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The Third Session of the DAS Working Group held from July 12 to 14, 2011 in WIPO gave the mandate to the International Bureau to implement the extension and improvements of DAS as summarized in the Summary by the Chair (Document WIPO/DAS/PD/WG/3/7).

The requirement specifications relating to the extension and improvements of DAS (2.0) is posted in this page for reviews by the DAS Consultative Group.

A prototype showing future pages of the Applicant and Office portals is attached. Please click here to download the Zip file and unzip it to your local desktop to view the prototype screen mockups. 

Some changes relating to DAS exchange betwwen Offices over the TDA/PDX and PCT-EDI protocols will be required to support Route D. Proposal for changes in TDA/PDX will be discussed through the TDA forum. PCT-EDI related changes are discussed below.

Review of DAS 2.0 requirements

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Members of the Consultative Group are inivited to comment on the requirement specifications. In order to facilitate the plannings for the development and end users testing of DAS 2.0, the International Bureau would be grateful if members of the Consultative Group would provide as soon as possible their feedbacks so that the specifications would be revised by November 18, 2011 if required.

Corrigendum: The International Bureau has extended the feedback deadline to December 2, 2011, in order to give sufficient time to Offices to provide their feedback.

specification

The requirements specification was finalized and posted on April 10, 2012 with the revision 2.4 (version with tracking changes). It includes a few minor corrections by removing two inappropriate descriptions of ACL. The specifications (revision 1.0) of the DAS 2.0 Applicant Portal was made available.

Proposed implementation timelines from 2012 to 2013

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The International Bureau would like to propose the following revised timelines for the implementation DAS 2.0. Current participating Offices are welcome to comment on the proposed timelines and on the migration plan of each inividual Offices.

System Component	Specifications Review	Office and End-user Testing	Production Release
Route D migration in respect of DAS TDA/PDX (e.g. 1.7.3) for patent applications only A new change request to add a dasRegister operation needs to be raised in the TDA forum.	June 29, 2012	2013	2013
Route D migration in respect of DAS PCT-EDI protocol for all types of applications including (Industrial Designs, Patents, Trademarks and Utility Models)	February16, 2012	from March 1, 2012 to June 22, 2012	July 1, 2012
Account-based Applicant portal for Industrial Designs, Patents and Utility Models applications (Trademark applications are not supported by the portal)	February 16, 2012	September 2012	When Route C Offices migrate to the new Route

The proposed change and schedule support backward system compatibility for Routes "A" and "C" Offices and would allow the Offices to implement the changes at their own pace.

Improvements released in January 2012

The following changes were released in January 2012.

Security Improvements

DAS security improvements to add cross-check of the priority filing date are already available in the TEST environment of DAS and were released in January 2012 and supported by exchange via TDA/PDX 1.7.2 and PCT-EDI. The planned schedule for DAS improvement upgrade is based on to the TDA/PDX 1.7.2 implementation timelines as discussed and agreed with "Route C".

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• (i) - Shall we put a restriction in the upload operation so that the priority filing dates are always provided and the system generates error if it is not the case.
• (ii) - If we don't don’t implement the restriction for registering the priority document with its filing date (like the current situation), there are cases where the priority filing dates are not provided and therefore cross-check cannot be performed by DAS.
• (iii) - Would there be cases where the priority filing dates get changed after DAS registration? If so, there should be a provision for the OFF to update the date record in DAS. The DAS system should notify OSFs which have already retrieved successfully the priority document about the date change. This is unlikely to happen because within the time window when a correction of the priority filing date may be made (e.g. two months) there would be no retrieval. 

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- If DAS does not hold the priority filing date, the cross-check will be performed by the depositing Office.

Current participating Offices are invited to comment on this suggested change and the hightligted points (i), (ii), (iii) so that appropriate implementation would be planned in due course.

"Route D" migration and Extension to Industrial Designs, Trademarks and Utility Models

The suggested timelines for the implementation of DAS extension is as follows:

The proposed change and schedule support backward system compatibility for Routes "A" and "C" Offices and would allow the Offices to implement the changes at their own paceComments made by Offices have been included in the revised versions of the requirements specification of DAS 2.0.