1. Presentation of COR CDs/DVDs format
World Intellectual Property Organization
Presentation of COR CDs/DVDs format
January, 2003
Good morning
My name is Christophe Mazenc and I have been working as a global architect for the IMPACT project for 2 years.
I am going first to present you the format of the IMPACT CDs and DVDs and also the contents of the IMPACT CDs and DVDs and I will show you the contents of one sample.
Please feel free to interrupt me if you have any question.

2. IMPACT COR CDs/DVDs format
COR Aims at communicating documents both in paper and on electronic media (CD/DVD) to the national offices of the PCT
COR supports two kinds of communication:
Systematic communication
Specific communication
One format in line with the PCT-SAFE standard defined originally for exchanging full text electronic documents between the applicants, the PCT receiving offices, the IPEAs, ISAs and the international bureau.
The main goals of the COR phase of the IMPACT project were to scan, store and automate the dissemination of the main PCT documents to the member states, both at international publication time and after publication.
One of the outcomes of the COR phase is that the PCT operations department at WIPO is now in a position to offer transfers of documents to the member states on electronic medias (CDs/DVDs) instead of on paper , this for both systematic and specific communications.
All the CDs and DVDs share the same format that has been defined in the spirit of the standard of the annex F as you will see on the next slides

3. Systematic communication of PCT documents on CDs/DVDs
New service offered by the International Bureau to PCT national/regional offices
Frequency: one set of CDs or DVDs sent each week at publication date
Supported Document types:
pamphlets under rule 87 and article 20
declarations under Rule 47.1(a-ter)
Priority documents under Rule 17.2(a)
International Preliminary Examination Reports and English translations of IPERs under Article 36.3(a) and (b)
in the future: forms IB355, IB331, IB361
two products: the “rule87 DVD”, the “Systematic COR DVD”

4. Specific communication of PCT documents on CDs/DVDs
New service offered by the International Bureau to PCT national/regional offices: one product « the specific COR CD/DVD »
Frequency: daily when a sufficient number of documents are ready to be sent for a particular office (time and volume thresholds)
Supported Document types:
pamphlets
declarations
Priority documents
International Preliminary Examination Reports and English translations of IPERs
in the future: International Application Status Form (IB399)

5. The COR CDs/DVDs common format
Reuses the PCT-SAFE principles: one document is stored in one WAD containing both XML instances (Annex F dtds) and A4 300dpi TIFF images
The documents are stored on the media using the following hierarchical file directory structure:
D:\CCYY\NNNNNN\wad1.zip
\wad2.zip
Each CD, DVD contains an application allowing to browse the documents list and view and/or print the included documents. (requirements IE6 and JAVA 1.4 plug in)

6. The COR CDs/DVDs common format:
DEMO

7. Some numbers... Systematic communication:
since July , 2 millions documents have been distributed
last week: 80 ’000 documents, already 25% on electronic media
Specific communication:
15 ’645 documents distributed in two months
Number of different documents today in the system:
764 ’642 documents (26 millions pages)