List of WIPO Standards, Recommendations and Guidelines

Standards of a general nature, common to information and documentation

• Standard ST.2:  Manner for designating calendar dates (May 1997) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.3:  Two-letter codes for the representation of states, other entities and organizations (November 2011) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.13:  Numbering of applications for IPRs (February 2008) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.96:  Processing of Industrial Property information using XML (May 2012) | view | pdf | history

Standards relating to patent information and documentation

• Standard ST.1:  Minimum data elements required to uniquely identify a patent document (May 2001) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.6:  Numbering of published patent documents (December 2002) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.7:  Microforms (May 1998) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.7/A:  8-up aperture card microform (May 1998) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.7/B:  16 mm Roll Microfilm (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.7/C:  35 mm Roll Microfilm in 8-up configuration (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.7/D:  Method of identifying Roll Microfilm files (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.7/E:  Photo-optically generated microfiche (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.7/F:  Computer Output Microfiches (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.8:  IPC symbols on machine-readable records (November 2004) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.9:  Bibliographic data on and relating to patents and SPCs (February 2008) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.10:  Published patent documents (November 1997) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.10/A:  Format of patent documents (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.10/B:  Layout of bibliographic data components (November 2008) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.10/C:  Presentation of bibliographic data components (November 2004) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.10/D:  Physical characteristics of patent documents (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.11:  Minimum of indexes to be inserted in patent gazettes (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.12:  Preparation of abstracts of patent documents (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.12/A:  Abstracts of patent documents (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.12/B:  Categorized patent abstract (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.12/C:  Physical characteristics of separately published abstracts (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.14:  References cited in patent documents (February 2008) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.15:  Titles of inventions in patent documents (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.16:  Identification of different kinds of patent documents (May 1997) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.17:  Headings of announcements made in official gazettes (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.18:  Patent gazettes and other patent announcement journals (November 1997) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.19:  Indexes issued by IPO (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.20:  Name indexes to patent documents (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.21:  Reduction of volume of priority documents (April 1994) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.22:  Patent applications typed in OCR Format (November 2008) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.25:  Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings (October 2009) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.30:  Magnetic tape format for the exchange of data and documents (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.31:  Character sets for the exchange of patent documents (January 1990) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.32:  Markup of patent documents using SGML (November 1995) | view | html | pdf | history
• Standard ST.33:  Data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents (February 1999) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.34:  Recording of application numbers in electronic form (May 1997) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.35:  Data exchange of mixed-mode published patent information on MMMT (December 1999) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.36:  Processing of patent information using XML (November 2007) | view | pdf | history
  • Annexes | Supplementary material
• Standard ST.50:  Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information (May 1998) | view | pdf | history

Standards relating to trademark information and documentation

• Standard ST.62:  Standard abbreviation for “Vienna Classification” (December 1992) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.63:  Content and layout of trademark gazettes (November 1997) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.64:  Search files for trademark search (May 1996) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.66:  Processing of trademark information using XML (December 2007) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.67:  Electronic management of the figurative elements of trademarks (October 2009) | view | pdf | history

Standards relating to industrial design information and documentation

• Standard ST.81:  Content and layout of industrial designs gazettes (November 1997) | view | pdf | history
• Standard ST.86:  Processing of Industrial Design Information using XML (February 2008) | view | pdf | history
  • Annexes