Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2025 submitted by Japan

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URLs in responses should meet the following requirements:

I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PATENT INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:





II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:





III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:



          b) Providing JPO data

         The following types of data is currently provided to commercial providers in Japan by bulk data download service.

         b-1) New Standardized Data

         This data is the JPO’s bibliographical and status information converted and processed into TSV format for better usability for external users. The data has been provided since May 2019.

         b-2) PAJ

         See 2. (4)b)

　　  b-3) Japanese abstracts of European and U.S. patent data

          Japanese abstracts created by machine-translating the contents of the abstracts of U.S. patent descriptions, U.S. patent descriptions of unexamined patent applications, and European descriptions of unexamined patent applications.

          b-4) Machine-translated text data of Chinese-Korean documents

           Chinese Published Unexamined Patent Applications, Chinese patent gazettes, Chinese Published registered utility model applications, Korean Published Unexamined Patent Applications, Korean patent gazettes, Korean Published Unexamined Utility Model Applications, and Korean Published registered utility                 model applications published from 2003 onwards are subject to this full-text machine translation.

           c) Reference to Official Gazettes on Patent

          The INPIT has 10 access devices, including sophisticated information browsing terminals, which is available in the Official Gazettes Reading Room in the JPO office building. This allows free public access to “a search service for patent gazettes,” the J-PlatPat Service, gazettes on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, microfilm etc.

          d) Reference to examination and trial documents

          The INPIT is collecting various technical documents (books, etc.), which are used in the examinations and trials by the JPO, widely from within and outside Japan and is making them available to the public.

          e) Provision of Licensable Patent Information

          The INPIT maintains the "Patent Licensing Information Database,” which provides information on intellectual property held by companies, universities, and public research institutions. This database contains information on patents available for assignment or licensing (licensable patents) as well as research tool            patents in the life science field, and is made available to the public via the internet.https://www.plidb.inpit.go.jp/



IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:






V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF PATENT INFORMATION

Information on the following topics is desired:






VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION

Information on the following topics is desired:




VII. ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WIPO STANDARDS CONCERNING PATENT INFORMATION

Note:  For each Standard listed below, please enter one of the following values: 

Implementation Status Definitions

"Fully implemented"

The WIPO Standard has been implemented in a manner compliant or compatible with the Standard.

"Partially implemented"

The WIPO Standard has been implemented in part.  The Office practice aligns with some, but not all, requirements of the Standard.

"On implementation phase"

The decision to implement the WIPO Standard has been made and it is currently being deployed, configured, or integrated into systems and workflows.

"Planning to implement"

The decision to implement the WIPO Standard has been made;  planning activities (resource allocation, timeline development, technical design) are underway before actual implementation begins.

"On assessment phase"

The WIPO Standard is under active evaluation to determine its feasibility, technical requirements, costs, benefits, and alignment with organizational needs before making an implementation decision.

"No plan to implement"

The WIPO Standard has been reviewed and there is currently no intention or plan to implement it.


WIPO Standard ST.1:  Recommendation concerning the minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document

"Partially implemented"

JPO complies with ST.3, 6, 9 and 16, but does not fully comply with ST.2.

WIPO Standard ST.2:  Standard manner for designating calendar dates by using the Gregorian calendar

"Partially implemented"

In some displays, JPO represents months or days with a value of less than 10 without a leading zero.

WIPO Standard ST.3:  Recommended standard on two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and intergovernmental organizations

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.6:  Recommendation for the numbering of published patent documents

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.8:  Standard recording of international patent classification (IPC) symbols on machine-readable records

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.9:  Recommendation concerning bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.10:  Published patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.10/A:  Format (margins, size) of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.10/B:  Layout of bibliographic data components

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.10/C:  Presentation of bibliographic data components

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.10/D:  Guidelines on physical characteristics of patent documents particularly relevant to reproducibility and legibility of such documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.11:  Recommendation on the minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes or published in association with patent gazettes

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.12:  Guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.12/A:  General guidelines for the preparation of abstracts of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.12/B:  Guidelines for the preparation of categorized patent abstract

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.12/C:  Guidelines for the physical characteristics of separately published abstracts in selective dissemination of information (SDI) presented in the form of card files

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.13:  Recommendation for the numbering of applications for industrial property rights (IPRs)

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.14:  Recommendation for the inclusion of references cited in patent documents

“Partially implemented” implemented for the ISR, but not implemented for some part of the domestic operation

WIPO Standard ST.15:  Guidelines for the wording of titles of inventions in patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.16:  Recommended standard code for the identification of different kinds of patent documents

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.17:  Recommendation for the coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.18:  Recommendation concerning patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.19:  Recommendation for the publication of indexes issued yearly/half-yearly/quarterly by industrial property offices

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.20:  Recommendations for the preparation of name indexes to patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.21:  Recommendation concerning the reduction of volume of priority documents as filed with industrial property offices

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.22:  Recommendation for the authoring of patent applications for the purpose of facilitating optical character recognition (OCR)

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.25:  Standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.26:  Recommended standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML  (extensible markup language)

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.27:  Recommendation for the exchange of patent legal status data

"Fully implemented" from September 2023, J-PlatPat provides the function to display and search the legal status of patents that is compliant with WIPO standard ST.27.

WIPO Standard ST.31:  Recommended standard coded character sets for the exchange of machine-readable records of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.32:  Recommendation for the markup of patent documents using SGML (standard generalized markup language)

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.33:  Recommended standard format for data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.34:  Recommendation concerning the recording of application numbers in electronic form for the exchange of bibliographic data

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.35:  Recommended standard format for data exchange of mixed-mode published patent document information on reel-to-reel and IBM 3480/90 cartridge tapes

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.36:  Recommendation for the processing of patent information using XML (extensible markup language)

“Partially implemented”  for applications and registrations

WIPO Standard ST.37:  Recommendation for an authority file of published patent documents

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.40:  Recommendation concerning making facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.50:  Guidelines for issuing corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information

"Fully implemented"

WIPO Standard ST.90:  Recommendation for processing and communicating intellectual property data using web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.91:  Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images

"No plan to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.92:  Recommendations on the data package format for the electronic exchange of priority documents

"Planning to implement"

WIPO Standard ST.96:  Recommendation for the processing of intellectual property information using XML (extensible markup language)

“Partially implemented” implemented for publications

WIPO Standard ST.97:  Recommendation for processing of intellectual property data using JSON

"No plan to implement"

VIII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

Please include any other relevant information here.


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.

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.

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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