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Changes of the Publication Practice of the GPTO from 2004

Changes of the Publication Practice of the GPTO from 2004. Hubert Rothe , German Patent and Trade Mark Office, Munich. WIPO Standing Committee on Information Technology Standards and Documentation Working Group, Fourth Session, Geneva, January 26 to 30, 2004.

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Changes of the Publication Practice of the GPTO from 2004

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  1. Changes of the Publication Practice of the GPTO from 2004 Hubert Rothe,German Patent and Trade Mark Office, Munich WIPO Standing Committee on Information TechnologyStandards and Documentation Working Group, Fourth Session,Geneva, January 26 to 30, 2004

  2. Official Publication Platform (DPMApublikationen) Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Web Server for Delivery of Raw Data (DPMAdatenabgabe) Changes from 2004

  3. 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

  4. Official Publication Platform Two versions available • 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

  5. Data available patents and utility models: from January 1997 trade marks and designs: data for all rights in force Official Publication Platform

  6. Official Publication Platform Patents, PDF version Possibleselections • Publication year and week • Single parts or all parts • Download and display

  7. 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 Official Publication PlatformSearchable Version

  8. Official Publication Platform Beginners mode • Functionalities • Input fields • Index for important search fields • Hit list to be configured • Number of hits per page to be selected

  9. Official Publication Platform Expert 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

  10. Official Publication Platform 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

  11. Official Publication Platform 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

  12. Official Publication Platform 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

  13. Format, Layout and Content of Patent DocumentsChanges 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

  14. Format, Layout and Content of Patent DocumentsImplementation 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

  15. Format, Layout and Content of Patent DocumentsAdjustment of kind of document codes (“C2B”) • Patent published after grant, no Offenlegungsschrift (A1) was published before former kind code: C1 new 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 C4 new kind code: C5

  16. Format, Layout and Content of Patent DocumentsCorrected documents • 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)

  17. Format, Layout and Content of Patent DocumentsCorrected 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/oder • in Absatz (x) der Beschreibung und/oder • in Anspruch (x) und/oder • in Zeichnungsseite (x) • Frühere Berichtigungen: A9, 02.01.2004

  18. 10 2004 037 108. 7 IP right till 2003: 1 digit from 2004: 2 digits Year of application till 2003: 2 digits from 2004: 4 digits Serial number till 2003: 5 digits from 2004: 6 digits Former length: 8 digits New length: 12 digits Format, Layout and Content of Patent DocumentsExtended application numbering system Check digit

  19. New title page layout from 2004 Publication date within the document identification as fourth data element in the sense of WIPO Standard ST.1

  20. 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)

  21. Thank you very much for your attention.

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