT-SAFE (1) Secure Applications Filed Electronically Types of filing Paper: all documents on paper accompanied by Form PCT/RO/101 PCT-SAFE (PCT-EASY): all documents on paper accompanied by PCT-EASY request Form and diskette/physical medium

PCT-SAFE fully electronic: request, text and drawings filed on-line or on physical media, no paper required

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PCT-SAFE (2) PCT-SAFE fully electronic filings; Currently accepted by 20 ROs Possible with RO/IB since February 2004 for all PCT applicants PCT-EASY type filings accepted by more than 70 ROs PCT-EASY type and fully electronic filings accounted for approximately 78% of all PCT filings in 2009 At RO/IB(2009) PCT-EASY type filings 6.7%, fully electronic filings 63.6%, paper only filings 29.7%

http://www.wipo.int/pct-safe/en/

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PCT Filing by type (2009) 160,000 Filings, 100,000 + Filings with XML from applicants

200,000 Image Electronic

150,000

Full XML PDF+ XMl Request

100,000

Paper + XML Request Paper only

50,000 0 Applications

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PCT-ROAD (1) Receiving Office ADministration IB

RO

Applicant

PCT-ROAD PCT-SAFE

Data Entry Request & Application

PATENTSCOPE®

Examination invitation

E-dossier

Formality

Paper correction

Fee Calculation EDI

Record copy

Receive Record Copy

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PCT-ROAD (2) Basic functions Data Entry Physical media (CD-ROM,FD) Paper (manual entry) Examination Ex-officio correction, formality check Fee calculation Creation of record copy to IB http://www.wipo.int/pct-safe/en/pctroad/index.html

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PCT-EDI (1) Electronic Data Interchange Internet based secure transmission by which Offices can send and receive documents to/from IB Initially (~2007) the service made available was upload to IB of certain documents Extended to upload and download of all PCT documents Still a large number of documents are sent on paper Implication to PCT framework (PCT/WG/3/2 para90-93) http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/pct-edi/

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PCT-EDI (2) To IB Record copy

From RO/IB ISR

Search copy

Request-XML App. Body-TIFF

paper

paper +EDI(TIFF)

TRINET

TRINET

(XML)

(PDF-TEXT)

EDI

EDI

(PDF)

(PDF)

EDI EPO

JPO

USPTO

KIPO

EDI (XML)

EDI (TIFF XML)

paper

paper EDI (TIFF)

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Digitization (1) Advantages Preservation of original documents Provide formats for electronic data exchange Enable cost effective processing Enhance value added quality service

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Digitization (2) XML

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Step by step depending on Office status

Text

XML from ISA/IPEA for all PCT documents goal (C.PCT 1160) 101010100

Image Paper

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Digitization (3) XML eXtensible Markup Language XML

Text

(Structured text)

1010101001100 0110110001101 00

101010100 011000110 100101100 100001000 001011010

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Computer recognizes the text logically according to its tagged attributes, e.g., “claim” “abstract.” Facilitate administration, retrieval, translation High quality service !

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PATENTSCOPE® (1) WIPO’s patent information portal site Published international applications are available through this portal site (www.wipo.int/pctdb) PATENTSCOPE® is not just a site of international publication. It provides powerful search engine and analytical resources,etc. http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/

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PATENTSCOPE® (2)

http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/search.jsf

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PATENTSCOPE® (3)

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PATENTSCOPE® (4)

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PATENTSCOPE® (6)

http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/clir/clir.jsp http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/help/CLIR_DOC.pdf

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PATENTSCOPE® (7)

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PATENTSCOPE® (8)

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PATENTSCOPE® (9)

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Possibilities for future developments (1) network PCT SAFE

PCT-ROAD

EDI

seamless

ISA ISA

IPEA DO/EO

RO

IB

DO/EO

seamless and organic network

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Possibilities for future developments (2) Intelligent coordination among international authorities and national offices Collaborative search and examination Feedback of national examination Prior art search in multilateral language [CLIR] Need to enrich corpora in different languages Machine translation is essential High quality patents worldwide !!

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Thank you !