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New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies and plans mentioned above, short description: aims, partners, tasks

• The Saudi Patent Office is currently working on converting patent applications to XML FULLTEXT WIPO ST.36.
• The Saudi Patent Office is currently seeking to provide a special search engine for published patent and industrial design registration certificates. 

Main areas of patent information activities and related information and communication technology (ICT) practices which were in the focus of attention last year

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

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

Availability of the application dossier in electronic form

Classification¹, preclassification² (if applicable), reclassification³ activities; classification systems used (e.g., International Patent Classification (IPC)); matters concerning indexing of patent information

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

• Prior Art Search:

This service provide a Prioritysearch of an idea of invention provided by searching the prior arts in various databases of patent information and    scientific search engines. It is a free service provided by the Saudi Patent Office to help the owners of ideas to evaluate and study the feasibility of a concept and identify the published documents that may affect the possibility of obtaining a patent.

• Pharmaceuticals search:

It is a paid service provided by the Saudi Patent Office for pharmaceutical companies that wants to know about the state of a drug product at the Office in terms of protection and legal status through searching in the national databases.

• Intellectual Property Awareness:

A Service provided by Saudi Patent Office which aims to train users to search in the databases of national patent information and how to E-file a patent application at the Office. Also, train users to draft a patent application in accordance with the Saudi patent law, in addition to participating in events, specialized exhibitions and lectures to raise awareness of intellectual property.

- Saudi Patent Office uses an e-filing system.

- Saudi Patent Office uses the International Classification (IPC) for patents.

- Saudi Patent Office uses Locarno classification 9^th edition for the classification of industrial designs.

-the customer service department in the Saudi Patent Office help the inventors and applicants and offer them assistance through (toll free- live support-email-Twitter-text messages) to solve any problem they might have.

Other activities

Patent Information Standards:

The Saudi Patent Office is currently seeking to apply the standards issued by the WIPO for patent information, which is:

• WIPO Standards (ST3) for country code.
• WIPO Standards (ST6) for numbering published documents.
• Publication of patent information by encoding the published documents compliant with WIPO Standard ST.16.
• Conversion of patent applications to searchable documents by full-text according to WIPO Standard ST.36.

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III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

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Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc.

• E-newsletter: through which (Amendment - modification -correction) that occur to the bibliographic data of applications are published.

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

• thomsonreuters: a patent search engine for examiners.
• PatBase: a patent search engine for examiners.
• ProQuest Dialog: a patent search engine for examiners.

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

• Search engine for published patents (http://SPO.GOV.SA/)

It is a search engine available for public through which patent applications – bibliographic data – patent first page – specification page are published.

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

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

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

Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office

Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources

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

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

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

• E-filing:

The Saudi Patent Office uses an e-filing system for patent applications, as well as the formal and substantive examination procedures and issuance of formal and substantive examination reports, in addition to granting procedures.

E-services provided by the Saudi Patent Office:

• Issuing certified true copy.
• Amendment and addition to the bibliographic data of applications.
• Change of ownership.

 Other matters

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

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

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

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

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

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• Participating in international patent databases.
• Distributing pamphlets about patent information.
• Designing infographics that shows patent statistics.
• Holding workshops about searching in patent information.
• Analyzing and publishing annual reports of international patent offices.

Other activities

VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION

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

- Exchanging International patent information with the world intellectual property organization (WIPO) to publish it through PATENTSCOPE.

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

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• The Saudi Patent Office seeks to sign an agreement with the World Intellectual Property Organization to get the publishing program "WIPO publish".
• Participating in international activities and agreements about intellectual property.
• Accession to the ARABPAT agreement, which aims to exchange patent information between the Arab Patent Offices.
• The Saudi Patent Office has signed a CPES agreement with the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China about sharing the examination reports between patent offices around the world.

Assistance to developing countries

Other activities

Cooperation with the relevant authorities:-

• Organizing training session at the Korean Intellectual Property Office.

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• Visiting the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China.

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• Meetings for cooperation with the Moroccan Office of Industrial and Commercial Property.

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• Working on a memorandum of understanding between the Saudi Patent Office and the European Patent Office.

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• Taking advantage of distance education programs organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization

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• (WIPO).

Assistance to developing countries

Other activities

VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

Regulations and Legislation:

• Updating the Regulations of patent, layout designs of integrated circuits, Plant Varieties and Industrial Designs law in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and the Treaty Patent Law (PLT).
• Studying the accession to the Hague treaty.
• Studying the change of patents, layout designs of integrated circuits, plant varieties and industrial designs law.