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Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2015 submitted by EGYPT/ EGYPTIAN PATENT OFFICE

I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PATENT INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Outline of main policies and plans aimed at development of patent information activities and expected time frames for their realization:

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Magazine link: http://www.egypo.gov.eg/page.aspx?id=18

II. SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) - URLs

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Bibliographic data, abstracts and full text of Egyptian national application (checked by examiners) can be searched on the Egyptian Patent Office database and all the other relevant databases.

Other activities

III. SOURCES OF PATENT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE OFFICE

 

Main types of publications of the Office (patent applications, full text, first pages, abstracts, bibliographic data, granted patents, etc.), medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URLs)

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The Egyptian patent office stores all the information concerning the legal status and technical documents on the Egyptian database to facilitate the search procedures and assists clients to obtain all the required information.

Other sources

IV. ICT SUPPORT TO SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PATENT INFORMATION CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE

Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements

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  • Replace our network and upgrade it .
  • Speed up application reception.
  • Speedup application communication.
  • Simplify and speedup processing.
  • Reduce bottleneck at reception.
  • Full e-filing & e-payment system for applications and digital signature.
  • Monitoring system for follow-up application processing.
  • Create a Disaster Recovery system .
  • Update security system

V. PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AIMED TO SUPPORT USERS IN ACCESS AND EFFICIENT USE OF PATENT INFORMATION

Patent library: equipment, collection management, network of patent libraries in the country, cooperation with foreign patent libraries

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Quality Management Systems

VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN THE FIELD OF PATENT INFORMATION

International exchange and sharing of patent information in machine-readable form, e.g., priority documents, bibliographic data, abstracts, search reports, full text information

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Assistance to developing countries

Other activities

VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

 

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1.Classification is allotting one or more classification symbols (e.g., IPC symbols) to a patent application, either before or during search and examination, which symbols are then published with the patent application.

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