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Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) - URLs

http://www.epa.ee/en/additional-info/free-consultations

Availability of the application dossier in electronic form 

http://www.epa.ee/en/additional-info/forms

Classification¹, preclassification² (if applicable), reclassification³ activities; classification systems used (e.g., International Patent Classification (IPC)); matters concerning indexing of patent information

http://www.epa.ee/en/patent-information-and-services/patent-information

Abstracting, reviewing, and translation of the information contained in patent documents

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Main types of publications of the Office (patent applications, full text, first pages, abstracts, bibliographic data, granted patents, etc.), medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URLs)

http://www.epa.ee/en/official-gazettes/estonian-patent-gazette

Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc. 

http://www.epa.ee/en/additional-info/publications

Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external collections and databases

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Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.) 

http://www.epa.ee/en/databases/inventions-databases

Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.) 

http://www.epa.ee/en/databases/inventions-databases

Other sources 

http://www.epa.ee/en/news

IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

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Patent library: equipment, collection management, network of patent libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign patent libraries

http://eitk.ee/library/

Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.

http://www.epa.ee/en/publications/methodical-publications

Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)

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Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.

http://www.epa.ee/et/seminarid/rss

Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.

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International exchange and sharing of patent information in machine-readable form, e.g., priority documents, bibliographic data, abstracts, search reports, full text information 

http://www.epa.ee/en/patent-information-and-services/patent-information

Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to patent information

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http://www.epa.ee/en/news/chairman-national-intellectual-property-center-georgia-visited-estonian-patent-office

Other activities 

http://www.epa.ee/en/news/director-general-estonian-patent-office-hands-over-wipo-award-estonian-contest-young-inventors

VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

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