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The WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS

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an electronic system allowing priority documents and similar documents to be securely exchanged

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between participating intellectual property (IP) offices. The system enables applicants and offices to

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meet the requirements of the Paris Convention for certification in an electronic environment.

These pages provide a forum for consultations on the Framework Provisions, technical specifications and related topics for the Digital Access Service.

Consultative Group

The system is governed by a set of Framework Provisions, which provide for a Consultative Group to provide advice on:

the designation of digital libraries as "participating digital libraries" (paragraph 7(ii));
the possible establishment of procedures for translations of priority documents to be deposited and made available through the service (paragraph 19); and
the operating procedures and technical requirements for the service (paragraph 21).

These wiki pages are provided to support the work of the Consultative Group. Representatives need to log in to post comments on the forum (as comments on the wiki pages). Read-only access is available to anyone with or without a login.

Membership

Membership of the group (paragraph 21 of the Framework Provisions) is open to:

IP Offices from which the International Bureau receives a notification under paragraph 10 or 12;
any other IP Offices that notify the International Bureau that they wish to participate in the Group;
as observers, interested organizations invited to meetings of the Working Group that notify the International Bureau that they wish to participate in the Consultative Group.

Each member of the group may nominate one or more representatives in accordance with the procedure below, which also applies to adding or changing representatives.

Requesting an account and access to the forum

This is a two stage process (if you already have an account used for a WIPO Wiki, the same account can be used here):

First, fill in the form to request an account ("last name" means family name and "first name" means given name).

An automatic e-mail will immediately be sent giving a link to a page allowing you to create a username and password.
- For usernames of office representatives, please use a lowercase version of the ST.3 code for your office followed by a hyphen and then a family name and at least an initial (in your preferred order), for example ep-jsmith (John SMITH from EPO) and either kr-parke or kr-epark (PARK Eun from KIPO).
- For usernames of representatives of organisations, please use the acronym or recognizable abbreviation (which doesn't match a country code) for your organization followed by a hyphen and a name, for example aipla-mkirk.

When you have an account, send an e-mail to dassupport@wipo.int including the following information:

Your name
Your job title or role in the organization
The WIPO account username

We will then add you to the list of users who can post comments to the forum.

The Service is intended for use with documents related to patents, utility models, industrial designs and trademarks.

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title	Background

Traditionally, applicants have been obliged to request certified paper copies of documents from one office and then submit those documents to other offices.

WIPO DAS allows applicants to simply request the first office (known as the Depositing Office or Office of First Filing) to make priority documents available to the System and then to request other offices (known as the Accessing Offices or Offices of Second Filing) to retrieve those documents via the Service. The exchange of documents then takes place electronically between the offices.

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    Requests per Year (2010–2025)
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    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2010: 8"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:0%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">8</div>
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  <!-- 2011 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2011</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2011: 50"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:0.01%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">50</div>
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  <!-- 2012 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2012</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2012: 3,275"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:0.89%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">3,275</div>
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  <!-- 2013 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2013</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2013: 23,585"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:6.42%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">23,585</div>
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  <!-- 2014 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2014</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2014: 46,850"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:12.75%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">46,850</div>
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  <!-- 2015 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2015</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2015: 55,586"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:15.13%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">55,586</div>
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  <!-- 2016 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2016</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2016: 64,858"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:17.65%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">64,858</div>
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  <!-- 2017 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2017</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2017: 81,678"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:22.23%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">81,678</div>
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  <!-- 2018 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2018</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2018: 119,961"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:32.65%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">119,961</div>
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  <!-- 2019 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2019</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2019: 180,974"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:49.25%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">180,974</div>
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  <!-- 2020 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2020</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2020: 207,850"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:56.57%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">207,850</div>
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  <!-- 2021 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2021</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2021: 239,019"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:65.05%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">239,019</div>
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  <!-- 2022 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2022</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2022: 236,554"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:64.38%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">236,554</div>
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  <!-- 2023 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2023</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2023: 327,220"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:89.06%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">327,220</div>
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  <!-- 2024 -->
  <div style="display:flex;align-items:center;margin:6px 0;">
    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2024</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2024: 367,435"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:100%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">367,435</div>
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  <!-- 2025 -->
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    <div style="width:64px;text-align:right;margin-right:8px;color:#FFD700;">2025</div>
    <div style="flex:1;background:#1A1A1A;border-radius:8px;height:22px;position:relative;overflow:hidden;">
      <div title="2025: 349,391"
           style="height:100%;background:#005B9E;width:95.09%;min-width:2px;border-radius:8px;"></div>
      <div style="position:absolute;right:8px;top:0;height:100%;display:flex;align-items:center;font-size:12px;color:#FFD700;">349,391</div>
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The DAS system is the responsibility of the WIPO IP Office Business Division (IPOBSD), working in coordination with the WIPO PCT Sector for questions relating to the IB as an accessing and depositing office.

For more information on legal, operational and technical support:

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WIPO publishes notifications from Offices in regards to their participation in DAS and particularly the scope of documents deposited by Offices. Notification details are published on the WIPO DAS site.

If you wish to be informed by electronic mail of the last notifications published, please login with your account, open and add the New Office Participation

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