IPC Working Group 29 - Updates on IT support for the IPC Geneva 14 May, 2013 Patrick Fiévet Head of IT Systems Section

Agenda Updates on IPC-related IT support IPCRECLASS IPCPUB Internet publication IPCCAT IPC-Eforum IPCRM project

IPCRECLASS Monitoring IPC reclassification based on: Previous statistics (Project QC013)Project QC013 Archived Working Lists (before IPCRECLASS) IPCRECLASS database content

IPC reclassification : backlog evolution

IPC reclassification status: IPC

IPC reclassification status: IPC

IPC reclassification since CE 45:

Observations: Backlog of reclassification today: 1,2 Million families Focus on the part of the backlog (100,000 families reclassified per month) Little activity on IPC 2013 IPC reclassification data submission improvement in progress in big offices

IPC Reclassification completion: Automatic: Family propagation Manual: Stage 1 Manual: Stage 2 Automatic: Default Transfer Reclassification completed WL creation %? 100%

Monitoring of IPC Reclassification Statistics: Following CE 45 decisions, IB needs for each project: Total number of families before automatic reclassification Results Lists from EPO for all IPC editions IPC , IPC …

Evolution of the IPC reclassification speed

IPC reclassification since CE 45: Information IPC reclassification data submission improvement still in progress Decrease of number of data resubmission for offices who attended IPCRECLASS training session

IPC reclassification Quality Assurance Check that your reclassification are actually published under This indicates that your submissions passed all IPCRECLASS controls This is the only place from where MCD uploads them Do not ignore error notifications

IPCRECLASS perspectives: New development for: Automation for stage 3 default transfer Reclassification status monitoring Export of statistics for IPC warnings in IPCPUB

IPC publication platform (IPCPUB) Upgrade to version 3.0 Now in production Simplified software package installation (available on demand)

IPCA6TRANS IPCPUB IPCA6TRANSDEF Defviewer… IPC render Target model: IPC XML split/un-split IPC common lib

IPC publication platform (IPCPUB) More search feature under consideration: wildcard, fuzzy or proximity searches, range queries, term boosting, boolean operators and grouping, escaping special characters

IPC publication platform (IPCPUB) Perspectives IPC warnings: Automated production for incomplete reclassification Patentscope statitistic based search FIPCPC project: Parallel viewer for IPC, FI, CPC

IPCCAT Status: Retraining based on IPC reclassified documents (DOCDB XML): DONE

IPC E-forum Evolutions ready for deployment: Headers in PDF version of annexes (project number+ annex number) Active bookmarks in the PDF CONCAT Stop undesirable notifications (changes of action plan)

IPC E-forum Evolution ready for deployment Removal of undesired notifications (changes of action plan)

IPCRM project status Future solution for IPC Revision Management Project kick-off: May 6, 2013 High level plan: Entirely out-sourced, more than just re-do of RIPCIS Requirement analysis, RFP, contracts setup: Q Q Procurement of the solution : Q Q Transition from RIPCIS + support setup: Q1-Q Targeted production use: early publication of IPC

Feedback for improvements Projects dedicated to this purpose: IPCRECLASS: CE446CE446 IPCPUB Internet publication: CE447CE447 IPCCAT IPC-Eforum: CE445CE445 IPCRM project

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