Application of ST.96 XML and other WIPO XML standards at ROSPATENT

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Federal Institute of Industrial
Property (ROSPATENT)

• Application of ST.96 XML and other WIPO XML
  standards at ROSPATENT

Yury Zontov Engineer at Software Application
Development Division otd3138_at_rupto.ru
yury.zontov_at_gmail.com
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The IP life cycle

• Application
• Formal examination
• Examination
• Registration of IP
• Publication
• Registration of changes
• Publication of changes

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Electronic applications

• Operational
• International applications via Madrid System
  (MECA)
• Electronic application system
• (Not ST.96)
• In development
• New electronic application system
• (ST.96)

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Use of XML

• Registration of IP
• Registration of changes

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IP State Electronic Registers

• Operational
• Electronic Register of Trademarks and Service
  marks , Wellknown marks and geographical
  indications (ST.66)
• Electronic Register of inventions, industrial
  designs and utility models (ST.96)
• In development
• Electronic Register of computer programs,
  databases and topologies of integrated circuits

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Structure of record in Electronic Register

• Record of registration Actual state
• Records of changes Actual states

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Types of changes stored in Electronic Register

• Change
• Author
• CorrespondenceAddress
• Continuation
• Group of invention patent renewal
• Invention patent renewal
• Discontinuation
• Total patent termination
• Partial patent termination
• Author's certificate termination
• Invention patent termination
• Group of invention patent termination
• LegalStatus
• Alienation of the exclusive right
• Transfer of the exclusive right
• Licence
• Other

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Example of actual state

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Example of ST.96 XML describing actual state
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Example of XML describing changes
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Prospects of official publications of Rospatent
in XML

• Publication

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Prospects of official publications of Rospatent
in XML

• New publishing system (2014-)
• Official publication on website in continuous
  mode
• Printing of formal documents immediately after
  registration
• Publication of full descriptions for invention
  applications
• XML formats ST.96 after complete

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Prospects of official publications of Rospatent
in XML

• Primary tasks and functions
• Office Open XML (.docx) to XML ST.36/ST.96
  converter
• user-friendly profiles for displaying XML in
  browsers (tune-up on-fly XSL)
• publication in PDF/A (with ontology in RDF)
• repository of XSL, DTDs, XSD
• web-service for retrieving data via XML
  interface
• publication of current state of IP object

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Prospects of official publications of Rospatent
in XML

• Examples of current state indicator
• green patent in effect,
• fee for last year
• yellow patent may be discontinued,
• no fees for last year

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Prospects of official publications of Rospatent
in XML

• Examples of current state indicator
• red patent terminated,
• no fees or 20 years have passed

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Prospects of official publications of Rospatent
in XML
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