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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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E-dossier

Overview of IT in PCT

ApplicantRO

ISAIPEA

DO/EO

IB

International Publication

DO/EO

PCT-ROAD

PATENTSCOPE

PCT-SAFE

EDI

EDI

EDI

EDI

EDI


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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 ROsPossible 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 forapproximately 78% of all PCT filings in 2009

At RO/IB(2009)

PCT-EASY type filings 6.7%, fully electronic filings 63.6%, paperonly filings 29.7%

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


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PCT-ROAD (1)

Receiving Office ADministration

PCT-SAFE

Paper

Data Entry

Request & Application

PCT-ROAD

Examination

Formality

Fee Calculation

invitation

correction

EDI

Receive

Record Copy

Applicant

RO IB

Record copy

E-dossier

PATENTSCOPE
http://office.microsoft.com/ja-jp/images/MC900237491.aspx


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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 andreceive 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 paperImplication to PCT framework (PCT/WG/3/2 para90-93)

http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/pct-edi/
http://office.microsoft.com/ja-jp/images/MC900237491.aspx


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PCT-EDI (2)

To IB From RO/IB

Record copy ISR Search copy

EPOEDI

Request-XML

App. Body-TIFF

paper paper +EDI(TIFF)

JPO TRINET(XML)

TRINET(PDF-TEXT)

paper

USPTO

EDI

(PDF)

EDI

(PDF) paper

KIPOEDI

(XML)

EDI

(TIFF XML)EDI

(TIFF)


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Advantages

Preservation of original documents

Provide formats for electronic data exchange

Enable cost effective processing

Enhance value added quality service

Digitization (1)


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Digitization (2)

PaperImage

Text

XML

101010100

011000110

100101100

100001000

001011010

1010101001100

0110110001101

00

001101- - - - - - -

- - - - -

Step by step

depending on Office statusXML from ISA/IPEA for all PCT

documents

goal (C.PCT 1160)


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Digitization (3)

XML eXtensible Markup Language

101010100

011000110

100101100

100001000

001011010

1010101001100

0110110001101

00

- - - - - - - - - - - -

XML

Computer recognizes the text logically according to its tagged

attributes, e.g., claim abstract.

Facil itate administration, retrieval, translation

High quality service !

Text (Structured text)

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PATENTSCOPE (1)

WIPOs 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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http://www.wipo.int/pctdbhttp://www.wipo.int/pctdb


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PATENTSCOPE (2)

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


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PATENTSCOPE (5)

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voiture

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car

car

auto

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CLIR

car

CLIR

create relevantterms in 5

languages

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PATENTSCOPE (6)

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

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

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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)

PCT SAFE PCT-ROAD EDI seamless

IBRO

ISA

ISA

IPEA

DO/EO

DO/EO

seamless and organic network

network

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Possibilities for future developments (2)

Intelligent coordination among international authorities

and national officesCollaborative 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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