Survey on application numbering systems Committee on WIPO Standards, third session Anna Graschenkova Standards Section Geneva 15 – 19 April 2013

Document CWS/3/10 Survey on application numbering systems Questionnaire approved by CWS/1 Focus on numbering systems currently used by IPOs Circular C.CWS 28 of August 24, IPOs took part in the online survey (66 responses) Survey results: Individual responses and collated results are available in WIPOSTAD Survey summary – Annex to the document CWS/3/10 Presentation of application and priority application numbers - related documents at the CWS/3 page

Online survey tool WIPO User Center account to access the IPO Dashboard ID/Password combination for each response (up to five)

WIPOSTAD WIPOSTAD Static questionnaire in PDF Collated results Individual responses

Survey summary (Annex to the document CWS/3/10) Table of contents Types of Intellectual Property rights (IPRS) Parts of application numbers Ordering of parts Length (fixed/variable) Codes for type of IPR Year designation Serial number Code for internal use Control number (check digit) Other information Separators Numbering of priority applications Compliance with WIPO Standard ST.13 Examples of application numbers and priority application numbers prepared by the IB and amended after consultations with IPOs to be published in Part 7 of the WIPO Handbook

Types and occurrences of IPRs

Year of introduction of numbering systems in IPOs

Compliance with WIPO Standard ST.13

Presentation of application and priority application numbers (paragraph 4 of the document CWS/3/10) Prepared by the IB on the basis of the responses provided by the IPOs Ongoing consultations with survey participants (received feedback from GB, AU, EE, SK, PL and MD) Draft is available for checking, completion, adding new entries

Further actions IPOs and the IB Complete the document Presentation of application and priority application numbers Publish it in Part 7 of the WIPO Handbook ST.10/C Task Force Prepare the new questionnaire on numbering systems used in the past for consideration at CWS/4

Thank you for your attention. Questions? Anna Graschenkova

The CWS is invited to: (paragraph 7 of the document CWS/3/10) (a)note the Survey Report contained in Annex to the present document; (b)consider and approve the publication of the Survey Report and the examples of application and priority application numbers in the WIPO Handbook, as referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4, above; (c)request the ST.10/C Task Force to prepare a new questionnaire regarding the application and priority application numbering systems used by the IPOs in the past, as referred to in paragraph 6, above, and to present the progress report or the corresponding proposal at the next session of the CWS.