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Patent Offices and SDOs cooperation

This report provides an overview of the cooperation between patent offices and standards development organizations (SDOs). It includes information on agreements, databases, citations, achievements, and future plans. The EPO has pioneered the use of standards documents in patent examination, enhancing patent transparency. Future plans include cooperating with additional SDOs and improving patent transparency and interactions.

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Patent Offices and SDOs cooperation

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  1. Patent Offices and SDOs cooperation Status 2015 Michel Goudelis, Ged Owens 04.2015 EPO

  2. Standards documents available for EPO examination Memorandums of Understanding, and similaragreementsin place with: ETSI ITU IEEE-SA WorldDMB BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) Standards and contributions from: ETSI 3GPP ITU IEEE-SA IETF OMA DVB MPEG JPEG

  3. Actual EPO standards databases Current facts: 11 Active standards databases in EPOQUE 5 databases in the pipeline Total documents 2,28 Million in 2014 (1.8 million in 2013 ) 15.000 citations in search and examination in 2014 Up to 60% of search reports in key fields (Wireless Networks, Audio Video Media) contain standards documents as pertinent for the patent examination Future plans: 3 further Standards databases foreseen in Telecommunications, Computers and Audio Video  

  4. Citation of standards documents by EPO Examiners

  5. Number documents present in the standards databases and available to EPO Examiners

  6. Achievements EPO has clarified the legal status of standards documents in patent examination with most important SDOs EPO has pioneered the use of standards documents as prior art among patent offices, and has the most comprehensive collection in its internal databases Key SDOs, in cooperation with EPO, considerably enhance patent transparency around SEPs by linking SEP declaration databases to EPO public databases, providing up-to-date information on: • validity of application, • scope of granted patents, • patent family, etc. Agreements and cooperation between EPO and SDOs constantly increasing

  7. Actual EPO standards databases Existing trends: • “Computer implemented inventions” now a substantial proportion of inventions in all technical areas • Telematics, smart grids (transport, buildings, cities), eHealth... “Convergence” of technologies with ICT • Patents and standards essential in more technical fields Future plans: EPO cooperating with further SDOs, including CEN-CENELEC, to promote and educate on potential synergy of patents and standards EPO liaising with SDOs to improve patent transparency, and interactions and synergy of these key innovation support systems

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