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Comment: ST.19 - format - Editorial change (IB)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

Paragraphs 8d/8e and the paragraph after 8e require that a statement should be given on the outside front cover of the Patent Gazette if the numbers do not constitute a coherent, complete set. Numbers at DPMA do not constitute a coherent, complete set, but we do not give such a statement on the outside cover.

Furthermore, the standard recommends following ST.17, which we do not do.

 

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

No

DPMA discontinued the publication of quarterly and yearly indexes more than 10 years ago. We consider them to be unnecessary due to the possibilities of electronic search, for instance via our register:

https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/uebersicht?lang=en

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.20: Name indexes to patent documents

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

 

 

Our Patent Gazette includes a name index, which on the whole matches the requirements of ST.20. Regarding the preface containing rules followed in creating and presenting the name index, our gazette is perhaps not as comprehensive as it could be.

 

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

 

 

Our laws and regulations contain some of the provisions of the standard, many, however, are missing. For example, we do not have requirements concerning

- white and clean paper (10a)
- paper weight (10b)
- prohibition of rolling (10d)
- prohibition of absorbent paper (10e)
- placement of reference (13)
- specification of the part by the first word (16)
- surrounding of tables etc. with white space (23)
- hand written is allowed in some cases (26)
- spacing between paragraphs, base alignment for characters (28,29)
- tables (32, 33)
- fonts (36)
- unusual characters (40)
- mixing languages (42)

So far, setting up and enforcing such requirements were not necessary, as we do not heavily rely on the information gained through OCR.

 

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

Yes:

 

As suggested in the editorial note, we are waiting with the implementation until the task force decides on the transition procedure in connection with the PCT.

 

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.30: Magnetic tape format for the exchange of data and documents

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1.  Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?


No: This standard is not applicable to our practice because we publish PDFs as text, not as facsimile/image data.

 

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.50: Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

 

 

Paragraph 6(iv) and the paragraph after 6(v) require that a statement should be given on the outside front cover of the Gazette if the numbers do not constitute a coherent, complete set. Numbers at DPMA do not constitute a coherent, complete set, but we do not give such a statement on the outside cover.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

 

 

At the time this standard was written, such data existed only on paper file and CD-ROM. Assuming that this standard can be applied to a modern IT environment, we are fully conform.

WIPO Standard ST.66: Processing of trademark information using XML

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

 

 

The regulations differ slightly regarding the recommendations for image format and size:

Our require maximal (1890x1890) and minimal (945x945) pixel sizes.

The allowances for images sizes are minimum 8cmx8cm, maximum 26,2cmx17cm. These differ slightly from the recommendations of the standard.

With these allowances (pixels and sizes), the resulting resolutions lie roughly within the range recommended in the standard.

For color images, our regulations do not require an ICC profile.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

 

 

Paragraph 6(d) and the paragraph after 6(e) require that a statement should be given on the outside front cover of the Gazette if the numbers do not constitute a coherent, complete set. Numbers at DPMA do not constitute a coherent, complete set, but we do not give such a statement on the outside cover.

The gazette does not have indications on the subject matter given as recommended in paragraph 19.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

  •  Completely
  •  Partly
  •  Not Implemented

2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

 

 

The decision regarding whether we will implement the standard, and if so when we will do so, has not been made yet. If the standard continues to gain acceptance by other offices, we might also follow it. A possible option would be to supply data from our register (perhaps additionally) in ST.96. However, there is a strong dependence of third parties downloading our data, which we would need to respect.

 

4. Comments (optional)

 

WIPO Standard ST.17 was discussed intensively at DPMA after its adoption, both internally and with users of IP information. These discussions did not show significant support for applying that standard to gazettes in Germany.