Survey on the Use of WIPO Standards
WIPO Standard ST.1: Minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.2: Manner for designating calendar dates
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.3: Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.6: Numbering of published 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)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.8: IPC symbols on machine-readable records
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.9: Bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.10: Published 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)
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly: Please see responses to 10 (A), (B), (C) and (D) below 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard? 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.10/A: Format of 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)
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, we no longer publish patent documents in paper format 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.10/B: Layout of bibliographic data components
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly: We do not include bar codes on our published documents 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard? 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.10/C: Presentation of bibliographic data components
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.10/D: Physical characteristics of 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)
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, we no longer publish patent documents in paper format 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.11: Minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we now have an on-line searchable patents journal (www.gov.uk/check-the-patents-journal) and our back-file of patents data to 1900 can be searched on Esp@cenet 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.12: Preparation of abstracts of 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)
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly: Please see responses to 12 (A), (B) and (C) below 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard? 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.12/A: Abstracts of 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)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.12/B: Categorized patent abstract
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we no longer publish paper abridgements 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.12/C: Physical characteristics of separately published abstracts
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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 the practices in our office 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.13: Numbering of applications for IPRs
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we will consider this standard when we next change our application and publication number formats. 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.14: References cited in 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)
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly: We do not include the publication date of the citation in our search reports. 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard? 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.15: Titles of inventions in 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)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.16: Identification of different kinds of 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)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.17: Coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we have no immediate plans to implement this standard. We have an on-line patents journal (www.gov.uk/check-the-patents-journal) which you can search/filter by category. 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.18: Patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly: We only publish electronically, we also offer our on-line patents journal in downloadable xml and pdf formats (www.ipo.gov.uk/p-pj-download.htm) 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard? 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.19: Indexes issued by IPO
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we have discontinued the quarterly publication of indexes. We consider them unnecessary due to the ability to search GB data on the GOV.UK website and through other on-line services such as Esp@cenet. We are also supporting the EPOs development of the on-line federated register service. 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)
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, we no longer publish a name index. Our on-line journal and other services such as Esp@cenet allow our customers to search by name. 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.21: Reduction of volume of priority documents
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we do not consider this standard is applicable to our business processes. Our preferred option is to promote the support of WIPO DAS for the supply and retrieval of electronic priority documents. 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.22: Authoring of patent applications for the purpose of OCR
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly: Only 15% of our new Patent filings and subsequent transaction requests are received on paper and we actively promote this standard in our pre-filing material and on-line filing services. Our longer term strategy is to give more technical focus to the xml (Business to Business) exchange of documents, helping remove the need to OCR capture images. 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard? 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.25: Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) |
WIPO Standard ST.26: Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings 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)
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, we will adopt and phase in this standard when approved by CWS 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.27: Recommendation for the Exchange of Patent Legal Status Data
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we will consider implementing this standard over the next 5 years as part of our digital transformation agenda 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.31: Character sets for the exchange of 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)
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, we consider this standard as technically outdated 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.32: Markup of patent documents using SGML
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we consider this standard as technically outdated 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.33: Data exchange of facsimile information of 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)
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, we consider this standard as technically outdated 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.34: Recording of application numbers in electronic form
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we have no immediate plans to implement this standard. We will consider this standard in conjunction with ST13 if we change our existing number formats 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.35: Data exchange of mixed-mode published patent information on MMMT
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we consider this standard as technically outdated 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.36: Processing of patent 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)
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly: Only our bibliographical and abstract data are available in xml for internal processing and data sharing purposes. Publically the full patent specifications are published in PDF format from our website (www.ipo.gov.uk/p-find-publication.htm) 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard? 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.37: Recommendation for an Authority File of Published 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)
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, we will consider implementation of this standard when approved by CWS. We will create an authority file as part of our 5 year business transformation agenda. 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.40: Facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we no longer produce GB Espace CD-Roms. 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)
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly: Amended and corrected patents are made available from our website (www.ipo.gov.uk/p-find-publication.htm) 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard? 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.60: Bibliographic data relating to marks
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we do not have any plans to implement this standard 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.62: Standard abbreviation for “Vienna Classification”
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we do not have any plans to implement this standard 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.63: Content and layout of trademark gazettes
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we no longer provide printed Trademark gazettes 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.64: Search files for trademark search
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) |
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)
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) We do not currently have a date when this standard can be fully implemented |
WIPO Standard ST.67: Electronic management of the figurative elements of trademarks
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) We do not currently have a date when this standard can be fully implemented |
WIPO Standard ST.68: Electronic management of sound marks
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) We do not have any plans to implement this standard |
WIPO Standard ST.80: Bibliographic data relating to industrial designs
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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) We do not have any plans to implement this standard |
WIPO Standard ST.81: Content and layout of industrial designs gazettes
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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
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, we no longer provide printed designs gazettes 4. Comments (optional) |
WIPO Standard ST.86: Processing of industrial design 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)
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) We do not have any plans at present to implement this standard |
WIPO Standard ST.96: Processing of Industrial Property 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)
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) We do not currently have a date when this standard can be fully implemented |