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.