Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2014 submitted by Egyptian Patent Office

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

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

• Each examiner built his own search file to ruse in case examaining a smilar application .

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  Technical searching can be carried out on combination of terms from different headings. IPC terms can be searched too.

  To assist with IPC classification, examiners have access to TACSY and IPCCAT   :-  

  External databases:

   

  We have a list of some external databases that we use regularly, including Espace net, JAPIO, USPTO, SIPO, EPODOC and Patent scope.and Journals( SCIENCE DIRECT, SCOPUS, SPRINGER LINK, IEEE XPLORE, EBSCO, OVID, PROQUEST).

Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)

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

• The Egyptian patent office has a data base containing the Egyptian  applications and granted patents.
•  The office has a DVD and CD-ROM collections containing published/granted patents for US, WO, EP, GB, etc. 
• This database contains bibliographic and status information about invention patent applications filed inEgypt
• We scan the all contains of  application paper form  ( full text Arabic & English , claims, drawing and priority documents) and connected with database  .
• We have storage media to make backup for Database , archive system ,mail server ,web site and domain controller.

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

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

Training courses for 6 trainees from focal point in Cairo university faculty of Engineering & City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications –(5) trainees from  Ain shams university – (2) trainees from National Authority for  Remote Sensing)

-8 trainees from faculty of veterinary medicine-

3 trainees fromNileUniversity  

 -opening ceremony of the 3 new  focal point (FayomUniversity  ,

 Ain shams university –faculty of agriculture and National Authority for  Remote Sensing)

  Training courses for patent attorneys on patent drafting – training course for (17) trainer ofWIPOACADEMY                                                                         

Seminar on over view on intellectual property

Training course on computer ( power point , Excel , windows  ICDL) for (18) trainees

Course in customer satisfaction (1) –English language courses (23)

Program for training legal examiners 

- Course in executive management (1)- course in legal examination     

Work shop on Egyptian Patent Office and its role in spreading awareness about intellectual property and establishingWIPOAcademy

Memorandum of understanding between Egyptian patent Office and Oman Patent Office

Training courses for (15) trainer of theWIPOAcademy( Giulio zanetti- Isabella Pimentel)

IP Scholarship in   Helwan university for (9) EGYPO employees granted by EGYPO.

Training course for 3 of employees on using modern technologies of research & recovery.

Other activities

VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION

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