A Centralized Service for Reclassification?

Anders Bruun, Swedish Patent & Registration OfficeIPC WorkshopFebruary 4th, 2008

Background

• Only a minority of the world’s countries have their documents reclassified by the Trilateral offices:

AP, AT, AU, CA, CH, DE, EP, FR, GB, JP, OA, US, WO

Background

• The rest of the world’s countries have to reclassify documents if they want to have complete classified collections!

The reclassification procedure

• Access and read XML working list

• Reclassify documents

• Collect classification data

• Generate XML result file

• Submit result file

The reclassification procedure

• For a small or medium-size office the administration of the reclassification takes much more time than the actual reclassification of the documents

• For a small or medium-size office it is difficult to justify development of reclassification software

In order to get something done you must make it easy to do it!

Software requirements

• Accessing and importing working lists

• Users select working lists by country?

• Working list access limited by user identities?

Software requirements

• Presenting the documents of the working list

• Select a subset of the documents

• Select an individual document

• Display the classification picture

• Mark classifications to be modified

Software requirements

• Accessing patent documents for consultation

• Links to esp@cenet or similar services?

• Links to office-specific software

• ”Offline” access, for example of paper documents

Software requirements

• Data entry interface

• Selection of core or advanced level

• Input and validation of classification symbols

• Input and validation of qualifiers

Software requirements

• Saving of data

• Direct interaction with the MCD?

• Temporary local saving of results?

• Generation of XML result files?

• Exporting result files?

Additional software features

• Working list management

• Creation of personal working lists of selected IPC groups?

• Temporary saving of working list?

• Exporting working lists?

Additional software features

• Integration with the IPC classification scheme

• Display schemes?

• Display list of valid symbols?

• Display revision concordance data?

Additional software features

• Additional functions

• Enable access of documents not on working lists, e.g. for corrections?

• Enable classification in other systems, e.g. ECLA?

Security aspects

• Limitation of access

• Multi-user office-specific login?

• Individual login?

• Open access?

Thank you for the attention!