German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Changes
of the Publication Practice
of the GPTO from 2004
Hubert Rothe,
German Patent and Trade Mark Office,
Munich
WIPO Standing Committee on Information Technology
Standards and Documentation Working Group, Fourth Session,
Geneva, January 26 to 30, 2004
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Changes from 2004
• Official Publication Platform
(DPMApublikationen)
• Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents
• Web Server for Delivery of Raw Data
(DPMAdatenabgabe)
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform (http://publikationen.dpma.de)
(DPMApublikationen)
• Execution of statutory publication duties via the Internet
• Platform was launched on January 1, 2004
• Integrated publication of
- Patent Gazette
- Trade Mark Journal
- Industrial Designs Gazette and
- patent documents
on a single platform
• Paper products abandoned
• German and English user interfaces
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
Two versions available
 PDF Version
• Typeset form as formerly used for paper version
• PDF files are downloadable
 Searchable version
• Searchable bibliographic, procedural and legal status data
• Beginners, expert and assisted search modes
• Functionalities and „look-and-feel“ similar to DEPATISnet
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
• Data available
• patents and utility models:
• from January 1997
• trade marks and designs:
• data for all rights in force
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
Patents, PDF version
Possible
selections
• Publication year
and week
• Single parts or
all parts
• Download and
display
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
Searchable Version
• Display of legal and procedural status data
chronologically in tabular form
• Complete patent and utility model documents
(documents of the current week are downloadable
as one single file)
• Image display for trade marks and designs
• Download of data in XML format
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
Beginners mode
Functionalities
• Input fields
• Index for
important search
fields
• Hit list to be
configured
• Number of hits
per page to be
selected
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
Expert mode
Functionalities
• Complex search
queries are
possible
• Various linkage
and truncation
possibilities
• Hit list to be
configured
• Number of hits
per page to be
selected
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
Hit list
• Tabular Form
• Display of number
of hits
• Opening the of
bibliographic data
display screen
• Opening of the
document display
screen (patents
and utility models)
• Refined search
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
Display of bibliographic data
Functionalities
• Opening of the document
display screen (patents
and utility models)
• Downloading of
bibliographic data (XML)
• Downloading of full texts
for patents and utility
models (XML, current
week)
• Downloading of DTD
• Image display for trade
marks and designs
• Printing
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Official Publication Platform
Patents, document display
Functionalities
• Selection of
resolution degrees
• Direct access to
subdocuments
• Browsing page by
page
• Complete PDF
documents of the
current week
• XML download und
printing of entire
documents of the
current week
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents
Changes and innovations from 2004
• Publications in paper form will be discontinued
- Patent gazette and
- Industrial designs gazette
from 1th publication week of 2004
- Trade Mark gazette from 26th publication week of 2004
• New master format:
mixed mode according to WIPO Standard ST.35
(XML texts + TIFF images)
• Additional formats: PDF, TIFF, BACON
• Complete full texts for U and T1 documents (XML)
• DATIMTEX replaced by XML as full text format,
DTD is available
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents
Implementation of recommendations of WIPO Standards
from 2004
• ST.16: Adjustment of kind of document codes (“C2B”)
• ST.50
• Publication of “corrected” documents
• Clearer designation of documents published after an “alteration”
(“Geänderte Patentschrift”)
• Publication of “altered” documents (“Geänderte Patentschrift”)
for EP patents after national limitation or nullity procedures
• ST.13
Extended application numbering system
• ST.10/B
New layout of title pages
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents
Adjustment of kind of document codes (“C2B”)
• Patent published after grant,
no Offenlegungsschrift (A1) was published before
former kind code:
C1
new kind code:
B3
• Patent published after grant,
Offenlegungsschrift (A1) was published before
former kind code:
C2
new kind code:
B4
• Patent altered in the framework of an objection, nullity or limitation
procedure (including patents published by the EPO)
former kind code:
C2, C3 or C4
new kind code:
C5
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents
Corrected documents
• Correction of erroneous bibliographic data elements
 Publication of a corrected title page
(A8, B8, C8, T8 or U8 documents)
 Announcement of the corrected document in the
Patent Gazette (publication of a full bibliography)
• Correction of errors within the textual parts (claims and
description) and/or the drawings
 Publication of a complete document
(A9, B9, C9, T9 or U9 documents)
 Announcement of the corrected document in the
Patent Gazette (publication of a full bibliography)
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents
Corrected documents
New INID Code (48):
(48) Veröffentlichungstag der Korrektur:
08.01.2004
New INID Code (15):
(15) Korrekturinformation:
Berichtigung zu INID-Code (x), (y)...
Frühere Berichtigungen: A9, 02.01.2004
(for correction of title page)
(15) Korrekturinformation:
(for republished whole document)
Berichtigung zu INID-Code (x) und/oder
in Absatz (x) der Beschreibung und/oder
in Anspruch (x) und/oder
in Zeichnungsseite (x)
Frühere Berichtigungen: A9, 02.01.2004
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Format, Layout and Content of Patent Documents
Extended application numbering system
10 2004 037 108. 7
Check digit
IP right
till 2003:
1 digit
from 2004: 2 digits
Year of application
till 2003:
2 digits
from 2004: 4 digits
Former length:
8 digits
New length:
12 digits
Serial number
till 2003:
5 digits
from 2004: 6 digits
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
New
title page layout
from 2004
Publication date
within the document
identification
as fourth data
element in the sense
of WIPO Standard
ST.1
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Web Server for Delivery of Raw Data
(DPMAdatenabgabe)
• Web server solution replaces delivery of data carriers
(except of facsimile data)
• Data available for everybody under uniform conditions
(New patent information policy in force since 7/1992)
• Raw data of all types of IP rights available
• Data available at 0:00 h on publication day
• Available for registered users only
(agreement required)
• Flat rate user fee (marginal costs):
40 € per type of data and week of publication
• Operational since 1 January 2003
(https://datenabgabe.dpma.de)
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German Patent and Trade Mark Office
DPMA
Thank you very much
for your attention.
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