Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2025 submitted by GB/Intellectual Property Office

Please provide links to your website where the requested information can be found in English, French, or Spanish.  Alternately, you may provide text responses instead of URLs if desired.  If the information is not available on your website in an ATR language, then please provide text.

URLs in responses should meet the following requirements:

  • Link to pages with information in English, Spanish, or French
  • The URL will remain stable over time (at least three years, preferably more)
  • Goes to the specific information requested, not to a general homepage
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  • Provide additional instructions for using the URL if needed. For instance, if the page requires the user to login first, or if the requested information requires selecting certain options or filters on the page that can not be included in the URL. 

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.

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

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is undertaking a five-year programme to transform our services and provide a single, integrated system for all IP rights. Further information can be found at  One IPO Transformation Programme - GOV.UK

New projects launched or resumed this year in the context of the policies and plans mentioned above, short description: aims, partners, tasks

See entry above in relation to the transformation of our IP services.

Main areas of patent information activities and related information and communication technology (ICT) practices which were in the focus of attention last year

See entry above in relation to the transformation of our IP services.

Statistics: changes in terms of application filings and grants with respect to previous year; trends or areas experiencing rapid changes

Applications for national UK patents increased by 7% between 2019 and 2020, with 20,652 applications in 2020, compared with 2019’s 19,245. Of these, the proportion of applications from UK residents decreased slightly, from 63% in 2019 to 58% in 2020.  The number of patents granted in 2020 was 64% higher than in 2019, rising from 5948 to 9772, and this is reflective our commitment to reduce our examination backlogs through increased processing of our oldest examination requests. 

Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.

Research and statistics, this includes information on statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics?departments%5B%5D=intellectual-property-office&parent=intellectual-property-office


Transparency and freedom of information of information, this includes information on annual reports, annual reviews and figures: https://www.gov.uk/search/transparency-and-freedom-of-information-releases?organisations%5B%5D=intellectual-property-office&parent=intellectual-property-office


Information on filing, including Patents application guide and other materials, is available from the following web page: https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention


The procedure after filing, including publication, examination and grant is described at: https://www.gov.uk/patent-your-invention


Information regarding dispute resolution, including hearings, mediation and opinions may be found here: https://www.gov.uk/intellectual-property-mediationhttps://www.gov.uk/opinions-resolving-patent-disputes


Results of past patent decisions are available at: https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-challenge-decision-results.htm


Information on how applicants may appeal is provided at: https://www.gov.uk/patent-disputes-resolution-hearings


Other business procedures such as the Patents Act, finding patents, how we classify and renewals are covered by web pages accessible from the main Patents portal: https://www.gov.uk/topic/intellectual-property/patents


A link to the EPO search dataset Espacenet is provided from the online patent services portal: https://www.gov.uk/search-for-patent


Details of published UK applications and patents may be searched by publication or application number at: Search for a patent - GOV.UK


UK patent journal applications register may be searched by publication date at:

Check the patents journal - GOV.UK

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 

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

Information on filing, including Patents application guide and other materials, is available from the following web page: https://www.gov.uk/topic/intellectual-property/patents

Availability of the application dossier in electronic form

Details of published UK applications and patents may be searched by publication or application number at: Search for a patent - GOV.UK

Classification1, preclassification2 (if applicable), reclassification3 activities; classification systems used (e.g., International Patent Classification (IPC)); matters concerning indexing of patent information

All UK patent applications are classified in the IPC and CPC. Pre-classification is done at subclass level using the CPC, with AI tool assistance. Automated pre-classification at subclass level was delivered in 2025 with the release of the new One IPO systems. Clusters of subclasses provide the basis for the structure of examining divisions and groups. Where necessary, IPC and CPC reclassification is performed prior to publication to ensure the validity of symbols upon A publication and B publication (grant). The UK IPO does not reclassify documentation after publication.

Abstracting, reviewing, and translation of the information contained in patent documents

Our staff can translate any document into English using translation software made available by the European Patent Office and other national patent offices. Patent examiners check all patent abstracts provided by the applicant and amend them where necessary to ensure they form a useful search tool.

Other activities

The IPO is an active participant in the work of the IPC Union Committee of Experts and the IPC Revision Working Group, and regularly engages in discussions with other offices in these fora to contribute to the continuous development of the IPC.

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 

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, online - URLs)

(1) PDF
A-documents
These are prepared in-house in a 5 week publication cycle using a bespoke IT system linked to PDAX (the IPO’s electronic case management system).


The front page is compiled by downloading bibliographic data (XML format) from the corporate database COPS and is married with the abstract text from our internal examiner database (PROSE). The abstract drawing is extracted from PDAX and merged to finalise the front page. The finished front page is added to the rest of the specification pages from PDAX and reproduced in a single PDF image. The PDF image is then loaded onto the IPO’s publication server on our external website for customer download.


The IPO no longer publishes “A” documents in paper format, the official publication means being electronic (please see the following link): Search for a patent - GOV.UK


The PDF A documents are then transferred via Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to the EPO. This is done on a weekly basis and includes a separate ST.36 XML file for the bibliographical and full text abstract data.


B-Documents


These are prepared in-house in a 5 week publication cycle using a bespoke IT system linked to PDAX (the IPO’s electronic case management system).
The front page is compiled by downloading bibliographic data (XML format) from the corporate database COPS and merged with the rest of the specification pages from PDAX and reproduced in a single PDF image.


The PDF image is then loaded onto the IPO’s publication server on our external website for customer download. The IPO no longer publishes “B” documents in paper format; the official publication means being electronic (see the following link): Search for a patent - GOV.UK
The PDF B documents are then transferred via Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to the EPO. This is done on a weekly basis and includes a separate ST.36 XML file for the bibliographical data.


Corrected ‘Errata’-Documents (A8, A9, B8 & C)


These are prepared in-house in a 2 week publication cycle using a bespoke IT system linked to PDAX (the IPO’s electronic case management system).
The front page is compiled by downloading bibliographic data (XML format) from the corporate database COPS and merged with the rest of the specification pages from PDAX and reproduced in a single PDF image. The PDF image is then loaded onto the IPO’s publication server on our external website for customer download. The IPO no longer publishes “errata” documents in paper format, the official publication means being electronic (please see the following link: Search for a patent - GOV.UK


The PDF Errata documents are then transferred via Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to the EPO. This is done on a weekly basis and includes a separate ST.36 XML file for the bibliographical data.


(2) Patents and Designs Journal (PDJ) and the on-line e-Patents Journal.


Up until 26th March 2008, the official notices and selected bibliographic data relating to UK patent applications and granted patents were published in the official weekly electronic newspaper called the Patents and Designs Journal (PDJ) on the date of publication, and are available on our website in PDF format.


From 5 March 2008 the e-Patents Journal became searchable online, and may be downloaded in PDF or XML formats. It also includes a back-file of the UK applications filed section from 26th July 2006. The Patents Journal and archived PDJs may be accessed from: https://www.gov.uk/check-the-patents-journal
(3) ESPACENET, EPOQUE etc.


The full text, drawings and bibliographic data of all newly published UK patent applications and granted patents is published on the EPOQUE system soon after the domestic publication date.


Espacenet is a free internet service which contains a number of different patent collections. GB patents published from 1895 and Granted from 2002 are available through the worldwide database, please see: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/

Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on online - URL), etc.

Up until 26th March 2008 the official notices and selected bibliographic data relating to UK patent applications and granted patents were published in the official weekly electronic newspaper called the Patents and Designs Journal (PDJ) on the date of publication, and are available on our website in PDF format. 

From 5 March 2008 the e-Patents Journal became searchable online and may be downloaded in PDF or XML formats.  It also includes a back-file of the UK applications filed section from 26 July 2006.  The Patents Journal and archived PDJs may be accessed from:  Check the patents journal - GOV.UK

In relation to the dissemination of more general notices regarding patents and other IPR, our website:  (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office)  plays an important role.  In particular, we frequently hold consultations with our community of users.  However, we continue to place such announcements in our on-line e-Patents Journal, which is available without charge on our website.  

Website statistics are available here: https://www.gov.uk/performance/site-activity-intellectual-property-office

Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external collections and databases

We have a long list of external databases that we use regularly, including EPODOC, Derwent’s World Patent Index and CAS ONLINE, as well as other specialised chemical, biotech, electrical and other databases, such as defensive publications. We interrogate these databases using a number of online hosts that we subscribe to, including EPOQUEnet, STN and others. As of 2023 we have implemented and are being to use Ansera based Search (AbS) the EPO’s replacement for EPOQUENet.
Our official policy is that a worldwide search should be carried out as part of every patent search done in this office.
Examiners are encouraged to access National Patent Office Organisation websites as necessary to search collections of patent documents, or to retrieve family member search and examination reports (e.g. EPO, USPTO, WIPO).

Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)

Our main office is located in Newport, Wales, where the public can file applications and discuss possible IP protection with an IPO Advisor over the phone or in person via appointment. In addition, we also have a front office in London where customers can file any correspondence for the attention of the Office.

Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.)

Legal status information is contained on the UK patent register. Information relating to published applications and patents may be searched by publication or application number at:  Search for a patent - GOV.UK

This data is complete for all UK national applications in force in the UK and granted EP (UK) applications which are in force.

The Patent Journal, available at Check the patents journal - GOV.UK also includes details of UK and EP(UK) patent applications, as well as other information such as other proceedings before the IPO, SPCs and corrections.

Other sources

Nothing to report.

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

Information on the following topics is desired:

Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements

Microsoft Windows 11 provides an integrated and extensive network of applications that are available to all staff.  Office 365 provides access to a suite of applications including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint; all major classification schemes used by the examiners are accessible, as are office notices, manuals, search tools including access to online databases, translation software, management and administration information etc.  


There is also a bibliographical register (COPS) which runs on a Windows based platform and is written in Microfocus Cobol, a VB.NET database (PAFS) for recording file movement data and examining group statistics, and automated production of search and examination reports using the PROSE system. We also have a PDAX electronic case file system whereby all the documents relating to patent applications are available electronically to examiners at their desktop.


The Office intranet contains a very large collection of essential information for staff, including search and classification tools.


The ability for the automated printing of patent documents cited in search reports was removed in March 2020 as part of a review of our legacy IT estate. Staff can still request copies of non-patent literature to support their search and examinations.

Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office

Staff access their Windows 11 desktop using a Microsoft Surface Pro device which connects to 24 inch wide screen monitors via a dock.

Internal databases: coverage, updates, interlinks with external sources

Register and legal status information is stored on our bibliographical register (COPS), as are a number of types of statistics. Examining group statistics, file movements etc., are recorded using a VB.NET system called PAFS (see previous entry above). In addition, we use an in-house system called PDAX to electronically store and access our patent application case files. The databases referred to are updated continuously and views of the data contained on COPS and PDAX are made externally available via our website.

Establishment and maintenance of electronic search file: file building, updating, storage, documents from other offices included in the search file

GB patent bibliographic data is available electronically and may be searched on our COPS database. Published GB patent specifications may be accessed and searched via EPOQUE and from our on-line publication server, see "Main types of publication" above.

Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)

See entry in relation to internal databases.

Other matters

Nothing to report.

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 

Information on the following topics is desired:

UK PatLib Network: network of centres providing intellectual property support 

The UK PatLib Network forms part of a 340 strong European Network of Patent Information Centres administered by the European Patent Office, with the UK IPO holding autonomy over the UK network. 

The network provides local access to intellectual property (IP) information and related issues. They are familiar with the local business landscape, and provide services to entrepreneurs, SMEs, private inventors and students.

A key offering of the network is providing access to IP databases and support in searching. All centres have a minimum requirement to provide assisted searches to businesses. They also provide training and awareness raising activities in respect of IP.  

The UK IPO supports the UK PatLib Network which provides local access to guidance and support through a network of 25 centres based within city centre libraries. Training to deliver these services has been supplied by the UK IPO through the IP Masterclass programme as well as ongoing individual training sessions as needed. The centres have experienced staff who provide practical support to businesses, such as database searching.

Between November 2024 and November 2025, a total of 55,255 customers used the PatLib service across the 25 centres in the UK. This number includes all visitors seeking business and IP guidance, whether through face-to-face interactions, email, or phone calls as well as seminars, workshops and one-on-one appointments. In this period, the Patlib network also provided customers with 923 assisted searches, 2579 workshops, delivered 56 external events, dealt with 4461 IP related email enquiries and provided 2789 one-to-one appointments.

The majority of the UK PatLib Network are part of the UK network of Business & IP Centres (BIPC), which was created by the British Library in 2012 in partnership with the UK IPO. The BIPC network now consists of 20 established centres, located across England and Scotland. The UK IPO works with the British Library to ensure all centres meet the PatLib requirements to deliver specialised IP services.

During 2025, the BIPCs supported a total of 26,455 individuals, through a combination of 8,359 in-person and online one-to-ones, 605 workshops or webinars and 536 in person, online or hybrid events. In addition to delivering specialist patent and IP information services, these centres provide wider support to entrepreneurs and small business.

 

Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc.

Our main office is located in Newport, Wales, where the public can file applications and discuss possible IP protection with an IPO Advisor over the phone or in person via appointment. In addition, we also have a front office in London where customers can file any correspondence for the attention of the Office.

Information regarding patent procedures can be found on our websitehttp://www.ipo.gov.uk/ https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/intellectual-property-patents

We launched a step-by-step guide in September 2025 to help users understand the process and complete key tasks in the right order. From September to December 2025, the guide received 2,314 views.

International guidance – We improved our international guidance to help businesses better understand their options for protecting IP overseas. This included updating our IP attaché pages to clearly explain the support available and refreshing country-specific guidance to make key information easier to find and use.

Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)

Nothing to report.


Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.

The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) helps organisations and researchers identify, manage, protect and maximise the value of intellectual property (IP) to drive innovation and economic growth.


We work with universities, research organisations, inventors and entrepreneurs to help leaders and researchers take a more strategic approach to IP, increasing the impact of research and development.

Our digital IP for Research Fundamentals Toolkit supports researchers and PhD students in understanding the role of IP in research and commercialisation. In the period July to December 2025, the digital resources were accessed 334 times.

We also worked with universities, research institutes, industry, business advisors and government to update our knowledge asset management guidance. Information assimilated from our largest engagement activities with the research sector in 2024, informed the development of the new guidance, to be published in 2026.


We worked with the UK research sector to build our understanding on what they needed from our new digital resource, ensuring their experiences and priorities were captured, and how we could support them in their activities.


Engagement in 2025 built on the evidence gathered through six interactive workshops to over 50 universities, and further research institutions and business advisers. Information was sought from senior leaders, including deans of enterprise and innovation and directors of innovation, heads commercialisation and tech transfer, knowledge exchange managers and practitioners, and researchers. Alongside these workshops and wider sector activities, a digital survey attracted over 80 responses.


The new guidance and supporting tools will help university leaders, knowledge exchange professionals and researchers make informed decisions about identifying, protecting, managing and commercialising IP and other knowledge assets.


Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.

 

 We have developed an IP education framework that sets out the knowledge and skills needed across subjects with strong links to IP. The framework covers different education levels and is designed to help educators integrate IP into lessons in contexts relevant for their students. 


To further increase awareness and understanding of IP among young people, the UK IPO partnered with Taskmaster Education to develop engaging curriculum-linked lesson plans and educational resources for schools.

 

We also work with international partners such as WIPO and the EPO to promote the importance of IP education and exchange information on our respective approaches.

Our business outreach activities continue to help businesses make informed decisions on how to use, manage and enforce their IP to its full potential. This is done in a range of ways including delivering training and working with partner organisations to integrate IP support into business support programmes.

We also provide IP Masterclass training for business owners and business advisers, delivered online, in person and at regional locations across the UK. During 2025, 58 business advisers attended face-to-face IP Masterclass training, a further 115 business advisers participated in virtual sessions, and 96 business owners completed training through dedicated business-focused workshops.

We will launch IP Masterclass Plus in March 2026 as an advanced, CPD-accredited virtual programme for business and innovation advisors who have already completed the IP Masterclass training. The programme has been developed to refresh and deepen advisors’ understanding of intellectual property through more detailed case studies, practical examples and updated content, helping them to support businesses to identify, protect and commercialise their IP more effectively.


The IPO takes a digital first and user-centred approach to enhancing IP capability. This approach focuses on extending the scale and reach of our programmes to improve skills in managing and using IP, through free, online access to high-quality learning resources.  The IP-Support website (www.ipo.gov.uk/ip-support ) hosts resources, guidance and training for the education, business and government sectors.

 

Other activities

All marketing and PR carried out within the External Communications team is achieving great coverage particularly on our social networking platforms.

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

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

We apply all relevant WIPO standards including ST.8 for machine-readable records and ST.36 for xml transfer of bibliographic data.

In October 2009 we launched a Patents Digital Access Service for the digital preparation and transfer of patent priority documents to WIPO.  The service is free to electronic filers and will benefit both UK business and the IP community.

The service automatically prepares digital patent priority documents and securely stores them at WIPO for future use.  This service removes the financial burden on our customers who currently pay National IP Offices to prepare priority documents for filing at other IP offices.  Please see the following link for further information https://www.ipo.gov.uk/pro-types/pro-patent/pro-p-os/pro-p-apply-online-pdas.htm.

It is also possible to exchange priority documents in paper and on CD provided the appropriate electronic signature is provided.

Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to patent information

Assistance to developing countries

Nothing to report.

Other activities

The IPO provide reports to World Trade Organisation on TRIPS Agreement,  TRIPS responses details work done with other offices and relate to all areas of IP, reporting on activities around technology transfer and technical cooperation.

VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

Please include any other relevant information here.

Nothing to report.

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.

  1. 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.

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


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


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


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


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


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


WIPO Standard ST.10:  Published patent documents


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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.