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1 World Intellectual Property Organization
World Intellectual Property Organization 34, chemin des Colombettes P.O. Box 18 CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland Tel:41 22 338 91 11 Fax:41 22 733 54 28 For contact details of WIPO’s External Of ces visit: www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/of ces/ WIPO Standards The common framework for industrial property information and documentation Why use WIPO Standards? Using agreed terminology and information formats – for example, citing prior art in a standard way – helps to make IP systems ef cient and cost-effective. It simpli es the work of IP Of ces, facilitates international cooperation and means that IP information is easier to understand for everyone. They are used in global services
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for protecting intellectual property (IP) like the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), Madrid and Hague Systems, publications issued by IP Of ces, global IP databases and business software solutions for IP Of ces such as IPAS, WIPO Publish and WIPO Scan. Who sets WIPO Standards? WIPO Standards re ect best practices around the world. They are drafted with the help of experts from many countries in meetings and online fora organized by WIPO. What do WIPO Standards cover? WIPO Standards cover patents , trademarks and industrial designs and are used at all stages of the industrial property prosecution process ( ling, examination, publication, grant) as well as for data dissemination. What
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are WIPO Standards? WIPO Standards provide a single, common framework for working with the information contained in industrial property documents. Where can I nd WIPO Standards? The authoritative source of WIPO Standards, Recommendations and Guidelines is the WIPO Handbook on Industrial Property Information and Documentation . Who uses WIPO Standards? WIPO Standards are aimed at three main groups of users and facilitate working in different systems and languages. 1. IP Of ces use WIPO Standards to number documents, communicate in a common language with other Of ces, and prepare of cial gazettes, among many other things. WIPO Standards also help IP Of ces modernize their informati
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on systems. 2. IP information users can use them to cross-reference country and organization codes, retrieve documents from citations and read search reports. 3. Applicants for IP protection use WIPO Standards when they cite prior art, le sequence listings, make their applications suitable for digitization and indicate dates. For more information: visit www.wipo.int/standards sign up via our webpage to receive the WIPO Standards Newsletter by email contact us: cws.mail@wipo.int . Relate to: – Patents – Trademarks – Industrial designs WIPO Standards Apply to: – IP documents – Databases – Data exchange Used by: – IP Of ces – IP information users – Applica