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HWS are a secure, highly-available, reliable, HTTPS/REST API-based protocol for exchanging data with the Hague System. They can be used for sending or receiving data through a set of endpoints that require secure authentication, as explained in details in the documentation below.
HWS is the preferred Hague data exchange channel.
EDI is a legacy SFTP solution owned by the WIPO PCT department, and upon which the Hague department has no control or supervision. The Hague department depends on the PCT for granting accesses and exchanging files with IP Offices. In addition to this, exchanged files consequently undergo several transfers over several systems before they end up in the Hague System, increasing the risk of security leaks, data losses and human errors, with potentially important legal consequences.
On the contrary, HWS is an M2M protocol with one entry point on the office's side and another one in the Hague System, bound together by a state-of-the-art authentication and security protocol.
Moreover, EDI is on a sunset phase and bound to be decommissioned in the not so distant future.
For all these reasons, Offices already exchanging data with Hague via EDI are encouraged to migrate to the HWS.
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HWS can be used to:
Those are pictured in the below HWS workflow diagram, and will be explained in details further below:
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