Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2025 submitted by State Organization «Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations» (UANIPIO)

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

ANNUAL REPORT: https://nipo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Annual_Report-2025-eng.pdf

ANNUAL REPORT: https://nipo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Annual_Report-2025-eng.pdf

The main types of patent information activities in the field of inventions/utility models encompass information support of examination of applications for inventions/utility models, including the formation of search databases for internal use in the examination body, publication of official information about applications and granted patents in the Official Electronic Bulletin «Industrial Property», operation support of information and reference systems for information servicing of a wide range of users via the Internet.

ANNUAL REPORT: https://nipo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Annual_Report-2025-eng.pdf

BULLETIN: https://nipo.gov.ua/

A Special Information System (hereinafter referred to as SIS) has been created and is in operation at the Office, which provides access via the Internet to information on any industrial/intellectual property right (hereinafter referred to as IP/IPR) in the mode as close to real-time as possible. The search engine of the system, which has a universal search interface, provides open and authorized access to any document of the electronic dossier of an object. Two search engines are implemented in the SIS - simple and advanced. The advanced search has additional search tools, which can be used to limit the search by the type of IPR and legal status. Depending on the selected type and legal status, any search parameter can be selected.

SIS: https://sis.nipo.gov.ua/en/search/simple/

Inventions

Applications filed:

in 2024– 2,558, in 2025– 2,620, increased by 2.4%, as compared to the previous year.

In 2025, a total of 1,999 applications for inventions (76.3 % of the total number of applications for inventions) were filed using the electronic filing system for IPR, decreased 0.7%, as compared to 2024 (2,014 applications).

In 2025, the following areas underwent significant changes compared to the previous year: «Audio-visual technology» (+ 55.0%), «Digital communication» (+ 258.3%), «IT methods for management» (+ 52.5%), «Optics» (+ 49.3%), «Thermal processes and apparatus» (+41.4%), «Furniture, games» (+48.9%).

Patents granted:

in 2024– 1,262, in 2025– 1,224, decreased by 3.0%, as compared to the previous year  including 386 – to resident applicants.

Utility models

Applications filed:

in 2024– 3,749, in 2025– 4,032, increased by 7.5% %, as compared to the previous year.

In 2025, a total of 1,973 utility model applications (48.9 % of the total number of utility model applications), were filed using the electronic filing system for IPR, increased by 27.5 % as compared to 2024 (1,548 applications).

In 2025 the following areas underwent significant changes compared to the previous year:

«Audio-visual technology» (+ 162.3%), «Digital communication» (+ 149.1%), «Computing technology» (+ 22.1%), «IT methods for management» (+ 35.4%), «Biotechnology» (+ 21.3%) and «Textile and paper machines» (+150.4%).

Patents granted:

in 2024– 3,174, in 2025– 3,718, increased by 17,1%, %, as compared to the previous year.

STATISTICS: https://nipo.gov.ua/en/statistics-reports/

ANNUAL REPORT: https://nipo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Annual_Report-2025-eng.pdf

NEWS: https://nipo.gov.ua/novyny-korystuvacham-patentnoi-informatsii/

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

Information for users on the procedures and sources of data on inventions and utility models, in particular information on the legislation in the sphere of inventions and utility models legal protection, services and activities of the Office related to information in this sphere, statistics, etc. is published on the website of the Office.

WEBSITE OF THE OFFICE: https://nipo.gov.ua/en/

Applicants may file applications for inventions and utility models with the Office on paper or electronically.

Electronic filing of applications may be carried out through the Electronic Application Filing System (EAFS - 2). The system includes a personal account for applicants, which provides access to all documents generated during the interaction between the Office and the applicant while the application is being processed.

In addition, electronic filing of applications for inventions and utility models, as well as electronic communication between the Office and applicants, can be carried out through the Electronic Interaction System (EIS).

Recommendations on the work with systems, rules of drafting an application, etc. are available on the website of the Office:

ELECTRONIC APPLICATION Filing SYSTEM: https://efiling.nipo.gov.ua/

ELECTRONIC INTERACTION SYSTEM: https://sev.nipo.gov.ua/

EXAMPLES OF FILLING OUT APPLICATIONS: https://nipo.gov.ua/formy-zaiavok-opv/

All application materials (both primary and secondary) for inventions and utility models, irrespective of the way they are filed to the Office (through the electronic filing system, on paper carriers, by email, fax or other telecommunication networks), automatically and after scanning paper carriers are entered and stored in the electronic archive of documents. In order to use application materials during the processing of applications, the integration of technological automated systems with the electronic document archive has been implemented.

In 2024, following the results of the session of the Committee of Experts of the Special Union of the IPC and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Working Groups for the Revision of the International Patent Classification (IPC), WIPO amended and supplemented the following:

            - the IPC Guide;

  - the text of the International Patent Classification.In view of the above, the amendments to the text of the IPC Guide were translated into Ukrainian by the specialists of the Office. The Guide was updated to the 2024 version and placed in the Information and Reference System (IRS) for the current version of the IPC.

In 2024, specialists of the Office translated the amendments made by WIPO to the text of the IPC-2024.01 into Ukrainian, and with their consideration, IPC-2025.01 was created in Ukrainian, which is applicable from January 1, 2025.

IPC: https://base.nipo.gov.ua/mpk2009/index.html?level=c&version=2

Abstracts and bibliographic data are formed routinely in Ukrainian language for publication on the Internet: in the SIS and in the specialized automated system (AS) "Inventions" - an automated system for supporting the processing of applications for registration of inventions and utility models.

Patent documentation in the specified volume (abstracts, titles and bibliographic data) was translated into English and uploaded to the SIS.

Translation of documentation for 2025 was carried out "step-by-step", that is, concurrently with the publication of each issue of the official electronic bulletin ”Industrial Property” in the SIS UANIPIO, translation of documentation array available in the corresponding issue of the bulletin was published. All translated documentation was uploaded to the SIS API of UANIPIO via a special module in the ”Inventions” AS and became available for use by both domestic and foreign intellectual property professionals, provided they used the SIS API.

SIS: https://sis.nipo.gov.ua/en/search/simple/

III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

Information of the Office concerning inventions/utility models is provided in electronic publications of the Office as well as in free information and retrieval Internet resources of the Office such as electronic databases (DB), IRS and the SIS.

In the current mode, abstracts and bibliographic data were generated in Ukrainian for publication on the Internet: in the SIS and in the AS "Inventions".

SIS: https://sis.nipo.gov.ua/en/search/simple/

Information concerning inventions and utility models is published in Book 1 of the Official Electronic Bulletin "Industrial Property" in the following sections: "Official Information", "Information on Invention Applications Accepted for Examination", "Information on the Grant of Patents of Ukraine for Inventions", "Information on the Grant of Patents of Ukraine for Utility Models" and in the Notices Section.

Publications in the Official Electronic Bulletin "Industrial Property" contain:

-   for the Section "Information on Invention Applications Accepted for Examination"– bibliographic data;

-   for Sections "Information on the Grant of Patents of Ukraine for Invention", "Information on the Grant of Patents of Ukraine for Utility Models" – bibliographic data and claims.

In 2025, 53 issues of the Official Electronic Bulletin "Industrial Property" were published.

BULLETIN: https://nipo.gov.ua/

STATISTICS: https://nipo.gov.ua/en/statistics-reports/.

In 2025, a complex of works continued to ensure guaranteed access to foreign commercial information Internet resources, the use of which is desirable for conducting a complete and high-quality search, as it provides guaranteed access to the PCT Minimum Documentation and possesses a range of indispensable characteristics essential for searches and meeting the needs of examination. In particular:

Access to these information resources was provided either under the concluded agreements or free of charge as part of the support for UANIPIO under conditions of martial law.

In 2025, the Office's reference and information collection continued to be expanded with encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference books, regulatory and legal literature, instructional and methodological materials, periodicals, and other resources (including those in electronic format). The formation of an electronic reference and search apparatus and regular replenishment of the full-text database (DB) of non-patent literature of the Search Portal were ensured.

The following resources were also used in 2025 as a search collection of non-patent literature:


In order to provide information to a wide range of users, free access to patent information was provided through the website of the Office.

ANNUAL REPORT: https://nipo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Annual_Report-2025-eng.pdf  – free access;

SIS: https://sis.nipo.gov.ua/en/search/simple/ – free access;

BULLETIN: https://nipo.gov.ua/ – free acces.

Information concerning the legal status of the registered patents of Ukraine for inventions/utility models to the extent provided for by the relevant Law of Ukraine is published in the «Notices» section of the Official Electronic Bulletin «Industrial Property». In addition, such information is provided in the SIS.

BULLETIN: https://nipo.gov.ua/;

SIS: https://sis.nipo.gov.ua/en/search/simple/.

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

«Inventions» (AS) is designed to automate the administrative processes related to applications for industrial property rights—inventions, utility models, and semiconductor product layouts—as well as to register and maintain the validity of titles of protection for these industrial property rights.

«Inventions» AS provides:

«Inventions» AS provides data entry for applications, a full range of examination functions, access to government registries and archives, and a system for generating statistical reports.

«Inventions» AS has a distributed architecture with automated workstations and a single interface providing access to all functions. «Inventions» AS provides a fully electronic workflow for incoming, outgoing, and internal documents using barcode technology.

«Inventions» AS is integrated with the following automated technological systems of UANIPIO:

List of the main software modules that make up the «Inventions» AS:

In the reporting period, technical support was provided for the «Inventions» AS, and the system was adapted to comply with the new requirements of Ukrainian law regarding the protection of rights to inventions and utility models.

Central Electronic Document Archive (CEDA) is a database used for exchanging electronic documents between automated business systems and as an operational repository for documents in electronic form. Accordingly, the CEDA is used by all automated systems involved in the document flow of examination procedures, state registries, and general document management.

«Global Counterparts Catalog» AS, which includes an electronic numbering system, is an operational system that, upon request, issues a unique number for registering an item (applications, documents, cases, state registration numbers of IPRs), as well as a directory of sanctioned perrsons identified by decrees of the President of Ukraine. This system is also used for the automatic search and automated identification of sanctioned persons in automated technological systems.

The Integrated Search Portal (ISP) covers accessible disk-based collections from global databases and national information and patent databases, and is implemented according to the «single search window» principle. It allows users to search multiple databases simultaneously and display consolidated results.

The «Reference and Information Fund for Examinaiton» Integrated System is an electronic catalog that allows information from periodicals and books, non-patent literature, and new acquisitions to be entered into the database, with the aim of providing UANIPIO specialists with prompt access to the collection of scientific and technical, reference, legal, and regulatory and technical literature and periodicals, as well as providing information about available documentary resources, both in print and in electronic format, online. The electronic catalog enables the automated processing of new acquisitions, allows users to search for the necessary literature by author and title, and includes a search system for databases.

The «IPC Management» AS is an automated system that helps organize the translation of new versions of the IPC, which are released annually. This system allows users to upload a new version of the IPC—received from the WIPO Secretariat in XML format—to the database. Among the system’s functions is the ability to identify the scope of text segments that have been modified, added, or moved in the new version of the IPC compared to the previous version. The translated text is returned to the system, after which a new version of the IPC is generated in a specialized database and subsequently published on UANIPIO information resources.

«Accounting for Payments» AS —maintaining accounting records of fees and payments for services provided by the Office.

«Incoming Documents» AS is an operational automated system through which electronic copies of paper documents received by mail or delivered by courier to the Office are transmitted to the automated business systems.

«Outgoing Documents» AS is a system that handles the preparation of paper documents for mailing: printing documents, grouping them by recipient, and organizing them into mailing registers. This AS also sends electronic documents depending on the selected communication channel: to an email address or to the EISEA user accounts.

SIS is aimed to automate the following processes:


The server part is based on x86 platform servers manufactured by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) (HPE Synergy 480 Gen10, DL380Gen10, DL380Gen8).

 Information storage models are:

The Storage Area Network (SAN) is based on HPE SN3000B and Dell Connectrix DS-6620B switches.

The general network infrastructure is based on:

The local computer network includes a set of HPE Aruba 8320, HPE Aruba 2930M, HPE Aruba 2540-48, HP 2530-48, HP 2510-48, FortiSwitch-448E switches and is divided into fifty virtual networks (Vlan).

The server infrastructure is fully virtualised.  The physical servers run Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019 and VMware ESXi, which allow to create and operate the productive virtual servers. The virtualization servers are grouped into Hyper-V clusters, which allow for high availability of productive servers running Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 and CentOS 7.

The database management systems used are MS SQL Server 2017, MS SQL Server 2016, MS SQL Server 2014, MS SQL 2008R2, MS SQL 2005, PostgreSQL, MySQL.

The Active Directory (AD) domain structure is designed to allow the centralized management of all information resources, including users’, computers, files, peripherals, access to services, network resources, websites, databases, etc.

Several domain controllers are used to organize the fault tolerance of the domain structure.

The WSUS server provides updates to the operating systems of servers and client computers.

The ESET Antivirus Server provides centralized management of all anti-virus programs on users’ computers, updates antivirus databases, and generates reports on database updates and existing threats.

Data is backed up using Veeam's Veeam Backup & Replication software product, which provides continuous data protection for reliable recovery of Windows and servers. There is a disaster recovery plan for all servers and services.

Other Microsoft System Center 2019 products are also used, namely: Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for virtualization management, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012R2 for operating system installation and software configuration.

The measures taken to develop the IT infrastructure in the current period were aimed at building the fail-safe core of the computer network, increasing its bandwidth, security and manageability, replacing outdated hardware components of the infrastructure, consolidating and virtualizing servers. Virtualization servers are clustered to ensure high availability of all systems.

Other Microsoft System Center 2019 products are also used, namely: Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for virtualization management, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012R2 for operating system installation and software configuration.The measures taken to develop the IT infrastructure in the current period were aimed at building the fail-safe core of the computer network, increasing its bandwidth, security and manageability, replacing outdated hardware components of the infrastructure, consolidating and virtualizing servers. Virtualization servers are clustered to ensure high availability of all systems.

In total, the corporate network consists of 690 personal computers, 25 physical and 165 virtual servers,  6 data storages and various switching equipment.

In 2025, a centralized document printing system was implemented, based on the Xerox XWS print management system and Xerox® VersaLink® B7135 Series multifunction devices.

For the information systems users the Internet connection is provided to search and browse information.

Users of information systems have access to the Internet to search and view information.

The following systems are used while processing applications and maintaining the State Register of inventions and the State Register of utility models:

The data of applications and files of state registers are stored in the database of the Inventions AS.

Documents related to the examination of applications for inventions and utility models, documents related to the state registers of inventions and utility models are stored at the CEDA.

An internal resource, namely the ISP is used for applications examination by experts.

The ISP is designed to provide highly efficient automated patent information searches by examiners during the examination of applications for inventions and/or utility models and to establish whether the invention meets the patentability requirements (novelty, inventive step, industrial applicability) as defined in Article 1 of the Law of Ukraine «On Protection of Rights to Inventions and Utility Models».

ISP data is updated using current documentation on optical media (provided it is received from foreign patent offices) or by downloading it from the relevant remote FTP servers.

Information concerning the legal status of registered patents of Ukraine for inventions and utility models, as provided for by the relevant Law of Ukraine, was published in the Notices section of the Official Electronic Bulletin «Industrial Property».  

Such information is also available in the SIS. The SIS provides a «Search by Notices» mode enabling users to retrieve information on IPR for which notifications of a given type have been published in the Official Electronic Bulletin «Industrial Property» within a specified period of time.

As of December 31, 2025, the State Register of Patents of Ukraine contains information on the state registration of 135,142 inventions.

As of December 31, 2025, the State Register of Patents of Ukraine contains information on the state registration 161,791 utility models.

BULLETIN: https://nipo.gov.ua/;

SIS: https://sis.nipo.gov.ua/en/search/simple/.

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

In the current circumstances, the public's needs for patent information are met through remote access.

In order to ensure access of the general public to patent documentation and non-patent literature in the process of creation, legal protection and use of IPR, the following resources were updated on a quarterly basis in 2024: “List of IPR Databases of Foreign Patent Offices, Free Access to Which is Provided on the Internet”, which provides links to the databases of 54 patent offices of the world and 4 international and regional intellectual property organizations; “List of Scientific and Technical Databases and Reference Resources, Free Access to Which is Provided on the Internet”; “List of Publicly Available Information Resources of Patent Documentation, posted on the UANIPIO website».

To provide access for a wide range of public to patent documentation and non-patent literature in the process of creation, legal protection, and use of industrial property rights, quarterly updates (supplementations, clarifications, and expansions) were carried out in 2025 for the following: List of Databases of Industrial Property Objects of Foreign Patent Offices with Free Access on the Internet, which provides links to the databases of 54 patent offices from around the world and 4 international and regional intellectual property organizations; List of Scientific and Technical Databases and Reference Resources with Free Access on the Internet; List of Publicly Accessible Information Resources of Patent Documentation, as well as the Addresses of Foreign Offices’ Websites, posted on the UANIPIO web resources.

In 2025, a complex of works continued to ensure guaranteed access to foreign commercial information Internet resources, the use of which is desirable for conducting a complete and high-quality search, as it provides guaranteed access to the PCT Minimum Documentation and possesses a range of indispensable characteristics essential for searches and meeting the needs of examination. In particular:


The website of the Office provides free access to information on inventions/utility models published in the Annual Reports, Annual Technical Reports of the Office on patent information activities, which the Office prepares for WIPO, and quarterly booklets «Intellectual Property in Figures» (statistical information) and information dashboard on the main performance indicators of the Office.

SIS:     https://sis.nipo.gov.ua/en/search/simple/.

ANNUAL REPORT: https://nipo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Annual_Report-2025-eng.pdf;

ANNUAL TECHNICAL REPORTS:  https://nipo.gov.ua/en/statistics-reports/;

BULLETIN:  https://nipo.gov.ua/;

WEBSITE OF THE OFFICE:  https://nipo.gov.ua/en/

INFORMATION DASHBOARD:  https://nipo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IPOffice-activity-indacators-2025.pdf.

In order to provide information support to the development and functioning of the Office, in particular, to improve the Ukrainian patent and terminology base, standardization and unification of terminology in the intellectual property sphere, the Office carries out translation of the WIPO Standards into Ukrainian, primarily those that have more practical value and relate to various IPR, and ensures their timely updating.

Thus, during the reporting period, texts of 9 unofficial translations into Ukrainian of WIPO standards, which are freely available on the UANIPIO website, were updated (revised, translated into Ukrainian) and amended accordingly.

WIPO STANDARDS TRANSLATION WITH NO OFFICIAL STATUS: https://nipo.gov.ua/neofitsijni-pereklady-standartiv-wipo/.

The Technology and Innovation Support Centre (TISC) is an international project to support inventions, innovations and start-up projects launched by WIPO, implemented in Ukraine by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the Office.

In 2025, the TISC UANIPIO Head Office provided 38 consultations to offer informational and advisory support by representatives of the TISC network in Ukraine on issues related to the protection of intellectual property rights and the pursuit of innovative activities.

TISC UANIPIO Head Office, in collaboration with WIPO, supports the training of TISC staff and their users by providing access to specialized databases under the ASPI program, non-patent literature through ARDI, and WIPO distance learning courses.

In 2025:

As part of the advisory support regarding connecting to and using the WIPO ASPI and ARDI databases:

An adapted information sheet on WIPO IP Diagnostics—an online tool for conducting an initial self-assessment of an organizationintellectual property—was prepared and published.

Information and advisory support was provided on intellectual property and innovation, support was provided for innovation projects, and working meetings were held to discuss support for innovation entities and with stakeholders regarding the implementation of joint projects, in particular:

Educational events, training sessions, webinars, and workshops (organization, co-organization, and participation as speakers): 55 events in the field of intellectual property and innovation; more than 2,500 participants gained the opportunity to apply the knowledge they acquired on intellectual property rights protection, the development of the innovation ecosystem and innovation infrastructure, the commercialization of intellectual property, and technology transfer in their practical work, of which:

-   an educational event titled "COLLABORATE TO INNOVATE: Startups Speak the Language of Innovation, Investors Speak the Language of Decisions" (6 sessions, 15 speakers, and over 500 participants), which served as a professional platform for dialogue between startups, businesses, investors, and innovation support institutions

- serving on the jury in the finals of SET University's Science&Business accelerator program;

-   the TISC UANIPIO Head Office, in collaboration with IP Academy, organized the “AI, Code & IP” Summer School (24 speakers, 5 thematic sessions, and more than 150 participants);

As part of its functions, UANIPIO provides methodological, expert, and informational-analytical support for the development of the innovation infrastructure of industrial parks, and also promotes the integration of intellectual property and innovative solutions into the activities of industrial park residents. Particular attention is paid to fostering effective cooperation between the government, the business community, scientific and educational institutions, and investors.

As part of the implementation of these approaches, 26 consultation sessions and working meetings were held on the development of innovation activities in industrial parks and regional economic development

Based on the results of the working meetings held and the fruitful cooperation with representatives of the Department of Industrial Parks and Investment Support of the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine, a draft Roadmap for the Development of Innovation Activities in Industrial Parks has been developed.

In 2025, the following events were also organized and held:

194 consultations regarding inventions and utility models were provided to visitors.

TISC: https://nipo.gov.ua/tisc-page/.


In 2025, the following educational events were organized and held:


In 2025, representatives of UANIPIO conducted promotional activities aimed at supporting users in accessing patent information, specifically:

Working meetings were held with representatives of institutions as part of the cooperation under the memorandum on gaining access to specialized patent and non-patent resources through the WIPO ASPI and ARDI programs.

VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION

The functions of patent documentation international exchange are performed by the Office, recognized in 2003 by the law as the central authority for international exchange of publications in accordance with the Convention on International Exchange of Publications, adopted on December 3, 1958 by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

In the reporting year, as part of the ongoing cooperation with the EPO on data exchange aimed at providing representation of retrospective and current Ukrainian patent documentation in the EPO's Internet resource Espacenet, and to fulfill Ukraine's commitments under the relevant Agreement on access to the EPO`s EPOQUE Net search system, under the defined procedure, the national patent documentation was uploaded to the FTP-server of EPO.

In 2025, international cooperation in the field of intellectual property with WIPO, EPO, and intellectual property offices of foreign countries continued.

Representatives of the Office participated in the work of WIPO Task Forces (including online), preparation of relevant proposals and information concerning Ukraine (if necessary) in the sessions and meetings of WIPO Committees and Working Groups (online), in particular in the work of the Task Forces (TF) of the Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) on the development of new WIPO standards, their updating, as well as other CWS projects, namely:

In addition, representatives of the Office  participated in the following international seminars, training courses, and e-learning modules on patent information activities:

WIPO Academy - [DL] Distance Learning Program:

WIPO webinars of PATENTSCOPE:

WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Webinars:

WIPO Webinars:

WIPO CWS Task Force Meeting:

European Patent Academy courses and webinars:

ANNUAL REPORT: https://nipo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Annual_Report-2025-eng.pdf.

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

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Planning to implement

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

Planning to implement

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

Fully implemented

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

Planning 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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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

Fully implemented

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)

Fully implemented

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

No plan to implement

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

Partially implemented

"Inventions" AS has been updated (a special module has been created) to receive and store sequences in XML format and generate complete descriptions containing the sequences in accordance with the ST.26

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

Planning to implement

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

Fully implemented

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)

No plan to implement

Since JSON is currently the most popular and modern format for representing information, it makes more sense to implement ST.97, which covers all types of industrial property

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

Fully implemented

The updated authority file has been finalized and submitted for publication on the relevant WIPO website

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)

Planning to implement

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

No plan to implement

At this time, the submission of digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images is not being considered

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)

No plan to implement

Since JSON is currently the most popular and modern format for representing information, this standard takes priority for data exchange

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

Planning to implement

Since JSON is currently the most popular and modern format for representing information, this standard takes priority for data exchange


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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