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Review of DAS 2.0 requirements 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
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 |
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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 |
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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 were released in January 2012 and supported by exchange via TDA/PDX 1.7.2 and PCT-EDI.
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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.
Comments made by Offices have been included in the revised versions of the requirements specification of DAS 2.0.