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1. e-PEC – Electronic Platform for
Collaborative Examination
VIII LATIPAT Reunion - 05 to 07 November 2012
INPI (Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial)
2. Index
Introduction
Objectives
Premises
Functionalities
Workflow
Results
Conclusions
Next steps
3. Introduction
PROSUR
A South-South cooperation project
Integration and cooperation project involving south
american countries
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuator, Paraguay, Peru,
Surinam and Uruguay
Main objective is the effective operational cooperation
among the governmental industrial property offices in
the region, with support from the Fund for Regional
Public Goods (BPR) of the Interamerican Development
Bank (IDB)
4. Introduction
PROSUR
Main deliverables
Implementation and development of a common electronic platform
IP offices database integration
Common portal
Administrative and financial sustainability of the project, including
its institutionalization
Project structure
Directive Committee
Technical Committee
Manager
Executive secretary
Technical consultants
6. Introduction
Growing worldwide increase in number and
complexity of patent applications
Backlog
Decreasing analysis quality
Intellectual property offices groups
IP5 – EPO, USPTO, JPO, CIPO and KIPO
Vancouver Group – UKIPO, IPAustralia, CIPO
PROSUR – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuator,
Paraguay, Peru, Surinam and e Uruguay
Asian Group
7. Introduction
Work share based on
Legislation harmonization
Changes in legislation
Long term solution
Simple reuse of work
Higher benefits for the less efficient
No sinergy among the offices
8. Objectives
Electronic Platform for Collaborative Examination
Sinergy in examination
Synchronous and real-time
Possibility of reuse of part or total work already done
Purely technical analysis based on the worldwide
concepts already established
Respect to the final decision of each office
9. Premises
All information is public to system users
Patent applications data, technical reports, logs,
comments
System information of a given IP office is read-only
for other IP offices users
Centralized access to update documents through
access to IP offices systems
Grant access to public data for the society
10. Functionalities
Multilingual system
IP offices register
Users linked to IP offices
Perform patent application collaborative
examination
Patent examiners from the same office
Patent examiners from different offices
11. Functionalities
First search based on
patent application or
priority number through
EPO OPS (Open Patent
Service) webservice
Retrieval of all patent
applications of the family
(only for offices
registered into the
system)
15. Functionalities
Insert a new technical
report
Copy a technical report
related to another patent
application of the same
family
16. Functionalities
Insert a new technical
report
Copy a technical report
related to another patent
application of the same
family
Associate a patent
application to a report of
another patent
application of the same
family
28. Functionalities
Access as visitor
Visualization of all public families, patent
applications and technical reports
29. Workflow
Flexible workflow, allowing multiple sinchronous or
assinchronous interactions
Starts with family retrieval
Ends with family publication
Allows several intermediate collaborative steps to
enhance the technical report
Each IP office will have a “collaborative queue” of
patent applications for collaborative examination
Brazil will only perform examination through e-PEC
31. Results
Collaborative examination
Sinergy in examination
No need to change legislation
Enhance technical report quality
Real-time, wide and effective discussion about the
technology and access to update and wider range of
documents
Get to faster decisions
Higher quality of examination which leads to reduction
in number of analysis steps
32. Results
Potencial strategic partnership with brazilian
organizations
CNPq - http://www.cnpq.br/
Strenghtning of international strategical
partnerships
PROSUR project
Technical partnership beetween Brazil and Argentina
Interest of other countries that are not part of
PROSUR project
Transparency for the society
33. Results
All patent examiners from Brazil, Argentina, Chile,
Colombia, Ecuator, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay
already registered into e-PEC platform
Stimulus to rigorous examination of patent
applications for countries
Surinam (one user)
South Africa (negotiation ongoing)
34. Conclusions
The synchronous and real-time examination
methodology among intellectual property offices
can help solving backlog and enhance quality of
analysis
e-PEC platform can be used throughout the patent
offices and research institutions worldwide for joint
understanding of the technology claimed by patent
applications
35. Next steps
Translation machine
High fidelity for portuguese, spanish and english
aiming the translation of technical reports
Good fidelity to translate from other languages to
portuguese, spanish and english aiming the
understanding of technical content
Integration with other IP offices legacy systems
36. Next steps
Improvement of patent applications search
functionalities
Improvement of patent applications analysis
possibilities
Changes in graphical user interface
More options for technical reports
37. e-PEC – Electronic Platform for Collaborative Examination
Questions ?
Thank you very much
Alex Garcia Todorov
INPI / CEDIN
todorov@inpi.gov.br