PRH patent e Services today 28 03 2001

PRH patent e. Services today 28. 03. 2001 Juha Rekola Head of Development Division Patents and Innovations Line

e. Services of patentit Electronic services via Internet: l Online filing of applications l Other communications l File inspections l Electronic payments l Patent information services

FI Patent Data Flow Strong encryption Strong authentication patent. prh. fi FW Examiner Reports FW FW File Inspection Esp@cenet WOM Patent Register Publication Module: Applications Patent U-models Patent Magazine Weekly Issue Publications EPO Data: espacenet/Inpadoc Publications Jukeboxes Common Software Application Server FW Secure File Inspection Online Filing JPhoenix Electronic Document Archive Bank files Key-in Scanning Indexing Pat. Rek Paper Files 128 bit SSL

patent. IT-epoline cooperation Online filing of applications l l l Electronic archive system l l l OLF - EASY project Other communications File inspections Common Software Patent Register “Web. Register” 2002 Search Reports Mailbox “my. epoline”

Online Filing rules New filing rule article 2§ l Application can be filed online or using CD-R l Rules for online filing in annex l Annex will be applied also to CD-R filings l l CD-R application has to be filed together with application form with hand written signature CD-R will be used for ”Mega applications”

Online Filing rules New annex for online filing 01. 04. 2001: l Act for e. Services will be applied l EPO filing standard chapters 5 -7 will applied l Filing address https: //olf. prh. fi l Filing software will be provided free of charge l FINEID identity card l PKI digital signature

Act on e-services in the public administration l l l Electronic document fulfils requirements of ”written” Electronic document will be signed with digital signature (certificate) The certificate shall be based on public key technology

Act for e-services in public administration l Sender has always responsibility get the electronic message through l l office has responsibility to send a receipt Message has been received when it is available in office’s data system Office can process received messages if contents is not changed Always on voluntary basis

Puclic Key Infrastructure l PKI satisfies the requirements for l Authentication / Verification l l Confidentiality / Privacy l l No-one else can see the data transmitted Integrity l l Each party ‘”knows” who the other is Data transmitted and received are identical Accountability / Non-Repudiation l Both parties can “prove” receipt

Electronic identity card l Public key infrastructure l l Smartcard l Relevant PKSC standards: l l l i. D 2 technology PKSC#7 for digital signature PKCS#11 for token PKCS#15 for card X. 509 v. 3 certificates Meets the EU directive requirements

Electronic identity card l l Every card is unique (cannot be copied) Two card holder certificates, key length 1028 bits l l CA certificate, key length 2028 bits l l Authentication certificate Signature certificate Two PINs to sign certificates and revocation lists FINUID number

Electronic identity card l Certification authority, Population Register Centre (FINSIGN for citizens) l Directory services: – LDAP – Revocation list l l l Helpdesk Cards are issued by police More information available: l www. vaestorekisterikeskus. fi

Electronic identity card l Will be used in Finnish Patent Office in electronic services for authentication and for digital signature: l l online filings file inspection patent information services And when using our partners’ services: l EPO, WIPO

On. Line Filing Standards l Filing standard l l WIPO standard for electronic filing EPO filing standard l l http: //www. european-patent-office. org/epoline/pdf/epo-olf-standard. pdf Data standard l XML l l l Emerging de-facto market standard Will eventually replace SGML for IP documents IFF

On. Line Filing Formats l Document formats l PDF l l Market standard for Documents Guarantees “What you see is what I sent” XML will replace pdf in the future ASCII l Sequence listing

FI On. Line Filing FI-OLF milestones l Domestic FI filings l l FI-EP translations l l l External testing 03. 2001 External “production like” testing 09. -11. 04 In operation 17. 04. 2001 External testing 06. 2001 In operation 08. 2001 Other communications l l External testing 11. 12. 2001 In operation 1. 1. 2002

FI On. Line Filing l If online filing successful receipt will be delivered in the end of session l l Online flings have own application number series starting from YYYY 5001 Online filing server is running 7/24 but Office opening hours from 08. 00 -20. 00 from Monday to Friday l Filings received after office hours will be received on next office day

FI Online filing l Olf test users: l Kolster l l l Berggren Seppo Laine l l Jari Lipsanen JVP-palvelu l l Anki Lybeck Juha Salomäki Nokia MP l Filing Center, Sinikka Haikonen

FI Online Filing l FI OLF deployment phase I l l l Open production system tests 9. -11. 4. 2001 Production starting day 17. 04. 2001 All users has to be registered All users are registered to epoline users as well Software packages are supplied by PRH l l Includes all current EASY modules: EP, FI, FR (diskette), PCT (diskette) ”Slow start”

Online filing configuration l Hardware: l Operation systems: l l l Windows 98/NT/2000 Win 2000 recommended Smartcard reader

Online filing configuration l Softwares: l l Adobe pdf writer, Adobe distiller (recommended) Internet browser with 128 bit encryption: l l l Netscape 4. 76 or Explorer 5. 05 Smartcard reader drivers i. D 2 Personal toolkit 2. 4. 1 Sun Java runtime environment 1. 1. 8 Online filing client software

PRH patent e. Services web pages l e. Services web site: l l http: //patent. prh. fi PRH online filing pages l http: //patent. prh. fi/easy