Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in 2015 submitted by the Estonian 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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Statistics: changes in terms of application filings and grants with respect to previous year; trends or areas experiencing rapid changes

 

http://www.epa.ee/en/statistics/statistics-2015

Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc. 

http://www.epa.ee/sites/www.epa.ee/files/elfinder/dokumendid/aasta2015.pdf

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

 

http://www.epa.ee/en/additional-info/free-consultations

Availability of the application dossier in electronic form 

http://www.epa.ee/en/additional-info/forms

Classification¹, preclassification² (if applicable), reclassification³ activities; classification systems used (e.g., International Patent Classification (IPC)); matters concerning indexing of patent information  

http://www.epa.ee/en/patent-information-and-services/patent-information

Abstracting, reviewing, and translation of the information contained in patent documents

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)

 

http://www.epa.ee/en/official-gazettes/estonian-patent-gazette

Official Gazettes: main types of announcements, frequency of publication, medium (on paper, on CDs, online - URL), etc. 

http://www.epa.ee/en/additional-info/publications

Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to examiners, including external collections and databases

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Information products and patent document collections (coverage, medium, etc.) available to external users, conditions of access (e.g., free of charge, subscription, etc.) 

http://www.epa.ee/en/databases/inventions-databases

Legal status information (kind of information, coverage, medium, etc.) 

http://www.epa.ee/en/databases/inventions-databases

Other sources

 

http://www.epa.ee/en/news

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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Administrative management electronic systems (register, legal status, statistics, and administrative support)

Other matters

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 

http://eitk.ee/library/

Publications related to different business procedures and patent information sources available to users, for example, books, brochures, Internet publications, etc. 

http://www.epa.ee/en/publications/methodical-publications

Office's initiatives on providing foreign patent information in the local language(s) (e.g., machine translation tools, translation of abstracts)

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Cooperation with universities, research centers, technology and innovation support centers, etc.

 

http://www.epa.ee/et/seminarid/rss

Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.

Other activities

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

http://www.epa.ee/en/patent-information-and-services/patent-information

Participation in international or regional activities and projects related to patent information 

http://www.epa.ee/et/uudised/wipo-avas-uue-ulikoolidele-ja-teadusasutustele-suunatud-veebilehe

Assistance to developing countries

 

http://www.epa.ee/en/news/chairman-national-intellectual-property-center-georgia-visited-estonian-patent-office

Other activities 

http://www.epa.ee/en/news/director-general-estonian-patent-office-hands-over-wipo-award-estonian-contest-young-inventors

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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