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Sign upPart 7 of the Handbook on Intellectual Property Information and Documentation
This part contains surveys which cover different stages of the life-cycle of IP documents. They focus on various aspects of processing and publication of patent, trademark and industrial design documentation by the intellectual property offices. They are a source of information on the practices implemented worldwide and the specific characteristics of IP documents.
Table of contents
- Representation of calendar dates
- Numbering systems
- Examples and kinds of patent documents
- Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information
- Bibliographic information in patent gazettes
- Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
- Citation practices relating to patent information
- Codes used by intellectual property offices
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) practices
- Use of WIPO Standards
- Mapping of national/regional IP legal status events to Standard events
- Authority File of published patent documents provided by Offices
- Identifiers for Persons and Entities
- Practices for Visual Elements
- Public Access to Patent Information
- Practices for digital transformation
Shortcuts
Representation of calendar dates ↑
- Part 7.1: Representation of calendar dates - Variations in the representation of calendar dates based on the Gregorian calendar, as printed in industrial property documents or in official gazettes (January 2023) Previous version: (November 1997)
Numbering systems ↑
- Part 7.2.2: Survey of numbering systems used, or intended to be used, by industrial property offices with regard to applications, published documents and registered rights (April 2021)
Previous version: June 2001 - Part 7.2.3: Numbering systems and date formats introduced or planned to be applied with regard to the arrival of the year 2000 (January 2000)
- Part 7.2.4: Survey on the presentation of priority application numbers (December 2018) | Annex
- Part 7.2.5: Survey on application numbering systems (June 2013) - IPO responses | collated results
- Part 7.2.6: Numbering of applications and priority applications - current practices (September 2017)
- Part 7.2.7: Numbering of applications and priority applications - former practices (September 2017)
Examples and kinds of patent documents ↑
- Part 7.3.1: Examples and kinds of patent documents listed according to code (March 2020)
- Part 7.3.2: Inventory of kinds of patent documents listed according to the issuing industrial property office (November 2022)
Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information ↑
- Part 7.4.1: Survey concerning correction procedures in patent offices (December 2009)
- Part 7.4.2: Examples concerning correction procedures of patent offices (December 2009)
Bibliographic information in patent gazettes ↑
- Part 7.6: Survey of bibliographic information contained in patent gazettes and in current indexes inserted in patent gazettes or published separately in association with patent gazettes (December 1990)
Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs) ↑
- Part 7.7: Survey on the grant and publication of Supplemental Protection Certificates (SPCs) and Patent Term Extensions (PTEs) (November 2019)
Survey analysis | Collated responses | IPO responses | Survey questionnaire
Citation practices relating to patent information ↑
Codes used by intellectual property offices ↑
- Part 7.10: Survey of practices in industrial property offices regarding codes used for internal purposes or individual use (January 2009)
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) practices ↑
- Part 7.11: Survey on the implementation and promotion of WIPO Standard ST.22 (June 2012) - IPO responses | collated results
Use of WIPO Standards ↑
- Part 7.12: Survey on the use of WIPO Standards - Wiki
Mapping of national/regional IP legal status events to Standard events ↑
- Part 7.13.1: Mapping tables of national/regional patent legal status events to the events of WIPO Standard ST.27 (January 2019) -
- Part 7.13.2: Mapping tables of national/regional industrial design legal status events to the events of WIPO Standard ST.87 (April 2020) -
- Part 7.13.3: Mapping tables of national/regional trademark legal status events to the events of WIPO Standard ST.61 (July 2022) -
Authority File of published patent documents provided by Offices ↑
- Part 7.14: Authority File data-sets compliant with WIPO Standard ST.37 - Authority File Portal
Identifiers for Persons and Entities ↑
- Part 7.15: Survey on the use of identifiers for applicants (November 2019)
Survey analysis | Collated responses | IPO responses | Survey questionnaire
Practices for Visual Elements ↑
- Part 7.16: Survey on electronic visual representation of industrial designs (November 2019)
Survey analysis | Collated responses | IPO responses | Survey questionnaire - Part 7.17: Survey on the use of 3D models and 3D images in IP data and documentation (April 2021)
Survey analysis | Collated responses | IPO responses | Survey questionnaire
Public Access to Patent Information ↑
- Part 7.18.1: Survey on public access to patent information, part 1 (April 2021)
Survey analysis | Collated responses | IPO responses | Survey questionnaire - Part 7.18.2: Survey on public access to patent information, part 2 (March 2022)
Survey analysis | Collated responses | IPO responses | Survey questionnaire
Practices for digital transformation↑
- Part 7.19: Survey on office practices for digital transformation (November 2022)