Annual Technical Report on Industrial Design Information Activities in 2023 submitted by China National Intellectual Property Administration
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The term "industrial designs" covers industrial designs and models.
Offices which issue design patents should report their design patent information activities in this series of Annual Technical Reports.
I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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According to the requirements of the 14th Five-Year National Plan for the Protection and Application of Intellectual Property, between 2021 and 2025 CNIPA carries out design informatization construction that focus on 4 perpectives including improving and completing the infrastructure, strengthening data resource guarantee, optimizing system construction, improving the management of information-based services.
Since the beginning of 2023, CNIPA has officially launched the new-generation intelligent information system. The system uses cloud infrastructure and realize the integrated platform, providing unified account, unified entrance, unified platform and unified interface style. It makes design business processing more intelligent, convenient and efficient, enabling the digitization of Hague business and realizing the international delivery of Hague applications.
In 2023 CNIPA had been keeping close eyes on applying new technologies such as AI, and carried out pre-research of applying large model technology in design search area.
Annual report: https://english.cnipa.gov.cn/col/col1336/index.html
News page: https://english.cnipa.gov.cn/col/col1340/index.html
Statistics: https://english.cnipa.gov.cn/col/col2942/index.html.
II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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In January 2023, the Patent Business Processing System was officially launched. Applicants can submit electronic design applications and obtain relevant help documents via it. Applicants can obtain paper application form templates from CNIPA official website.
The general public can use China and Global Patent Examination Information Inquiry service (https://cpquery.cponline.cnipa.gov.cn) at Patent Business Processing System to access to the design application data including basic information, examination information, cost information, reexamination & invalidation information, register information, family patent. The website is available in 8 languages.
III. SOURCES OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE
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The types of design announcement include: Bibliographic items, brief description and designated view of designs, corrected bibliographic items, brief description and designated view, and all graphics or offprint copies of designs(including corrections), and transaction data.
Release frequency: twice a week in CNIPA official website: "China Patent Announcement - Patent Bulletin inquiry" .
See Section IV for the information of internal design database for examiners
The legal status information available to the examiners comes from the data of China Patent Affairs Bulletin, which has been standardized and processed in xml format, covering the data of China Patent Affairs Bulletin since 1985. Examiners can search a specific case and inquire its legal status by application number or public number in the search system.
The information services provided to the public include: 1. Patent Search and Analysis Service, free of charge, covers data worldwide. Address: https://pss-system.cponline.cnipa.gov.cn
2. Chinese and Global Patent Examination Information Inquiry service in Patent Business Processing System, free of charge. Address: https://cpquery.cponline.cnipa.gov.cn.
IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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Our system covers design business types such as design and Hague, and runs through the whole process of application, acceptance, examination, reexamination and invalidation, etc. It uses modern information technology such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and microservices, and takes intelligent assisted examination and automatic search assistance as the core. It has realized core functions such as intelligent search, online translation, drawing recognition, application quality monitoring, and fine-grained examination cycle management, and has comprehensively improved the centralization, intelligence, and facilitation of transaction processing, design examination, and public services.
CNIPA has the industrial design search system specially for the internal use of examiners, including the design search database. The database covers the industrial design data of China since 1985 and design data obtained from other countries, regions or organizations. The text is in xml format while drawings are in tif or jpeg format. Examiners can search
by drawing, application number, classification number, etc.
As regards to the hardware supporting business procedures, we use cloud computing hardware architecture, which organically combines cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and other information technologies with examination business scenarios.
V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION
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The applicants can access the information of others' applications through Patent Search and Analysis Service and the China and Global Patent Examination Information Inquiry Service in Patent Business Processing System.
CNIPA provides training for using the system of Patent Search and Analysis Service and the China and Global Patent Examination Information Inquiry Service.
VI.INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN INFORMATION
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CNIPA carries out international cooperation of machine-readable patent information exchange with several national and regional IP offices, including WIPO. The exchanged data includes patent bibliographic data, abstract and full text, etc.
CNIPA carries out the data and documents interaction of Hague business with WIPO in the way of machine-to-machine, and priority document interaction via WIPO DAS.
CNIPA actively participates in design IP5 projects and meetings, and provides service and training to developing countries on search, analysis, and dossier inquiry, boosting the development of their IP capacity.