Changes of the Publication Practice of the GPTO from 2004

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German Patent and Trade Mark OfficeDPMA

Changes

of the Publication Practice

of the GPTO from 2004

WIPO Standing Committee on Information TechnologyStandards and Documentation Working Group, Fourth Session,

Geneva, January 26 to 30, 2004

Hubert Rothe, German Patent and Trade Mark Office,

Munich

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Changes from 2004

• Official Publication Platform (DPMApublikationen)

• Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents

• Web Server for Delivery of Raw Data (DPMAdatenabgabe)

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Official Publication Platform (http://publikationen.dpma.de)

(DPMApublikationen)

• Execution of statutory publication duties via the Internet• Platform was launched on January 1, 2004• Integrated publication of

- Patent Gazette - Trade Mark Journal - Industrial Designs Gazette and - patent documents

on a single platform• Paper products abandoned• German and English user interfaces

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Official Publication Platform

PDF Version• Typeset form as formerly used for paper version• PDF files are downloadable

Searchable version

• Searchable bibliographic, procedural and legal status data

• Beginners, expert and assisted search modes

• Functionalities and „look-and-feel“ similar to DEPATISnet

Two versions available

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• Data available

• patents and utility models:

• from January 1997

• trade marks and designs:

• data for all rights in force


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Patents, PDF version

• Publication year and week

• Single parts or all parts

• Download and display

Possibleselections

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Searchable Version

• Display of legal and procedural status data

chronologically in tabular form

• Complete patent and utility model documents

(documents of the current week are downloadable

as one single file)

• Image display for trade marks and designs

• Download of data in XML format

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Beginners mode

Functionalities

• Input fields

• Index for important search fields

• Hit list to be configured

• Number of hits per page to be selected

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Official Publication PlatformExpert mode

Functionalities

• Complex search queries are possible

• Various linkage and truncation possibilities

• Hit list to be configured

• Number of hits per page to be selected

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Hit list

• Tabular Form

• Display of number of hits

• Opening the of bibliographic data display screen

• Opening of the document display screen (patents and utility models)

• Refined search

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Display of bibliographic data

Functionalities • Opening of the document

display screen (patents and utility models)

• Downloading of bibliographic data (XML)

• Downloading of full texts for patents and utility models (XML, current week)

• Downloading of DTD• Image display for trade

marks and designs• Printing

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Patents, document display

Functionalities• Selection of

resolution degrees• Direct access to

subdocuments• Browsing page by

page• Complete PDF

documents of the current week

• XML download und printing of entire documents of the current week

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Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Changes and innovations from 2004

• Publications in paper form will be discontinued

- Patent gazette and

- Industrial designs gazette

from 1th publication week of 2004

- Trade Mark gazette from 26th publication week of 2004

• New master format:

mixed mode according to WIPO Standard ST.35

(XML texts + TIFF images)

• Additional formats: PDF, TIFF, BACON

• Complete full texts for U and T1 documents (XML)

• DATIMTEX replaced by XML as full text format,

DTD is available

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Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Implementation of recommendations of WIPO Standards from 2004

• ST.16: Adjustment of kind of document codes (“C2B”)

• ST.50• Publication of “corrected” documents• Clearer designation of documents published after an “alteration”

(“Geänderte Patentschrift”)• Publication of “altered” documents (“Geänderte Patentschrift”)

for EP patents after national limitation or nullity procedures

• ST.13Extended application numbering system

• ST.10/BNew layout of title pages

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Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Adjustment of kind of document codes (“C2B”)

• Patent published after grant, no Offenlegungsschrift (A1) was published before

former kind code: C1new kind code: B3

• Patent published after grant, Offenlegungsschrift (A1) was published before

former kind code: C2 new kind code: B4

• Patent altered in the framework of an objection, nullity or limitation procedure (including patents published by the EPO)

former kind code: C2, C3 or C4new kind code: C5

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• Correction of erroneous bibliographic data elements

Publication of a corrected title page(A8, B8, C8, T8 or U8 documents)

Announcement of the corrected document in the Patent Gazette (publication of a full bibliography)

• Correction of errors within the textual parts (claims and description) and/or the drawings

Publication of a complete document(A9, B9, C9, T9 or U9 documents)

Announcement of the corrected document in the Patent Gazette (publication of a full bibliography)

Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Corrected documents

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Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Corrected documents

New INID Code (48):(48) Veröffentlichungstag der Korrektur: 08.01.2004

New INID Code (15):

(15) Korrekturinformation: (for correction of title page)

Berichtigung zu INID-Code (x), (y)...Frühere Berichtigungen: A9, 02.01.2004

(15) Korrekturinformation: (for republished whole document)Berichtigung zu INID-Code (x) und/oderin Absatz (x) der Beschreibung und/oderin Anspruch (x) und/oderin Zeichnungsseite (x) Frühere Berichtigungen: A9, 02.01.2004

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Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Extended application numbering system

10 2004 037 108. 7

IP righttill 2003: 1 digitfrom 2004: 2 digits

Year of applicationtill 2003: 2 digitsfrom 2004: 4 digits

Serial numbertill 2003: 5 digitsfrom 2004: 6 digits

Former length: 8 digits

New length: 12 digits

Check digit

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New title page layout from 2004

Publication date within the document identification as fourth data element in the sense of WIPO Standard ST.1

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Web Server for Delivery of Raw Data(DPMAdatenabgabe)

• Web server solution replaces delivery of data carriers (except of facsimile data)

• Data available for everybody under uniform conditions(New patent information policy in force since 7/1992)

• Raw data of all types of IP rights available• Data available at 0:00 h on publication day• Available for registered users only

(agreement required)• Flat rate user fee (marginal costs):

40 € per type of data and week of publication• Operational since 1 January 2003

(https://datenabgabe.dpma.de)

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Thank you very much

for your attention.