PATENTSCOPE and Legal Status

Christophe Mazenc

Patentscope workshop June 2013

Agenda

1. WIPO Legal Status Survey2. PATENTSCOPE’s Legal Status strategy3. More information on National Phase Entries

WIPO Legal status surveyPerformed in 2010 (questionnaire sent to all member offices)

See http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/programs/legal_status/index.html

Being reviewed with focus on systems

Update to be published in PATENTSCOPE when finalized

PATENTSCOPE legal status strategy

NOT yet a priority (may appear as objective for next biannium)

Duplicating current IMPADOC would not bring additional benefits to users

Inherent very DIFFICULT task:

many different sources of information

Data not standardized

«Versatile» data: difficult to stay synchronized

Federated registers approach with PATENTSCOPE linking to national registers preferred

PCT national phase entries

PCT national phase entries

Information received from 47 offices (last ones since 2011: AT, NZ, CU, TH)

Newly added last month: India

Still a challenge to receive complete and timely PCT NPEs from PCT member states (147 contracting states)

Updated once a week in PATENTSCOPE

Sent to EPO for inclusion in INPADOC when authorized by the source office

PCT national phase dataCSV or XML format:

Office Code (ST.3 uppercase: e.g. KR)

PCT IA number (format: PCT/ROYYY/NNNNNN)

National Application Number

Status Code:

E: National Phase Entry (mandatory)

P: National Publication (optional)

R: Refusal (optional)

G: Grant (optional)

W:withdrawal (optional)

Date of action (yyymmdd)

Sent to EPO for inclusion in INPADOC when authorized by the source office