German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Changes

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German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Changes of the Publication Practice of the

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Changes of the Publication Practice of the GPTO from 2004 Hubert Rothe, German Patent and Trade Mark Office, Munich WIPO Standing Committee on Information Technology Standards and Documentation Working Group, Fourth Session, Geneva, January 26 to 30, 2004 1

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Changes from 2004 • Official Publication Platform

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Changes from 2004 • Official Publication Platform (DPMApublikationen) • Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents • Web Server for Delivery of Raw Data (DPMAdatenabgabe) 2

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform (http: //publikationen. dpma. de)

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform (http: //publikationen. dpma. de) (DPMApublikationen) • Execution of statutory publication duties via the Internet • Platform was launched on January 1, 2004 • Integrated publication of - Patent Gazette - Trade Mark Journal - Industrial Designs Gazette and - patent documents on a single platform • Paper products abandoned • German and English user interfaces 3

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Two versions available Ø

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Two versions available Ø PDF Version • Typeset form as formerly used for paper version • PDF files are downloadable Ø Searchable version • Searchable bibliographic, procedural and legal status data • Beginners, expert and assisted search modes • Functionalities and „look-and-feel“ similar to DEPATISnet 4

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform • Data available •

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform • Data available • patents and utility models: • from January 1997 • trade marks and designs: • data for all rights in force 5

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Patents, PDF version Possible

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Patents, PDF version Possible selections • Publication year and week • Single parts or all parts • Download and display 6

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Searchable Version • Display

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Searchable Version • Display of legal and procedural status data chronologically in tabular form • Complete patent and utility model documents (documents of the current week are downloadable as one single file) • Image display for trade marks and designs • Download of data in XML format 7

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Beginners mode Functionalities •

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Beginners mode Functionalities • Input fields • Index for important search fields • Hit list to be configured • Number of hits per page to be selected 8

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Expert mode Functionalities •

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Expert mode Functionalities • Complex search queries are possible • Various linkage and truncation possibilities • Hit list to be configured • Number of hits per page to be selected 9

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Hit list • Tabular

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Hit list • Tabular Form • Display of number of hits • Opening the of bibliographic data display screen • Opening of the document display screen (patents and utility models) • Refined search 10

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Display of bibliographic data

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Display of bibliographic data Functionalities • Opening of the document display screen (patents and utility models) • Downloading of bibliographic data (XML) • Downloading of full texts for patents and utility models (XML, current week) • Downloading of DTD • Image display for trade marks and designs • Printing 11

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Patents, document display Functionalities

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Official Publication Platform Patents, document display Functionalities • Selection of resolution degrees • Direct access to subdocuments • Browsing page by page • Complete PDF documents of the current week • XML download und printing of entire documents of the current week 12

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Changes and innovations from 2004 • Publications in paper form will be discontinued - Patent gazette and - Industrial designs gazette from 1 th publication week of 2004 - Trade Mark gazette from 26 th publication week of 2004 • New master format: mixed mode according to WIPO Standard ST. 35 (XML texts + TIFF images) • Additional formats: PDF, TIFF, BACON • Complete full texts for U and T 1 documents (XML) • DATIMTEX replaced by XML as full text format, DTD is available 13

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Implementation of recommendations of WIPO Standards from 2004 • ST. 16: Adjustment of kind of document codes (“C 2 B”) • ST. 50 • Publication of “corrected” documents • Clearer designation of documents published after an “alteration” (“Geänderte Patentschrift”) • Publication of “altered” documents (“Geänderte Patentschrift”) for EP patents after national limitation or nullity procedures • ST. 13 Extended application numbering system • ST. 10/B New layout of title pages 14

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Adjustment of kind of document codes (“C 2 B”) • Patent published after grant, no Offenlegungsschrift (A 1) was published before former kind code: C 1 new kind code: B 3 • Patent published after grant, Offenlegungsschrift (A 1) was published before former kind code: C 2 new kind code: B 4 • Patent altered in the framework of an objection, nullity or limitation procedure (including patents published by the EPO) former kind code: C 2, C 3 or C 4 new kind code: C 5 15

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Corrected documents • Correction of erroneous bibliographic data elements Ø Publication of a corrected title page (A 8, B 8, C 8, T 8 or U 8 documents) Ø Announcement of the corrected document in the Patent Gazette (publication of a full bibliography) • Correction of errors within the textual parts (claims and description) and/or the drawings Ø Publication of a complete document (A 9, B 9, C 9, T 9 or U 9 documents) Ø Announcement of the corrected document in the Patent Gazette (publication of a full bibliography) 16

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Corrected documents New INID Code (48): (48) Veröffentlichungstag der Korrektur: 08. 01. 2004 New INID Code (15): (15) Korrekturinformation: Berichtigung zu INID-Code (x), (y). . . Frühere Berichtigungen: A 9, 02. 01. 2004 (for correction of title page) (15) Korrekturinformation: (for republished whole document) Berichtigung zu INID-Code (x) und/oder in Absatz (x) der Beschreibung und/oder in Anspruch (x) und/oder in Zeichnungsseite (x) Frühere Berichtigungen: A 9, 02. 01. 2004 17

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents Extended application numbering system 10 2004 037 108. 7 Check digit IP right till 2003: 1 digit from 2004: 2 digits Year of application till 2003: 2 digits from 2004: 4 digits Former length: 8 digits New length: 12 digits Serial number till 2003: 5 digits from 2004: 6 digits 18

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA New title page layout from 2004 Publication

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA New title page layout from 2004 Publication date within the document identification as fourth data element in the sense of WIPO Standard ST. 1 19

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Web Server for Delivery of Raw Data

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Web Server for Delivery of Raw Data (DPMAdatenabgabe) • Web server solution replaces delivery of data carriers (except of facsimile data) • Data available for everybody under uniform conditions (New patent information policy in force since 7/1992) • Raw data of all types of IP rights available • Data available at 0: 00 h on publication day • Available for registered users only (agreement required) • Flat rate user fee (marginal costs): 40 € per type of data and week of publication • Operational since 1 January 2003 (https: //datenabgabe. dpma. de) 20

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Thank you very much for your attention.

German Patent and Trade Mark Office DPMA Thank you very much for your attention. 21