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<div class="main"> <h2>Part 3 of the <em>Handbook on Industrial Property Information and Documentation</em></h2> <p>WIPO Standards are presented as recommendations and are directed to States and international organizations, in particular to their national or regional industrial property offices, to the International Bureau of WIPO, and to any other national or international institution interested in industrial property documentation.</p> <p class="secondary">All documents listed below are in <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> format.</p> <ul class="dot__list"> <li><a href="#group-a">Group (a): Standards of a general nature, common to Information and Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="#group-b">Group (b): Standards relating to Patent Information and Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="#group-c">Group (c): Standards relating to Trademark Information and Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="#group-d">Group (d): Standards relating to Industrial Design Information and Documentation</a></li> </ul> </div>  <div class="complementary"> <div class="box"> <h3 class="box__header">Shortcuts</h3> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/part_03_st_ref.html">WIPO Standards referenced </a>in other WIPO Standards</li> <li><a href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/tracked-changes.html">Tracked Changes</a> Files</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="list-01"> <h3><a name="group-a"></a>Standards of a general nature, common to information and documentation <sup><a title="Back" href="#wipo-int">↑</a></sup></h3> <ul> <li><a name="st2"></a>Standard ST.2:  Manner for designating calendar dates (May 1997) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.2" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-02-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st3"></a>Standard ST.3:  Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations (November 2016) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.3" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-03-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st13"></a>Standard ST.13:  Numbering of applications for IPRs (February 2008) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.13" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-13-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st96"></a>Standard ST.96:  Processing of Industrial Property information using <acronym>XML</acronym> (Februray 2018) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.96" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-96-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a><br/> - ST.96 <a href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/st96/">Annexes </a></li> </ul>   <h3><a name="group-b"></a>Standards relating to Patent Information and Documentation <sup><a title="Back" href="#wipo-int">↑</a></sup></h3> <ul> <li><a name="st1"></a>Standard ST.1:  Minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document (May 2001) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.1" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-01-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st6"></a>Standard ST.6:  Numbering of published patent documents (December 2002) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.6" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-06-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a name="st8"></a>Standard ST.8:  <abbr title="International Patent Classification">IPC</abbr> symbols on machine-readable records (March 2011) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.8" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-08-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st9"></a>Standard ST.9:  Bibliographic data on and relating to patents and <abbr title="Supplementary Protection Certificates">SPC</abbr>s (June 2013) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.9" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-09-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a name="st10"></a>Standard ST.10:  Published patent documents (November 1997)  <a title="WIPO Standard ST.10" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-10-00.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st10a"></a>Standard ST.10/A:  Format of patent documents (April 1994) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.10/A" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-10-a.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st10b"></a>Standard ST.10/B:  Layout of bibliographic data components (December 2008) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.10/B" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-10-b.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st10c"></a>Standard ST.10/C:  Presentation of bibliographic data components (August 2017) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.10/C" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-10-c.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a> </li> <li><a name="st10d"></a>Standard ST.10/D:  Physical characteristics of patent documents (October 2016) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.10/D" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-10-d.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a name="st11"></a>Standard ST.11:  Minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes (December 1990) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.11" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-11-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a name="st12"></a>Standard ST.12:  Preparation of abstracts of patent documents (April 1994) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.12" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-12-00.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st12a"></a>Standard ST.12/A:  Abstracts of patent documents (April 1994) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.12/A" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-12-a.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st12b"></a>Standard ST.12/B:  Categorized patent abstract (April 1994) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.12/B" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-12-b.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st12c"></a>Standard ST.12/C:  Physical characteristics of separately published abstracts (April 1994) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.12/C" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-12-c.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a name="st14"></a>Standard ST.14:  References cited in patent documents (May 2016) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.14" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-14-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st15"></a>Standard ST.15:  Titles of inventions in patent documents (December 1995) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.15" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-15-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st16"></a>Standard ST.16:  Identification of different kinds of patent documents (October 2016) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.16" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-16-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st17"></a>Standard ST.17:  Coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes (December 1990) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.17" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-17-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st18"></a>Standard ST.18:  Patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals (November 1997) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.18" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-18-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st19"></a>Standard ST.19:  Indexes issued by IPO (December 1990) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.19" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-19-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a name="st20"></a>Standard ST.20:  Name indexes to patent documents (December 1993) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.20" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-20-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st21"></a>Standard ST.21:  Reduction of volume of priority documents (April 1994) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.21" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-21-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st22"></a>Standard ST.22:  Authoring of patent applications for the purpose of <abbr title="Optical Character Recognition">OCR</abbr> (December 2008) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.22" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-22-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st25"></a>Standard ST.25:  Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings (December 2009) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.25" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-25-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st26"></a>Standard ST.26:  Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML (September 2017) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.26" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-26-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a> Annex II - <a title="ST.26 - Annex II DTD file" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/docs/03-26-ii_v1-1.dtd">DTD</a> <img alt="new" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new.gif" border="0"/></li> <li><a name="st27"></a>Standard ST.27:  Exchange of Patent Legal Status Data (August 2017) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.27" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-27-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a> <img alt="new" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new.gif" border="0"/></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a name="st31"></a>Standard ST.31:  Character sets for the exchange of patent documents (October 1996) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.31" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-31-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st32"></a>Standard ST.32:  Markup of patent documents using SGML (November 1995) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.32 - NO TAG" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-32-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st33"></a>Standard ST.33:  Data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents (February 1999) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.33" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-33-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st34"></a>Standard ST.34:  Recording of application numbers in electronic form (May 1997) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.34" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-34-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a><a title="Standard ST.34, PDF file showing the last changes" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/tracked-changes/03-34-01_changes_2008.pdf"><br/> </a></li> <li><a name="st35"></a>Standard ST.35:  Data exchange of mixed-mode published patent information on MMMT (December 1999) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.35" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-35-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st36"></a>Standard ST.36:  Processing of patent information using XML (November 2007) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.36" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-36-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a><br/> - ST.36 <a href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/xml_material/st36/">Supplementary Material</a></li> <li><a name="st37"></a>Standard ST.37:  Authority File of Published Patent Documents (August 2017) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.37" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-37-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a> <img alt="new" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new.gif" border="0"/></li> </ul> <ul> <li><a name="st40"></a>Standard ST.40:  Facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM (April 1993) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.40" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-40-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st50"></a>Standard ST.50:  Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information (December 2009) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.50" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-50-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> </ul>   <h3><a name="group-c"></a>Standards relating to Trademark Information and Documentation <sup><a title="Back" href="#wipo-int">↑</a></sup></h3> <ul> <li><a name="st60"></a>Standard ST.60:  Bibliographic data relating to marks (May 2016) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.60" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-60-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st62"></a>Standard ST.62:  Standard abbreviation for “Vienna Classification” (December 1992)  <a title="WIPO Standard ST.62" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-62-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st63"></a>Standard ST.63:  Content and layout of trademark gazettes (November 1997)  <a title="WIPO Standard ST.63" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-63-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st64"></a>Standard ST.64:  Search files for trademark search (May 1996) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.64" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-64-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" 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name="st68"></a>Standard ST.68:  Electronic management of sound marks (June 2016) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.68" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-68-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> </ul>   <h3><a name="group-d"></a>Standards relating to Industrial Design Information and Documentation <sup><a title="Back" href="#wipo-int">↑</a></sup></h3> <ul> <li><a name="st80"></a>Standard ST.80:  Bibliographic data relating to industrial designs (January 2004) <a title="WIPO Standard ST.80" href="/web/20180606200227/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/standards/en/pdf/03-80-01.pdf"><img alt="PDF" src="/web/20180606200227im_/http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/shared/images/icon/new/pdf.gif" border="0"/></a></li> <li><a name="st81"></a>Standard ST.81:  Content and layout of industrial designs gazettes (November 1997) <a title="WIPO Standard 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