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54 SECTION E – PCT TRAINING E.1 Seminars In 2010, the IB organized and participated in 110 PCT promotional activities in the following 22 countries: Australia, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, US and Zimbabwe. The activities were presented in Chinese, English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese. E.2 Webinars Fourteen webinars were broadcast in 2010. Broadcasts were made in all 10 PCT publication languages, and 1,072 participants from 65 countries participated in the webinars. The recordings and accompanying PowerPoint presentations are available on the PCT website. 33 E.3 Distance Learning The PCT distance learning course launched in 2009, entitled “Introduction to the PCT”, became available in all 10 publication languages in 2010. In 2010, 4,122 participants followed the course via the Internet in 142 countries. 33 Available at: www.wipo.int/pct/en/seminar/webinars/index.html
55 SECTION F – MEETINGS F.1 Meeting of International Authorities under the PCT The 17th session of the Meeting of International Authorities under the PCT was held in Rio de Janeiro, from February 9 to 11, 2010. The session primarily focused on the need to ensure that the work carried out by international authorities meets the necessary level of quality. The authorities noted the results of a PCT user survey and the reports made by each authority on their quality management systems. They set up a subgroup to review a variety of issues and to develop proposals on how best to take this area of work forward. The meeting also gave some preliminary input on matters to be discussed by the PCT Working Group regarding “The Future of the PCT”. In addition, the meeting reaffirmed the need to find a satisfactory way of supporting the amendment of PCT applications by paragraph, to enable the full-text processing of PCT applications. F.2 PCT Working Group The third session of the PCT Working Group was held in Geneva from June 14 to 18, 2010. The Working Group endorsed a series of recommendations, based on a study by the IB entitled “The Need for Improving the Functioning of the PCT System”, that cover a variety of actions which should be undertaken by the IB, applicants, contracting states and national offices to make the PCT system more effective both for processing patent applications and for supporting technology transfer and technical assistance for developing countries. Many of the proposals related to improving the quality of international search and preliminary examination reports sought to build on efforts already under way by offices acting as international authorities to improve their ability to search prior art from a wide range of sources and in a large number of languages, and to share the results of those searches with other offices. The Working Group also recommended some minor changes to the PCT regulations, which were adopted by the PCT Assembly as set out under subsection D.1, above. F.3 PCT Assembly The 41st session of the Assembly of the PCT Union was held in Geneva during the period from September 20 to 29, 2010, as part of the meetings of the Assemblies of the member states of WIPO. The PCT Assembly adopted amendments to the PCT regulations which will enter into force on July 1, 2011, as outlined under “Changes to the Legal Framework”, above, and also noted reports on the work being undertaken by the PCT Working Group and the PCT Meeting of International Authorities.
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PCT THE INTERNATIONAL PATENT SYSTEM
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TABLE OF CONTENTS HIGHLIGHTS INTROD
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Page 13 and 14: 11 SECTION A - USE OF THE PCT SYSTE
Page 15 and 16: 13 Table A.2 presents the number of
Page 17 and 18: 15 A.4 Geographical Subregions: PCT
Page 19 and 20: 17 A.6 PCT Applications as Share of
Page 21 and 22: 19 A.8 Distribution of PCT Applican
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Page 27 and 28: 25 > The most significant declines
Page 29 and 30: 27 PCT NATIONAL PHASE ENTRIES The n
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Page 37 and 38: 35 A.25 Share of PCT National Phase
Page 39 and 40: 37 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU In addition
Page 41 and 42: 39 B.4 Languages of Filing and Publ
Page 43 and 44: 41 B.6 Terminology In 2010 the IB c
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Page 49 and 50: 47 INTERNATIONAL PRELIMINARY EXAMIN
Page 51 and 52: 49 SECTION C - WIPO’S PATENT INFO
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