1. Search Patent
S hP t t
Literature
September 2011
Esther Arias Pérez-Ilzarbe
esther.arias@oepm.es
Patents offer different kind of information:
‐Tecnichal
‐Commercial
‐Legal
Legal
They can help to know:
‐What are new, upcoming developments in the
What are new, upcoming developments in the
field?
‐Who are my potential competitors/partners?
‐What are my competitors doing?
‐What are other uses for my invention?
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2. And even they can become World
Heritage Documents
In 2008 there were applied 1.907.915 patents
and 320.000 utility models (nearly 140
applications per hour)
Patent collections grow and
grow
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3. Search tools in the patent world:
FREE or PAYMENT
National Offices: USPTO, SPTO…
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http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html;
http://invenes.oepm.es/InvenesWeb/faces/busquedaInternet.jsp
Google: http://www.google.com/patents
Espacenet: http://www.espacenet.com/access/index.en.htm
Lexis‐Nexis: http://researchport.umd.edu/source=UMD02132
…
Almost every month a new tool is launched
HOW CAN WE BE AWARED?
Blogs
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4. Discussion groups
Users “Ejercicio de Vigilancia Tecnológica de patentes con herramientas
gratuitas de Internet”. E.Arias. madri+d 20/11/2008
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5. Example: VIAGRA patent
Tool 1:
•Simple,
advance , smart
search, number,
Classification
•English,
German, French
•ECLA
classification
•More than 70
million
documents from
90 countries
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6. Tool 1:
•RSS
•Export results
•PDF and html
•Machine
Translation
Tool 1:
•Family list
•INPADOC information
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7. Tool 2:
• Espacenet devoted to
Latinoamerican patents
• Machine Translation
•“Vigilancia Tecnológica”
Tool 2:
“Vigilancia Tecnológica”
Classification searches in
Biotechnology and Green Patents
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8. Tool 3:
•Simple, advance and
Cross lingual search
•Full text search
•Search interface for
mobile
•28 patent collections
Tool 3:
•RSS: Real Simply
sindication
•Statistics and graphs
•Translation Assistant for
Patent Titles and
Abstracts
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9. Tool 3:
Statistics: graphs ranking of
applicants, Classsification, Publication
dates applications…
dates applications
Tool 4:
•5 patent collections and
non‐patent literature
•Search claims and
description
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10. Tool 4:
•PDF
•Included information from
Included information from
Google
Tool 4:
•New development (beta
version)
version)
•Analisys tool
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11. Tool 5:
•USA documents
•Search in full text
Search
Tool 5:
•Not always the same
results
•Not revision of index
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12. Tool 5:
•Spanish documents
since 1960
•PDF
•Export
Each database offer
different capabilities.
We have to choose the best
to our needs.
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13. FREE INTERNET PATENT DATABASES:
What are they good for?
•Sampling data, answers to easy questions
•State of the art searches
•Verifying results from other databases
•Verifying results from other databases
•Free patent copies from main countries
What are their limits?
•Assignee and status info unreliable
•Slow and ineffective search tools
•Poor titles, abstracts, indexing
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•No chemical, protein, sequences searchs
How reliable is the data?
•Sometimes may be incomplete, no updated or inaccurate
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Use free databases for quick answers and to
verify results from other sources.
2. Use mid‐range fixed subscription databases. for
general high volume searching.
3. For critical project verify and check results
on best possible sources and bear the costs.
b ibl db h
4. Don´t forget that patents have legal effects and
there are other kind of sources of information
we must consult.
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14. Tool 6: ON LINE FILE INSPECTION
Tool 6: ON LINE FILE INSPECTION
You can find tips for
drafting patents
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15. Tool 7: EXPIRED PATENTS (USPTO)
Tool 7: EXPIRED PATENTS (SPAIN)
http://www.oepm.es/es/propiedad_industrial/transferencia_de_tecnologia/Pat
entes_Caducadas.html
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16. FUTURE: FROM “PAUL OTLET
VISION” TO THE “INTERNET CLOUD”
Tool 8: OPEN PATENT SERVICE
Web sites that use EPO, USPTO or national
offices “raw data”
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17. Tool 9: Semantics/concept search Tools
•Semantic searches
• PAYMENT
•Trial versions
Tool 9: Semantics/concept search Tools
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18. Tool 9: Semantics/concept search Tools
Thanks
Excuse my English, when I was a child, there
English, child,
weren´t dummies so sophisticated ...
weren´
Esther Arias Pérez-Ilzarbe
esther.arias@oepm.es
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