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Examples and Industrial Property Offices Practices
(Part 7 of the Handbook on Industrial Property Information and Documentation)
- Representation of calendar dates
- Numbering systems
- Examples and kinds of patent documents
- Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information
- Physical characteristics of patent documents
- Bibliographic information in patent gazettes
- Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
- Procedures and requirements relating to industrial designs
- Citation practices relating to patent information
- Codes used by industrial property offices
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR) practices
Representation of calendar dates
- Part 7.1: Representation of calendar dates - Variations in the representation of calendar dates based on the Gregorian calendar, as printed in industrial property documents or in official gazettes (November 1997) [PDF]
Numbering systems
- Part 7.2.1: Presentation of application numbers (December 2005) [PDF]
- Part 7.2.2: Survey of numbering systems used, or intended to be used, by industrial property offices with regard to applications, published documents and registered rights (June 2001) [PDF]
- Part 7.2.3: Numbering systems and date formats introduced or planned to be applied with regard to the arrival of the year 2000 (January 2000) [PDF]
- Part 7.2.4: Survey on the presentation of priority application numbers (September 2007) [PDF]
Examples and kinds of patent documents
- Part 7.3.1: Examples and kinds of patent documents listed according to code (February 2011) [PDF]
- Part 7.3.2: Inventory of kinds of patent documents listed according to the issuing industrial property office (February 2011) [PDF]
- Part 7.3.3: Kinds of patent documents - Samples of first pages (February 2011) [PDF]
Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information
- Part 7.4.1: Survey concerning correction procedures in patent offices (December 2009) [PDF]
- Part 7.4.2: Examples concerning correction procedures of patent offices (December 2009) [PDF]
Physical characteristics of patent documents
- Part 7.5: Physical characteristics of patent documents - Compilation of data on physical characteristics of patent documents (December 1990) [PDF]
Bibliographic information in patent gazettes
- Part 7.6: Survey of bibliographic information contained in patent gazettes and in current indexes inserted in patent gazettes or published separately in association with patent gazettes (December 1990) [PDF]
Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
- Part 7.7: Survey on the grant and publication of “Supplementary Protection Certificates” for medicinal and phytopharmaceutical products or equivalent industrial property rights (SPCs) (January 2002) [PDF] (3.6 Mb)
Procedures and requirements relating to industrial designs
- Part 7.8: Survey of filing procedures and filing requirements, as well as of examination methods and publication procedures, relating to industrial designs (May 1995) [PDF]
- Part 7.9: Survey concerning citation practices in industrial property offices (December 2008) [PDF]
Citation practices relating to patent information
- Part 7.10: Survey of practices in industrial property offices regarding codes used for internal purposes or individual use (January 2009) [PDF]
Codes used by industrial property offices
- Part 7.11: Survey on the implementation and promotion of WIPO Standard ST.22 (June 2012) [PDF]
