Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2025 submitted by Industrial Property Office CZ

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

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In comparison with the year 2025, there were changes in patent and utility model activities as follows:

Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year

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VII. ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WIPO STANDARDS CONCERNING PATENT INFORMATION

WIPO Standard Standard ST.3: Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.6: Numbering of published patent documents

1:  Recommendation concerning the minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document

Partially implemented. 

Para. 5(d) not implementedImplemented.

WIPO Standard ST.9: Bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCsImplemented2:  Standard manner for designating calendar dates by using the Gregorian calendar

Partially implemented.

Date format specified in para. 7(a) used.

WIPO Standard ST.10/C: Presentation of bibliographic data components3: Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.136: Numbering of applications for IPRs

No plan to implement.

WIPO Standard ST.14: References cited in published patent documents

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.168: Identification of different kinds of patent documents  Standard recording of international patent classification (IPC) symbols on machine-readable records

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.18: Patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals

ImplementedImplemented, by no longer used. ST.36/ST.96 elements used instead.

WIPO Standard ST.26: Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML9: Bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.27: Recommendation for the Exchange of Patent Legal Status Data

On implementation phase.

WIPO Standard ST.36: Processing of patent information using XML

Implemented (limited use due to implementation of ST.96).

WIPO Standard ST.37: Recommendation for an Authority File of Published Patent Documents

Implemented (version 2.2).

10/A:  Format (margins, size) of patent documents

Partially implemented.

A4 page format is used, margin on documents may differ from ST. 10/A specification.

WIPO Standard ST.10/B:  Layout of bibliographic data components

Partially implemented.

Barcode not present on publications.

WIPO Standard ST.10/C: Presentation of bibliographic data components

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.10/D:  Guidelines on physical characteristics of patent documents particularly relevant to reproducibility and legibility of such documents

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.11:  Recommendation on the minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes or published in association with patent gazettes

Implemented

IPO CZ's gazettes are vailaible in the form of PDF files. A separate web application for keyword search in gazette records is provided.

WIPO Standard ST.12:  Guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents

Partially implemented.

A - completely, B,C - not implemented

WIPO Standard ST.12/A:  General guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.12/B:  Guidelines for the preparation of categorized patent abstract

No plan to implement.

WIPO Standard ST.12/C:  Guidelines for the physical characteristics of separately published abstracts in selective dissemination of information (SDI) presented in the form of card files

No plan to implement - obsolete.

WIPO Standard ST.13: Numbering of applications for IPRs

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.14: References cited in patent documents

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.15:  Guidelines for the wording of titles of inventions in patent documents

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.16: Identification of different kinds of patent documents 

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.17:  Recommendation for the coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes

Implemeted.

WIPO Standard ST.18: Patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals

Implemented

WIPO Standard ST.19:  Recommendation for the publication of indexes issued yearly/half-yearly/quarterly by industrial property offices

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.20:  Recommendations for the preparation of name indexes to patent documents

Partially implemented. 

We abide article 7,8,9,10 (partly - PDF HELP on search webpage, not in Gazette),11, 12,15b, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 26, 27

No use of Appendices I, II (C-F)

We use Appendix II A,B (personal titles only)

WIPO Standard ST.21:  Recommendation concerning the reduction of volume of priority documents as filed with industrial property offices

Partially implemented.

We do not use both-sides printing nor two-page-to-one printing. Partly, it goes against ST.22 art 11.

WIPO Standard ST.22:  Recommendation for the authoring of patent applications for the purpose of facilitating optical character recognition (OCR)

Partially implemented.

Currently almost 95% of applications are filed by electronic means, volume of documents processed by OCR is thus still lower.

WIPO Standard ST.25:  Standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications

Implemented.

Implemented by replaced by ST.26.

WIPO Standard ST.26: Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML

Implemented.

WIPO Standard ST.27: Recommendation for the Exchange of Patent Legal Status Data

On implementation phase.

WIPO Standard ST.31:  Recommended standard coded character sets for the exchange of machine-readable records of patent documents

Not implemented.

Obsolete. UTF-8 used within data exchange formats (ST.36/96).

WIPO Standard ST.32:  Recommendation for the markup of patent documents using SGML (standard generalized markup language)

Not implemented.

Obsolete. ST.36/ST.96 used instead.

WIPO Standard ST.33:  Recommended standard format for data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents

Implemented.

Implemented, but no longer used (obsolete).

WIPO Standard ST.34:  Recommendation concerning the recording of application numbers in electronic form for the exchange of bibliographic data

Not implemented.

ST.13 used instead.

WIPO Standard ST.35:  Recommended standard format for data exchange of mixed-mode published patent document information on reel-to-reel and IBM 3480/90 cartridge tapes

Not implemented.

Obsolete.

WIPO Standard ST.36: Processing of patent information using XML

Implemented (limited use due to implementation of ST.96).

WIPO Standard ST.37: Recommendation for an Authority File of Published Patent Documents

Implemented (version 2.2).

WIPO Standard ST.40:  Recommendation concerning making facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM

Not implemented.

We use media-less data exchange.

WIPO Standard ST.WIPO Standard ST.50: Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information

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Planning to Implement.

WIPO Standard ST.91: Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images

Please enter one of the following values:   "Implemented", "On implementation phase", "Planning to Implement",  and "No plan to implement" 

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No plan to implement.

WIPO Standard ST.92: Recommendations on the Data Package Format for the Electronic Exchange of Priority Documents

Please enter one of the following values:   "Implemented", "On implementation phase", "Planning to Implement",  and "No plan to implement" 

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Planning to Implement.

On assessment phase. Decision on implementation/non-implementation will be based on the volume of priority documents processed via DAS which has been joined by IPO CZ recently.

WIPO Standard WIPO Standard ST.96: Processing of Industrial Property information using XML

Please enter one of the following values:   "Implemented", "On implementation phase", "Planning to Implement",  and "No plan to implement" 

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Implemented.

Used in parallel with  ST.36.

WIPO Standard ST.97:  Recommendation for processing of intellectual property data using JSON

On assesment phaseImplemented.