Other Significant Data

I.

NUMBERS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA ON THE FIRST PAGE OF

PATENT AND LIKE DOCUMENTS INCLUDING INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS (INID NUMBERS)

The purpose of INID Codes (“INID” is an acronym for

“

I

nternationally agreed

N

umbers

for the

I

dentification of (bibliographic)

D

ata”) is to provide a means whereby the various data

appearing on the first page of patent and like documents or in patent gazettes can

be identified without knowledge of the language used and the laws applied. They

are now used by most patent offices and have been applied to U.S. patents since

August 4, 1970. Some of the codes are not pertinent to the documents of a

particular country and some which are pertinent may, in fact, not be used. INID

codes for industrial designs are similar to, but not identical to, those used for

patents and like documents. INID codes for industrial designs are provided

separately below.

INID Codes and Minimum Required for the Identification

of Bibliographic Data for Patent and Like Documents (based on WIPO Standard

ST.9)

(10)

Identification of the patent, SPC or patent

document

°(11) Number of the patent, SPC or patent document

°(12) Plain language designation of the kind of

document

°(13) Kind of document code according to WIPO Standard

ST.16

°(15) Patent correction information

°°(19) WIPO Standard ST.3 code, or other identification, of

the office or organization publishing the document

Notes

:

(i) For an SPC, data regarding the basic patent should be

coded by using code (68).

(ii) °° Minimum data element for patent documents only.

(iii) With the proviso that when data coded (11) and (13),

or (19), (11) and (13), are used together and on a single line, category

(10) can be used, if so desired.

.3 code, or other identification, of

the office or organization publishing the document

Notes

:

(i) For an SPC, data regarding the basic patent should be

coded by using code (68).

(ii) °° Minimum data element for patent documents only.

(iii) With the proviso that when data coded (11) and (13),

or (19), (11) and (13), are used together and on a single line, category

(10) can be used, if so desired.

(20)

Data concerning the application for a

patent or SPC

°(21) Number(s) assigned to the application(s), e.g.,

“Numéro d’enregistrement national,” “Aktenzeichen”

°(22) Date(s) of filing the application(s)

°(23) Other date(s), including date of filing complete

specification following provisional specification and date of exhibition

(24) Date from which industrial property rights may have

effect

(25) Language in which the published application was

originally filed

(26) Language in which the application is published

Notes:

(i) Attention is drawn to the Appendix 3 of WIPO Standard

ST. 9 which contains information on the term of protection and on the date

from which industrial property rights referred to under code (24) may have

effect.

(ii) The language under code (25) and (26) should be

indicated by using the two-letter language symbol according to International

Standard ISO 639:1988.

(30)

Data relating to priority under the Paris

Convention and other agreement not specifically provided for

elsewhere

°(31) Number(s) assigned to priority application(s)

°(32) Date(s) of filing of priority application(s)

°(33) WIPO Standard ST.3 code identifying the national

industrial property office allotting the priority application number or the

organization allotting the regional priority application number; for

international applications filed under the PCT, the code “WO” is to be

used

(34) For priority filings under regional or international

arrangements, the WIPO Standard ST.3 code identifying at least one country

party to the Paris Convention for which the regional or international

application was made

Notes

:

plication number or the

organization allotting the regional priority application number; for

international applications filed under the PCT, the code “WO” is to be

used

(34) For priority filings under regional or international

arrangements, the WIPO Standard ST.3 code identifying at least one country

party to the Paris Convention for which the regional or international

application was made

Notes

:

(i) With the proviso that when data coded (31), (32), and

(33) are presented together, category (30) can be used, if so desired. If an

ST.3 code identifying a country for which a regional or international

application was made is published, it should be identified as such using

INID Code (34) and should be presented separately from elements coded (31),

(32) and (33) or (30).

(ii) The presentation of priority application numbers

should be as recommended in WIPO Standards ST.10/C and in ST.34.

(40)

Date(s) of making available to the

public

°°(41) Date of making available to the public by viewing,

or copying on request, an unexamined patent document, on which no grant has

taken place on or before the said date

°°(42) Date of making available to the public by viewing,

or copying on request, an examined patent document, on which no grant has

taken place on or before the said date

°°(43) Date of making available to the public by printing

or similar process of an unexamined patent document, on which no grant has

taken place on or before the said date

°°(44) Date of making available to the public by printing

or similar process of an examined patent document, on which no grant or only

a provisional grant has taken place on or before the said date

°°(45) Date of making available to the public by printing

or similar process of a patent document on which grant has taken place on or

before the said date

ant has

taken place on or before the said date

°°(44) Date of making available to the public by printing

or similar process of an examined patent document, on which no grant or only

a provisional grant has taken place on or before the said date

°°(45) Date of making available to the public by printing

or similar process of a patent document on which grant has taken place on or

before the said date

(46) Date of making available to the public the claim(s)

only of a patent document

°°(47) Date of making available to the public by viewing,

or copying on request, a patent document on which grant has taken place on

or before the said date

°(48) Date of issuance of a corrected patent document

Note

:

°°Minimum data element for patent documents only, the

minimum data requirement being met by indicating the date of making

available to the public the patent document concerned.

(50)

Technical information

°(51) International Patent Classification or, in the case

of a design patent, as referred to in subparagraph 4(c) of WIPO Standard

ST.9, International Classification for Industrial Designs

(52) Domestic or national classification

°(54) Title of the invention

(56) List of prior art documents, if separate from

descriptive text

(57) Abstract or claim

(58) Field of search

Notes

:

(i) The presentation of the classification symbols of the

International Classification for Industrial Designs should be made in

accordance with paragraph 4 of WIPO Standard ST.10/C.

(ii) With regard to code (56) attention is drawn to WIPO

Standard ST.14 in connection with the citation of references on the front

page of patent documents and in search reports attached to patent

documents.

ch

Notes

:

(i) The presentation of the classification symbols of the

International Classification for Industrial Designs should be made in

accordance with paragraph 4 of WIPO Standard ST.10/C.

(ii) With regard to code (56) attention is drawn to WIPO

Standard ST.14 in connection with the citation of references on the front

page of patent documents and in search reports attached to patent

documents.

(60)

References to other legally or procedurally

related domestic or previously domestic patent documents including

unpublished applications therefor

°(61) Number and, if possible, filing date of the earlier

application, or number of the earlier publication, or number of earlier

granted patent, inventor's certificate, utility model or the like to which

the present document is an addition

°(62) Number and, if possible, filing date of the earlier

application from which the present patent document has been divided up

°(63) Number and filing date of the earlier application of

which the present patent document is a continuation

°(64) Number of the earlier publication which is

“reissued”

(65) Number of a previously published patent document

concerning the same application

(66) Number and filing date of the earlier application of

which the present patent document is a substitute, i.e., a later application

filed after the abandonment of an earlier application for the same

invention

(67) Number and filing date of a patent application, or

number of a granted patent, on which the present utility model application

or registration (or a similar industrial property right, such as a utility

certificate or utility innovation) is based

(68) For an SPC, number of the basic patent and/or, where

appropriate, the publication number of the patent document

Notes

:

on for the same

invention

(67) Number and filing date of a patent application, or

number of a granted patent, on which the present utility model application

or registration (or a similar industrial property right, such as a utility

certificate or utility innovation) is based

(68) For an SPC, number of the basic patent and/or, where

appropriate, the publication number of the patent document

Notes

:

(i) Priority data should be coded in category (30).

(ii) Code (65) is intended primarily for use by countries

in which the national laws require that republication occur at various

procedural stages under different publication numbers and these numbers

differ from the basic application numbers.

(iii) Category code (60) should be used by countries which

were previously part of another entity for identifying bibliographic data

elements relating to applications or grants of patents which data had

initially been announced by the industrial property office of that

entity.

(70)

Identification of parties concerned with

the patent or SPC

°°(71) Name(s) of applicant(s)

(72) Name(s) of inventor(s) if known to be such

°°(73) Name(s) of grantee(s), holder(s), assignee(s) or

owner(s)

(74) Name(s) of attorney(s) or agent(s)

°°(75) Name(s) of inventor(s) who is (are) also

applicant(s)

°°(76) Names(s) of inventor(s) who is (are) also

applicant(s) and grantee(s)

Notes

:

(i) °°For patent documents for which grant has taken place

on or before the date of making available to the public, and gazette entries

relating thereto, the minimum data requirement is met by indicating the

grantee, and for other documents by indication of the applicant.

(ii) (75) and (76) are intended primarily for use by

countries in which the national laws require that the inventor and applicant

be normally the same. In other cases (71) or (72) or (71), (72) and (73)

should generally be used.

(80)

Identification of data related to

International Conventions other than the Paris Convention and to

legislation

(90)

with respect to SPC’s

indication of the applicant.

(ii) (75) and (76) are intended primarily for use by

countries in which the national laws require that the inventor and applicant

be normally the same. In other cases (71) or (72) or (71), (72) and (73)

should generally be used.

(80)

Identification of data related to

International Conventions other than the Paris Convention and to

legislation

(90)

with respect to SPC’s

(81) Designated State(s) according to the PCT

(83) Information concerning the deposit of microorganisms,

e.g., under the Budapest Treaty

(84) Designated Contracting States under regional patent

conventions

(85) Date of commencement of the national phase pursuant to

PCT

Article 23(l)

or

40(l)

(86) Filing data of the PCT international application,

i.e., international filing date, international application number, and,

optionally, the language in which the published international application

was originally filed; or in the case of design patents, registration data of

the Hague Agreement international application, i.e., international

registration date and international registration number

(87) Publication data of the PCT international application,

i.e., international publication date, international publication number, and,

optionally, the language in which the application is published

(88) Date of deferred publication of the search report

(91) Date on which an international application filed under

the PCT no longer has an effect in one or several designated or elected

States due to failure to enter the national or regional phase or the date on

which it has been determined that it had failed to enter the national or

regional phase

(92) For an SPC, number and date of the first national

authorization to place the product on the market as a medicinal product or

plant protection product

(93) For an SPC, number, date and, where applicable,

country of origin, of the first authorization to place the product on the

market as a medicinal product or plant protection product within a regional

economic community

ional or

regional phase

(92) For an SPC, number and date of the first national

authorization to place the product on the market as a medicinal product or

plant protection product

(93) For an SPC, number, date and, where applicable,

country of origin, of the first authorization to place the product on the

market as a medicinal product or plant protection product within a regional

economic community

(94) Calculated date of expiry of the SPC or the duration

of the SPC

(95) Name of the product protected by the basic patent and

in respect of which the SPC or the extension of the SPC has been applied for

or granted

(96) Filing date of the regional application, i.e.,

application filing date, application number, and, optionally, the language

in which the published application was originally filed

(97) Publication data of the regional application (or of

the regional patent, if already granted), i.e., publication date,

publication number, and, optionally, the language in which the application

(or, where applicable, the patent) is published

(98) For an SPC, data concerning the

application for an extension of the duration, the revocation of an extension

of the duration and the correction of the duration

Notes

:

(i) The codes (86), (87), (96), and (97) are intended to be

used:

• on national documents when identifying one or more of the

relevant filing data or publication data of a PCT international application,

or of the regional application (or of the regional patent, if already

granted), or

• on regional documents when identifying one or more of the

relevant filing data or publication data of the PCT international

application or of another regional application (or the regional patent, if

already granted).

ng one or more of the

relevant filing data or publication data of a PCT international application,

or of the regional application (or of the regional patent, if already

granted), or

• on regional documents when identifying one or more of the

relevant filing data or publication data of the PCT international

application or of another regional application (or the regional patent, if

already granted).

(ii) All data in code (86), (87), (96), or (97) should be

presented together and preferably on a single line. The application number

or publication number should comprise the three basic elements as shown in

the example in paragraph 17 of WIPO Standard ST.10/B, i.e., the two letter

code identifying the republishing office, the document number, and the kind

of document code.

(iii) When data to be referenced by INID Codes (86) or (87)

refer to two or more regional and/or PCT applications, each set of relevant

filing or publication data of each such application should be displayed so

as to be clearly distinguishable from other sets of relevant data, e.g., by

presenting each set on a single line or by presenting the data of each set

grouped together on adjacent lines in a column with a blank line between

each set. When data to be referenced by codes (86), (87), (96), or (97)

refer to two or more PCT international applications and/or regional

applications (or regional patents, if already granted), each set of relevant

filing or publication data of each such application (or granted patent)

should be displayed so as to be clearly distinguishable from other sets of

relevant data, e.g., by presenting each set on a single line or by

presenting the data of each set grouped together on adjacent lines in a

column with a blank line between each set.

(iv) The languages under codes (86), (87), (96), and (97)

should be indicated by using the two-letter language symbols according to

International Standard ISO 639:1988.

to be clearly distinguishable from other sets of

relevant data, e.g., by presenting each set on a single line or by

presenting the data of each set grouped together on adjacent lines in a

column with a blank line between each set.

(iv) The languages under codes (86), (87), (96), and (97)

should be indicated by using the two-letter language symbols according to

International Standard ISO 639:1988.

(v) The country of origin in code (93), if mentioned,

should be indicated by using the two letter code according to WIPO Standard

ST.3.

(vi) The document “Terms of Protection”, which provided

information related to code (24), has been moved to the Archives.

II.

NUMBERS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA ON THE FIRST PAGE OF

INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS (INID NUMBERS)

INID codes for industrial designs are similar to, but not

identical to, those used for patents and like documents. INID codes for industrial

designs may be of most interest to design patent examiners.

INID Codes and Minimum Required for the Identification of

Bibliographic Data for Industrial Designs (based on WIPO Standard

ST.80)

(10) Data concerning the registration/renewal

°(11) Serial number of the registration and/or number of

the design document

°°(12) Plain language designation of the kind of published

document

°(14) Serial number of the renewal where different from

initial registration number

°(15) Date of the registration/Date of the renewal

(17) Expected duration of the registration/renewal

(18) Expected expiration date of the

registration/renewal

°°(19) Identification, using the two-letter code according

to WIPO Standard ST.3, of the authority publishing or registering the

industrial design.

Note:

°°Minimum data element for design documents only

(20) Data concerning the application

°(21) Serial number of the application

°(22) Date of filing of the application

°(23) Name and place of exhibition, and date on which the

industrial design was first exhibited there (exhibition priority data)

(24) Date from which the industrial design right has

effect

ng or registering the

industrial design.

Note:

°°Minimum data element for design documents only

(20) Data concerning the application

°(21) Serial number of the application

°(22) Date of filing of the application

°(23) Name and place of exhibition, and date on which the

industrial design was first exhibited there (exhibition priority data)

(24) Date from which the industrial design right has

effect

(27) Kind of application or deposit (open/sealed)

(28) Number of industrial designs included in the

application

(29) Indication of the form in which the industrial design

is filed, e.g., as a reproduction of the industrial design or as a specimen

thereof

(30) Data relating to priority under the Paris

Convention

°(31) Serial number assigned to the priority

application

°(32) Date of filing of the priority application

(33) Two-letter code, according to WIPO Standard ST.3,

identifying the authority with which the priority application was made

Notes:

(i) With the proviso that when data coded (31), (32) and

(33) are presented together, category code (30) can be used, if so desired.

(ii) For international deposits made under the Hague

Agreement, the two-letter code “WO” is to be used.

(40) Date(s) of making information available to the

public

(43) Date of publication of the industrial design before

examination by printing or similar process, or making it available to the

public by any other means

(44) Date of publication of the industrial design after

examination, but before registration, by printing or similar process, or

making it available to the public by any other means

(45) Date of publication of the registered industrial

design by printing or similar process, or making it available to the public

by any other means

(46) Date of expiration of deferment

(50) Miscellaneous Information

°(51) International Classification for Industrial Designs

(class and subclass of the Locarno Classification)

(52) National classification

it available to the public by any other means

(45) Date of publication of the registered industrial

design by printing or similar process, or making it available to the public

by any other means

(46) Date of expiration of deferment

(50) Miscellaneous Information

°(51) International Classification for Industrial Designs

(class and subclass of the Locarno Classification)

(52) National classification

(53) Identification of the industrial design(s) comprised

in a multiple application or registration which is (are) affected by a

particular transaction when not all are so affected

°(54) Designation of article(s) or product(s) covered by

the industrial design or title of the industrial design

°°(55) Reproduction of the industrial design (e.g.,

drawing, photograph) and explanations relating to the reproduction

(56) List of prior art document, if separate from

descriptive text

(57) Description of characteristic features of the

industrial design including indication of colors

(58) Date of recording of any kind of amendment in the

Register (e.g., change in ownership, change in name or address, renunciation

to an international deposit, termination of protection)

Notes:

(i) Code (52) should be preceded by the two-letter code,

according to WIPO Standard ST.3, identifying the country whose national

classification is used (the two-letter code should be indicated within

parentheses).

(ii) °°Minimum data element for design documents only.

(60) References to other legally related application(s) and

registration(s)

(62) Serial number(s) and, if available, filing date(s) of

application(s), registration(s) or document(s) related by division

WIPO Standard ST.3, identifying the country whose national

classification is used (the two-letter code should be indicated within

parentheses).

(ii) °°Minimum data element for design documents only.

(60) References to other legally related application(s) and

registration(s)

(62) Serial number(s) and, if available, filing date(s) of

application(s), registration(s) or document(s) related by division

(66) Serial number(s) of the application, or the

registration, of the design(s) which is (are) a variant(s) of the present

one

Note:

Category code (60) should be used by countries which were

previously part of another entity for identifying bibliographic data

elements relating to applications or registrations of industrial designs,

which data had initially been announced by the industrial property office of

that entity.

(70) Identification of parties concerned with the

application or registration

°°(71) Name(s) and address(es) of the applicant(s)

(72) Name(s) of the creator(s) if known to be such

°°(73) Name(s) and address(es) of the owner(s)

(74) Name(s) and address(es) of the representative(s)

(78) Name(s) and address(es) of the new owner(s) in case of

change in ownership

Note:

°°If registration has taken place on or before the date of

making the industrial design available to the public, the minimum data

requirement is met by indicating the owner(s); in other cases, by indicating

the applicant(s).

(80) Identification of certain data related to the

international deposit of industrial designs under the Hague Agreement

Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs and data related

to other international conventions.

Information regarding designated Contracting

Parties/Contracting Parties concerned

(81) Contracted Partied Concerned

I Contracted Parties designated under the

1934 Act

II Contracted Parties designated under the

1960 Act

III Contracted Parties designated under the

1999 Act

(82) Statements contained in the international

application

ustrial Designs and data related

to other international conventions.

Information regarding designated Contracting

Parties/Contracting Parties concerned

(81) Contracted Partied Concerned

I Contracted Parties designated under the

1934 Act

II Contracted Parties designated under the

1960 Act

III Contracted Parties designated under the

1999 Act

(82) Statements contained in the international

application

(83) Indication as to whether there is a

possibility of review or appeal

(84) Designated Contracting State(s) under regional

convention.

Information regarding the owner(s)

(85) Habitual residence of the owner(s)

(86) Nationality of the owner(s)

(87) Domicile of the owner(s)

(88) State in which the owner(s) has (have) a real and

effective industrial or commercial establishment

(89) “Applicant’s Contracting Party”

Note:

The data to be referenced by INID codes (81) to (88) should

be indicated by using the two-letter code according to WIPO Standard

ST.3.