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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)
Office notices are published weekly in the electronic Official Bulletin of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic. Notices are also published at the Office’s website.
Mass storage media used are hard discs, magnetic tapes for backup and paper.
Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc.
The Bulletin contains the following types of announcements:
Lists of patent documents are published in the Official Bulletin of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic. Starting from 2007 the Bulletin is published weekly in an electronic form only (updated on Wednesdays) and placed at the Office’s website (http://www.upv.cz/en.html). The standard content of the chapters regarding published patent applications, granted patents and registered utility models is:
- published patent applications arranged according to the number of applications and according to IPC symbols including list of applicants;
- granted patents arranged according to the number of patents and according to IPC symbols including list of owners;
- registered utility models arranged according to the number of registration of utility models and according to the IPC symbols including list of proprietors;
- official decisions, legal status and announcements;
- corrections and alterations.
No prior registration or subscription to view the Bulletin is needed. The information as published should be the authentic one for legal purposes. As from No. 1/2000, the Official Bulletin has been available on the web site of the IPO CZ as an electronic book in PDF format.
Mass storage media used (paper, microforms, optical storage, etc.)
Mass storage media used are hard discs, magnetic tapes for backup and paper.
Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external collections and databases
- Internal SyPP2 database – contains all pending as well as decided applications
- Internal database of patent and utility model applications since 1991
- EPO search tool EPOQUEnet – moreover within this tool: external databases BIOSIS, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PUBCHEM, Non-Patent Literature)
- STN International
- Science Direct database
- Freely accessible databases on Internet: Esp@cenet, Google Patents, National Office databases, for example
Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
National and international patent (paper) documentation (EP, WO, US, DE (including DD), GB, FR, RU, CH)
Paid databases: STN International, DIALOG, QUESTEL and Science Direct database
Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)
Internal and public Patent and utility model databases
Other sources
URLs of web pages of the Office’s website that provide access to online publications of patent documents and gazettes, and to other primary and secondary sources of patent information, including patent publication servers and download of bulk patent data:
The Official Bulletin:
http://internet.upv.cz/cs/publikace/vestnik-upv.html (Czech version - since 2000)
http://internet.upv.cz/en/publications/ipo-bulletin.html (English version - since 2007)
The public Czech patents and utility models database – basic search: http://isdv.upv.cz/portal/pls/portal/portlets.pts.frm?p_lan=English
The public Czech patents and utility models database – advanced search: http://isdv.upv.cz/portal/pls/portal/portlets.pta.formular?lok=en
IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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