Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2017 submitted by
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the Canadian Intellectual Property Office
I. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PATENT INFORMATION ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT BY THE OFFICE
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The following depicts the changes experienced in terms of application filings and grants with respect to the previous years:
Item | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
National Filing | 7,724 | 7,724 | 7,589 |
National Grants | 6,095 | 7,065 | 6,309 |
| PCT Filing | 27,350 | 27,201 | 29,242 |
| PCT Grants | 18,003 | 19,359 | 15,591 |
Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.
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Externally, examiners have access to many publicly available and subscription based databases such as the following list of databases;
Academic Search Complete |
AccessMedicine |
ACM Digital Library (Association of Computing Machinery) |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
American National Biography Online |
Aphasiology Archive |
Archive of European Integration |
BioOne Online Journals |
Britannica Online Academic Edition |
Business Source Complete |
Center for Research Libraries |
Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS) |
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
ECONIS |
Econlit |
Energy Citations Database Freedonia Focus Reports Government Printing Office Catalog |
Forschungsinformationen |
Genomequest |
Grove Art Online Grove Music Online HeinOnline |
Hoover's Company Profiles |
HyRead Journal |
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) |
Industry Studies Working Papers Informit Business Collection Informit Engineering Collection |
IP Watch |
Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (JPTOS) |
JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets |
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I - XI JSTOR Ireland |
JSTOR Life Sciences |
Lan Publishing |
LexisNexis Academic: Law Reviews LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital collection Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
MEDLINE |
Mergent Annual Reports Collection |
Minority Health Archive Mintel Oxygen Reports News (AP, UPI, etc.) |
Nature |
Nature Biotechnology |
OAIster |
OAPEN Library |
Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal |
PhilSci Archive PsycARTICLES PsycBOOKS PsycCRITIQUES |
Public Information Online |
Publisher Provided Full Text Searching File |
Questel Orbit |
Regional Business News |
Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark Cases (RPC) |
Science and Technical Information Network (STN) |
Science Online |
ScienceDirect |
Scientific American |
Scopus |
SOFIS - Sozialwissenschaftliche |
SOLIS - Sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
STM Source: Scientific, Technical and Medical Source |
The Economist |
University Press Scholarship Online |
USPTO –WEST |
Wiley Online Library |
World Patent Information |
Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.)
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Specific software tools supporting business procedures within the Office: general description, characteristics, advantages, possible improvements
ool | Internal/External | Technology | Purpose |
TechSource | Internal Office Tool | In-house custom DB2 database | Mainframe application to handle National cases). Supports workflow and storing of patent data. Includes bibliographic data (from 1869-present), text (abstract, claim and description of laid open patent documents from 1978-present) and images of patent documents (from 1920-present). All these documents are available stored on hard disk technology. |
InterApp | Internal Office Tool | C++ | An application to process International PCT applications including all RO, ISA and IPEA functionality. The application also imports and exports documents and data directly to and from WIPO via sFTP |
AppEntry | Internal Office Tool | C++ | An application that electronically retrieves national entry applications from WIPO for processing in Canada |
MS Word | Internal | Microsoft | Word along with VBA coding gives Patent Branch users the ability to create reports with complex automated paragraphs |
Intellect | Internal Office Tool | JAVA | The Internal Canadian Patent database search engine is updated electronically daily for our internal search tool. The search application is named Intellect and it has been in use since 2008. |
Canadian Patent Database | External Office Tool | JAVA | The External Canadian Patent database search engine is updated electronically daily and is available on our Web site. |
Hardware used to supporting business processes of the Office
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