Annual Technical Report 2013 on Patent Information Activities submitted by Brazil (CWS/ATR/PI/2013/BR)
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The term "patent" covers utility models and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs). Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in their Annual Technical Reports on Industrial Design Information Activities.
I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PATENT INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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Applications for BR patents and Utility Models increased from 33.780 in 2012 to 33.916 in 2013 (+ 1 %). This was the lowest growth recorded in the last 5 years.
The PCT national phase applications represent 67% of total above.
The electronic filling began on March 2013 and on July 2014 70% of all patent documents was presented electronically.
Patents granted increased from 3.137 in 2012 to 3.319 in 2013 (7%).
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
Statistics related to Brazilian patents applications are available in http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/estatisticas and the statistics of electronic filling are available in https://edeposito.inpi.gov.br/painel/
Recent general publications are available in the link http://www.inpi.gov.br/portal/artigo/publicacoes
II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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INPI has a collection of DVD and CD-ROM containing published or granted US, Benelux, WO, EP, DE, ES, FR, JP, KR,OA CH, GB and TR patent documents, and paper copies of entire documents can be provided for internal or external demands.
INPI has also a paper collection of BR, US, WO, EP, AU, CA, NL, DE, CH, GB and FR patent documents classified according to the IPC and a microform patent document collection from BR, ES, US, FR, GB, DE and CH. This collection has been frozen since the implementation of search systems. Internal users access CD-ROM, DVD, Epoque, Dialog, Thomson Reuters’ GENESEQ, CAS-STN, Internet and SINPI (internal database).
Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
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VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS
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| 1. | Classification is allotting one or more classification symbols (e.g., IPC symbols) to a patent application, either before or during search and examination, which symbols are then published with the patent application.
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| 2. | Preclassification is allotting an initial broad classification symbol (e.g., IPC class or subclass, or administrative unit) to a patent application, using human or automated means for internal administrative purposes (e.g., routing an application to the appropriate examiner). Usually preclassification is applied by the administration of an office.
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| 3. | Reclassification is the reconsideration and usually the replacement of one or more previously allotted classification symbols to a patent document, following a revision and the entry into force of a new version of the Classification system (e.g., the IPC). The new symbols are available on patent databases.
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