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Part 3 of the Handbook on Intellectual Property Information and Documentation

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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.

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Standard	Title	Latest Update
Standards of a general nature, common to information and documentation
ST.2	Manner for designating calendar dates	May 1997
ST.3	Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations	December 2022
ST.13	Numbering of applications for IPRs	February 2008
ST.90	Recommendation for processing and communicating Intellectual Property data using Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) Annex III - Appendix A Annex III - Appendix B	February 2023
ST.91	Recommendations on digital three-dimensional (3D) models and 3D images	November 2021
ST.96	Processing of Intellectual Property information using XML Annexes Related Resource: ST.96 XML Examples	April 2023
ST.97	Recommendation for Processing of Intellectual Property Data Using JSON	January 2023
Standards relating to patent information and documentation
ST.1	Minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document	May 2001
ST.6	Numbering of published patent documents	December 2002
ST.8	IPC symbols on machine-readable records	March 2011
ST.9	Bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs	June 2013
ST.10	Published patent documents	November 1997
ST.10a	Format of patent documents	April 1994
ST.10b	Layout of bibliographic data components	December 2008
ST.10c	Presentation of bibliographic data components	August 2017
ST.10d	Physical characteristics of patent documents	October 2016
ST.11	Minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes	December 1990
ST.12	Preparation of abstracts of patent documents	April 1994
ST.12a	Abstracts of patent documents	April 1994
ST.12b	Categorized patent abstract	April 1994
ST.12c	Physical characteristics of separately published abstracts	April 1994
ST.14	References cited in patent documents	May 2016
ST.15	Titles of inventions in patent documents	December 1995
ST.16	Identification of different kinds of patent documents	October 2016
ST.17	Coding of headings of announcements made in official gazettes	December 1990
ST.18	Patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals	November 1997
ST.19	Indexes issued by IPO	December 1990
ST.20	Name indexes to patent documents	December 1993
ST.21	Reduction of volume of priority documents	April 1994
ST.22	Authoring of patent applications for the purpose of OCR	December 2008
ST.25	Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings	December 2009
ST.26	Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML (version 1.5) Annex II - Annex III - Annex VI, Appendix - Related Resource: WIPO Sequence software tool	November 2021
ST.26	Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML (version 1.6) Note: The Tenth Session of the Committee on WIPO Standards decided that version 1.6 of WIPO Standard ST.26 will enter into force on July 1, 2023. Until this time, Version 1.6 of ST.26 is being published for information purposes only and Version 1.5 of ST.26 should continue to be used.	February 2023
ST.27	Exchange of Patent Legal Status Data Annex V Annex VI Related Resource: Mapping tables of national/regional patent legal status events to ST.27	November 2021
ST.31	Character sets for the exchange of patent documents	October 1996
ST.32	Markup of patent documents using SGML	November 1995
ST.33	Data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents	February 1999
ST.34	Recording of application numbers in electronic form	December 2008
ST.35	Data exchange of mixed-mode published patent information on MMMT	December 1999
ST.36	Processing of patent information using XML Supplementary material	November 2007
ST.37	Authority File of Published Patent Documents Annex III Annex III, Appendix - Annex IV Annex IV, Appendix - Related Resource: Authority File Portal	November 2021
ST.40	Facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM	April 1993
ST.50	Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information	December 2009
Standards relating to trademark information and documentation
ST.60	Bibliographic data relating to marks	September 2019
ST.61	Recommendation for the exchange of trademark legal status data Related Resource: Mapping tables of national/regional trademark legal status events to ST.61	December 2020
ST.62	Standard abbreviation for “Vienna Classification”	December 1992
ST.63	Content and layout of trademark gazettes	November 1997
ST.64	Search files for trademark search	May 1996
ST.66	Processing of trademark information using XML Appendices A, B, C, D and E	March 2012
ST.67	Electronic management of the figurative elements of trademarks	July 2012
ST.68	Electronic management of sound marks	June 2016
ST.69	Electronic management of motion and multimedia marks	December 2020
Standards relating to industrial design information and documentation
ST.80	Bibliographic data relating to industrial designs	January 2004
ST.81	Content and layout of industrial designs gazettes	November 1997
ST.86	Processing of industrial design information using XML Appendices A, B, C, D and E	February 2008
ST.87	Exchange of industrial design legal status data Related Resource: Mapping tables of national/regional industrial design legal status events to ST.87	December 2022
ST.88	Electronic representation of industrial designs	November 2021

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Part 3 of the Handbook on Intellectual Property Information and Documentation

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