Establishing of an electronic inventory of Industrial Property Offices products for the purpose of disseminating their Industrial Property information.

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Establishing of an electronic inventory of
Industrial Property Offices products for
thepurpose of disseminating their Industrial
Property information.
SCIT/SDWG December 2002
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Quick tour

• Problem statement
• Objectives
• Solution
• Global design
• Main functionalities
• Review of main screens

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Problem Statement

• Identification of the need to obtain a coherent
  and up-to-date information on how Industrial
  Property Offices (IPOs) disseminate data
  regarding Industrial Property (IP) activities.
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• Revision of the current methods each IPO
  publishes these information and mainly the
  evolution towards modern carriers proved to be
  rather not homogenous.
• Agreement of the fact that modern access to
  information regarding IPOs policy for
  dissemination of IP data is a matter of common
  interest both for IPOs and third parties.
• ? Thus the following objectives were
  established ? ??

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Objectives

• Establishing of a more efficient way of
  gathering information regarding means of IP data
  dissemination from each IPO
• Simplifying the way these information are made
  available to IPOs and other interested parties
• Monitoring the evolution process from
  traditional means of publishing IP information to
  electronic means of dissemination.
• Ensuring reliability of information while each
  national IPO updates its own data

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Solution (1/2)

• Creation of an inventory, hosted on the WIPO web
  site, which will be supported by a database based
  system, allowing remote updates by individual
  IPOs and retrieval requests related to IPOs
  product types. The system will allow submissions
  of documents / product requests to the IPO.
• Administration and remote access technologies
  will be browser based (preferably Java) and will
  not demand for special equipments.
• Updating will be the responsibility of each IPO.
  Updates will be done on password basis.. In order
  to keep track of the interventions made by an
  IPO, the actions performed will be kept in a
  history structure.
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Solution (2/2)

• Database administration, management of rights of
  access, maintenance of the web page - will be
  WIPO responsibility.
• Retrieval of information will be done using
  search criteria such as Country / IPO name IP
  field (patents, trademarks, industrial design
  etc) name of the product, support, date since
  the product has become available.
• Submission of a request for documents/products
  to IPOs could be done through a direct link to
  that originating office (e-mail, forms, etc.).

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Global design
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Main functionalities
General

• Users will access the database hosted by WIPO
  and will be able to perform queries, updates on
  the data stored there.
• The contents of the database (records) will be
  in English.
• The labels on the screen can be translated into
  the national language of each IPO.
• The database will be hosted by WIPO and should
  be accessible both via Internet and WIPONET.  
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Main functionalities

Categories of users

• administrators (DBAs) from national offices
• They will be in charge with updating the
  database.
• DBA from WIPO
• He will be responsible for the integrity and
  consistency of the database, and also for the
  security of the system.
• normal users
• They are persons interested in querying the
  database.

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Main functionalities
Administrative tools

• Management of users and users rights of access
• Management of information which is permanently
  stored in the database (list of countries, of
  languages, types of support, etc.). 
• Recording events in a history table and
  obtaining reports from this history table.
  Recording actions performed by local DBAs and
  queries done by registered users will allow
• possibility to study the coverage of searches in
  order to optimize the application
• avoiding sending notifications to users who do
  not wish that.

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Main functionalities
Queries

• Registered users, after filling the registration
  form, will receive a logon and a password for
  accessing the system.
• They will be able to choose the language in which
  the labels on the query and result screens will
  be displayed. They will have access to all query
  features available in the application.
• Users who do not want to register will use
  "guest" as logon and password. They will have
  limited access to the database and their actions
  will be not recorded in the history table.

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Review of main screens

• Login and registration

• Administration tools

• Reports

• Query

• Results of query

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Login screen
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Administration tools, local DBA
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Report for local DBA
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Query in English language
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General (short) display of results in English
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Translation tool
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Translated screen into Romanian
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Finally
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Thank you for your attention Adriana
Atanasoaie adriana.atanasoaie_at_osim.ro