IPC Working Group 29 - Updates on IT support for the IPC Geneva 14 May, 2013 Patrick Fiévet Head of...

IPC Working Group 29 -

Updates on IT support for the IPCGeneva14 May, 2013

Patrick Fiévet

Head of IT Systems Section

Agenda

Updates on IPC-related IT support

IPCRECLASS

IPCPUB Internet publication

IPCCAT

IPC-Eforum

IPCRM project

IPCRECLASS

Monitoring IPC reclassification based on:

Previous statistics (Project QC013)

Archived Working Lists (before IPCRECLASS)

IPCRECLASS database content

2008-2013 IPC reclassification : backlog evolution

IPC reclassification backlog

0

200000

400000

600000

800000

1000000

1200000

1400000

1600000

1800000

août.

08

déc.0

8

avr.0

9

août.

09

déc.0

9

avr.1

0

août.

10

déc.1

0

avr.1

1

août.

11

déc.1

1

avr.1

2

août.

12

déc.1

2

avr.1

3

nb

of

fam

ilie

s

2007.01

2007.10

2008.01

2008.04

2009.01

2010.01

2011.01

2012.01

2013.01

Total

T

IPC reclassification status: IPC 2012.01

IPC reclassification status: IPC 2013.01

IPC reclassification since CE 45:

0

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

2007

.01

2007

.10

2008

.01

2008

.04

2009

.01

2010

.01

2011

.01

2012

.01

2013

.01

# of families to be reclassified inMay 2013

# of families reclassifiedbetween Feb and May 2013

IPC reclassification since CE 45:

Observations:

Backlog of reclassification today: 1,2 Million families

Focus on the 2009-2012 part of the backlog (100,000 families reclassified per month)

Little activity on IPC 2013

IPC reclassification data submission improvement in progress in big offices

IPC Reclassification completion:

Automatic:

Family

propagationManual:

Stage 1

Manual:

Stage 2

Automatic:

Default

Transfer

Reclassification

completedWL creation

%? 100%

Monitoring of IPC Reclassification Statistics:

Following CE 45 decisions, IB needs for each project:

Total number of families before automatic reclassification

Results Lists from EPO for all IPC editions

IPC 2013.01, IPC 2014.01…

IPC reclassification since CE 45:

Information

IPC reclassification data submission improvement still in progress

Decrease of number of data resubmission for offices who attended IPCRECLASS training session

IPC reclassification Quality Assurance

Check that your reclassification are actually published under

http://www.wipo.int/ipcreclassification/201301/

This indicates that your submissions passed all IPCRECLASS controls

This is the only place from where MCD uploads them

Do not ignore error notifications

IPCRECLASS perspectives:

New development for:

Automation for stage 3 default transfer

Reclassification status monitoring

Export of statistics for IPC warnings in IPCPUB

IPC publication platform (IPCPUB)

Upgrade to version 3.0

Now in production

Simplified software package installation (available on demand)

IPC publication platform (IPCPUB)

More search feature under consideration:

wildcard, fuzzy or proximity searches,

range queries,

term boosting,

boolean operators and grouping,

escaping special characters

IPC publication platform (IPCPUB)

Perspectives

IPC warnings: Automated production for incomplete reclassification

Patentscope statitistic based search

FIPCPC project: Parallel viewer for IPC, FI, CPC

IPCCAT

Status:

Retraining based on IPC 2012.01 reclassified documents (DOCDB XML): DONE

IPC E-forum

Evolutions ready for deployment:

Headers in PDF version of annexes (project number+ annex number)

Active bookmarks in the PDF CONCAT

Stop undesirable email notifications (changes of action plan)

IPC E-forum Evolution ready for deploymentRemoval of undesired email notifications (changes of action plan)

IPCRM project status

Future solution for IPC Revision Management

Project kick-off: May 6, 2013

High level plan:

Entirely out-sourced, more than just re-do of RIPCIS

Requirement analysis, RFP, contracts setup: Q2 2013-Q1-2014

Procurement of the solution : Q2 2014 - Q1 2015

Transition from RIPCIS + support setup: Q1-Q2 2015

Targeted production use: early publication of IPC 2016.01

Feedback for improvements

Projects dedicated to this purpose:

IPCRECLASS: CE446

IPCPUB Internet publication: CE447

IPCCAT

IPC-Eforum: CE445

IPCRM project

Update on IT support for the IPC

QUESTIONS?

contact WIPO at claims@wipo.int