Background

This project was initiated during the WIPO Symposium for IP Authorities in September 2009. The starting point for the project is a request from the IP Offices of Australia, Canada and UK (The Vancouver Group offices) for WIPO to provide a platform for the sharing of search and examination documents in order to facilitate work sharing between the offices. Note that the Vancouver Group offices intend to operate a work sharing programme, not a mutual recognition system.A new platform is required because no common platform exists that would meet the requirements.  In particular, patent search facilities would be required, supported by a database of patent bibliographic data. The system must also be secure and, eventually, support features such as collaborative examination, workflow, etc.The platform will not be unique to the Vancouver Group. It will be extensible to other work-sharing programs, in particular:

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All project related documentation are available here.

A new version of the CASE portal is under development and a preliminary release will be made available in October 2014.to Offices in demonstration mode for their comments.

Data coverage (from 3 March 2011 to

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12 September 2014)

The following statistics cover approximately applications filed since 2000.

Note: AU does not store documents in CASE since the release of version 2.1, on July 20, 2012. Following an issue reported by IP Australia, we identified that the statistics provided in the past few months excluded the number of documents hosted by IPA which were accessed through CASE web services. The below statistics about document usage are now corrected. The online statistics function will be corrected shortly, CN JP and WO application data and document are not stored in CASE and are made available through web services by the depositing Offices. SG and VN are accessing Offices only.

System Usage from 3 March 2011 to

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12 September 2014

Registered users per Office

Document usage (will be updated soon)

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