Survey on Public Access To Patent Information, Part 2
Collated Results
This survey contains information from Industrial Property Offices (IPOs) on their content, practices, functionalities and future plans with respect to patent information available to the public.
- Purpose: provide information on IPO practices for consideration by the CWS
- Conducted: May to August 2021
- Survey approved: CWS/8
- Results approved: CWS/9
Notes
- This data is presented as provided by the respondent. If you have questions about a particular respondent's data, please contact that Office for more information.
- Empty table cells mean that the respondent did not answer that part of the question. Likewise, a respondent with no entry on a particular question means they did not answer that question.
Survey Contents
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- Survey respondents
- 1. Please explain any other conditions or requirements for access to patent information besides those covered in Part 1 questions 3 (access mechanism) and 4 (who may access), such as limits on the number of queries, number of results, or data limits.
- 2. Are fees required for access to particular types of information?
- 3. If your office uses multiple languages, are the online interfaces for different languages synchronized with the same capabilities and the same data, or do some interfaces have different capabilities or data than others? Please indicate the reference language(s).
- 4. Please indicate any differences in the data available in other languages (for example, in the frequency of updates, coverage, search tools, etc.).
- 5. Are documents available for download in a searchable text format? Examples of searchable text formats include plain text documents, HTML, XML, and certain PDFs that are created with readable text. If a PDF was created from a scanned image with OCR (optical character recognition) applied, then select "PARTIAL" as text may not always be converted correctly. This question refers only to the content of the document which can be represented as text. Do not consider images or figures in your answer. If a document has both images and text, answer "Yes" if all the text elements are searchable.
- 6. Are updated versions of patent documents available online when changes are made after publication (e.g. “as granted” rather than “as filed”)?
- 7. Which parts of patent documents are updated online after publication? Mark all that apply.
- 8. Is the event history (list of relevant legal status information) for a given document available in online systems?
- 9. What are your current plans, if any, for using WIPO Standard ST.27 for patent legal status information? Check all that apply.
- 10. Does your Office / Organization provide an authority file of published patent documents?
- 11. If you do not provide an authority file to WIPO according to the recommendations of ST.37, can you indicate the reasons below? Check all that apply.
- 12. Are the following features available in the online systems provided by your Office? See glossary above for definitions of search types.
- 13. Are the following fields available for search in the online systems in question? Check all that apply.
- 14. For machine translations, please indicate which languages are translated.
- 15. Which patent information is translated?
- 16. Does your system provide guidance on what types of number formats are accepted when searching by application or publication numbers?
- 17. What types of number formats are accepted when searching by application or publication numbers? Please check all that apply.
- 18. Are WIPO ST.3 two-letter codes or WIPO ST.16 document kind codes used as part of the search term when searching by application or publication number?
- 19. What kind of interface do users have to access your online systems for the available types of patent documents? For example, for published patent applications, granted patents, patent term extensions, fee payments.
- 20. Do your online systems use the same web pages or portals for different types of industrial property rights provided by your Office? For example, patents for inventions, plant patents, design patents, inventors’ certificates, utility certificates, utility models, patents of addition and others. Answer yes here even if there are multiple web pages or portals for different types of documents (application, legal status history, assignments, etc), as long as each type of IP right is available on the same web page or portal. Note- this question is about different types of IP rights. Question 17 is about different types of patent documents.
- 21. If there are separate websites or portals for these other types of industrial property provided by your Office, please list them.
- 22. Do your online systems contain information on documents issued under international or regional IP protection systems, which have (potential) effect in your jurisdiction?
- 23. If so, what types of documents are available, e.g. PCT documents or translations?
- 24. Is international or regional data searchable in the same online systems as national documentation?
- 25. What functionality would you like to see in the systems provided by other Offices?
- 26. What is your desired update frequency for data from other Offices?
- 27. Should other Offices’ systems support machine-to-machine communication (such as web services) for exchanging data with your Office?
- 28. Should Offices’ systems provide search capabilities for both their national data sets and data published by other Offices (with an interface in the national language)?
- 29. Is there a user guide for searching (such as explanation of fields or examples) available in the system?
- 30. Is there a clear indication of which information in the official publication is issued by your Office / Organization and which information is from other sources (e.g. a disclaimer on externally provided information)?
- 31. Please briefly describe your future plans with respect to your Office’s online systems, their content and functionality. For example, if you have plans to expand their capabilities, merge existing systems, retire old systems, or a general timeline for such work, please include that information here.
- 32. In which of the following areas are WIPO recommendations the most needed and/or most effective? Check all that apply.
- 33. Is your Office / Organization considering to discontinue the official gazettes, and instead make related publication data available only via public online services?
Survey respondents
| ST.3 Code | Country or Office |
|---|---|
| AT | Austria |
| AU | Australia |
| AZ | Azerbaijan |
| BH | Bahrain |
| BR | Brazil |
| CI | Côte d’Ivoire |
| CO | Colombia |
| DE | Germany |
| EC | Ecuador |
| EE | Estonia |
| EP | European Patent Office (EPO) |
| FI | Finland |
| GB | United Kingdom |
| GE | Georgia |
| HU | Hungary |
| IL | Israel |
| IT | Italy |
| JP | Japan |
| KR | Republic of Korea |
| LT | Lithuania |
| MD | Republic of Moldova |
| MX | Mexico |
| NO | Norway |
| PA | Panama |
| PG | Papua New Guinea |
| PH | Philippines |
| PL | Poland |
| PT | Portugal |
| RU | Russian Federation |
| SE | Sweden |
| SI | Slovenia |
| SK | Slovakia |
| SM | San Marino |
| UA | Ukraine |
| US | United States of America |
| UY | Uruguay |
1. Please explain any other conditions or requirements for access to patent information besides those covered in Part 1 questions 3 (access mechanism) and 4 (who may access), such as limits on the number of queries, number of results, or data limits.
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | We only charge for the cost of preparing physical media for the complete bulk specification. The same data is available other online means for free. | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ||
| BH Bahrain | For question 3 in part 1: Online queries with paid subscription or contract required and request for patent search with fees applicable. For question 4 in part 1: Information is only available to patent attorneys admitted to practice before the Office. | |
| BR Brazil | Direct access to the search website has a limitation of 500 documents per query. However, INPI provides online reports and access to a larger data set on its website for pending aplications. | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | The number of queries is limited. As for the results, the system will show a maximum of 2,000 registrations per query. For specific queries, you can use the document number, the name of the applicant/owner, the name of the inventor, or other specific information. Similarly, through SIPI, it is possible to consult documents created as part of New Creation applications. | There are fees for obtaining a priority certified copy, specific certificates and searches but the published information is available free of charge. |
| DE Germany | no further information | |
| EC Ecuador | N/A | |
| EE Estonia | No limits have been set. | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | The EPO offers various patent information services, for which the conditions of access and the terms of use differ. Most web-based platforms are monitored in terms of the EPO fair use policy. | The EPO offers free-of-charge and licence/fee-based online services. The EPO is in the process of reviewing the conditions for access to patent information. Accordingly, these conditions may change in the future. |
| FI Finland | Our patent information service is open on the Internet to all users via a user interface, without any login requirements (see https://patent.prh.f | |
| GB United Kingdom | We have no specific limits on our online search services, however we are planning to implement Captcha. | |
| GE Georgia | No further limitations | |
| HU Hungary | There is a system limit of 500 results. | |
| IL Israel | The ILPO patent data search engine fully supports all search options available in elastic search. | |
| IT Italy | we retrieve the first 10000 results | |
| JP Japan | Basically, there are no access restrictions. Also, only 3000 search results can be displayed. | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | There are no limits on the number of queries or the number of results. The electronic database of European patents contains data on European patents for which the Republic of Lithuania is a designated as a validation or extension state. The electronic database of national patents contains data on published national patent applications and granted patents. The database contains all descriptions of patents issued under the Patent Law in PDF and HTML format. The database also contains all descriptions of published patent applications starting from 2011 and descriptions of previously published patent applications for which no patents have been granted. Both databases also contain information on supplementary protection certificates issued for patents. Although this database is an exact copy of the data stored in the Patent Register, the information provided has no legal effect and is provided for public information purposes. Interested persons wishing to obtain official confirmation of the legal status of the invention must file a request to obtain the receipt of an extract from the Patent Register or a certified copy of the patent application. | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | There are no limits on the number of queries, number of results, or data limits. | |
| MX Mexico | There are no conditions or limitations on queries, the information is publically available. | Not applicable. |
| NO Norway | Access with username and password for more advanced services like automated research (surveillance) and warning. Access with qualified advanced signature (national portal) - access to My Account, with national inbox for digital messages, and access to my case with self services, also prior to publication. Possible manual extension of access rights of username/password account for limited access to my account (establish use of digital correspondence with office on applicaitons/cases in my portfolio ) | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | 1. There are no conditions or requirements for access to patent information. 2. Anyone can access the patent data and there are no limits on the number of queries, number of results, or data limits. | |
| PH Philippines | ||
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | There are no daily limits concerning the number of queries and downloads. | |
| SE Sweden | ||
| SI Slovenia | Patent information database is freely accessible | |
| SK Slovakia | ||
| SM San Marino | no condition | |
| UA Ukraine | No other conditions or requirements | |
| US United States of America | No other conditions outside of the information already provided. | |
| UY Uruguay |
2. Are fees required for access to particular types of information?
| ST.3 Code | Response | If yes, please indicate for which information and explain the access procedure (e.g. how to create an account, what forms of payment are accepted, etc.). |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | NO | |
| AU Australia | NO | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | NO | |
| BH Bahrain | YES | creating e-key account and login to the website: https://service.moic |
| BR Brazil | NO | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | NO | |
| DE Germany | NO | |
| EC Ecuador | NO | |
| EE Estonia | NO | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | ||
| FI Finland | NO | |
| GB United Kingdom | NO | |
| GE Georgia | NO | |
| HU Hungary | NO | |
| IL Israel | NO | |
| IT Italy | NO | |
| JP Japan | NO | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | NO | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | NO | |
| MX Mexico | NO | Not applicable. |
| NO Norway | NO | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | NO | |
| PH Philippines | NO | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | YES | Access to Russian Databases (Soviet documents, Design and Trademark Databases) is partially fee payable. |
| SE Sweden | NO | |
| SI Slovenia | NO | |
| SK Slovakia | NO | |
| SM San Marino | NO | |
| UA Ukraine | NO | |
| US United States of America | NO | |
| UY Uruguay | NO |
3. If your office uses multiple languages, are the online interfaces for different languages synchronized with the same capabilities and the same data, or do some interfaces have different capabilities or data than others? Please indicate the reference language(s).
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | ||
| AZ Azerbaijan | English Russian | |
| BH Bahrain | Arabic English | |
| BR Brazil | Portuguese | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | Spanish | The interface is available in English but the documents will continue to be displayed in Spanish. |
| DE Germany | English German | |
| EC Ecuador | Spanish | The information is in Spanish. |
| EE Estonia | In addition to the Estonian interface, it is possible to use the English online interface. | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | English French German | The EPO generally offers online access to patent information in the three official languages of the Office (EN, FR and DE). Specific EPO online services may be available in more than these three official languages. |
| FI Finland | English Other (Specify in comments) | Our office has three language interfaces: English, Finnish and Swedish. All Information service interfaces have the same capabilities and the same data. Patent publication service has a mixed interface with English/Finnish titles. |
| GB United Kingdom | The UK-IPO only offer our services in English | |
| GE Georgia | English Other (Specify in comments) | Georgian |
| HU Hungary | English | The general search interface called "IP search" has the same data set in English and in Hungarian, however the published documents are available only in Hungarian. On the other hand, the so called "e-register" exists only in a Hungarian version. |
| IL Israel | English Other (Specify in comments) | Other language: Hebrew. The online interfaces for English and Hebrew are synchronized with the same capabilities and the same data. |
| IT Italy | at the moment we don't use multiple language interfaces | |
| JP Japan | No answer because the office mainly uses only Japanese. | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | Other (Specify in comments) | The main language is Lithuanian. Online interfaces have also an English version for foreign users. |
| MD Republic of Moldova | English Russian | Text searches in English and Russian interfaces are limited to titles, person names and abstracts. |
| MX Mexico | Spanish | The information is only available in Spanish. |
| NO Norway | English Other (Specify in comments) | Norwegian or English user interface, identical service level and data access. Published patent documents either in Norwegian, English, Swedish or Danish, where not Norwegian is selected, the claims should also be provided in Norwegian. |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | Other (Specify in comments) | The office does not use multiple language but English only. Interfaces for three different languages (Arabic, Japanese, and French) are also synchronized with same capabilities and same data. |
| PH Philippines | English | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | English Russian | Rospatent/FIPS websites have Russian and English interfaces, however, the content is partially translated |
| SE Sweden | English Other (Specify in comments) | Swedish |
| SI Slovenia | English Other (Specify in comments) | Slovene |
| SK Slovakia | English | the same capabilities |
| SM San Marino | ||
| UA Ukraine | English Russian Other (Specify in comments) | Original language is Ukrainian |
| US United States of America | English | English Only |
| UY Uruguay |
4. Please indicate any differences in the data available in other languages (for example, in the frequency of updates, coverage, search tools, etc.).
| ST.3 Code | Differences for Language | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | ||
| AZ Azerbaijan | ||
| BH Bahrain | Published applications: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Granted patents: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Licensing information: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Official Gazette: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Legal Status information: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Corrections: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Priority information: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Patent family information: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. File inspection: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Court decisions: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. Reassignments: No differences, data available in Arabic or English. | |
| BR Brazil | ||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | Published applications: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Granted patents: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Licensing information: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Official Gazette: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Legal Status information: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Corrections: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Priority information: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Patent family information: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. File inspection: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Court decisions: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. Reassignments: Spanish. The interface has been translated into English but the documents will not be translated. | |
| DE Germany | Published applications: Access interface is provided in German and English, content of the documents is provided in German only; machine translation is under consideration Granted patents: Access interface is provided in German and English, content of the documents is provided in German only; machine translation is under consideration Licensing information: none Access interface is provided in German and English, content of the Official Gazette is provided in German only Legal Status information: none Corrections: In case of legal status information: none In case of published or granted documents: Access interface is provided in German and English, content of file is provided in German only Priority information: none Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: none Patent family information: none File inspection: Access interface is provided in German and English, content of the documents is provided in German only; Court decisions: German only | |
| EC Ecuador | Published applications: N/A Granted patents: N/A Licensing information: N/A Official Gazette: N/A Legal Status information: N/A Corrections: N/A Priority information: N/A Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: N/A Patent family information: N/A File inspection: N/A Court decisions: N/A Reassignments: N/A | The information from Ecuador is in Spanish. |
| EE Estonia | Compared to Estonian, there are no differences in the data available in English. | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | ||
| FI Finland | Published applications: Mixed user interface with English / Finnish titles. Documents are published according to legal requirements in Finnish/Swedish/English or any combination thereof. | |
| GB United Kingdom | ||
| GE Georgia | ||
| HU Hungary | Published applications: Published documents only available in Hungarian. Granted patents: Published documents only available in Hungarian. Licensing information: There is no difference. Official Gazette: The document itself is solely available in Hungarian, however the links containing the titles of the chapters of the Gazette, are also available in English. Legal Status information: There is no difference. Corrections: Published documents are available only in Hungarian. Priority information: There is no difference. Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: There is no difference. Patent family information: The search pages do not show patent family information. (There is no difference) File inspection: Presently not available in any language. Court decisions: There is no difference. Reassignments: There is no difference. | |
| IL Israel | Published applications: No difference Granted patents: No difference Licensing information: No difference Official Gazette: No difference Legal Status information: No difference Corrections: No difference Priority information: No difference Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: No difference Patent family information: Not applicable File inspection: No difference Court decisions: No difference Reassignments: No difference | The online interface in English and Hebrew provide information about the same data listed above. The court decisions are published in Hebrew. |
| IT Italy | ||
| JP Japan | Published applications: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Granted patents: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Licensing information: Not provided in languages other than Japanese Official Gazette: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Legal Status information: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Corrections: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Priority information: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Patent family information: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. File inspection: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Court decisions: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. Reassignments: Japanese and its English translations are available through the search service(J-PlatPat). There is no difference in update frequency and coverage due to differences between languages. | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | Published applications: Description of patent application (pdf document) is available only in Lithuanian. Granted patents: Description of patent (pdf document and full text) is available only in Lithuanian. Official Gazette: Only a list of contents and an explanatory list of INID codes are available in English. | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | Published applications: No diferences Granted patents: No diferences Licensing information: only in romanian Official Gazette: No diferences Legal Status information: No diferences Corrections: No diferences Priority information: No diferences Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: No diferences Patent family information: No informaton File inspection: only in romanian, if avaialble Court decisions: only in romanian Reassignments: only in romanian | In regard to titles, abstracts and persons names (legal entities may not be translated into Russian) |
| MX Mexico | Published applications: Spanish Granted patents: Spanish Licensing information: Spanish Official Gazette: Spanish Legal Status information: Spanish Corrections: Spanish Priority information: Spanish Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: Spanish File inspection: Spanish Court decisions: Spanish (the relevant part) Reassignments: Spanish | |
| NO Norway | Published applications: Available in applicant selected language of Norwegian, English, Danish or Swedish. Claims should be availalbe in Norwegian in addition to selected language. Granted patents: Available in applicant selected language of Norwegian, English, Danish or Swedish. Claims should be availalbe in Norwegian in addition to selected language. Licensing information: Norwegian or english Official Gazette: Only in Norwegian Legal Status information: No differences Corrections: Available in applicant selected language of Norwegian, English, Danish or Swedish. Claims should be availalbe in Norwegian in addition to selected language. Priority information: No differences Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: No differences Patent family information: No differences File inspection: In filed language Court decisions: Only in Norwegian Reassignments: Only in Norwegian | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | Published applications: Same data available in other language interface. Granted patents: Same data available in other language interface. Legal Status information: Same data available in other language interface. | |
| PH Philippines | Published applications: n/a Granted patents: n/a Legal Status information: n/a Corrections: n/a Priority information: n/a | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | Published applications: Not published Granted patents: Not published Licensing information: Not published Official Gazette: Not published Legal Status information: Not published Corrections: Not published Priority information: Not published Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: Not published Patent family information: Not published File inspection: Not published Court decisions: Not published Reassignments: Not published | English version includes only English web-interface (headings and menu). The content is available only in Russian. |
| SE Sweden | ||
| SI Slovenia | Published applications: No differences Granted patents: No differences Licensing information: No differences Official Gazette: Accessible only in Slovenian language Legal Status information: No differences Corrections: No differences Priority information: No differences Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: No differences Reassignments: No differences | |
| SK Slovakia | ||
| SM San Marino | ||
| UA Ukraine | Published applications: Not published Granted patents: Ukrainian, English, Russian Licensing information: Ukrainian, English, Russian Official Gazette: Ukrainian Legal Status information: Ukrainian, English, Russian Corrections: Not published Priority information: Ukrainian, English, Russian Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: Ukrainian, English, Russian Patent family information: Not published File inspection: Not published Court decisions: Ukrainian, English, Russian Reassignments: Ukrainian, English, Russian | |
| US United States of America | Published applications: n/a Granted patents: n/a Licensing information: n/a Official Gazette: n/a Legal Status information: n/a Corrections: n/a Priority information: n/a Patent Term Extensions or Supplementary Protection Certificates: n/a Patent family information: n/a File inspection: n/a Court decisions: n/a Reassignments: n/a | When available, actual family documents are available in their original language. |
| UY Uruguay |
5. Are documents available for download in a searchable text format? Examples of searchable text formats include plain text documents, HTML, XML, and certain PDFs that are created with readable text. If a PDF was created from a scanned image with OCR (optical character recognition) applied, then select "PARTIAL" as text may not always be converted correctly. This question refers only to the content of the document which can be represented as text. Do not consider images or figures in your answer. If a document has both images and text, answer "Yes" if all the text elements are searchable.
| ST.3 Code | Published applications | Granted patents | Amendments, corrections, or other documents with updates | File history | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | |||||
| AU Australia | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | The partial is due to historical data not being OCRed. |
| AZ Azerbaijan | |||||
| BH Bahrain | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| BR Brazil | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | NO | Title and abstracts are available for most documents on the search website. |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |||||
| CO Colombia | YES | YES | YES | YES | Depending on the type of document provided by the applicant (i.e. whether the text is completely legible in PDF format), the document will be searchable. The Office does not use the kind codes set out in WIPO Standard ST.50. |
| DE Germany | YES | YES | YES | NO | |
| EC Ecuador | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| EE Estonia | The full texts of the patent documents are only available in non-searchable pdf format. | ||||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | YES | YES | YES | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | Documents in the file history are to some extent available in scanned format only. |
| FI Finland | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| GB United Kingdom | NO | NO | NO | NO | Our documents are available in searchable text format on EspaceNet |
| GE Georgia | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | |||
| HU Hungary | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | YES | The HIPO does not update the previous versions of published patent documents, but shows all the versions simultaneously. |
| IL Israel | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| IT Italy | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | NO | We are planning to publish an updated version of patent documents after the granting process. |
| JP Japan | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| KR Republic of Korea | |||||
| LT Lithuania | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | YES | For published patent applications only abstract is searchable. We do not upload documents with updates or publish file history. | ||
| MD Republic of Moldova | YES | YES | YES | ||
| MX Mexico | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | |
| NO Norway | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| PA Panama | |||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| PH Philippines | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | NO | NO | |
| PL Poland | |||||
| PT Portugal | |||||
| RU Russian Federation | YES | YES | YES | NO | |
| SE Sweden | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| SI Slovenia | NO | NO | NO | ||
| SK Slovakia | YES | YES | YES | NO | |
| SM San Marino | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| UA Ukraine | NO | YES | YES | NO | |
| US United States of America | YES | YES | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | |
| UY Uruguay | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) | PARTIAL (some text elements not searchable) |
6. Are updated versions of patent documents available online when changes are made after publication (e.g. “as granted” rather than “as filed”)?
| ST.3 Code | Response | If yes, please explain how updated documents are presented in search results (e.g. with updated kind codes according to WIPO ST.50). |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | YES | We comply with the kind codes according to ST.50 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | YES | The updated documents are presented in official bulletin. |
| BH Bahrain | NO | |
| BR Brazil | YES | Granted patents are available as such in the BR search website. |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | NO | |
| DE Germany | YES | updated kind code according to ST.16 |
| EC Ecuador | NO | |
| EE Estonia | YES | The updated documents are presented as A and B documents in non-searchable pdf format. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | YES | Changes that result in a republication of a patent document will be available through the European publication server and other platforms. Those publications have a specific publication kind code so that they can be identified. Some changes that do not require a republication will be reflected in the European Patent Register and/or the European Patent Bulletin. |
| FI Finland | YES | We republish corrected versions of granted patents with separate kind code. |
| GB United Kingdom | YES | We use A8, A9, B8, C, C2, C3 etc for documents made available after publication following WIPO ST16 standard |
| GE Georgia | YES | |
| HU Hungary | NO | |
| IL Israel | YES | For each patent or patent application, all the versions of the specification (original and amended) are listed in the "Application Docs" together with the date of their submission. The same is true for any other document sent by the applicant or the ILPO. |
| IT Italy | NO | |
| JP Japan | YES | The updated type code is displayed in the search result list (for example, the registered publication is "JP, ○○○○-○○○○○○ B"). |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | YES | All changes are published in Official Bulletin (changes of bibliographic information or claims). Only a separate file of claims (not as a part of patent description document (B1)) is updated and uploaded if some changes are made. |
| MD Republic of Moldova | NO | |
| MX Mexico | YES | |
| NO Norway | YES | With updated kind codes according to WIPO ST.50. |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | NO | |
| PH Philippines | YES | In compliance with WIPO ST.50, all downloadable documents are uniquely identified by specific kind codes |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | YES | Information on updates or corrections regarding IPRs, as well as all the amendments are published in the official gazette. Revised editions of patent documents are available for inventions and utility models. |
| SE Sweden | YES | All documents emanating from the same application are presented in the search result. |
| SI Slovenia | NO | |
| SK Slovakia | YES | WIPO ST.50 |
| SM San Marino | NO | |
| UA Ukraine | YES | If changes to a patent document are made after its publication, such document is updated completely and in the Notifications section of the official bulletin information is provided about the changes made. Codes according to WIPO ST.50 are no used. |
| US United States of America | YES | There are several kinds of post-issuance documents. They are not text searchable. X6 - Certificates-of-Correction. Bn - Reexamination Certificate issued prior to January 2, 2001 There are one (1) type of Reexamination Certificate for kind code "B": (1). Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate under 35 U.S.C. 307 Cn - Reexamination Certificate issued on or after January 2, 2001 There are three (3) types of Reexamination Certificates for kind code "C": (1). Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate under 35 U.S.C. 307 (2). Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate under 35 U.S.C. 257 (3). Inter Partes Reexamination Certificate under 35 U.S.C. 316 E1 - Reissue Patent Fn - Reexamination Certificate of a Reissue issued on or prior to January 12, 2010 Fn - Supplemental Examination Certificate Published on or after September 16, 2012 Jn - Post Grant Review Certificate published on or after September 16, 2012 Kn - Inter Partes Review Certificate published on or after September 16, 2012 On - Derivation Certificate published on or after March 16, 2013 |
| UY Uruguay | YES | Changes can be seen in the procedural steps relating to each document. A patent grant document is not published, rather the resolution granting the patent is published and the scope is indicated, with reference to pages in the electronic document. The document can be downloaded and viewed. |
7. Which parts of patent documents are updated online after publication? Mark all that apply.
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | Entire document | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Other (Specify in comments) | The period of being in force. |
| BH Bahrain | the updates only in the internal portal but online. | |
| BR Brazil | Entire document | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | Entire document | Although there is no update on the documents published, the system allows you to view the documents that were recently modified or uploaded as new versions. |
| DE Germany | Entire document Front page/ first page only Title | |
| EC Ecuador | ||
| EE Estonia | Entire document Title Abstract | The updated entire document is available in a non-searchable pdf format. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Entire document Front page/ first page only Title Abstract Description Claims | |
| FI Finland | ||
| GB United Kingdom | Entire document Front page/ first page only Title Description Claims Other (Specify in comments) | Drawings can also be updated after publication |
| GE Georgia | Entire document | |
| HU Hungary | ||
| IL Israel | Entire document Title Description Claims | |
| IT Italy | Entire document | |
| JP Japan | Entire document | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | Claims | Only a separate file of claims (not as a part of patent description document (B1)) is updated if some changes are made. |
| MD Republic of Moldova | Entire document | |
| MX Mexico | Other (Specify in comments) | The relevant part that has been amended at the owner’s request. |
| NO Norway | Entire document Front page/ first page only Other (Specify in comments) | On clerical errors only the impacted part of the document may be published. If larger parts, the full document is published as new kind. |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | Title Abstract Other (Specify in comments) | Application Type and Subtype, Filing Number and Date, PCT Filing Number and Date, Publication Number and Date, PCT Publication Number and Date, Registration Number and Date, Applicant details, Inventor details, Priority Details, IPC Classes, Representative Details, Status |
| PH Philippines | Entire document Front page/ first page only Title Abstract Description Claims Other (Specify in comments) | drawings search results assignment, if any |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | Other (Specify in comments) | |
| SE Sweden | Entire document Front page/ first page only | If a correction only relates to the bibliographic data a single-page document is published (kinds C8, E8, T8). |
| SI Slovenia | Front page/ first page only Claims | |
| SK Slovakia | Other (Specify in comments) | https://www.wipo.int |
| SM San Marino | Entire document | |
| UA Ukraine | Entire document | |
| US United States of America | Other (Specify in comments) | It will depend on the correction needed. |
| UY Uruguay | Title Abstract Claims | The claims are updated in the document. |
8. Is the event history (list of relevant legal status information) for a given document available in online systems?
| ST.3 Code | Pre-grant events | Post-grant events | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | NO | PARTIAL | |
| AU Australia | YES | YES | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | NO | NO | |
| BH Bahrain | NO | NO | |
| BR Brazil | YES | YES | Every office action is published and can be accessed from the search website. |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |||
| CO Colombia | YES | YES | |
| DE Germany | YES | YES | Pre-grant events are available only after publication of an application |
| EC Ecuador | NO | NO | |
| EE Estonia | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | Legal status; fees paid for the years of validity. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | YES | YES | |
| FI Finland | YES | YES | |
| GB United Kingdom | YES | YES | IPSUM is our register service: https://www.ipo.gov. |
| GE Georgia | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | |
| HU Hungary | NO | NO | Regarding legal status information our site solely shows the current legal status data. |
| IL Israel | YES | YES | |
| IT Italy | NO | NO | |
| JP Japan | YES | YES | |
| KR Republic of Korea | |||
| LT Lithuania | NO | NO | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | we have recently implemented the "time axis", which can contain also some legal status information. |
| MX Mexico | PARTIAL | PARTIAL | Only if the documents are public. |
| NO Norway | Not structured according to WIPO Legal status standards, yet. | ||
| PA Panama | |||
| PG Papua New Guinea | YES | YES | |
| PH Philippines | NO | NO | |
| PL Poland | |||
| PT Portugal | |||
| RU Russian Federation | YES | YES | Post-grant events are available in the State register |
| SE Sweden | YES | PARTIAL | |
| SI Slovenia | NO | NO | |
| SK Slovakia | YES | YES | |
| SM San Marino | NO | NO | |
| UA Ukraine | YES | YES | |
| US United States of America | YES | YES | |
| UY Uruguay | PARTIAL | PARTIAL |
9. What are your current plans, if any, for using WIPO Standard ST.27 for patent legal status information? Check all that apply.
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | We are currently in the process of implementing ST.27 | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | We don't have the resources currently available to implement ST.27 | |
| BH Bahrain | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We don't have the resources currently available to implement ST.27 | |
| BR Brazil | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We find it difficult to comply with the technical requirements of ST.27 | |
| DE Germany | Other (Specify in comments) | ST.27 is already implemented and available for the public. |
| EC Ecuador | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We don't consider that implementing ST.27 adds enough value for our users We find it difficult to comply with the technical requirements of ST.27 | |
| EE Estonia | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | We are waiting for the completion of the new front- and back-office software. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | We are currently in the process of implementing ST.27 | |
| FI Finland | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We don't have the resources currently available to implement ST.27 | We will start to plan to implement WIPO St.27 after we have commissioned our new back-office system. |
| GB United Kingdom | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | This will be implemented as part of our One IPO Transformation programme: https://www.gov.uk/g |
| GE Georgia | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | |
| HU Hungary | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We don't have the resources currently available to implement ST.27 | |
| IL Israel | We are currently in the process of implementing ST.27 | |
| IT Italy | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | we are planning to implement ST.27 for legal status but we found it difficult to comply with the technical requirements. |
| JP Japan | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- Other (Specify in comments) | There are plans to implement ST27 in the future, but we are considering when it will be realized because it involves system modifications. |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | We are still in the stage of discussions and analysis. | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We don't have the resources currently available to implement ST.27 | |
| MX Mexico | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We find it difficult to comply with the technical requirements of ST.27 | |
| NO Norway | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | ||
| PH Philippines | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We find it difficult to comply with the technical requirements of ST.27 We don't have the resources currently available to implement ST.27 | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | |
| SE Sweden | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- Other (Specify in comments) | We will take ST.27 into account during the ongoing upgrading of our internal platforms, with the intention to implement it later. |
| SI Slovenia | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- We don't have the resources currently available to implement ST.27 | |
| SK Slovakia | We are not planning to implement ST.27 at this time, because- | |
| SM San Marino | We use WIPO IPAS Office Suite to manage IP applications and are waiting for IPAS to implement ST.27 support | |
| UA Ukraine | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | |
| US United States of America | We have definite plans to implement ST.27 in the future | |
| UY Uruguay | We use WIPO IPAS Office Suite to manage IP applications and are waiting for IPAS to implement ST.27 support |
10. Does your Office / Organization provide an authority file of published patent documents?
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| AU Australia | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ||
| BH Bahrain | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| BR Brazil | NO, we do not provide an authority file | We are on the verge to generate an Authority File with partial data coverage. |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| DE Germany | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| EC Ecuador | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| EE Estonia | YES, we currently provide an authority file but it is not accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | We currently provide an authority file at the Office's premises by file inspection. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| FI Finland | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| GB United Kingdom | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| GE Georgia | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| HU Hungary | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| IL Israel | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| IT Italy | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | updated every 6 months |
| JP Japan | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | YES, we currently provide an authority file but it is not accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | Our current authority file does not comply with WIPO ST.37. |
| MD Republic of Moldova | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| MX Mexico | YES, we currently provide an authority file but it is not accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| NO Norway | YES, we currently provide an authority file but it is not accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| PH Philippines | ||
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| SE Sweden | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| SI Slovenia | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| SK Slovakia | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| SM San Marino | NO, we do not provide an authority file | |
| UA Ukraine | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| US United States of America | YES, we currently provide an ST.37 compliant authority file accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal | |
| UY Uruguay | YES, we currently provide an authority file but it is not accessible through the WIPO Authority File portal |
11. If you do not provide an authority file to WIPO according to the recommendations of ST.37, can you indicate the reasons below? Check all that apply.
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | ||
| AZ Azerbaijan | We find it difficult to comply with the technical requirements of ST.37 | |
| BH Bahrain | We find it difficult to comply with the technical requirements of ST.37 We don't have the resources currently available to comply with ST.37 | |
| BR Brazil | We have plans to provide an authority file to WIPO in the next 12 months We don't have the resources currently available to comply with ST.37 | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | We already provide a list of all published patent documents on our website in other format(s). Please provide the url in Comments. | https://sipi.sic.gov |
| DE Germany | ||
| EC Ecuador | We don't have the resources currently available to comply with ST.37 Other (Specify in comments) | Ecuador provides information to LATIPAT. |
| EE Estonia | Other (Specify in comments) | We don't have the resources currently available to comply with all ST.37 data online. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | ||
| FI Finland | ||
| GB United Kingdom | ||
| GE Georgia | Other (Specify in comments) | |
| HU Hungary | Other (Specify in comments) | The HIPO has definite plans to generate an authority file in the near future, however could not set an exact deadline at the moment. |
| IL Israel | We have plans to provide an authority file to WIPO in the next 12 months | |
| IT Italy | ||
| JP Japan | ||
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | Other (Specify in comments) | We will start providing a new file that meets WIPO ST. 37 in the near future. We are still discussing technical details of the document with WIPO team. |
| MD Republic of Moldova | We have plans to provide an authority file to WIPO in the next 12 months | |
| MX Mexico | We already provide a list of all published patent documents on our website in other format(s). Please provide the url in Comments. | |
| NO Norway | We have plans to provide an authority file to WIPO in the next 12 months We don't have the resources currently available to comply with ST.37 | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | ||
| PH Philippines | We find it difficult to comply with the technical requirements of ST.37 We don't have the resources currently available to comply with ST.37 | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | ||
| SE Sweden | ||
| SI Slovenia | We don't have the resources currently available to comply with ST.37 | |
| SK Slovakia | We find it difficult to comply with the technical requirements of ST.37 | |
| SM San Marino | We use WIPO IPAS Office Suite to manage IP applications, which already provides a complete list of our published patent documents via PatentScope We already provide a list of all published patent documents on our website in other format(s). Please provide the url in Comments. | |
| UA Ukraine | ||
| US United States of America | ||
| UY Uruguay | We use WIPO IPAS Office Suite to manage IP applications, which already provides a complete list of our published patent documents via PatentScope |
12. Are the following features available in the online systems provided by your Office? See glossary above for definitions of search types.
| ST.3 Code | Basic search | Advanced search or Field combination search | Semantic search or similarity search | Machine translations | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | |||||
| AU Australia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | |||
| AZ Azerbaijan | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | ||
| BH Bahrain | features is not available in the online systems for the public. | ||||
| BR Brazil | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |||||
| CO Colombia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | ||
| DE Germany | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | |||
| EC Ecuador | There is no online reference system for patent applications filed in Ecuador. | ||||
| EE Estonia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | ||
| FI Finland | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | |||
| GB United Kingdom | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Legal Status data | We have some advanced search capabilities in our Patent Journal. Improvements will be incorporated into the One IPO Transformation Programme: https://www.gov.uk/g | ||
| GE Georgia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | |||
| HU Hungary | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Legal status data could be used to further narrow the result lists. | ||
| IL Israel | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | |||
| IT Italy | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | ||
| JP Japan | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | ||
| KR Republic of Korea | |||||
| LT Lithuania | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |||
| MD Republic of Moldova | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | |||
| MX Mexico | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | ||
| NO Norway | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |
| PA Panama | |||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | ||||
| PH Philippines | Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Grants Legal Status data | Legal Status data - not based on ST.27 | ||
| PL Poland | |||||
| PT Portugal | |||||
| RU Russian Federation | Patent Applications | ||||
| SE Sweden | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | |||
| SI Slovenia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | |||
| SK Slovakia | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants | ||
| SM San Marino | Patent Grants Legal Status data | ||||
| UA Ukraine | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |||
| US United States of America | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | Patent Applications Patent Grants Legal Status data | ||
| UY Uruguay | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants |
13. Are the following fields available for search in the online systems in question? Check all that apply.
| ST.3 Code | Patent publication number | Patent application number | Priority date | Priority number | Applicant name | Inventor name | Owner name | Normalized names (applicant, owner, etc) | PCT application number | PCT publication number | Title | Abstract | Claims | Description | Country (of applicant, owner, etc) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |||||
| AU Australia | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | ||
| AZ Azerbaijan | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | Patent Applications | ||||||||
| BH Bahrain | fields is not available in the online systems for the public. | |||||||||||||||
| BR Brazil | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants | ||||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||||||||||||||||
| CO Colombia | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |||
| DE Germany | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | ||
| EC Ecuador | ||||||||||||||||
| EE Estonia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants | ||||||||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | |
| FI Finland | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | |||||||||
| GB United Kingdom | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | We have some additional search capabilities in our Patent Journal | |||||||||||||
| GE Georgia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | |||
| HU Hungary | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | The HIPO uses the same application and publication numbers. | ||
| IL Israel | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | ||||
| IT Italy | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |||||||
| JP Japan | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | |||
| KR Republic of Korea | ||||||||||||||||
| LT Lithuania | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |||
| MD Republic of Moldova | Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | there are no specific fields to search for the country of applicant, owner, etc but the country code is present in the person name field. | |
| MX Mexico | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Only the technical report, in some cases. |
| NO Norway | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | ||
| PA Panama | ||||||||||||||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | |||
| PH Philippines | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications column pertains only to published documents | ||
| PL Poland | ||||||||||||||||
| PT Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| RU Russian Federation | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | |
| SE Sweden | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Owner names are given when we have access to them. | ||||
| SI Slovenia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | ||
| SK Slovakia | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | |||||
| SM San Marino | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | ||||||||
| UA Ukraine | Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Grants | Patent Grants | Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | |
| US United States of America | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | Patent Applications Patent Grants Searchable in English or Latin character set? | For USPTO we are interpreting the term "Owner" to mean Assignee. | |
| UY Uruguay | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants | Patent Applications Patent Grants |
14. For machine translations, please indicate which languages are translated.
| ST.3 Code | From (original document languages) | To (translated output languages) | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||||
| AU Australia | ||||
| AZ Azerbaijan | ||||
| BH Bahrain | Arabic | Arabic English | ||
| BR Brazil | ||||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||||
| CO Colombia | ||||
| DE Germany | ||||
| EC Ecuador | ||||
| EE Estonia | English | |||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Chinese English French German Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish Other (Specify in comments) | English French German Portuguese Spanish Other (Specify in comments) | For machine translations, please indicate which languages are translated.: From: SQ, BG, CS, HR, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, MK, NO, IS, IT, LV, LT, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, SK, SL, ES, SV, TR, ZH, KO, JA, RU To: SQ, BG, CS, HR, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, MK, NO, IS, IT, LV, LT, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, SK, SL, ES, SV, TR | |
| FI Finland | ||||
| GB United Kingdom | For machine translations, please indicate which languages are translated.: Not applicable | |||
| GE Georgia | ||||
| HU Hungary | ||||
| IL Israel | ||||
| IT Italy | ||||
| JP Japan | Chinese English Japanese Korean | English Japanese | ||
| KR Republic of Korea | ||||
| LT Lithuania | For machine translations, please indicate which languages are translated.: Currently we do not provide machine translations functionality. | |||
| MD Republic of Moldova | ||||
| MX Mexico | For machine translations, please indicate which languages are translated.: The information is only available in Spanish. | |||
| NO Norway | English | |||
| PA Panama | ||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | ||||
| PH Philippines | English | Other (Specify in comments) | For machine translations, please indicate which languages are translated.: Using WIPO Patentscope, machine translation from English to any language is available in WIPO Translate | |
| PL Poland | ||||
| PT Portugal | ||||
| RU Russian Federation | English | Russian | ||
| SE Sweden | ||||
| SI Slovenia | ||||
| SK Slovakia | ||||
| SM San Marino | ||||
| UA Ukraine | ||||
| US United States of America | ||||
| UY Uruguay |
15. Which patent information is translated?
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | ||
| AZ Azerbaijan | Title Abstract Claims | |
| BH Bahrain | Entire document Title Abstract Description Claims Text in Drawings, Figures, or Tables Supplementary materials, such as annexes or sequence listings Legal Status Information | Entire document |
| BR Brazil | ||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | ||
| DE Germany | ||
| EC Ecuador | ||
| EE Estonia | Title Abstract Legal Status Information | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Title Abstract Description Claims | |
| FI Finland | Legal Status Information | There are no translations. However, have in many cases English Abstracts/Titles. |
| GB United Kingdom | Not applicable | |
| GE Georgia | Title Abstract Legal Status Information | |
| HU Hungary | Abstract | The English version of the abstract is a human translation. |
| IL Israel | ||
| IT Italy | ||
| JP Japan | Entire document | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | The title of invention and abstract are translated into English and published in our online systems. However, the translations are made by applicants or our patent examiners. | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | Title Abstract Legal Status Information | not a machine translation. |
| MX Mexico | The information is only available in Spanish. | |
| NO Norway | Entire document | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | ||
| PH Philippines | Other (Specify in comments) | Using WIPO Patentscope and WIPO Translate, all relevant patent information are translated |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | Title Abstract | |
| SE Sweden | ||
| SI Slovenia | ||
| SK Slovakia | ||
| SM San Marino | ||
| UA Ukraine | Title Abstract Legal Status Information | Not all abstracts available in English. There are gaps. |
| US United States of America | ||
| UY Uruguay |
16. Does your system provide guidance on what types of number formats are accepted when searching by application or publication numbers?
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats | |
| AU Australia | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ||
| BH Bahrain | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats | on |
| BR Brazil | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats. | |
| DE Germany | Our system provides guidance on the search page | Our system provides guidance on the search page and also more detailed information on a different page. |
| EC Ecuador | ||
| EE Estonia | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats | |
| FI Finland | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| GB United Kingdom | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| GE Georgia | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats | |
| HU Hungary | Our system provides guidance on the search page | The guidance could be found by clicking to a hyperlinked questionmark on the search page. |
| IL Israel | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats | |
| IT Italy | Our system provides guidance on the search page | we use a tooltip system to provide guidance |
| JP Japan | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats | |
| MX Mexico | Our system provides guidance on the search page. | |
| NO Norway | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats | |
| PH Philippines | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | Our system provides guidance on the search page | Pop-ups are also available |
| SE Sweden | Our system provides guidance on a different page | |
| SI Slovenia | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| SK Slovakia | Our system provides guidance on the search page | https://wbr.indprop. |
| SM San Marino | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats | |
| UA Ukraine | Our system provides guidance on the search page | |
| US United States of America | Our system provides guidance on the search page | Basic information is available on the search page with more details on a separate page. |
| UY Uruguay | Our system does not provide guidance on accepted number formats. |
17. What types of number formats are accepted when searching by application or publication numbers? Please check all that apply.
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | ||
| AU Australia | Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | Australian specific format |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| BH Bahrain | Numbers with a fixed length of 15 digits, composed of two digits for the type, four digits for the year and nine digits for the serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| BR Brazil | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | BR numbering format for applications filed prior to 2011. |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | We have a consecutive annual numbering system identifying patent and industrial design proceedings with the letters NCYYYY/XXXXXXX. Before June 2016, the YYXXXXXX format was used and searches must use this format. |
| DE Germany | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with a fixed length of 15 digits, composed of two digits for the type, four digits for the year and nine digits for the serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | Regarding second check box: serial number is only 6 digits instead of 9 |
| EC Ecuador | ||
| EE Estonia | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with a fixed length of 15 digits, composed of two digits for the type, four digits for the year and nine digits for the serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | Examples: Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office and a kind code indicator; document numbers in original format; document numbers standardised by the EPO. |
| FI Finland | ||
| GB United Kingdom | Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 | |
| GE Georgia | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 | |
| HU Hungary | Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | The application/publication number format used by the HIPO is the following: P2101234 which contains the Type of Industrial Property Right: "P"/"U" etc. according to the type of the IP right, the Year Designation: the last two digits of the application year, and the Serial Number: five digits in a sequential numbering system These numbers could be truncated during the search. |
| IL Israel | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with a fixed length of 15 digits, composed of two digits for the type, four digits for the year and nine digits for the serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| IT Italy | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with a fixed length of 15 digits, composed of two digits for the type, four digits for the year and nine digits for the serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | Also the Italian old numbering format. (example :AQ1995A000001) |
| JP Japan | Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| MX Mexico | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| NO Norway | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | Numbers or combination of numbers and letters, in start of, as section within or at end of number |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | National Filing Number, Priority Details, Registration Number |
| PH Philippines | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with a fixed length of 15 digits, composed of two digits for the type, four digits for the year and nine digits for the serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | Since search option is available only for national documents, only the number is acceptable without any codes |
| SE Sweden | Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 | |
| SI Slovenia | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 | |
| SK Slovakia | Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| SM San Marino | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) | |
| UA Ukraine | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| US United States of America | Numbers containing a code for the type of industrial property right, a year designation and a serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with a fixed length of 15 digits, composed of two digits for the type, four digits for the year and nine digits for the serial number, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers starting with an ST.3 code identifying the office, as recommended by ST.13 Numbers with separators between different parts of the number, such as slash (/) hyphen (-) or space ( ) Number issued by another Office, such as a PCT application number that entered the national phase | |
| UY Uruguay | Other number formats (Please specify in Comments) | Application number, ranging from one to five digits, assigned by the Office. |
18. Are WIPO ST.3 two-letter codes or WIPO ST.16 document kind codes used as part of the search term when searching by application or publication number?
| ST.3 Code | ST.3 Office codes are | ST.16 document codes are | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | |||
| AU Australia | not accepted | not accepted | We do not provide capability to directly search for publications. Our search system allows for IP rights searching and this will find associated publications. |
| AZ Azerbaijan | not accepted | not accepted | |
| BH Bahrain | optional | optional | |
| BR Brazil | optional | optional | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |||
| CO Colombia | not accepted | not accepted | |
| DE Germany | required | optional | |
| EC Ecuador | |||
| EE Estonia | required | optional | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | optional | optional | |
| FI Finland | not accepted | not accepted | |
| GB United Kingdom | required | not accepted | |
| GE Georgia | required | ||
| HU Hungary | optional | not accepted | Office codes could be searched in respect of the numbers which comprise such codes, however even in these cases the application/publication numbers could be truncated that they do not have to specify any office code. |
| IL Israel | optional | optional | |
| IT Italy | not accepted | not accepted | |
| JP Japan | required | required | |
| KR Republic of Korea | |||
| LT Lithuania | not accepted | not accepted | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | not accepted | not accepted | |
| MX Mexico | required | required | |
| NO Norway | optional | not accepted | We do not search by published documents, but by register, where documents are available as list of published patent documents. |
| PA Panama | |||
| PG Papua New Guinea | not accepted | not accepted | |
| PH Philippines | required | required | |
| PL Poland | |||
| PT Portugal | |||
| RU Russian Federation | When using Advanced Search, within a single query, the number, country code and document type code can be specified in separate fields, together making up a standard record of the patent document number. | ||
| SE Sweden | optional | not accepted | |
| SI Slovenia | |||
| SK Slovakia | not accepted | not accepted | |
| SM San Marino | required | required | |
| UA Ukraine | optional | optional | |
| US United States of America | optional | optional | |
| UY Uruguay | not accepted | not accepted |
19. What kind of interface do users have to access your online systems for the available types of patent documents? For example, for published patent applications, granted patents, patent term extensions, fee payments.
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| AU Australia | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ||
| BH Bahrain | There are multiple web pages or portals for different types of information, and- The web pages or portals all share the same visual design (look and feel, layout, colors, graphical elements, etc) The web pages or portals all share the same user controls (input boxes, buttons, clickable elements, etc) The web pages or portals all share the same input formats (e.g. query flags, number formats, data formats, etc) The web pages or portals for different types of documents look and function differently | not applicable |
| BR Brazil | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | The information is available to the public on the web page of the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce of Colombia: http://sipi.sic.gov. |
| DE Germany | There are multiple web pages or portals for different types of information, and- The web pages or portals all share the same visual design (look and feel, layout, colors, graphical elements, etc) The web pages or portals all share the same user controls (input boxes, buttons, clickable elements, etc) The web pages or portals all share the same input formats (e.g. query flags, number formats, data formats, etc) | |
| EC Ecuador | ||
| EE Estonia | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | The Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) database for medicinal and plant protection products is available in Exel format. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | There are multiple web pages or portals for different types of information, and- The web pages or portals for different types of documents look and function differently | |
| FI Finland | There are multiple web pages or portals for different types of information, and- The web pages or portals for different types of documents look and function differently | |
| GB United Kingdom | There are multiple web pages or portals for different types of information, and- The web pages or portals for different types of documents look and function differently | |
| GE Georgia | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| HU Hungary | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| IL Israel | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| IT Italy | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| JP Japan | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| MX Mexico | There are multiple web pages or portals for different types of information, and- The web pages or portals all share the same visual design (look and feel, layout, colors, graphical elements, etc) The web pages or portals all share the same user controls (input boxes, buttons, clickable elements, etc) The web pages or portals all share the same input formats (e.g. query flags, number formats, data formats, etc) | Industrial Property Official Gazette, document viewer, patent search engines (https://patmedsp.imp |
| NO Norway | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | No interface is available on our online system at this stage for users to access the different types of patent documents. | |
| PH Philippines | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | The web pages or portals all share the same visual design (look and feel, layout, colors, graphical elements, etc) | |
| SE Sweden | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| SI Slovenia | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| SK Slovakia | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| SM San Marino | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal | |
| UA Ukraine | There are multiple web pages or portals for different types of information, and- The web pages or portals all share the same input formats (e.g. query flags, number formats, data formats, etc) | |
| US United States of America | There are multiple web pages or portals for different types of information, and- The web pages or portals for different types of documents look and function differently | |
| UY Uruguay | All information can be accessed through a single web page or portal |
20. Do your online systems use the same web pages or portals for different types of industrial property rights provided by your Office? For example, patents for inventions, plant patents, design patents, inventors’ certificates, utility certificates, utility models, patents of addition and others. Answer yes here even if there are multiple web pages or portals for different types of documents (application, legal status history, assignments, etc), as long as each type of IP right is available on the same web page or portal. Note- this question is about different types of IP rights. Question 17 is about different types of patent documents.
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | NO | |
| AU Australia | YES | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | YES | |
| BH Bahrain | NO | |
| BR Brazil | YES | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | YES | In Colombia, patents, utility models, industrial designs and layout designs of integrated circuits are protected. |
| DE Germany | YES | |
| EC Ecuador | ||
| EE Estonia | YES | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | NO | The EPO grants EP patents. Via our online systems, we make information on other kinds of IP rights from other offices available in addition to information on patent documents, including information on design rights. |
| FI Finland | YES | |
| GB United Kingdom | NO | |
| GE Georgia | YES | |
| HU Hungary | YES | |
| IL Israel | NO | Each one of the different industrial property rights has its own online system. |
| IT Italy | YES | |
| JP Japan | YES | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | YES | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | YES | |
| MX Mexico | YES | The web portal of the Mexican Institute of Intellectual Property (IMPI) has all of the industrial property rights mentioned. It is important to note that the National Seed Inspection and Certification Service (SNICS) is the institution in charge of plant varieties and plant breeders’ rights. |
| NO Norway | YES | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | YES | |
| PH Philippines | YES | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | YES | |
| SE Sweden | NO | |
| SI Slovenia | YES | |
| SK Slovakia | YES | |
| SM San Marino | YES | |
| UA Ukraine | YES | The newest system of the Office (https://sis.ukrpaten |
| US United States of America | YES | |
| UY Uruguay | YES |
21. If there are separate websites or portals for these other types of industrial property provided by your Office, please list them.
| ST.3 Code | Response |
|---|---|
| AT Austria | |
| AU Australia | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | |
| BH Bahrain | IP office: https://service.moic |
| BR Brazil | Search websites for each particular types of IP can be found at: https://busca.inpi.g |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |
| CO Colombia | N/A |
| DE Germany | |
| EC Ecuador | |
| EE Estonia | Database of the European Patents Validated in Estonia Database of Utility Models Trademarks database Industrial designs database Geographical indications database |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | |
| FI Finland | https://patent.prh.fi/patinfo/ https://patent.prh.f |
| GB United Kingdom | List of Trade Marks Search Services - https://www.gov.uk/s |
| GE Georgia | |
| HU Hungary | |
| IL Israel | 1. Online system for patents and patent applications (https://israelpatent |
| IT Italy | we have a single web portal (www.uibm.gov.it/bancadati) where you can submit a single search or a complex search for all kind of IP rights |
| JP Japan | |
| KR Republic of Korea | |
| LT Lithuania | N/A |
| MD Republic of Moldova | |
| MX Mexico | Not applicable. |
| NO Norway | |
| PA Panama | |
| PG Papua New Guinea | |
| PH Philippines | n/a |
| PL Poland | |
| PT Portugal | |
| RU Russian Federation | |
| SE Sweden | Patents: https://tc.prv.se/spd Designs: https://tc.prv.se/De |
| SI Slovenia | |
| SK Slovakia | |
| SM San Marino | |
| UA Ukraine | The list is available at https://ukrpatent.or |
| US United States of America | |
| UY Uruguay |
22. Do your online systems contain information on documents issued under international or regional IP protection systems, which have (potential) effect in your jurisdiction?
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | NO | |
| AU Australia | YES | IPA only publishes documents that form part of an Australian application including those originating from PCT. |
| AZ Azerbaijan | NO | |
| BH Bahrain | NO | |
| BR Brazil | NO | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | NO | |
| DE Germany | YES | |
| EC Ecuador | ||
| EE Estonia | NO | The Office website contains links to databases of other countries and international organizations (p 24). |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | YES | |
| FI Finland | YES | |
| GB United Kingdom | YES | Granted EP (UK) register information PCT National Phase information |
| GE Georgia | YES | |
| HU Hungary | NO | |
| IL Israel | YES | |
| IT Italy | NO | |
| JP Japan | YES | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | NO | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | YES | |
| MX Mexico | YES | |
| NO Norway | ||
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | NO | |
| PH Philippines | YES | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | NO | |
| SE Sweden | NO | |
| SI Slovenia | YES | Regional IP protection system |
| SK Slovakia | YES | |
| SM San Marino | NO | |
| UA Ukraine | YES | |
| US United States of America | NO | |
| UY Uruguay | NO |
23. If so, what types of documents are available, e.g. PCT documents or translations?
| ST.3 Code | Response |
|---|---|
| AT Austria | |
| AU Australia | Any documents from PCT are translations but may contain some parts in the original language. |
| AZ Azerbaijan | |
| BH Bahrain | |
| BR Brazil | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |
| CO Colombia | |
| DE Germany | PCT documents and EP documents |
| EC Ecuador | |
| EE Estonia | The Office does not provide translation services in addition to general translation software (Google translation, for example). |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | WO documents; EP documents |
| FI Finland | Validated EP-patents. PCT applications on the national phase. |
| GB United Kingdom | Documents relating to PCT national phase - Wipo specification; international search report; international preliminary report on patentability; written opinion; priority document; form to show a change of name/address of the applicant/inventor between the international and national phase and the international application status report (bibliograhic data form). Documents relating to post-grant register updates on EP(UK) Patents |
| GE Georgia | PCT national phase entries |
| HU Hungary | |
| IL Israel | For each patent or patent application, the (original and updated) lists of relevant prior art documents (including those cited by other Offices) and corresponding applications which are sent by the applicant are documented in the system and made available for public inspection. The same is true for lists of prior art documents sent by third parties. |
| IT Italy | |
| JP Japan | ・ Gazettes of each country (US, EP, WO, CN, KR, GB, DE, DD, FR, CH, CA) ・ Progress documents that can be obtained through OPD |
| KR Republic of Korea | |
| LT Lithuania | N/A |
| MD Republic of Moldova | - translations of PCT applications documents - translations of European patent documents, the validation of which was requested in the Republic of Moldova |
| MX Mexico | PCT documents, as well as priority documents. |
| NO Norway | PCT documents, translations, updated copy of register data (bibliography) EP-patent document, translation, updatet copy of register data (bibliography). Madrid documents, translations, updated copy of register data (bibliography) Hague documents, translations, updated copy of register data (bibliography) |
| PA Panama | |
| PG Papua New Guinea | |
| PH Philippines | PCT documents priority details |
| PL Poland | |
| PT Portugal | |
| RU Russian Federation | |
| SE Sweden | |
| SI Slovenia | EP - translated claims of validated EP |
| SK Slovakia | European patents with SK designation (translation documents) |
| SM San Marino | |
| UA Ukraine | Not available for users. |
| US United States of America | |
| UY Uruguay |
24. Is international or regional data searchable in the same online systems as national documentation?
| ST.3 Code | Response | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| AU Australia | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems | |
| BH Bahrain | International / regional data is available in the online systems, but not searchable | |
| BR Brazil | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||
| CO Colombia | The national online systems provide links to the international / regional systems | The international publication can be accessed through the WO number. |
| DE Germany | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| EC Ecuador | ||
| EE Estonia | The national online systems provide links to the international / regional systems | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| FI Finland | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| GB United Kingdom | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | EP (UK) & PCT National phase information is searchable on our IPSUM service. EPO Federated Register also links to IPSUM. |
| GE Georgia | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| HU Hungary | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | This kind of data could only be searched in respect of PCT applications after entering the Hungarian national phase, and are published in Hungary; and in respect of validated European patents. |
| IL Israel | The national online systems provide links to the international / regional systems | For each patent or patent application, the system includes links to relevant information available in USPTO Global Dossier, Espacenet, PATENTSCOPE Documents and CCD. |
| IT Italy | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems | |
| JP Japan | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||
| LT Lithuania | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| MX Mexico | Yes, international/ regional data is available and searchable | Online systems can direct users to the web pages where information can be found (for example, PATENTSCOPE). |
| NO Norway | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| PA Panama | ||
| PG Papua New Guinea | The national online systems provide links to the international / regional systems | |
| PH Philippines | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| PL Poland | ||
| PT Portugal | ||
| RU Russian Federation | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems | |
| SE Sweden | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems | |
| SI Slovenia | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| SK Slovakia | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| SM San Marino | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems | |
| UA Ukraine | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| US United States of America | Yes, international / regional data is available and searchable | |
| UY Uruguay | No, international / regional data is only available in other systems |
25. What functionality would you like to see in the systems provided by other Offices?
| ST.3 Code | Possibility to translate content into other languages | Search by bibliographic data fields | Full text search | Possibility to download documents in various formats | Alerting to data updates | Date of receipt of applications by your Office | Other (Specify in comments) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | For legal status | |||||||
| AU Australia | ||||||||
| AZ Azerbaijan | For full descriptions | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | |||||
| BH Bahrain | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | |
| BR Brazil | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | ||||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||||||||
| CO Colombia | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||
| DE Germany | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| EC Ecuador | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||
| EE Estonia | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | ||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | Possibility to translate content into other languages: At least into English Other: Easy and open access to bibliographic and legal event data. |
| FI Finland | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For legal status | |||
| GB United Kingdom | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | For full descriptions For legal status | Application Program Interface (API) integration capability | |
| GE Georgia | For full descriptions | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | ||
| HU Hungary | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| IL Israel | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| IT Italy | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| JP Japan | For full descriptions For legal status | For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For legal status | For legal status | ||
| KR Republic of Korea | ||||||||
| LT Lithuania | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For legal status | |||||
| MD Republic of Moldova | ||||||||
| MX Mexico | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||
| NO Norway | For full descriptions | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | |||
| PA Panama | ||||||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| PH Philippines | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||
| PL Poland | ||||||||
| PT Portugal | ||||||||
| RU Russian Federation | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | ||
| SE Sweden | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | |||
| SI Slovenia | ||||||||
| SK Slovakia | For legal status | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For legal status | For full descriptions | |||
| SM San Marino | ||||||||
| UA Ukraine | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | ||
| US United States of America | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | |||
| UY Uruguay | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status |
26. What is your desired update frequency for data from other Offices?
| ST.3 Code | Real time publication of all changes | Daily updates | Weekly updates | Other (Specify in comments) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | For legal status | ||||
| AU Australia | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| AZ Azerbaijan | For full descriptions | ||||
| BH Bahrain | For full descriptions | ||||
| BR Brazil | |||||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |||||
| CO Colombia | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| DE Germany | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| EC Ecuador | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| EE Estonia | For full descriptions | ||||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| FI Finland | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| GB United Kingdom | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| GE Georgia | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | |||
| HU Hungary | For legal status | ||||
| IL Israel | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| IT Italy | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| JP Japan | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| KR Republic of Korea | |||||
| LT Lithuania | For legal status | For full descriptions | |||
| MD Republic of Moldova | |||||
| MX Mexico | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| NO Norway | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions | For full descriptions | Period updates (complete update of register/bibio data and Legal status, with larger periods, e.g. quarterly or similar, in order to be sure all real time or frequent changes are received and committed within period, | |
| PA Panama | |||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| PH Philippines | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| PL Poland | |||||
| PT Portugal | |||||
| RU Russian Federation | For legal status | For full descriptions | |||
| SE Sweden | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| SI Slovenia | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| SK Slovakia | For full descriptions For legal status | For full descriptions For legal status | |||
| SM San Marino | |||||
| UA Ukraine | For full descriptions For legal status | ||||
| US United States of America | For full descriptions | ||||
| UY Uruguay | For full descriptions For legal status |
27. Should other Offices’ systems support machine-to-machine communication (such as web services) for exchanging data with your Office?
| ST.3 Code | For full applications | For bibliographic data | For legal status information | Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| AU Australia | YES | YES | YES | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | NO | NO | NO | |
| BH Bahrain | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| BR Brazil | YES | YES | YES | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||||
| CO Colombia | YES | YES | YES | |
| DE Germany | YES | YES | YES | |
| EC Ecuador | YES | YES | YES | |
| EE Estonia | YES | YES | YES | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | YES | YES | YES | |
| FI Finland | YES | YES | YES | |
| GB United Kingdom | YES | YES | YES | |
| GE Georgia | YES | YES | YES | |
| HU Hungary | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| IL Israel | YES | YES | YES | |
| IT Italy | YES | YES | YES | |
| JP Japan | NO | NO | NO | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||||
| LT Lithuania | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | ||||
| MX Mexico | YES | YES | YES | |
| NO Norway | NO PREFERENCE | YES | YES | |
| PA Panama | ||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| PH Philippines | YES | YES | YES | |
| PL Poland | ||||
| PT Portugal | ||||
| RU Russian Federation | YES | YES | YES | |
| SE Sweden | YES | YES | YES | |
| SI Slovenia | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| SK Slovakia | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| SM San Marino | ||||
| UA Ukraine | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| US United States of America | YES | YES | NO PREFERENCE | |
| UY Uruguay | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE |
28. Should Offices’ systems provide search capabilities for both their national data sets and data published by other Offices (with an interface in the national language)?
| ST.3 Code | For full applications | For bibliographic data | For legal status information | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| AU Australia | NO | NO | NO | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | NO | NO | NO | |
| BH Bahrain | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| BR Brazil | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ||||
| CO Colombia | YES | YES | YES | |
| DE Germany | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| EC Ecuador | YES | YES | YES | |
| EE Estonia | YES | |||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | YES | YES | YES | |
| FI Finland | NO PREFERENCE | YES | NO PREFERENCE | |
| GB United Kingdom | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | Further explanation is required to make a definitive Yes or No answer |
| GE Georgia | YES | YES | YES | |
| HU Hungary | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| IL Israel | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| IT Italy | NO | NO | NO | |
| JP Japan | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| KR Republic of Korea | ||||
| LT Lithuania | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | ||||
| MX Mexico | YES | YES | YES | |
| NO Norway | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | YES | |
| PA Panama | ||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | YES | YES | YES | |
| PH Philippines | YES | YES | YES | |
| PL Poland | ||||
| PT Portugal | ||||
| RU Russian Federation | NO PREFERENCE | YES | NO PREFERENCE | |
| SE Sweden | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| SI Slovenia | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | NO PREFERENCE | |
| SK Slovakia | NO | NO | NO | |
| SM San Marino | ||||
| UA Ukraine | NO | NO | NO | |
| US United States of America | YES | YES | YES | Prefer Offices provide the information in English as a commonly agreed upon language. |
| UY Uruguay | YES | YES | NO PREFERENCE |
29. Is there a user guide for searching (such as explanation of fields or examples) available in the system?
| ST.3 Code | Response | URL where the guide is available- | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | YES | ||
| AU Australia | YES | ||
| AZ Azerbaijan | YES | ||
| BH Bahrain | NO | ||
| BR Brazil | YES | ||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |||
| CO Colombia | NO | There is a guide on carrying out searches, but it is not up to date. It is available here: https://www.sic.gov. | |
| DE Germany | YES | ||
| EC Ecuador | NO | ||
| EE Estonia | NO | ||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | YES | ||
| FI Finland | YES | ||
| GB United Kingdom | YES | Patent Publication Enquiry: https://www.ipo.gov. | |
| GE Georgia | YES | ||
| HU Hungary | YES | The guidance could be found in parts by clicking to the hyperlinked questionmarks on the search pages. | |
| IL Israel | NO | ||
| IT Italy | NO | ||
| JP Japan | YES | ||
| KR Republic of Korea | |||
| LT Lithuania | YES | ||
| MD Republic of Moldova | YES | available only in romanian. | |
| MX Mexico | YES | You can download the user manual from the top right part of the page. | |
| NO Norway | |||
| PA Panama | |||
| PG Papua New Guinea | NO | ||
| PH Philippines | NO | Should this question be under this section? Or should it be under "Systems Provided by your Office? | |
| PL Poland | |||
| PT Portugal | |||
| RU Russian Federation | YES | ||
| SE Sweden | YES | ||
| SI Slovenia | YES | ||
| SK Slovakia | YES | ||
| SM San Marino | YES | ||
| UA Ukraine | YES | https://sis.ukrpaten | |
| US United States of America | YES | links to the systems and the associated user guides are available from the main webpage www.uspto.gov. | |
| UY Uruguay | NO |
30. Is there a clear indication of which information in the official publication is issued by your Office / Organization and which information is from other sources (e.g. a disclaimer on externally provided information)?
| ST.3 Code | Response |
|---|---|
| AT Austria | |
| AU Australia | The AUSPAT system only search the Australian Patents register. The link on our IPA Home Page for international searches links to PatentScope. |
| AZ Azerbaijan | The publication of patent information is provided in accordance with the article 30.1, 30.2 of the Law of Patent of the Republic of Azerbaijan |
| BH Bahrain | no |
| BR Brazil | No |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |
| CO Colombia | All of the information published is issued by SIC. |
| DE Germany | Yes |
| EC Ecuador | |
| EE Estonia | There is no clear indication of what information in our official publication is provided by our Office and what information comes from other sources. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | As a principle, the EPO indicates if data and information does not originate from the EPO. |
| FI Finland | No, we are mainly publishing our own data and validated EP-patent data. |
| GB United Kingdom | Not that we're aware of |
| GE Georgia | yes |
| HU Hungary | There is not such a disclaimer in our search pages. |
| IL Israel | The online system provides information about ILPO data with links to information from other sources/Offices. |
| IT Italy | |
| JP Japan | There is no specific description. |
| KR Republic of Korea | |
| LT Lithuania | We do not publish information provided from other sources. |
| MD Republic of Moldova | No. |
| MX Mexico | There is no indication because you are redirected to the web page with the official information. |
| NO Norway | No. only general disclaimer. If data is published by NIPO, it is considered our responsibility, and we will republished if we detect or is made aware of errors. |
| PA Panama | |
| PG Papua New Guinea | No |
| PH Philippines | No indications for official publictions issued by IPOPHL. Citations are indicated only in examination reports. |
| PL Poland | |
| PT Portugal | |
| RU Russian Federation | Yes, our publications clearly indicate that it is published by Rospatent (RU in front of each number) |
| SE Sweden | No |
| SI Slovenia | YES |
| SK Slovakia | |
| SM San Marino | no |
| UA Ukraine | In the official publication information on the national documentation is provided. |
| US United States of America | USPTO provides information for publications issued by USPTO. Global Dossier provides access to the application data from other offices, and this is clearly indicated on the website. https://www.uspto.go |
| UY Uruguay | No, since the whole of the publication on the portal is issued by the Office. |
31. Please briefly describe your future plans with respect to your Office’s online systems, their content and functionality. For example, if you have plans to expand their capabilities, merge existing systems, retire old systems, or a general timeline for such work, please include that information here.
| ST.3 Code | Response |
|---|---|
| AT Austria | |
| AU Australia | As per the IPA corporate plan for 2020-21 we are: • Making improvements to our patents administration systems. • Developing tools to improve our classification capability and increase the value and quality of our patent data holdings to ensure Australian inventions are readily searchable in worldwide databases. • Modernising the plant breeder's rights system to ensure that we continue to provide an effective framework for the development of new plant varieties. • Building on our data matters strategy to ensure the right data is available and can be transformed into actionable insights by decision makers. • Improving the quality of data we provide through the Australian Government's open data repository (data.gov.au), providing more information to enable new areas of research. |
| AZ Azerbaijan | |
| BH Bahrain | we would like to improve our office patent online systems and patent content and functionality. |
| BR Brazil | There is a current plann to expand search capabilities to external users. An effort is being made to provide Full-Text information of bot frontfile and backfile documents. |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |
| CO Colombia | |
| DE Germany | We are working on machine translation integration for translation of patent documents into German. Next step might be the translation of DE patent documents into English. Furthermore we are thinking about ways to replace the regular gazette publication by online patent information services. |
| EC Ecuador | Implement WIPO IPAS. |
| EE Estonia | In the future, it is planned to enable users to search all databases of inventions with a single query, ie to combine databases of national patents, utility models, European patents valid in Estonia, and SPCs. |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | The EPO is constantly active to improve and to harmonise its online services to make them more useful for patent information users and for other stakeholders of the EPO. This will include improvements of the services but also of the data available. |
| FI Finland | We are currently building a new back-office system, and we will update our patent information service as well. The new patent information service will be aligned with the current Design service. |
| GB United Kingdom | Over the next five years the UK IPO will replace all of its current read and search services on the gov.uk website. These activities are part of our One IPO Transformation programme, please see following link for further information - https://www.gov.uk/g |
| GE Georgia | add full text search functionality; add file inspection; extend legal status data |
| HU Hungary | The HIPO has an ongoing Back Office project, and plans to start a Front Office project in the next years. |
| IL Israel | The ILPO plans to implement web service and authority file. |
| IT Italy | We are developing: - a new user interface - Web Services for automatic queries and massive downloads. |
| JP Japan | From 2021 to 2024, we plan to make modifications to accommodate the system renewal inside the office.Since that is prioritized, there are no specific plans for modification for the purpose of function expansion at this time. |
| KR Republic of Korea | |
| LT Lithuania | The office plans to update technology stack of the online databases in due course. No changes are foreseen in terms of the content and functionality. |
| MD Republic of Moldova | We don't have the resources currently available to expand the capabilities of our online systems. |
| MX Mexico | Updates to portals, such as patent search engines, and information in gazettes. |
| NO Norway | Initate use of cloud infrastructure for digital services. Initiate use of new national cloud solution for public offices (common components). Pending project to provide API for total collection of bibliographic data, legal status, publications, images, documents, etc, for patents, trademarks and design presented according to WIPO standards. Find solution to validate login by other trusted authorities, to enable secure and authorized access to self services for foreigners. Create digital gazettes and total legal status standardized register (PT, DS, TM), amongst other. Continue improvements of and efficiency by current in office case handling system, Ptolemy. |
| PA Panama | |
| PG Papua New Guinea | |
| PH Philippines | Upgrade to WIPO-IPAS version 4 (timeline pending with WIPO). |
| PL Poland | |
| PT Portugal | |
| RU Russian Federation | By the end of 2022, it is planned to completely update the information systems. The functionality can be described after the systems are put into operation |
| SE Sweden | We will not launch any major new services in the near future. The current focus of our IT development is to upgrade our internal platforms. |
| SI Slovenia | |
| SK Slovakia | |
| SM San Marino | we hope to implement WIPO FILE as soon as possible. |
| UA Ukraine | Further improvement of the systems providing access to publicly-available patent information in part of content (in terms of correctness, consistency and reliability of data) and functionalities, in line with current trends. |
| US United States of America | |
| UY Uruguay | IPAS system upgrade underway, planning carried out with WIPO support team. |
32. In which of the following areas are WIPO recommendations the most needed and/or most effective? Check all that apply.
| ST.3 Code | Scope of published information | Frequency of updates | Availability of information and/or interfaces in other languages | Information retrieval functionality | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | For legal status | ||||
| AU Australia | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | For legal status | For full applications For legal status | |
| AZ Azerbaijan | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | |||
| BH Bahrain | For full applications | For full applications | For full applications | For full applications | |
| BR Brazil | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | |||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | |||||
| CO Colombia | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | |||
| DE Germany | For full applications For legal status | ||||
| EC Ecuador | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | |||
| EE Estonia | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | For legal status | ||
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | ||
| FI Finland | For legal status | For legal status | |||
| GB United Kingdom | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | |||
| GE Georgia | For legal status | For legal status | For full applications | For full applications | |
| HU Hungary | |||||
| IL Israel | For full applications | ||||
| IT Italy | For full applications | ||||
| JP Japan | For full applications | For full applications | For full applications | For full applications | |
| KR Republic of Korea | |||||
| LT Lithuania | For legal status | For legal status | For full applications | For full applications | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | For full applications For legal status | For legal status | |||
| MX Mexico | For full applications | For full applications | For full applications | For full applications | |
| NO Norway | For full applications For legal status | For legal status | For legal status | ||
| PA Panama | |||||
| PG Papua New Guinea | |||||
| PH Philippines | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | ||
| PL Poland | |||||
| PT Portugal | |||||
| RU Russian Federation | For legal status | For full applications | For legal status | For legal status | |
| SE Sweden | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | |
| SI Slovenia | |||||
| SK Slovakia | For full applications For legal status | For full applications | |||
| SM San Marino | |||||
| UA Ukraine | For full applications | ||||
| US United States of America | For full applications For legal status | For full applications For legal status | |||
| UY Uruguay | For full applications | For full applications |
33. Is your Office / Organization considering to discontinue the official gazettes, and instead make related publication data available only via public online services?
| ST.3 Code | Response | Other - Write In | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| AU Australia | YES, discontinuation of the official gazettes is scheduled or already implemented | ||
| AZ Azerbaijan | |||
| BH Bahrain | Other - Write In | Yes, in future | there is a plan to discontinue the official gazettes, and make related publication data available only via public online services. But first we need to amend our national patent law. |
| BR Brazil | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| CO Colombia | |||
| DE Germany | YES, discussions and consideration to discontinue the official gazettes are ongoing | ||
| EC Ecuador | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| EE Estonia | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | The Estonian Patent Office has stopped issuing official gazettes in paper form and will continue to issue official gazettes in electronic form for an indefinite period of time. | |
| EP European Patent Office (EPO) | Other - Write In | Both the EPO Official Journal (official information and general notices from the EPO, and of other information relevant to the EPC) and the European Patent Bulletin (bibliographic data and legal status information of European patent applications and patents) have been published online for many years. Currently we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes. | |
| FI Finland | YES, discontinuation of the official gazettes is scheduled or already implemented | There have been some unofficial discussions about discontinuation. However, we have chosen to automate the gazette production. Hence, discontinuation is not currently relevant. | |
| GB United Kingdom | YES, discontinuation of the official gazettes is scheduled or already implemented | ||
| GE Georgia | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| HU Hungary | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | The HIPO solely publish its official Gazette digitally (on its homepage). The publication of a Gazette is required by the Hungarian Patent Act. | |
| IL Israel | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | The Patents Journal is currently published monthly as a PDF document. This Journal will be replaced by a Smart Journal that is scheduled to be introduced in Q4, 2021, as part of the recently upgraded ILPO website, supporting advanced search options with quick filtering capabilities and retrieval of different (downloadable) legal documents. The Smart Journal may also be downloaded in specific categories in different formats (XML, PDF, XLS). | |
| IT Italy | Other - Write In | official gazette in electronic format | we publish our official gazette in electronic format. (https://www.uibm.gov |
| JP Japan | YES, discontinuation of the official gazettes is scheduled or already implemented | ||
| KR Republic of Korea | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| LT Lithuania | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | Official gazette is an official document provided by the national laws; however it is published twice a month in a digital format only and is available on our website for free: https://vpb.lrv.lt/e | |
| MD Republic of Moldova | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| MX Mexico | YES, discontinuation of the official gazettes is scheduled or already implemented | ||
| NO Norway | YES, discussions and consideration to discontinue the official gazettes are ongoing | At lest continue for 3 years | |
| PA Panama | YES, discontinuation of the official gazettes is scheduled or already implemented | It is set out in our national IP law. | |
| PG Papua New Guinea | Other - Write In | The Official Monthly Journal Publications are now available online to the public to access freely. | |
| PH Philippines | Other - Write In | IPOPHL already has an electronic Gazette (eGazette) available for viewing online on the IPOPHL website. | |
| PL Poland | |||
| PT Portugal | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| RU Russian Federation | YES, discussions and consideration to discontinue the official gazettes are ongoing | Since 2017, the official gazette is published only in the electronic form. Users can also receive a DVD with the publication on demand. | |
| SE Sweden | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | ||
| SI Slovenia | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | Maybe in future, but it will be connected with the change of the Industrial Property Act | |
| SK Slovakia | YES, discussions and consideration to discontinue the official gazettes are ongoing | The result of discussion is that we still do not have approprieate alternative to gazette. | |
| SM San Marino | Other - Write In | Sm is pubblishing the Bullettin only on the website www.usbm.sm | |
| UA Ukraine | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | The official electronic bulletin is issued which is an online periodical electronic publication with an integrated search engine. Available at: https://ukrpatent.or | |
| US United States of America | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes | https://www.uspto.go | |
| UY Uruguay | NO, we do not have any plans to discontinue the official gazettes |