IPC Reform Implementation PCT systems and products

Kader Taibi - PCT-IS

kader.taibi@wipo.int

June 20, 2005

Summary

• Objectives

• IPC reform requirements

• Affected Applications/systems

• Affected Products/Services

• Implementation main steps

Objectives

• Be able to receive and publish IPC rev. 8 international applications

• Be able to process the MCD reclassification data as it arrives (backfile and updates)

IPC reform requirements

• Published documents (ST 36, ST8, ST10/C)

• IPC reform impact Analysis

• PCT users input

• Patent information classification and IP standards division input

• MCD specifications

Affected Applications/Systems

• CASPIA (bib. Data, data exchange)

• SPIDI (Pamphlet FP, wo-pub-app)

• IB (Art. 20, Rule 87)

• COR (Pamphlet, Pdocs, IPERS, IASF)

• IPDL

• Art 20 DVDs and Rules 87 DVD– XML files/revised wo-published-application.dtd– search quality OCR data added)

• SPIDIXML (will be discontinued)

• SPIDI FTP : wo-published-application.dtd files

• Electronic Gazette (wo-gazette.dtd format files)

• Other (Forms IB/399, IB373, data exchange with some offices)

Affected Products/Services

Implementation Main steps (foreseen at this stage)

• Step 1 : specifications, development based on published standards (up to the end of July)

• Step 2 : further development based on receipt of test data from EPO (July-September)

• Step 3 : user testing (September- December)• Step 4 : initial data upload (September- December)• Step 5 : internal user deployment (October-

December)• Step 6 : External deployment (January 5, 2006)

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