Library

Provision of patent gazettes and other industrial property information

The Department gathers patent gazettes released in Japan as well as overseas gazettes, and makes them available to the general public.

In the First Public Gazettes Reading Room (second floor, Japan Patent Office building), readers have access to public gazettes in the form of CD-ROM or electronic media via the Industrial Property Digital Library (IPDL). The Second Public Gazettes Reading Room (first floor, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Annex), meanwhile, offers public gazettes in the form of printed media (primarily Patent Specifications of other countries) for public reading.

Gathering and management of reference materials, etc.

The Department gathers and stores books, technical papers and other documents that the Japan Patent Office needs for conducting examinations and judgments. It also makes such documents available for use outside the Office.

The Department accepts from the Japan Patent Office all documents and judgment records of patent application cases that had undergone examinations and whose treatments had been decided (e.g., patent granted; patent registered; patent refused; etc.). It also stores all such documents, and carries out accounting operations.