A Centralized Service for Reclassification?

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A Centralized Service for Reclassification?

• Anders Bruun, Swedish Patent Registration
  Office
• IPC Workshop
• February 4th, 2008

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Background

• Only a minority of the worlds countries have
  their documents reclassified by the Trilateral
  officesAP, AT, AU, CA, CH, DE, EP, FR, GB, JP,
  OA, US, WO

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Background

• The rest of the worlds countries have to
  reclassify documents if they want to have
  complete classified collections!

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The reclassification procedure

• Access and read XML working list
• Reclassify documents
• Collect classification data
• Generate XML result file
• Submit result file

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The reclassification procedure

• For a small or medium-size office the
  administration of the reclassification takes much
  more time than the actual reclassification of the
  documents
• For a small or medium-size office it is difficult
  to justify development of reclassification
  software

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In order to get something done you must make it
easy to do it!
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Software requirements

• Accessing and importing working lists
• Users select working lists by country?
• Working list access limited by user identities?

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Software requirements

• Presenting the documents of the working list
• Select a subset of the documents
• Select an individual document
• Display the classification picture
• Mark classifications to be modified

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Software requirements

• Accessing patent documents for consultation
• Links to esp_at_cenet or similar services?
• Links to office-specific software
• Offline access, for example of paper documents

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Software requirements

• Data entry interface
• Selection of core or advanced level
• Input and validation of classification symbols
• Input and validation of qualifiers

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Software requirements

• Saving of data
• Direct interaction with the MCD?
• Temporary local saving of results?
• Generation of XML result files?
• Exporting result files?

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Additional software features

• Working list management
• Creation of personal working lists of selected
  IPC groups?
• Temporary saving of working list?
• Exporting working lists?

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Additional software features

• Integration with the IPC classification scheme
• Display schemes?
• Display list of valid symbols?
• Display revision concordance data?

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Additional software features

• Additional functions
• Enable access of documents not on working lists,
  e.g. for corrections?
• Enable classification in other systems, e.g. ECLA?

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Security aspects

• Limitation of access
• Multi-user office-specific login?
• Individual login?
• Open access?

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Thank you for the attention!