P.Fiévet October 11, IT Support for the Reformed IPC Status report by the International Bureau Committee of Experts Thirty-Eighth session Geneva, October 9 to 13, 2006 World Intellectual Property Organization

P.Fiévet October 11, IPC Publication preparation 1. What is new in IPC ? 2. IPC8-Core Level CD-ROM AGENDA 5. IPCCAT https Chinese 6. Clarification IPC validity File 3. RIPCIS status update 7. IT operations and support for IPC today

P.Fiévet October 11, What is new in IPC ?

P.Fiévet October 11, What is new in IPC ? Transformation of the IPC master files Available on-line: ion /transformations/index.html ion /transformations/index.html Advanced level of the reformed IPC in PDF format Decision to acquire software for production of future versions of the IPC-AL in PDF Automation to reduce time to business

P.Fiévet October 11, What is new in IPC ? Transformation of the IPC validity file Detailed definition of IPC statistics Available on-line for viewing/download: Version /transformations/stats.html Version /transformations/stats.html Semi-automation to reduce time to business Reformed IPC Statistics

P.Fiévet October 11, What is new in IPC ? Transformation of the definition master file Symbol within intervals (e.g. A01N 25/32) Available to IPC member states: Automation for future updates List of definitions per IPC symbol Fievet: A01H Fievet: A01H

P.Fiévet October 11, IPC-8 Core level CDROM: Functionality based on IPC8 Internet Publication 3 levels of installation under Windows or Linux: 100% from CD: (neither installation nor internet access are required) 100% intranet: software installation but no internet access required 100% intranet + internet access for IPC bridge

P.Fiévet October 11, IPC-8 Core level CDROM From ES-IPC8-CL...

P.Fiévet October 11, IPC-8 Core level CDROM First implementation under Spanish Funds in Trust for Spanish language (March 2006 ) Decision to re-use ES-IPC8-CL to produce a similar English and French version (data and interface) …to EN-IPC8-CL and FR-IPC8-CL

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 RIPCIS : First use by the IB to prepare IPC RIPCIS Reformed IPC revision management system: First use by the IB outside WIPO during ALS meeting (Tokyo September 2006) Read-only access for IPC Member States: Required IT security checking in progress 3. RIPCIS software status

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 List of known issues : updated and on-line RIPCIS views for minor modifications or new groupsminor modifications new groups 4. IPC publication preparation IPC Master files from RIPCIS: Oct.2, 2006 Early access to Internet publication : Oct.6, 2006 Early access IPCVAL for MS up loaded : Oct.2, 2006 IPCVAL for MS

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 Revision of edition N+2 Public edition N Early access to edition N+1 RIPCIS IBIS & Master files E forum IPCVAL_4MS IPC Web site Master files & transforms IPC_pub IPC_Early_pub IPCCATTACSY restricted IPCVAL IPCPUBPREP IPC publication preparation

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 Reformed IPC Internet publication preparation: IPCPUBPREP toolkit AUTOMATION to reduce preparation delays IPC edition : preparation delay (Outsourcing): ~2 months Target for edition (IT meeting July): Delay=2 weeks after Master files availability Early internet publication for edition : Delay= 1 week after Master files availability

P.Fiévet October 11, IPCCAT : What is new ? IPC8 Retraining of IPCCAT in EN, FR: delayed HTTPS: in progress Batch server for Spanish version:in progress Prototype for Chinese language: ready

P.Fiévet October 11, IPCCAT Prototype for Chinese language 94%Coverage (% of Trained Categories) 7’066Total Number of IPC7 Main Groups valid in IPC8 6’665Number of Trained Main Groups 906’866Number of Different Words 1’430’275 Total Number of Patents 286’055Number of Testing Patents 1’144’220Number of Training Patents IPC 8 Main Group Level CORPUS STATISTICS

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 Top prediction : IPCCAT’s best prediction is the patent’s real main category Three guesses : One of IPCCAT’s best 3 predictions is the patent’s real main category IPCCAT Prototype for Chinese language Accuracy measure

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 IPCCAT Prototype for Chinese language TESTS RESULTS Top Prediction8 / 10 Three guesses8 / 10 6 / 10 7 / 10 Sub-class Main Group IPC8 Coverage97% 94% Demo

P.Fiévet October 11, IPCCAT : What comes next ? Secure access to IPCCAT : HTTPS Dedicated server for Spanish language Retraining of IPCCAT with English/French documents and IPC8 classification

P.Fiévet October 11, IPC validity file (VF) clarification: Clarification version of the specification V1.9V1.9 Until V1.7 (May 2005): NO Version indicator What in VF? V 1.8 decision: From_date= Version indicator V 1.9 (August 2006): From_date= Version indicator only for AL

P.Fiévet October 11, IPC validity file (VF) clarification: Why? Problem raised at the second IT expert meeting in May 2005 (see item 01)item 01 In VF, Validity_date_From is “date on which its properties are valid in particular classification level” + (since V1.8) “version indicator”=“version date” in the following slides Summer 2006: Validity_date_From cannot be Version indicator for both AL and CL

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 Level in VF Adv. Only VF from date Common VF from date Core only VF from date Advanced Core H04L 15/03 Decision=“C” type change for AL and later for CL 01/2006 1/200801/2009 H04L 15/ H04L 15/ Time Version indicator Version Indicator / VF from_date & level H04L 15/ H04L 15/ H04L 15/ H04L 15/ ? H04L 15/ ? H04L 15/03 See CONOPS

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 Adv. Only VF from date Common VF from date Core only VF from date Advanced Core H04L 15/03 Decision=“C” type change for AL and later for CL 01/2006 1/200801/2009 H04L 15/ H04L 15/ Time H04L 15/ H04L 15/ H04L 15/ H04L 15/ H04L 15/ Level in VF Version indicator Version Indicator / VF from_date & level

P.Fiévet October 11, ITOS 90% dependency on outside partners and other IB business priorities + IT team: (Project Manager & 50% consultant) + No specific IT budget for further development Limited flexibility for future actions to IT support IPC in authentic languages: + Procurement: New rules, transparency but longer delays 7. IT Operations & Support for IPC today

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 Need for stability & long term strategies Longer notice for changes Care in planing Priorities Reduction in preparation delays Price: Benefits: AUTOMATION of IT support operations for IPC How IT Operations & Support for IPC can address this situation:

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 Questions / Answers Information Technology matters Specific: General interest: IT Operations & Support for IPC

P.Fiévet October 11, 2006 Thank you IT Operations & Support for IPC