Trade Mark XML

Description The Trade Mark Extensible Markup Language (TM-XML) is an XML open standard for the trademark business and for the exchange of trademark information between the Industrial Property Offices and its partners or users. The initial objective was the definition of XML Standard for trademark information exchange. During the specifications and after the creation of WIPO Standard ST.66, other objectives have been added as following: Define XML Standards for Trade Mark Offices and Trade Mark Business Propose Useful Outcomes as Base for the Creation of WIPO Standards Define Trademark Web Service Standards Provide Examples of Implementations and Tools Share Experiences, Practices and Knowledge Promote Collaboration and Harmonization of Trade Mark Information and Knowledge Representations Prepare the Emerging Semantic Web for the Trade Mark Domain in the Intellectual Property Context (hTrademark Microformat, TM-RDF, TM-OWL) TM-XML is used by TMview which is an online consultation tool that allows user to search, free of charge, the trademarks of all participating official trademark Offices. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM-XML; http://www.tmview.europa.eu/tmview/welcome.html) WIPO Standard ST.66 The WIPO Standard ST.66 is a standard that recommends the XML resources used for filing, processing, publication, and exchange of all types of trademark information. It is based in large part on TM-XML, WIPO Madrid Electronic CommunicAtions (MECA) DTD and WIPO Standard ST.36 (Source: http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/pdf/03-66-01.pdf) Represented organisations Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) European Patent Office (EPO) For more information http://www.tm-xml.org/TM-XML/TM-XML_xml/TM-XML_AboutUs.xml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM-XML http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/pdf/03-66-01.pdf Link http://www.tm-xml.org/TM-XML/TM-XML_xml/index.xml