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Please see tables in document attached below.
Trends or areas experiencing rapid changes with respect to the previous year
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The Egyptian Patent Office publishes three journals as follows :
1-The Egyptian Patent Gazette
2-The Patent Applications Bulletin
3-The Egyptian Patent Abstracts
These publications are published monthly, and we send them to universities, industrial companies and research institutes in Egypt as well as the foreign patent offices abroad .
Main types of announcements of the Office in the field of patent information
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We used paper, microfilm , microfilm jackets , tapes , HD , and DVD as mass storage for our applications and patents.
The Egyptian Patent Office has a database containing the Egyptian applications and patents granted.
The Office has DVD and CD-ROM collections containing published/granted patents for US, WO, EP, GB, etc.
Word processing and office automation
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A- Hardware:
We have two LANs as follows:
1-Internal LAN on which local applications are running
2-External LAN that supports Internet browsing and search.
Those LANs consist of 150/213 PC/ person (Dell, HP, IBM) and 5 servers specified in the table attached below.
B-Software:
We use Oracle and ASP in our database and web site.
Online services:
The Egyptian Patent Office provides online services including:
1-Online search on the Egyptian Patents Data base
2-Online filing for the bibilographic data
These services are available through:
A) Egyptian Patent Office website (www.Egypo.gov.eg)
B) Egyptian E-Government portal (soon at www.Egypt.gov.eg)
VI. Administration of the industrial property office library and services available to the public (relating to facilities, e.g., for lodging applications, for assisting clients on searching procedures, for obtaining official publications and registry extracts)
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We have a big collection of patent documents from many countries in our library such as DE, US, FR, GB, EPO, etc.
The available collection includes also various pamphlets, manuals and other publications, some law reports, official journals of the EG Patent Office and of many different countries, magazines, etc. These collections are located in our main buildiing and are therefore secure.
Collecting, acquisitions, preparation
Please see Table I (attached below) concerning the acquisitions by the library in the Egyptian Patent Office in 2005.
Please see Table II (attached below) for total number of documents.
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Information services available to the public (including computerized services and search files contained in libraries remote from your Office and patent information posted by your Office on the World Wide Web)
The Patent Office searches and advisory services are continuous. We have a Web site for our Office which includes published patents and searchable database where we can find the bibliographic data for any granted patent. Also, it includes all information needed to register patents and others. The web site is: www.Egypo.gov.eg
We made 252 state of the art searches for users as can be seen from the table attached below.
VII. Matters concerning mutual exchange of patent documentation and information
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Please see Table I (training courses for national and foreign participants) and Table II (conferences abroad attended by our employees), attached below.
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Assistance to developing countries (sending consultants and experts, receiving trainees from developing countries, etc.)
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IX. Other relevant 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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| 2. | Preclassification is allotting an initial broad classification symbol (e.g., IPC class or subclass, or administrative unit) to a patent application, using human or automated means for internal administrative purposes (e.g., routing an application to the appropriate examiner). Usually preclassification is applied by the administration of an office.
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| 3. | Reclassification is the reconsideration and usually the replacement of one or more previously allotted classification symbols to a patent document, following a revision and the entry into force of a new version of the Classification system (e.g., the IPC). The new symbols are available on patent databases.
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