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Annual Technical Report on Patent Information Activities in

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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 yearyears:

Item

2017

2016

2015 (Previous Year)

2015 

National

 (Filings)

Filing

7,724  

7,724 

 (Grants)

7,589

(Filings)

National Grants

6,

309 (Grants)

PCT

 (Filings)

 (Grants)

29,242 (Filings)

15,591 (Grants)

ISA

 (Filed)

2,249 (Filed)

IPEA

 (Filed)

283 (Filed)

The following depicts the trends experienced in terms of e-filings with respect to the previous year:

095

7,065

6,309 

PCT Filing27,35027,20129,242
PCT Grants18,00319,35915,591

Item

2016

2015 (Previous Year)

National e-Filings

2,029

PCT e-Filings

1,387


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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