Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2025 submitted by United States of America/ United States Patent and Trademark Office

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

Information on the following topics is desired:

• Outline of main policies and plans aimed at development of patent information activities and expected time frames for their realization
• New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies and plans mentioned above, short description:  aims, partners, tasks
• Main areas of patent information activities and related information and communication technology (ICT) practices which were in the focus of attention last year
• Statistics:  changes in terms of application filings and grants with respect to previous year;  trends or areas experiencing rapid changes
• Other matters and useful links (URLs):  annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.

IP Policy | USPTO

USPTO annual reports | USPTO

Patent policy | USPTO

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

Information on the following topics is desired:

• Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) – URLs
• Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
• Classification², preclassification³ (if applicable), reclassification⁴   activities; classification system used (e.g., International Patent  Classification (IPC)), matters concerning indexing of patent information
• Abstracting, reviewing, and translation of the information contained in patent documents
• Other activities 

Home | Open Data Portal

III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

Information on the following topics is desired:

• Main types of publications of the Office (patent applications, full text, first pages, abstracts, bibliographic data, granted patents, etc.), medium (on paper, on CDs, online – URLs)
• Official Gazettes:  main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online – URL), etc.
• Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external collections and databases
• Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
• Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)
• Other sources 

Home | Open Data Portal

Filing and Dossier Access: Online patent tools | USPTO

Classification: Patent Classification | USPTO

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

Information on the following topics is desired:

• Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office:  general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements
• Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
• Internal databases:  coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources
• Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file:  file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file
• Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)
• Other matters

USPTO Strategic Plan | USPTO

USPTO annual reports | USPTO

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

Information on the following topics is desired:

• Patent library:  equipment, collection management, network of patent libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign patent libraries
• Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.
• Office’s initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)
• Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.
• Education and training:  training courses, e learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
• Other activities 

Patent Public Search | USPTO

Data and statistics | USPTO

Learning and resources | USPTO

VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION

Information on the following topics is desired:

• International exchange and sharing of patent information in machine-readable form, e.g., priority documents, bibliographic data, abstracts, search reports, full text information
• Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to patent information
• Assistance to developing countries
• Other activities

International Patent Cooperation | USPTO

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: 

• "Fully implemented"
• “Partially implemented”
• "On implementation phase"
• "Planning to implement"
• “On assessment phase”
• "No plan to implement"

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

Fully implemented

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

Partially implemented

The date format used on image data is the American format, format used in the XML is per ST.2

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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WIPO Standard ST.10:  Published patent documents

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

No plan to implement

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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

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

Partially implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

No plan to implement

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

Fully implemented

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

No plan to implement

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

On assessment phase

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

No plan to implement

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

Partially implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

On implementation phase

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

Partially implemented

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

Partially implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

No plan to implement

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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

Partially implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Partially implemented

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

Partially implemented

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

Partially implemented

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

No plan to implement

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

On implementation phase

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

Partially implemented

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

Partially implemented

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VIII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

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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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