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March 2018: Reload of Some Australian and Indian Records
In the last few days we have solved a couple of issues caused by problems in the raw data:
- Future AU publication dates
When processing data from the Australian national register, we found several records with OPI dates well into the future. According to the patent office, there was an issue with the optical character recognition for these dates. Although some of these dates have already been corrected, it's taking longer than expected for the patent office to fix the problem. To prevent this from happening again, we have changed these future dates to our default entry for dates that we know to be incorrect (00010101).
- IN numbering formats
For most Indian patent authorities, we receive data from the Indian patent office without a publication number, so we use the application number to fill the publication reference element and to build a UCID. In general, the application reference keeps the original application number format from the patent office and the publication reference (as well as UCID) is calculated by IFI rules.
From 2016 the Indian patent office changed the format of their application numbers. The EPO also recently started to deliver Indian applications in DocDB, but using a different number format. This created some inconsistencies in our data.
To solve this problem, we did a rekey of around 27192 records (load-id 300781).
Now, records corresponding to Indian applications published before January 2016 have a publication number format of YYYYOONNNNN:
YYYY: four-digit year
OO: two-character office code
NNNNN: sequence number zero padded to five digits
While from 2016, patent numbers will use the format YYYYOTNNNNNN:
YYYY: four-digit year
O: one-character office code (1 for Delhi, 2 for Mumbai, 3 for Kolkata, and 4 for Chennai)
T: type of application *
NNNNNN: sequence number
* type of application:
1 = Ordinary Application
2 = Ordinary-Divisional Application
3 = Ordinary-Patent of Addition Application
4 = Convention Application
5 = Convention-Divisional Application
6 = Convention-Patent of Addition Application
7 = PCT National Phase Application
8 = PCT National Phase-Divisional Application
9 = PCT National Phase Patent of Addition Application
March 2018: Updates to Brazil, Taiwan, EP, and WIPO
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