1. PATENTSCOPE and Legal Status Christophe Mazenc Patentscope workshop June 2013

2. Agenda 1.WIPO Legal Status Survey 2.PATENTSCOPEs Legal Status strategy 3.More information on National Phase Entries

3. WIPO Legal status survey Performed in 2010 (questionnaire sent to all member offices) See http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/programs/leg al_status/index.html Being reviewed with focus on systems Update to be published in PATENTSCOPE when finalized

4. PATENTSCOPE legal status strategy NOT yet a priority (may appear as objective for next biannium) Duplicating current IMPADOC would not bring additional benefits to users Inherent very DIFFICULT task: many different sources of information Data not standardized «Versatile» data: difficult to stay synchronized Federated registers approach with PATENTSCOPE linking to national registers preferred

5. PCT national phase entries

6. Information received from 47 offices (last ones since 2011: AT, NZ, CU, TH) Newly added last month: India Still a challenge to receive complete and timely PCT NPEs from PCT member states (147 contracting states) Updated once a week in PATENTSCOPE Sent to EPO for inclusion in INPADOC when authorized by the source office

7. PCT national phase data CSV or XML format: Office Code (ST.3 uppercase: e.g. KR) PCT IA number (format: PCT/ROYYY/NNNNNN) National Application Number Status Code: E: National Phase Entry (mandatory) P: National Publication (optional) R: Refusal (optional) G: Grant (optional) W:withdrawal (optional) Date of action (yyymmdd) Sent to EPO for inclusion in INPADOC when authorized by the source office