{"id":46303,"date":"2014-08-12T12:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T12:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=297fbbaabeffddaf211c73c71dba6c5b"},"modified":"2014-08-12T12:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T12:34:35","slug":"news-story-changes-to-the-delivery-of-patent-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46303","title":{"rendered":"News story: Changes to the delivery of patent documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<h2 id=\"new-procedure\">New procedure<\/h2>\n<p>From 27 September 2014, the Intellectual Property Office (<abbr title=\"Intellectual Property Office\">IPO<\/abbr>) will stop automatically supplying cited patent documents with the search report. <\/p>\n<p>We will supply one copy of patent documents on request, and will continue to supply any cited non-patent literature as a matter of course, free of charge. <\/p>\n<p>When requesting a search you will be able to indicate your wish to receive a free single copy of any cited patents documents, but will no longer be able to order extra copies. <\/p>\n<p>The electronic online filing systems and patents form 9A will be updated to facilitate the changes with effect from the above date.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"customer-feedback\">Customer feedback<\/h2>\n<p>We have implemented these changes following consultation with our customers. Feedback showed a level of concern regarding difficulties in obtaining non-patent literature free of charge and the availability of patent documents to private applicants.<\/p>\n<p>These changes will enable the <abbr title=\"Intellectual Property Office\">IPO<\/abbr> to streamline its internal procedures and reduce the amount of printed material generated by the patents granting process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 27 September 2014, the Intellectual Property Office will be changing its delivery of patent documents with search reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}