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Kind of patent documents on the Publication Server of OSIM - according to WIPO standards

The following patent documents kind are published by OSIM on this Publication Server:

A0 = Patent application published within 18 month after the filing or priority date or within 6 month after entering the national phase;
A1 = Patent application published with a search report;
A2 = Patent application published without a search report;
A3 = Separate publication of the search report for a previously published patent application;
A4 = Patent application published within 3 month after becoming declassified;
A8 = Patent application Witt corrected first page;
A9 = Patent application with corrected search report or republished search report, description, claims and/or drawings initially filed or claims and/or drawings modified after initial filing .

B1 = Patent specification;
B2 = Patent specification amended after opposition;
B8 = Patent specification with corrected first page;
B9 = Patent specification with corrected description, claims, and/or drawings.

U1 = Utility model certificate published with the search report;
U2 = Utility model certificate published without a search report;
U3 = Search report published separately after publication of utility model certificate;
U4 = Search report published separately with modified claims (requested by third parties);
U8 = Utility model with corrected first page;
U9 = Utility model with corrected search report or republished search report, description, claims and/or drawings initially filed, or modified claims.

Updates on the Publication Server of OSIM

The publication Server of OSIM is updated monthly. As a general rule updates take place on the date of publication of the Official Gazette, or under special circumstances, on the first working day following the publication date.

Search criteria, syntax

Search on the Publication Server can be performed using the criteria described below. There is also included the syntax to be used when writing criteria:

Format of the patent documents available on the Publication Server of OSIM

On the Publication Server of OSIM the patent documents are available in the following formats:

Patent documents may be also viewed in PDF format from the BNS data base at the European Patent Office using the esp@cenet service.

DTD files (Documents type definitions)

The DTD file (document type definitions) corresponding to the XML format used for each retrieved patent document:

http://pub.osim.ro/publication-server/ro-patent-document-v1-01.dtd

The DTD file (document type definitions) corresponding to the XML format used in the "Coverage" section for the monthly published patent documents:

http://pub.osim.ro/publication-server/ro-patent-document-list-v0-3-0.dtd

Coverage

In this "Coverage" section there is available a list of XML files. Each XML file contains patent documents published in a given month

For more information regarding the Publication Server of OSIM please contact us at publ_server@osim.ro