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CWS/4/12

ANNEX I



STATUS REPORT ON CWS TASK No. 23



Document prepared by the European Patent Office (EPO)

TERMS OF REFERENCE


  1. This is an update to the status report provided in April 2012. The current report refers to the situation in early March 2014 and follows the lines expressed by the working title allocated to Task No. 23 at the 11th session of the SDWG in Geneva, October 26 to 30, 2009: “Monitor the inclusion, in databases, of information about entry, and, where applicable, the non-entry into the national (regional) phase of published PCT international applications”

PROGRESS MADE


  1. Efforts have continued in keeping up with the data delivered by the patent offices, in particular the co-operation with WIPO in this task is of great importance. Currently, out of 62 patent authorities contributing to the EPO's Legal Status Database, 42 are delivering information about the entry into the national (regional) phase. Taking into account, that several member states of the European and the Eurasian Patent Offices allow only regional designations, the number of countries covered is at least 52, however the timeliness and coverage give cause for concern.

PRESENT STATUS


  1. For the legal status database of the EPO direct input from national offices as well as the updates sent by WIPO are used. At the moment the country distribution according to the source of data is:

  • provided via WIPO and by the national office 10

  • provided via WIPO only 30

  • provided by national office only 2

Details can be gathered from the attached database contents table (see Appendix 1 and 2 to Annex I). An analysis of the Appendix data reveals that:



  • the EPO receives regular deliveries from 12 authorities;

  • 11 authorities have stopped delivering data directly to the EPO;

  • the EPO receives from WIPO regular deliveries of 10 national data;

  • 23 countries delivered by WIPO to the EPO have data at least 6 months old; and

  • for 9 authorities the deliveries from WIPO are outdated; in one case (CN) we know that the patent office considers this data confidential (thus made available only once national publication has occurred).




  1. The exchange of PCT entry data between WIPO and the EPO is done at a monthly schedule. In order to avoid duplications in the legal status database two measures have been taken:

  • the events reported via WIPO are stored with legal status codes different from those used for event received by national offices directly; and

  • de-duplication of events reported from both sources takes place at a monthly schedule; the codes for the input via WIPO take precedence.

However, certain countries provide data to WIPO under the condition that this data is not to be distributed further. WIPO has contacted all these countries to get permission to provide the data to the EPO. Currently the following countries fall into this category: CU, IN, KR, PH, SG, TR, VN. The data supply is mostly restricted to PCT entry information. It rarely covers follow-up events as national republication of the patent application or national grant. Currently WIPO investigates whether these events could be re-included or not.



  1. Concerning the non-entry information no further progress has been achieved. Currently only two Patent Offices supply this kind of information in a reliable way: the EPO and Japan, while a third Office, Germany, is planning to resume deliveries later this year. The non-entry information was available for additional countries in the past (for instance: Canada, the Republic of Korea, Russian Federation), however no recent data is available.

FUTURE PLANNING


  1. In spite of the efforts dedicated, coverage, timeliness and completeness of the PCT entry information have not improved significantly from the report two years ago. Regions of particular interest are Latin America and the Middle East. Concerning the completeness of information further efforts have to be made to get hold of such important events as refusals or withdrawals of national entries. This information is not yet supplied by a few PCT member states.

  2. Concerning the non-entry information further efforts are necessary to convince more countries to provide or to resume delivery of the non-entry data. In particular for countries with a high activity in PCT entries in comparison to the number of designations this information is crucial for the patent information community.

[Appendices follow]




APPENDIX 1: CONTENT OF THE WORLDWIDE LEGAL STATUS DATABASE - ORIGIN WIPO


Week: 2014/09

Edition: 06.03.2014



CC

Country

from

until




Last input week

AE

United Arab Emirates




30.09.2010

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

AP

ARIPO

01.07.1996

06.08.2008

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

AT

Austria

01.02.1995

30.11.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/05

AU

Australia

10.12.1998

25.09.2012

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/42

BG

Bulgaria

02.01.2001

19.12.2007

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

BY

Belarus

15.06.2007

28.02.2008

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

BZ

Belize

27.08.2002

23.03.2007

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2007/37

CA

Canada

01.04.1993

08.06.2012

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/34

CH

Switzerland

04.01.2001

30.10.2013

PCT application entry and further legal events delivered by WIPO

2014/05

CN

China

01.01.2002

20.11.2008

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2009/43

CZ

Czech Republic

21.02.1995

11.11.2013

PCT application entry and further legal events delivered by WIPO

2014/05

DE

Germany

01.01.1993

18.08.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/05

EA

Eurasian Patent Organization

18.04.2007

30.09.2010

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/02

EG

Egypt

03.08.2008

28.02.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/14

ES

Spain

30.05.1990

30.06.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/33

FI

Finland

19.05.1981

28.10.2013

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2014/05

GB

United Kingdom

21.09.1989

31.10.2013

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2014/05

GE

Georgia

02.07.2007

10.12.2013

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2014/05

HR

Croatia

21.07.2000

29.10.2013

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2014/05

HU

Hungary

03.11.2006

06.04.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/05

IL

Israel

02.01.2013

30.05.2013

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2013/36

JP

Japan

01.01.2002

31.01.2013

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2013/08

KE

Kenya

07.01.2004

12.05.2006

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

KR

Republic of Korea

03.01.1997

05.01.2010

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2007/44

LT

Lithuania

12.04.1995

08.03.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

LV

Latvia

22.11.2005

10.06.2006

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2007/44

MD

Republic of Moldova

10.01.2008

17.10.2008

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

MX

Mexico

21.12.2005

09.12.2008

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

MY

Malaysia

09.03.2007

30.09.2010

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2010/50

NZ

New Zealand

01.05.2001

30.11.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/05

PH

Philippines

14.03.2002

19.12.2008

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2009/43

PL

Poland

22.12.2002

31.05.2012

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/36

RO

Romania

17.12.2004

28.01.2008

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2009/43

RU

Russian Federation

24.03.2004

31.10.2012

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2013/06

SE

Sweden

18.08.1985

07.07.2010

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2011/46

SI

Slovenia

01.01.2001

18.10.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/08

SK

Slovakia

10.09.2008

09.06.2011

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2012/05

TH

Thailand

01.09.2010

27.01.2014

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2014/02

UA

Ukraine

20.07.2005

23.10.2013

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2014/05

US

United States of America

14.07.1992

11.06.2013

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2013/39

UZ

Uzbekistan

02.01.2001

23.06.2006

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2006/37

ZA

South Africa

21.12.1999

07.02.2008

PCT application entry delivered by WIPO

2009/43


APPENDIX 2: CONTENT OF THE WORLDWIDE LEGAL STATUS DATABASE - ORIGIN EPO


Week: 2014/09

Edition: 06.03.2014



CC

Country

from

until




Last input week

AT

Austria

01.02.1995

30.03.2012

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2011/49

AU

Australia

28.11.2002

30.01.2014

PCT appl. entry into the national phase - via Gazette

2014/09

BG

Bulgaria

02.01.2001

30.04.2010

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2010/24

BR

Brazil

01.03.1995

25.02.2014

PCT appl. entry into the national phase - via Gazette

2014/09

CA

Canada

27.12.1979

19.02.2014

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2014/09

DE

Germany

22.04.1971

28.02.2014

PCT appl. entry/non-entry into the national phase

2014/09

EP

European Patent Office

20.12.1978

26.02.2014

PCT appl. entry/non-entry into the national phase

2014/09

ES

Spain

30.05.1990

30.06.2011

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2012/27

GB

United Kingdom

01.04.1998

03.01.2014

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2014/09

GE

Georgia

31.08.1998

13.12.2013

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2014/06

JP

Japan

01.09.1996

31.01.2014

PCT appl. entry/non-entry into the national phase

2014/06

KE

Kenya

11.12.1995

18.11.2013

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2013/50

KR

Republic of Korea

01.01.2000

31.12.2000

PCT appl. entry/non-entry into the national phase

2001/39

LT

Lithuania

01.07.1997

25.01.2012

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2012/05

LV

Latvia

01.01.1998

30.07.2007

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2008/47

MD

Republic of Moldova

01.06.2006

31.10.2012

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2012/45

NZ

New Zealand

29.06.2001

21.12.2012

Register Entries from Gazette

2013/05

RO

Romania

01.01.2002

29.11.2013

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2014/05

RU

Russian Federation

03.01.2002

31.10.2013

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2014/04

SI

Slovenia

01.01.2001

18.10.2011

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2012/05

SK

Slovakia

01.01.1993

07.01.2014

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2014/06

US

United States of America

05.08.1980

06.11.2006

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2006/12

UZ

Uzbekistan

02.01.2001

30.06.2006

PCT appl. entry into the national phase

2006/37


[Annex II follows]






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