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Joint Liaison Committee Notice
The following
procedural changes were discussed at the Joint Liaison Committee meeting held
on June 10, 1998. Please note that these changes will be implemented effective
July 20, l998.
- Registration numbers for ownership changes are now
reaching the 2,000,000 number. In order to avoid confusion with the actual
application number, registration numbers will now begin at the 5,000,000 number
range.
- With the deployment of Techsource, the Patent
Office now builds ownership information onto tables where it is assigned a
Person Company Entity number (PERC), similar to the agent registration number.
This allows the Office to identify and enter ownership information by simply
entering a number corresponding to the owner's name. This significantly reduces
both the need for data entry and the error rate.
In accordance with
the PCT formats, the PERC database was built using upper case characters to
enter ownership information. Ownership information will henceforth be entered
in upper case in order to eliminate duplication in the tables and to avoid
errors. In practical terms, this means that all ownership information appearing
in the system and subsequent outgoing correspondence will appear in upper case.
- One of the advantages of Techsource is that the
Patent Office now imports data received from WIPO for PCT applications. This
results in savings in translation costs and greatly reduces the error rate of
data entry. In many instances, as they reach National Entry, application titles
in the petitions differ from the published version. The Patent Office has been
modifying the system to reflect the latest title; however, this creates
discrepancies between the French and English versions of the title.
In
the case of a PCT application, since the petition received at National Entry
has no legal effect, the title will be maintained as published in the
PCT Electronic Gazette. Therefore,
the published title will now be the official title that will appear in the
Techsource system and on all outgoing correspondence where the titles
appear.
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