Change of Data Format of the Patent Information Standardized Data with Respect to Appeal

January 17, 2025
Information Technology and Patent Information Management Office,
General Coordination Division,
Policy Planning and Coordination Department,
Japan Patent Office (JPO)

The JPO renewed its appeal system in January 2025 under the "Plan for Optimization of Operations and Systems of the JPO". In accordance with this change, we changed the data format of the patent information standardized data which had been provided as the "Appeal Master" until the end of December 2024 and will provide the data as “sharedDB (Appeal)” (hereinafter referred to “New Format”).

We provided the old Appeal Master data with the last updates as of December 27, 2024 (which was posted on the Bulk Data Download site on January 6, 2025). Please note that the old Appeal Master data with updates after January 6, 2025 will not be provided.

The new format after the change of data format is as follows:

List of Sample Data

List of Sample Data (Excel：14KB)

Specifications for the New Format

See the Japanese version

Sample Data for the New Format

See the Japanese version

Data in the New Format (Updated: December 4, 2024)

Schedule for providing data

Notes

• In the old Appeal Master, obviously incorrect data such as obviously abnormal values or irregular data were included. In transition to the sharedDB (Appeal) provided after January 7, 2025, such data have been removed. As a result, the number of data stored in the sharedDB (Appeal) will be less than the number of those stored in the old Appeal Master.
• "rjct_rsn_art_cd" provided in the "dsptch_doc" file of the old Appeal Master will not be provided in the sharedDB (Appeal) since such data will not be created in the JPO after January, 2025.

Initial Data

We have terminated the provision of Initial data provided in June, August and October 2024. Data in the new format to be provided after December 4, 2024 have improved as described below compared with Initial data.

• Capture specific date instead of NULL in the "tyuni_syri_sksi_dt" of the "tyuni_syri" file.
• Capture "1" instead of NULL in the "syri_fomt_sybt" of the "uktk_syri" file, "hssu_syri" file and "tyuni_syri" file if a document format is SGML.
• Capture "1" instead of NULL in the "syri_sybt_cd" of the "uktk_syri" file if a physical document exists.
• Capture "1" instead of NULL if data value is NULL in the "uktk_syri" file and "aki_uktk_syri_syri_dt_ar" file despite that a formality examination will not be conducted hereafter.

[Last updated 17 January 2025]