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Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2025 submitted by Japan

Please provide links to your website where the requested information can be found in English, French, or Spanish.  Alternately, you may provide text responses instead of URLs if desired.  If the information is not available on your website in an ATR language, then please provide text.

URLs in responses should meet the following requirements:

  • Link to pages with information in English, Spanish, or French
  • The URL will remain stable over time (at least three years, preferably more)
  • Goes to the specific information requested, not to a general homepage
  • If the URL goes to a long PDF document such as an annual report, please indicate which sections or pages contain relevant information.
  • Provide additional instructions for using the URL if needed. For instance, if the page requires the user to login first, or if the requested information requires selecting certain options or filters on the page that can not be included in the URL. 

I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PATENT INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:

  • Outline of main policies and plans aimed at development of patent information activities and expected time frames for their realization

    The outline of main policies and plans of patent information activities have officially been announced in the following report.

    “Toward further utilization of patent information” Report, submitted by the subcommittee on dissemination and utilization of patent information consisting of patent information experts, appointed under the Intellectual Property Committee under Industrial Structure Council, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, in May 2016

    The future direction of the official patent information provision service operated by the JPO and the National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training (INPIT) has been summarized as below.

    The JPO and the INPIT should continuously improve the infrastructure of patent information provision service to broadly disseminate the patent information with the efforts to provide the world’s utmost quality service for the users in Japan with full considerations of the trends of globalization, advancement of IT, approaches to the related services by foreign IP offices and private business operators, and requests from users in Japan including small and medium-sized companies and individuals. 

    The following policies are mentioned in the report with the said fundamental concept.

    (i) Improving accessibility to foreign patent documents by using machine translation to Japanese.

    (ii) Provision of One Portal Dossier (OPD) service, which is to offer overseas dossier information collectively.

    (iii) Improving accessibility to unified database, which is internal and external to the JPO, through basic functions.

    (iv) Provision of the service to share Japan’s world’s fastest and utmost quality examination results.

    (v) External provision of substantive examinations/ appeal examinations related information regarding Design and Trademark.





II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:

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

    a) Paper-based application

    The INPIT provides the free consultation service on the procedures for industrial property rights at the Consultation Desk in the JPO office building.

    Moreover, the portal site for consultation and support on intellectual property is available at:

    https://faq.inpit.go.jp/

    b) Electronic application

    The e-filing software allows users to conduct administrative procedures, such as the filing of applications for patents, utility models, industrial designs and trademarks, and PCT-RO international application, appealing for trials and payment of the annual fees, and receipt of documents dispatched from the JPO, on-line. The software may be downloaded for free.

    https://www.jpo.go.jp/system/process/shutugan/pcinfo/index.html.


  • Availability of the application dossier in electronic form

    a) Search for Examination Document Information, One Portal Dossier

    a-1) Search for Examination Document Information

    Refer to p.128(ii) of JPO Status Report.

    https://www.jpo.go.jp/resources/report/statusreport/2026/document/index/0203.pdf#page=23

    a-2) Search for One Portal Dossier

    Since July 2016, users have been able to integrally search for Dossier Information (information relating application/examination of the patent family) using the J-PlatPat by specifying document numbers of the corresponding countries including JPO patent application numbers. In March 2017, the JPO started providing enriched citation (information such as categories and quotations at the time of citation by an examiner) in One Portal Dossier provided by J-PlatPat. As of July 2025, Dossier Information has expanded with the information from the Offices of Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand and WIPO (PCT International Application) from its initial information from IP5 Offices. 

    b) On-line reference

    The software for electronic application allows users to request or refer to application documents and registers from computers from their home or office, and to make a request for issuing certifications on-line.

    See 2. (1) b) for the software for electronic application.


  • Classification2, preclassification3 (if applicable), reclassification4   activities; classification system used (e.g., International Patent  Classification (IPC)), matters concerning indexing of patent information

    The JPO joined in IPC-related WIPO meetings, along with participating in the activities for the revision of the IPC.

    The JPO conducted a pilot test aimed at implementing “GAIA-Index” (GAIA: Generative AI-based Architecture)— automatically created and assigned classification "GAIA-Index" that utilizes AI technology— and created and assigned GAIA-Index on a trial basis for certain topics.

    Classification - https://www.jpo.go.jp/e/system/patent/gaiyo/seido-bunrui/index.html


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

    a) Reviewing of the abstract

    Although the abstract is prepared by the applicant, the JPO reviews whether the content of the abstract is appropriate, and if it is found inappropriate, the abstract is modified by the office ex officio so as to be able to get the picture of the invention or utility model quickly and accurately only from the abstract.

    b) Translation

    b-1) English Abstracts of Publication of Unexamined Patent Application in Japan (PAJ)

    The JPO creates the Patent Abstracts of Japan (PAJ) and makes them available for searching and displaying on J-PlatPat.

    b-2) Foreign patent documents

    See 5. (3).


  • Other activities Nothing in particular

III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:

  • 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)

    The JPO published the following official gazettes via the Internet in 2025:

    - Publication of Patent Application

    - Publication of Japanese Translation of PCT International Application

    - Publication of Registered Utility Model

    - Publication of Patent

    - Publication of Decision on Appeal/Trial in Patent

    The following is the URL of published gazettes provided through the Internet.

    URL：https://www.gazette.jpo.go.jp/scciidl010/onclickenglishbtn?hyouziFlag=2
  • Official Gazettes:  main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online – URL), etc.        Nothing in particular


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

    a) Internal databases

    See 4. (3) and (4).

    b) Commercial databases

    AACR Journals, ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY, ACS Publications, APS Journals, Chemical Documents Library, CAS IP Finder, CODE V, Electrochemical Society (ECS Digital Library), GeneCards, Ichushi WEB, IEEE Xplore, INTERGLAD, Japio-GPG/FX, JDream III, Journal of Technical Disclosure WEB, Medical Online, Mintel GNPD, nature, Nikkei Telecom, Optica, Oxford Journals, Science, ScienceDirect, Scopus, SPIE Digital Library, Springer Nature Link, Wiley Online Library


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

    a) Providing patent information via the Internet

    a-1) Providing official gazettes via the Internet.

    See 3. (1).

    a-2) J-PlatPat

    Refer to p.128(ii) of JPO Status Report.

    https://www.jpo.go.jp/resources/report/statusreport/2026/document/index/0203.pdf#page=23

    a-3) FOPISER

    In August 2015, the JPO launched the FOPISER, a search service to promptly provide the general users with patent information obtained from foreign IP Offices by data exchange between foreign IP Offices. Patent/utility model documents of Russian Federation, Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand which are not available for a search on the J-PlatPat, are available for simplified search by using document numbers and English key words via Japanese user interface. In addition, a function to search for Japanese translations of Chinese trial decisions in June 2020, a function to search for the documents of Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Philippines in March 2025 and of Indonesia in July 2025 were added.

          b) Providing JPO data

         The following types of data is currently provided to commercial providers in Japan by bulk data download service.

         b-1) New Standardized Data

         This data is the JPO’s bibliographical and status information converted and processed into TSV format for better usability for external users. The data has been provided since May 2019.

         b-2) PAJ

         See 2. (4)b)

　　  b-3) Japanese abstracts of European and U.S. patent data

          Japanese abstracts created by machine-translating the contents of the abstracts of U.S. patent descriptions, U.S. patent descriptions of unexamined patent applications, and European descriptions of unexamined patent applications.

          b-4) Machine-translated text data of Chinese-Korean documents

           Chinese Published Unexamined Patent Applications, Chinese patent gazettes, Chinese Published registered utility model applications, Korean Published Unexamined Patent Applications, Korean patent gazettes, Korean Published Unexamined Utility Model Applications, and Korean Published registered utility                 model applications published from 2003 onwards are subject to this full-text machine translation.

           c) Reference to Official Gazettes on Patent

          The INPIT has 10 access devices, including sophisticated information browsing terminals, which is available in the Official Gazettes Reading Room in the JPO office building. This allows free public access to “a search service for patent gazettes,” the J-PlatPat Service, gazettes on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, microfilm etc.

          d) Reference to examination and trial documents

          The INPIT is collecting various technical documents (books, etc.), which are used in the examinations and trials by the JPO, widely from within and outside Japan and is making them available to the public.

          e) Provision of Licensable Patent Information

          The INPIT maintains the "Patent Licensing Information Database,” which provides information on intellectual property held by companies, universities, and public research institutions. This database contains information on patents available for assignment or licensing (licensable patents) as well as research tool            patents in the life science field, and is made available to the public via the internet.https://www.plidb.inpit.go.jp/


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

    Legal status information of applications filed in January 1964 onwards can be searched on the J-PlatPat by using document numbers such as application numbers, publication numbers and registration numbers. In addition, since September 2023, J-PlatPat has enabled users to check the legal status of a patent (in accordance with WIPO standard ST.27) at a glance from the search result list screen and document display screen without searching the progress information.

    Alert Service (RSS distribution) to notify of the status information update of designated applications is also available. RSS distribution has been expanded to cover all patent applications from 2021.


  • Other sources Nothing in particular

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

Information on the following topics is desired:

  • Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office:  general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements,

    The JPO has been using an electronic application system, file wrapper system and peripheral examination assistance system since 1990. These systems improve the efficiency of administrative works by computerizing application filing, formality/substantive examinations, dispatch, registration, gazette publications, and requesting for inspection of files, requesting for certification.

    In addition, an applicant can file a patent application or a utility model application via on-line from a personal computer. In October 2005, in addition to the conventional electronic applications through ISDN lines, the acceptance of electronic applications utilizing the Internet, as well as 24 hours a day, 365 days a year full-time acceptance of all electronic applications was introduced. Furthermore, in January 2007, the PCT international application via the internet was introduced.

    In 2025, the ratios of on-line electronic filing were 99.2% for patent and utility model, 100.0% for appeals, 99.9% for the national procedures of a PCT internal application, and 99.5% for PCT international application.


  • Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office  Servers, network devices, PCs etc.


  • Internal databases:  coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources

    a) Patent and Utility Model Search System

    In December 1999, a patent and utility model search system, based on a distributed computing system, was put into operation. This system integrated not only the conventional F-term search system and a system to search computer-software related non-patent literature (CS literature), but also a foreign patent document search system using International Patent Classification (IPC) and patent classifications of overseas Offices such as Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC). In addition, non-patent literature in a wide range of technical fields has been made searchable on the integrated system since 2009. Multiple search keys, such as F-term, FI, keyword, CS term, IPC and CPC, can be inputted simultaneously; thus an examination environment, enabling a seamless search of various documents, such as domestic patents, foreign patents, non-patents, was created.

    A full text search function in Japanese and English has been actualized by using text data of domestic and foreign patent publications accumulated by adopting a paperless system.

    b) Search System for Appeal/Trial and Court Decisions (J-term search system)

    Trial/appeal decisions and court judgements are accumulated in the form of electronic data with a search index, called “J-term,” and searching and screening for the appropriate appeal/trial and court decisions are conducted by using “J-term.”

    In addition, a full-text search service is available for appeal/trial and court decisions issued in or after January 2020.

    c) DNA Search System

    This is a system introduced in January 1998 for searching gene-related information, and enables a homology search, which searches for a sequence utilizing homology in respect of nucleotide sequences and amino acid sequences, and utilization of search results narrowing down by using bibliographic data.


  • Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file:  file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file

    a) File building and updating

    The search files used by the examiner are prepared in association with FI, F-term, etc. Additionally, such search files are continuously renewed so that they are up to date.

    b) Storage, including mass storage media

    The search indices file used by the examiner is stored in an electronic form on RAID. In addition, document index information is stored on memory.

    c) Documentation from other offices maintained and/or considered part of the available search file

    The text data and the image data of the EPO, USPTO, WIPO, CNIPA and MOIP, as well as the image data of major European countries are stored, and searches of CPC, IPC, etc. are available.


  • Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)     See 4. (1)


  • Other matters       Nothing in particular

V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF PATENT INFORMATION

Information on the following topics is desired:

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

    a) Operation of the JPO Library, collection and management of materials

    a-1) Operation of the JPO Library

    The JPO Library, as a branch library of the National Diet Library, is located on the first basement of the JPO office building, and is operated in the following manner.

    1. Users

    - JPO staff and general users

    1. Open

    - 9:30 to 17:30

    a-2) Collection of materials

    The following are collected: Materials concerning IP right legislation and the peripheral laws inside and outside of Japan, related materials necessary for understanding IP rights, related materials necessary for study of IP rights, and reference materials for general administration.

    As of the end of 2025, the library contains about 38,893 volumes.

    a-3) Preservation methods of materials

    The books are labeled and stored with a storage number and classification data, and the bibliographic information is inputted in the library system constructing a database for the books.


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

    a) J-PlatPat

    The INPIT compiles an instruction brochure/manual for how to operate and utilize various search services provided by the J-PlatPat.

    URL https://www.inpit.go.jp/j-platpat_info/reference/index.html

    b) e-filing

    Useful information on e-filing including how to fill out application forms and FAQs is provided at the “E-filing software support website”.

    URL https://www.pcinfo.jpo.go.jp/site/

    See 3. (4) for information products available to external users.


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

    a) Japanese Abstracts of European and U.S. patent data

    The JPO creates Japanese Abstracts of European and U.S. patent data (See 3. (4) b-3)) and makes the data available for searching and displaying on the J-PlatPat.

    b) FOPISER

    See 3. (4)a-3).


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

    Patent information is as important as journal information for research conducted at universities, etc. In addition, patent information has a characteristic as public goods, since it is widely disclosed and contributes to the development of science and technology. The JPO has provided the Official Gazette Fixed-address Service which allows users such as universities to directly access data contained in Gazettes on the J-PlatPat with the aim of supporting R&D by universities.

    In response to a growing need for machine translation of foreign patent documents, the JPO and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) cooperate with each other to improve the accuracy and promote utilization of machine translation of Chinese, Korean, English etc.


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

    a) J-PlatPat etc. training seminars

    Training seminars of the J-PlatPat are held online by the INPIT for beginners of industrial property right search from individuals and SMEs. In addition, videos of the seminar were provided through the e-learning system (IP ePlat).

    b) Search expert training seminars

    The INPIT held the following trainings.

    - Training for Developing Searchers

    The INPIT offers statutory training for those who wish to become “searchers" (staff that conduct the preparatory search business for prior art document searches outsourced by the JPO) in registered search organizations. (Article 37 of the Act on the Special Provisions to the Procedure, etc. Concerning Industrial Property Right) (four times)

    -Training seminar for supporting development of Search Expert Leaders

    The purpose of this training is to support the development of excellent search leaders who are able to provide appropriate guidance to “searchers”. As well as improving search skills, this training aims to help leaders to acquire the teaching and management skills expected of them. (One time)

    - Training for Advanced Patent Search (Let’s get closer to the Examiner's viewpoint!)

    This training seminar is for those who have sufficient knowledge in the Patent Act. This seminar aims to develop skills to draft higher quality patent specifications and to acquire strong and broad patent rights by further improving their capabilities of conducting prior art searches. (twice)

    - Training seminar for Patent Search Practice

    This seminar aims to develop skills to draft higher quality patent specifications and to acquire strong and broad patent rights by learning how to determine patentability based on the Examination Guidelines for Patent, which is required before filing patent applications and after acquiring patents and/or enforcing patent rights, and/or conduct patent searches in an efficient manner accurately. (Cosponsored by the INPIT and Osaka Institute of Technology (one time))

    c) Provision of IP ePlat

    The INPIT provides an e-learning service, “IP ePlat,” which offers free access to educational materials developed and produced based on the knowledge, experience, and expertise of the JPO and INPIT.

    Japanese: https://www.inpit.go.jp/jinzai/ipeplat/index.html


  • Other activities Nothing in particular

VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION

Information on the following topics is desired:

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

    a) The Five IP Offices (IP5) data exchange and bilateral data exchange

    The JPO periodically provides the Five IP Offices (IP5) with bibliographic data of patent/utility model gazettes, concordance data of patent document numbers, PAJ data, F-term inventories, PMGS data, and IPC files. In addition, JPO exchanges data between IP Offices other than the IP5.

    b) Trilateral exchange of DNA sequence data

    The JPO has sent the DNA sequence data, about 11,000 in 2025, published in the publications of patent applications, etc. to the National Institute of Genetics, an intermediary for the trilateral data exchange.

    c) Media-less Distribution of Official Gazette Information Overseas 

    We currently provide data in a media-less format.


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

    a) Dossier Information Mutual Reference System

    The JPO as a lead Office promotes the One Portal Dossier (OPD), a system to integrally acquire and display information relating to applications and examinations (dossier information) concerning a set of the patent family filed in the IP5 Offices. Examiners of the IP5 Offices mutually have accessed dossier information of the IP5 Offices using this system since July 2013.

    In March 2014, the JPO, through collaboration with the WIPO, established a linkage between the OPD and the WIPO-CASE, a dossier access system developed by the WIPO, to enable WIPO-CASE participating offices to refer to OPD’s dossier information.

    The IP5 Offices have advanced cooperation so as to further expand service of the OPD developed for examiners and to allow general users around the world to receive the service alike. The JPO started service of providing the public with the OPD service at the J-PlatPat in July 2016.

    b) PI Policies of IP5

    At the Heads Meeting of IP5 Offices (EPO, JPO, KIPO, CNIPA and USPTO) held in June 2013, the IP5 Offices agreed on the policies prescribing the scope of and conditions for data on Patent Gazettes exchanged among the IP5 Offices. Specifically, the policies prescribe 1) the basic principle that the patent offices shall provide patent information at marginal costs or for free and 2) the scope of and conditions for use of data on Gazettes exchanged for free among patent offices. In response to this agreement, patent information which shall be subject to exchange under the agreement and the timing to implement this data exchange were discussed. In June 2014, the IP5 Offices agreed on action plans for the policies.

    c) Authority File

    The authority file is a list of document numbers of Gazettes issued by each patent office including the IP5 in compliance with WIPO Standard ST.37. Each office periodically updates and provides authority files. Authority files of each office are available on WIPO authority file portal site（https://www.wipo.int/standards/en/authority_file.html ）, and authority files of JPO is provided on its website(https://www.jpo.go.jp/e/system/laws/koho/internet/authorityfile.html ).

    d) CWS IP Data Exchange Task Force

    At the 12th session of the WIPO Standards (CWS) held in September 2024, the creation of the IP Data Exchange Task Force was approved. Within this Task Force, Japan, together with Saudi Arabia and the International Bureau of WIPO, is leading discussions on proposals regarding the exchange of intellectual property data

    At the 13th session of the CWS in November 2025, responses to a survey conducted by the Task Force on the practices and challenges of IP data exchange, as well as an analysis of the challenges faced in IP data exchange, were shared. The CWS also discussed the “Draft Recommendations for the Exchange of IP Data and its Use” which were prepared based on the IP5 Information Dissemination Policy.


  • Assistance to developing countries

    a) Activities/cooperation through voluntary contributions (Funds-in-Trust Japan Industrial Property Global (FIT Japan IP Global)) for WIPO

    a-1) Infrastructure building project for work sharing

    The JPO supports functional improvement of WIPO-CASE, maintenance and function maintenance of a linkage between the WIPO-CASE and OPD as well as a linkage between the WIPO-CASE and the WIPO-IPAS.

    a-2) ASEAN IP Register

    The Japan Patent Office has been supporting the development of "ASEAN IP Register," an online intellectual property information search service for ASEAN countries, and this system was launched in fiscal year 2023.  Through this system, it became possible to collectively refer to patent, design, and trademark information from nine countries except Myanmar. Even after its launch, meetings have been held regularly from the perspective of improving the convenience of the ASEAN IP Register and other aspects, and in 2025, the 8th ASEAN IP Register Officials Meeting was held in Cambodia. At this meeting, the focus was on improving and strengthening the ASEAN IP Register data service, and discussions were held on digitization efforts, progress to date, and challenges related to improving data quality and the publication of full-text patent documents.

    a-3) Digitization support

     In FY 2024, in addition to a full-text digitization project in Argentina, we implemented the paper documents digitization project at the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), as well as in Ecuador, Cambodia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka.

    b) Training for IT human resource development

    In FY2025, the JPO conducted a training program by invitation to develop human resources for efficient construction and utilization of IT infrastructure in IP offices, and 18 IT personnel from IP offices in developing countries completed the program.


  • Other activities     Nothing in particular

VII. ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WIPO STANDARDS CONCERNING PATENT INFORMATION

Note:  For each Standard listed below, please enter one of the following values: 

  • "Fully implemented"
  • “Partially implemented”
  • "On implementation phase"
  • "Planning to implement"
  • “On assessment phase”
  • "No plan to implement"

Implementation Status Definitions

"Fully implemented"

The WIPO Standard has been implemented in a manner compliant or compatible with the Standard.

"Partially implemented"

The WIPO Standard has been implemented in part.  The Office practice aligns with some, but not all, requirements of the Standard.

"On implementation phase"

The decision to implement the WIPO Standard has been made and it is currently being deployed, configured, or integrated into systems and workflows.

"Planning to implement"

The decision to implement the WIPO Standard has been made;  planning activities (resource allocation, timeline development, technical design) are underway before actual implementation begins.

"On assessment phase"

The WIPO Standard is under active evaluation to determine its feasibility, technical requirements, costs, benefits, and alignment with organizational needs before making an implementation decision.

"No plan to implement"

The WIPO Standard has been reviewed and there is currently no intention or plan to implement it.


WIPO Standard ST.1:  Recommendation concerning the minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document

"Partially implemented"

JPO complies with ST.3, 6, 9 and 16, but does not fully comply with ST.2.

WIPO Standard ST.2:  Standard manner for designating calendar dates by using the Gregorian calendar

"Partially implemented"

In some displays, JPO represents months or days with a value of less than 10 without a leading zero.

WIPO Standard ST.3:  Recommended standard on two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and intergovernmental organizations

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.6:  Recommendation for the numbering of published patent documents

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.8:  Standard recording of international patent classification (IPC) symbols on machine-readable records

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.9:  Recommendation concerning bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.10:  Published patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.10/A:  Format (margins, size) of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.10/B:  Layout of bibliographic data components

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.10/C:  Presentation of bibliographic data components

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.10/D:  Guidelines on physical characteristics of patent documents particularly relevant to reproducibility and legibility of such documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.11:  Recommendation on the minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes or published in association with patent gazettes

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.12:  Guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.12/A:  General guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.12/B:  Guidelines for the preparation of categorized patent abstract

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.12/C:  Guidelines for the physical characteristics of separately published abstracts in selective dissemination of information (SDI) presented in the form of card files

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.13:  Recommendation for the numbering of applications for industrial property rights (IPRs)

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.14:  Recommendation for the inclusion of references cited in patent documents

“Partially implemented” implemented for the ISR, but not implemented for some part of the domestic operation

WIPO Standard ST.15:  Guidelines for the wording of titles of inventions in patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.16:  Recommended standard code for the identification of different kinds of patent documents

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.17:  Recommendation for the coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.18:  Recommendation concerning patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.19:  Recommendation for the publication of indexes issued yearly/half-yearly/quarterly by industrial property offices

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.20:  Recommendations for the preparation of name indexes to patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.21:  Recommendation concerning the reduction of volume of priority documents as filed with industrial property offices

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.22:  Recommendation for the authoring of patent applications for the purpose of facilitating optical character recognition (OCR)

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.25:  Standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.26:  Recommended standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML  (extensible markup language)

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.27:  Recommendation for the exchange of patent legal status data

"Fully implemented" from September 2023, J-PlatPat provides the function to display and search the legal status of patents that is compliant with WIPO standard ST.27.

WIPO Standard ST.31:  Recommended standard coded character sets for the exchange of machine-readable records of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.32:  Recommendation for the markup of patent documents using SGML (standard generalized markup language)

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.33:  Recommended standard format for data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.34:  Recommendation concerning the recording of application numbers in electronic form for the exchange of bibliographic data

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.35:  Recommended standard format for data exchange of mixed-mode published patent document information on reel-to-reel and IBM 3480/90 cartridge tapes

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.36:  Recommendation for the processing of patent information using XML (extensible markup language)

“Partially implemented”  for applications and registrations

WIPO Standard ST.37:  Recommendation for an authority file of published patent documents

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.40:  Recommendation concerning making facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.50:  Guidelines for issuing corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.90:  Recommendation for processing and communicating intellectual property data using web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.91:  Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.92:  Recommendations on the data package format for the electronic exchange of priority documents

"Planning to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.96:  Recommendation for the processing of intellectual property information using XML (extensible markup language)

“Partially implemented” implemented for publications

WIPO Standard ST.97:  Recommendation for processing of intellectual property data using JSON

"No plan to implement"

VIII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

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1.Classification is allotting one or more classification symbols (e.g., IPC symbols) to a patent application, either before or during search and examination, which symbols are then published with the patent application.

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2. Preclassification is allotting an initial broad classification symbol (e.g., IPC class or subclass, or administrative unit) to a patent application, using human or automated means for internal administrative purposes (e.g., routing an application to the appropriate examiner).  Usually preclassification is applied by the administration of an office.

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3. Reclassification is the reconsideration and usually the replacement of one or more previously allotted classification symbols to a patent document, following a revision and the entry into force of a new version of the Classification system (e.g., the IPC).  The new symbols are available on patent databases.



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