Press release on results of RosPatent delegation’s participation

The 11th session of Working group regarding standards and documentation (RSAD) WIPO’s Standing committee on information technology passed in WIPO’s headquarters (Geneva, Switzerland) from 25th to 31st October, 2009
Representatives of 40 countries, 6 international and intergovernmental organizations have taken part in this session work, one non-governmental organization (Pat COM) with the rights of observer and the WIPO’s International Bureau.
Chief executive ВОИС Mr. Jo Takagi welcomed the participants, underlining the importance of quires which have been taken out in the agenda of session.
Mr. Takagi has informed the participants of session about the consideration on General Assembly of member countries WIPO the offer of MB on WIPO’s Standing committee replacement on information technology (PCIT) with two new dept. of WIPO: Standards WIPO Committee on (CWS) and Committee on global infrastructure in the field of industrial property (CGI). The committee on WIPO’s standards will continue the activity realized within the limits of RSAD; query on formation of Committee on global infrastructure is not solved yet now, its mandate and work principles will be discussed further.
В соответствии с принятой на заседании повесткой дня члены Рабочей группы обсудили следующие основные вопросы, касающиеся стандартизации в сфере промышленной собственности.
According to the agenda accepted at session members of working group have discussed the following basic queries, concerning standardization in sphere of industrial property.
Standard art.67 “Recommendations about electronic processing on graphic elements of trade marks”
At new WIPO standard art.67 session “Recommendations about electronic processing on graphic elements of trade marks” has been accepted. The standard, in particular, contains recommendations about a format and to the sizes of electronic images, the equipment which is used for their processing, and also procedural recommendations about electronic processing of graphic elements of trade marks. In the future it is planned to spend work on expansion of action of given WIPO’s Standard on other objects of the industrial property.
Art.10/C «Representation of elements on bibliographic data»
By work results of Operative group for discussion at session offers in Standard change, on basic concerning representations of codes for internal use by departments, and also estimated figures have been presented.
Beside this, question of use of system identifiers for patent documents placed in Internet network by analogy to system, created for scientific publications (URI) was discussed. The decision to leave queries about the use of such system departments for the future discussion was accepted only after the WIPO International bureau will prepare the document on parity of expenses and advantage of introduction URI in practice of departments.
Art.3 «Recommended standard on two-alphabetic codes for representation of the countries, administrative units and the intergovernmental organizations»
Members of working group have discussed the offer of WIPO’s International bureau on simplification the procedure of acceptance standards. The decision to make change in names of the states and organizations automatically after reception of corresponding inquiry from outside the governments of states or management of the organizations was accepted; for case of change of two-alphabetic codes procedure of the coordination of changes with member WIPO countries is provided.
Other decisions of RSAD
Research carried out on introduction of WIPO’s Standard Art.22 “Recommendations about representation of patent applications in printed-format, suitable for optical recognition of signs (OCR)”.
Reviewing updates «Correction procedures in patent departments» regarding atr.7 of "WIPO’s Directory”.
Informational reports
MB presentation about the course of works on development of Digital Access Service to documents priority.
MB presentation about the course of working out the project WIPO STAD (Standards Administration Database).
MB presentation about use WIKI for administrative works of Operative groups within the limits of RSAD.

The first session of Committee on WIPO Standards is preliminary appointed on 8th–12th November, 2010.

Mr. Samir Rahman
On & in behalf of
Patent and Law firm ‘IPPro’