Federal Institute of Industrial Property ROSPATENT Application of

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 otd 3138@rupto. ru yury. zontov@gmail. com

The IP life cycle Application Formal examination Examination Registration of IP Publication Registration of changes Publication of changes

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

Use of XML Registration of IP Registration of changes

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

Structure of record in Electronic Register • Record of registration + Actual state • Records of changes + Actual states

Types of changes stored in Electronic Register Change • Author • Correspondence. Address • 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 • Legal. Status • Alienation of the exclusive right • Transfer of the exclusive right • Licence • Other

Example of actual state

Example of ST. 96 XML describing actual state

Example of XML describing changes

Prospects of official publications of Rospatent in XML Publication

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

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

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

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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