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

Bibliographic data, abstracts and full text of Egyptian national application (checked by examiners) can be searched on the Egyptian Patent Office database and all the other relevant databases.

Other activities

III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

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To assist with IPC classification, examiners have access to TAC SY and IPC CAT   .

External databases:

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

We have searchable database for Egyptian  granted patent with two language Arabic and English  for free on our website on this two links for Arabic search http://www.egypo.gov.eg/Search/ and for English http://www.egypo.gov.eg/Search/default.aspx

We publish the The Egyptian Patent Gazette and The Egyptian Patent Abstracts on our website any external user can download them for free from these link   http://www.egypo.gov.eg/page.aspx?id=18

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

The Egyptian patent office stores all the information concerning the legal status and technical documents on the Egyptian database to facilitate the search procedures and assists clients to obtain all the required information.

Other sources

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

• Current standard desktop software includes Microsoft Windows XP, win 7  and win8  with Microsoft Office 2007 and adobe acrobat professional 8 and Symantec antivirus .
• All office action is done on the application or Patent Produced Automatically from our data base as word processing.
• We check all patent abstracts provided by the applicant besides amending them when necessary to ensure that the abstract represents a useful search tool .
• We use this tools :

  • • • • • Windows Server 2008

            windows Server 2012

            Windows 7 & 8

            IPAS SOFTWARE

            WIPO Scan Software

            IPAS buplisher

            Microsoft office 2007 &2003

            Adobe acrobat professional 8

            Abby transformer Symantec untivurse

            
            
            

Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office

Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources

• 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. 
• We used paper, Microfilm, Microfilm jackets, tapes, HD, and DVD as mass storage for our Applications and Patents. Egyptian patent specifications are published on CD-ROM and on the Egyptian database.
• This database contains bibliographic and status information about invention patent applications filed in Egypt.

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 reuse in case examining a similar application 
• 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)

• EGYPO is starting with WIPO to use the new system Industrial Property Automation System (IPAS) and the office is a pilot with WIPO.
• EGYPO is starting with WIPO to digitization, such as WIPO Scan system. We replaced EPOSCAN system by WIPO SCAN
• EGYPO applies effectively the Automated IP Management Software IPAS system supported by WIPO.  IPAS is a fully automated system that includes the following steps :
• Registering patent applications, substantive examination, technical and legal examinations, granting patents, issuing official  gazettes. Inquiries, statistics, and annual fees. All applications documents in paper form are scanned on the automatic archive system.  Then the documents forms are adjusted according to WIPO standers and connected to the bibliographic database.
• Patent applications that are received on paper form are scanned and use WIPO SCAN SYSTEM  After scanning step, the application contents are indexed and transformed to WIPO standard form, then the application is connected to the bibliographic database through IPAS by its number as PDF.  All bibliographic data and attached documents are available to EGYPO officers to carry on the necessary procedures via IPAS , and search is conducted by patent number.
• Title of invention, name of applicant, and abstract, external users can access to granted patents only via EGYPO website.
• Technical examiners have access to all up-to-date PC sets with high internet speed to enable them to do their work with high quality.

Other matters

Planning, administration, automation, security:

• Replace our network and upgrade it .
• Speed up application reception.
• Speedup application communication.
• Simplify and speedup processing.
• Reduce bottleneck at reception.
• Full e-filing & e-payment system for applications and digital signature.
• Monitoring system for follow-up application processing.
• Create a Disaster Recovery system .
• Update security system

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

• 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 in Egypt
• 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.

We publish a Manual for Filing Patent Application on our website on this link :http://www.egypo.gov.eg/page.aspx?id=21

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

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