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A: Hello. The Intellectual Property Law Course compiled by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) WIPO)1988 defines patent documents as: "Patent documents are the general name of published or unpublished documents (or their abstracts) containing the relevant information of research, design, development and test results of discoveries, inventions, utility models and industrial designs, as well as the relevant information of protecting the rights of inventors, patent owners and holders of industrial designs and utility model registration certificates."
　　　　 The above concepts include:
　　　　(1) Patent documents refer to inventions that have been applied for or approved as patents, that is, "research, design, development and test results that have been applied for or confirmed as discoveries, inventions, utility models and industrial designs", and inventions that have applied for patents must be examined and approved by the Patent Office.
　　　　(2) Patent documents refer to the information about the application or approval of patented inventions. It contains not only technical information about "research, design, development and test results of discoveries, inventions, utility models and industrial designs", but also legal information about "protecting the rights of inventors, patent owners and holders of industrial designs and utility model registration certificates", which are documents produced in the process of patent examination and approval.
　　　　(3) Some materials contained in patent documents are published publicly, while others are only for archiving or reproduction. Therefore, patent documents are the general name of the above-mentioned materials and their publications.
　　　　 The course further points out: "Patent literature mainly refers to the official publications of patent offices in various countries according to the general understanding." That is, patent documents mainly refer to the general name of official documents and publications produced by countries and international patent organizations that implement the patent system in the process of patent examination and approval.
　　　　 WIPO standard ST.10 states that the term "patent document" includes invention patent, plant patent, design patent, inventor’s certificate, utility certificate, utility model, supplementary patent, supplementary inventor’s certificate, supplementary utility certificate and their published applications. That is to say, according to general understanding, patent documents as public publications mainly include: various types of inventions, utility models, designs and plant patent specifications, various types of inventions, utility models, designs and plant patent bulletins, abstracts, indexes and related classified materials.