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- New offices that may join the Vancouver Group
- New groups of offices with similar work-sharing agreements between them (Latin American offices, ASEAN, etc)
- Collaborative examination in the PCT international and national phases (see the PCT Roadmap)
- The revised WIPO ICE service (International Cooperation for Examination) under which offices with capacity and experience provide assistance to smaller and less-experienced offices. The project and system will be known as WIPO CASE (Centralized Access to Search and Examination).WIPO-CASE (version 1.0) was first released into production in March 2010 has very basic functions:
- Bulk upload of documents and bibliographic data
- Access to search and examination reports through simple search by application or publication number, optionally including additional types of documents uploaded by participating Offices
Project Status
The next minor release CASE 2.2 is planned for release during end of 2012 with additional functionality:
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in August 2013 to fix a few issues reported recently and a minor improvement for display of PCT application data.
The next major release is planned for January 2014 to connect WIPO-CASE with the JPO's One Portal Dossier Interface. Further details will be published here.
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All project related documentation are available here.
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