Survey on the Use of WIPO Standards
WIPO Standard ST.1: Minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.2: Manner for designating calendar dates
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.3: Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.6: Numbering of published patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
Numbers are given based on the year and application/grant. However, letters are used to identify the country and the type of application eg. TT/a/2016/00001 for patents and TT/u/2016/00001 for utility certificates.
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.7: Microforms
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
No. The Office has implemented an electronic document management system (eDMS) to be used for digital storage of documents and data.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.7/A: 8-up aperture card microform
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.7/B: 16 mm Roll Microfilm
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
No. The Office has implemented an electronic document management system (eDMS) to be used for digital storage of documents and data.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.7/C: 35 mm Roll Microfilm in 8-up configuration
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
No. The Office has implemented an electronic document management system (eDMS) to be used for digital storage of documents and data.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.7/D: Method of identifying Roll Microfilm files
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
No. The Office has implemented an electronic document management system (eDMS) to be used for digital storage of documents and data.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.7/E: Photo-optically generated microfiches
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
No. The Office has implemented an electronic document management system (eDMS) to be used for digital storage of documents and data.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.7/F: Computer Output Microfiches (COM)
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
No. The Office has implemented an electronic document management system (eDMS) to be used for digital storage of documents and data.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.8: IPC symbols on machine-readable records
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
Could be implemented in the future.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.9: Bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.10: Published patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.10/A: Format of patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.10/B: Layout of bibliographic data components
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.10/C: Presentation of bibliographic data components
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.10/D: Physical characteristics of patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.11: Minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.12: Preparation of abstracts of patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.12/A: Abstracts of patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.12/B: Categorized patent abstract
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.12/C: Physical characteristics of separately published abstracts
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.13: Numbering of applications for IPRs
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.14: References cited in patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.15: Titles of inventions in patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.16: Identification of different kinds of patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
Not implemented as yet because we do not publish patent documents at the application and grant stages. We provide copies of amended PCT documents.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.17: Coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.18: Patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.19: Indexes issued by IPO
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.20: Name indexes to patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.21: Reduction of volume of priority documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.22: Authoring of patent applications for the purpose of OCR
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.25: Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.26: Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.30: Magnetic tape format for the exchange of data and documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.31: Character sets for the exchange of patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.32: Markup of patent documents using SGML
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.33: Data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.34: Recording of application numbers in electronic form
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.35: Data exchange of mixed-mode published patent information on MMMT
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.36: Processing of patent information using XML
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.40: Facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.50: Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.60: Bibliographic data relating to marks
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.62: Standard abbreviation for “Vienna Classification”
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.63: Content and layout of trademark gazettes
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.64: Search files for trademark search
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.66: Processing of trademark information using XML
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.67: Electronic management of the figurative elements of trademarks
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.68: Electronic management of sound marks
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.80: Bibliographic data relating to industrial designs
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
Planned to be implemented upon accession to the Hague Agreement, which is currently being worked on.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.81: Content and layout of industrial designs gazettes
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
Currently design grants are published in a local newspaper.
4. Comments (optional)
However, the Office is currently working on providing an in-house publication.
WIPO Standard ST.86: Processing of industrial design information using XML
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
To be used upon accession to the Hague Agreement.
4. Comments (optional)
WIPO Standard ST.96: Processing of Industrial Property information using XML
1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)
- Completely
- Partly
- Not Implemented
2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:
3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?
To be used upon accession to the Madrid Protocol.
4. Comments (optional)