Lighthouse IP produces patent, trademark and designs content on over 150 different countries. Lighthouse provides its content through a number of selected partners. Our unique, most elaborate global data files include content from the America’s, Europe, Middle-East and Far-East. Lighthouse provides full text patent content on over 50 countries including translations. Additionally Lighthouse will be presenting its PatentWarehouse ™ solution for gateway access to the world’s largest patent image collection and full text data.

1. Diamond File
Global Bibliographic
&
Legal Status
Patent Data

2. Content
• Content coverage update
• Introducing the Diamond Patent File
• Bibliographic and Legal IP databases
• Content
• Sourcing
• Country and years coverage

3. Content Coverage Update:
Patent Data
Expanding patent coverage
• 70+ authorities in full text, original and English MT
• 75 authorities original documents in PDF
• 150+ countries bibliographic data
• Access provided via partners (please visit our booth for more information)
Trademark Data
• 200 authorities
IP Court Cases Data
D&B IP Insight (index linking patents and tm’s to business info)
PatentValuation dataset (cont. 30 million patentfamilies with values)

4. Introducing the Diamond Patent File
• Issues of databases today
• Standard used by virtually all providers: DOCDB & INPADOC
• DOCDB file: 106 countries, 48 updated within 100 days
• INPADOC ™ (status) file: 53 countries, 38 updated within 100 days
• Both datasets are important and respected datasets gathered and
provided by the EPO
Landscape:
• 152 countries under PCT treaty
• 191 WIPO member states (not all publish patents)
Gap of over 100 authorities bibliographic
Gap of 114 authorities status information
The solution to this: the Diamond Patent File

5. Introducing the Diamond Patent File
• What does the Diamond Patent File cover:
• Updated and current (latest publication is also the newest
publication from the authority)
• Bibliographic data from 150+ authorities that are also PCT
authorities and 5 non-PCT authorities
• 67 authorities that are not in DOCDB
• 102 authorities that are more current than DOCDB
• Legal status data from 101 authorities
• 61 authorities that are not INPADOC
• 71 authorities that are more current than INPADOC
• Clustering over 4000 events into 20 categories
Definition of current: Meaning that the most recent official
publication from an authority is available in the dataset.

6. Introducing: The Diamond Patent File
• How does it work?
• Actively collecting publications from authorities
• Permanently monitoring all new publications
• Manually capturing data from each gazette
• Adding translations of titles, abstracts and names
• Launched on March 30, 2018

7. The Diamond File
Sample of Biblio data input
BY Belarus BY_20170430_02 FG1K
(12)
Publications
of patents
for utility
models put
in the state
register of
utility
models of
Republic of
Belarus
126-
157
11,
21,
22,
51,
54,
57,
71,
72,
73
abstract and figure

8. The Diamond File
Biblio and legal content of the gazettes
• Bibliographic data
• WIPO ST.9, INIDs for bibliographic data
• Legal status data
• WIPO ST.17, Recommendation for the coding of headings of
announcements made in official gazettes (1990)
• WIPO ST.27, Legal Status Standardisation (June 2017)
• Clustering according to Lighthouse IP LS Index

9. The Diamond File
ST.9 INID Codes for Bibliographic Data Elements

10. The Diamond File
ST 17 Section identifiers

11. BY Belarus BY_20170430_02 MM4A Early
termination
of a patent
due to non-
payment of
fees for
maintaining
a patent in
force
189-
190
BY Belarus BY_20170430_02 NF4A Restoration
of a patent
190
BY Belarus BY_20170430_02 PD4A Change of
patentee's
name
191
The Diamond File
Legal Status content processing

12. The Diamond File
Legal event clustering
• Legal events….
• Every country does something else….
• Some follow WIPO Standards
• Some don’t follow anything
• Over 4,000 codes and events known
• Challenging to identify status from events
• Within Diamond clustering into 20 categories

13. Diamond
Legal Event
ID-Number
Diamond Legal Event category title ST.17
section
codes
ST.17
section
codes
ST.17
section
codes
ST.17
section
codes
ST.17
section
codes
ST.17
section
codes
ST.17
section
codes
ST.17
section
codes
ST.17
section
codes
1 Application filed AZ AA AF
2 Application discontinued/ceased FA FC FD CD CE BF FE
3 Application revived AE AD CC
4 Application Publications BA BZ
5 Application Publication by laying open BB
6 Right granted FG FF
7 Right ceased/discontinued CD CE
8 Right revived NF NB NZ NG
9 Right maintained LD LZ
10 Renewal or extension of term of right (SPCs) ND
11 Termination of right or application MM MK MZ MA MC ME MF MG
12 Modification of Document, Specification DZ DC
13 Change of Names, addresses TA TB TC TF TG TZ
14 Change of owner, applicant, transfer of right PD PC GB
15 Publication of Licensing QB QF GD GZ
16 Fee Payment event KZ
17 Administrative event, restoration, requests EZ NA NE DA
18 Appeal to court, opposition event CA CH CZ
19 Miscellaneous event RZ
20 Erratum TK TZ HK HZ HA HB HC HE TH
The Diamond File
Legal event clustering (and relationship to ST.17)

14. QUESTIONS?
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