Zhang Lijuan
Patent Registration Service (PRS) is one of the retrieval tools of European Patent Information and Documentation System (EPIDOS).
The European Patent Information and Patent Documentation Service Center, formerly known as the International Patent Documentation Center (INPADOC), is a worldwide patent documentation service center, which was established in Vienna, Austria, 1972. It was jointly established by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Austrian government. After1991kloc-0/0, it belonged to the European Patent Office, which was then called the Vienna Branch of the European Patent Office. INPADOC was renamed EPIDOS, the European Patent Information and Patent Documentation Service Center.
Patent Registration Service (PRS) is actually a microfilm of patent legal status service. From 1978 to now, it is published once a month, updated every month, and accumulated year by year. The plain film first reported the change data of the legal status of patent application and approval in 12 countries and organizations, and now it has increased to 24 countries and organizations. The countries and organizations it covers include Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), Switzerland (CH), Germany (de), Denmark (DK), the European Patent Office (EP), France (FR), the United Kingdom (GB), the Netherlands (NL), the United States (US), the Patent Cooperation Treaty Organization (WO) and Hungary. Italy (IT), Luxembourg (Lu), Lithuania (LT), Monaco (MC), Portugal (PT), Sweden (SE) and Japan (JP). (Note: Japan only accepts PCT applications with Japan as the designated country).
The legal status of patent is about whether an invention or creation is patented, in which countries it is patented, whether the patent is authorized, to which countries it is authorized, whether it is a valid patent and in which countries it is valid. This information can be divided into two categories: one is about patent validity, and the other is about regional validity. The microfilm of the Patent Registration Service (PRS) only provides information about the validity of the patent. That is to know when one or more patents were applied for, when they were patented, when the patents expired, and whether they are still valid patents.
Patent Registration Service (PRS) plain films are arranged alphabetically by country or organization code, patent type and contribution number, including the following descriptive data:
Cc, country or organization code;
TYP, patent type;
Document number, payment number;
★★DAT★★ DAT, date (including priority application date, application publication date, patent authorization date and other announcement date);
KODE code (including legal status code and application type code);
Text, text description of legal status and data of priority items and application items.
Please refer to the following sample page:
When using the patent registration service plain film, it should be noted that different countries should choose different search portals to meet their search portal requirements. For example, check the patent number of the United States, and then publish the patent number of the patent and the patent number of the plant patent; Look up the patent number of the European Patent Office (also the application open number). The Patent Cooperation Treaty Organization (WO) uses the patent application open number, and other countries basically use the patent number. For those who don't meet the requirements, we can find the related data correctly by looking for the patents of the same subject or reading the description items on the title page of the patent specification and replacing them with the search entries that meet the requirements of patent registration service.
The data of patent registration service comes from the number database (NDB) of EPIDOS and official bulletins of various countries, so the correct performance of its data is reliably guaranteed.
Patent Registration Service (PRS) plain film data is output by computer and published according to ISO standard 193. The size of the plain film is 148× 105mm, and there are 208 pictures on each plain film (16× 13), and the reduction ratio of the pictures is 42 times.
Patent registration service (PRS) not only has microfilm, but also can be obtained by directly connecting with EPIDOS computer.