IPOA Presentation

1
World Intellectual Property Organization
IPC Reform- Database Implementation Brian
Barrington PCT Information Services
2
Outline

• Databases and Systems
• CASPIA Changes
• ORACLE Changes
• Validity File Processing
• MCD Backfile Reclassification
• Frontfile Reclassification
• Issues with ISRs
• Publication issues
• Future work

3
Databases and Systems

• IBM MVS - ADABAS
• CASPIA - Computer Aided System for Processing
  International Applications.
• HP/UX - ORACLE (2 databases Published and All)
• eDossier.
• Systematic COR. (e.g. forms IB301)
• Patentscope (electronic publication and search)
• Specific COR (e.g. IASF).

4
CASPIA Changes

• New IPC validity file (Advanced Common but not
  CORE only).
• New fields for IA_IPC table Inventive Version
  Date Classification Status Source.
• Dual screen validation (7 and 8)
• Data synchronization ADABAS to ORACLE adapted

5
ORACLE system changes

• New IPC validity file.
• New IA_IPCR table
• Error Report for ISAs
• Internal (All) to External (Published) database
  synchronization adapted.

6
Validity File Processing

• Validate validity file.
• Ensure ADABAS and ORACLE files in synch.
• Upload to ADABAS and ORACLE
• Mark in error newly obsolete IPC codes for any
  unpublished IAs

7
MCD Backfile Reclassification

• Received
• 2,739,446 IPC codes for 1,041,841 IAs
• Processed
• 2,729,161 IPC codes for 1,037,137 IAs

8
MCD Backfile Reclassification

• Exceptions
• 68 unknown IAs
• 3 unknown WO Numbers
• 2 Invalid IPC codes
• 15,559 Missing - published pre-2006 with ISR

9
Frontfile Reclassification

• Reclassifying Version 7 to 8
• Scope
• A2s published in 2005 (Initial Pub. Without ISR)
• published in 2006
• Unpublished IAs

10
Frontfile Reclassification

• Results
• Processed 84,047 IPC codes for 37,949 IAs
• Outstanding (pub. With ISR after 1 Jan 2006)
  8,490 IPC codes for 3,015 IAs

11
Ongoing Issues with ISRs

• Absence of inventive indicator
• Duplicate codes
• Invalid codes (though valid in IPC 7)

12
Publication

• Patentscope - WIPO internet resource for
  publication
• Original publication differs from current
  bibliographic data
• Merged IPC searching facility
• new IPC codes
• old IPC codes where not yet reclassified
• Position indicator dropped - not in MCD file
• Search Types
• IC - IPC codes
• ICI - IPC code as Inventive
• ICN - IPC code as non-inventive

http//www.wipo.int/patentscope
13
Future Work

• Next MCD Backfile expected July.
• Check on exception cases.
• Communicate Frontfile Reclassification list to
  EPO and others (ST.50)
• ISAs to reclassify 7 to 8 IAs published 2006

14
Questions ?