The Trade Mark Extensible Markup Language (TM-XML) is an

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...

open standard An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. It is also a prerequisite to use open license, non-discrimination and extensibility. Typically, anybody can participate in the development. There is no single definitio ...

for the

trademark A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies products or services from a particular source and distinguishes them from ot ...

business and for the exchange of trademark information between the Industrial Property Offices and its partners or users.

Objectives

The initial objective was the definition of XML Standard for trademark information exchange. During the specifications and after the creation of

WIPO The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; french: link=no, Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishin ...

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 Microformats (μF) are a set of defined HTML classes created to serve as consistent and descriptive metadata about an element, designating it as representing a certain type of data (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, events ...

, TM-RDF, TM-OWL)

History

TM-XML was defined by a working group created by the

European Union Intellectual Property Office The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO; french: links=no, Office de l'Union européenne pour la propriété intellectuelle), founded in 1994, is the European Union Agency responsible for the registration of the European Union trad ...

in June 2003. 8 draft versions for comment have been published (versions 0.1 to 0.7 and 1.0 Draft) before the version 1.0 Final published on 26 May 2006 on its website: https://web.archive.org/web/20060827113952/http://www.tm-xml.org/. TM-XML Version 1.0 Final has been proposed as a base for the creation of a

International Standard named ST.66 which has been adopted by the Standing Committee on Information Technologies / Standards and Documentation Working Group (SCIT/SDWG) during its 8th session on March 19–22, 2007 in Geneva.

Roadmap 2010-2015

{, border="1" cellpadding="4px" cellspacing="0px" width=100% , - bgcolor="lightgreen" align="center" !Version!!Planned!!width=70%, Content , - !bgcolor=lightyellow, TM-XML Version 2.0 , align=center, 2010–2012 , *Complete coverage of all Information related to trademark and its related IP resources (Opposition, Appeal, Recordals, Renewal, Cancellation, etc.). *hTrademark Microformat implementations. *First Web Services and Rules in

Resource Description Framework The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard originally designed as a data model for metadata. It has come to be used as a general method for description and exchange of graph data. RDF provides a variety of ...

(RDF) and

Web Ontology Language The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. Ontologies are a formal way to describe taxonomies and classification networks, essentially defining the structure of knowledge for vario ...

(OWL). , - !bgcolor=lightyellow, TM-XML Version 3.0 , align=center, 2012–2015, , Additional Web Services and Semantic Web - Knowledge Representation & Services.

References

*TM-XML 1.0 Fina
"TM-XML.org"
''TM-XML Working Group'', May 26, 2006. Accessed August 16, 2007. *http://www.wipo.int/standards/en/pdf/03-66-01.pdf WIPO Standard ST.66 version 1.1 (Adoption of TM-XML 1.3) *Creating a 21st Century Public Agency, Prof. J.E.Fountain, R.Galindo-Dorado & J.Rothschild - National Center for Digital Government Paper

Objectives

History

Roadmap 2010-2015

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