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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

  • 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 (June 2001) [PDF]
  • Part 7.3.2:  Inventory of kinds of patent documents listed according to the issuing industrial property office (June 2001) [PDF]
  • Part 7.3.3:  Kinds of patent documents - Samples of first pages (June 2001) [PDF]
 

Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information

  • Part 7.4.1:  Examples concerning corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information (November 1998) [PDF]
  • Part 7.4.2:  Survey concerning correction procedures in patent offices (August 2006) [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]

    Citation Practices relating to Patent Information

  • Part 7.9:  Survey concerning Citation Practices in Patent Offices (May 2008) [PDF] new

WIPO Handbook (Standards)

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