Introducing EPO PATSTAT EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database James Rollinson

The Patent Statistics Taskforce The EPO is an active member of the Patent Statistics Task Force led by the Science, Technology, Industry part of OECD. Members are: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (chair) JPO Japan Patent Office USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office WIPO World Intellectual Property Organisation NSF National Science Foundation (US) Eurostat (European Commission) DG Research (European Commission) EPO European Patent Office

Data sources for PATSTAT EPO sources: DocDB, the EPO master bibliographic database EPO Register, the online database of EPO procedural data for name & address data Other sources: US publications data from public ftp site for name & address data

Why make a new database ? common set of data for researchers simple to use low entry cost But...the EPO already offers DocDB, Register, Legal Status : isn't that enough?

The data - standard EPO products –wide coverage, difficult processing RegisterPlus –EP (PCT) - XML single records ESPACE Bulletin –EP only, easy processing ESPACE ACCESS –EP/WO applications only ESPACE ACCESS-EPB –EP grants only ESPACE ACCESS-EPC –EPC national 1978-present, difficult processing

The Tools Browser Device for the production of text and image materials.... MS EXCEL MS ACCESS MIMOSA Time, money, skills

DocDB prices September 2007

ABSTRACTS DOCDB WORLD WIDE LEGAL STATUS CITED REFERENCES PUBLICATIONS FULLTEXT FACSIMILE EPO Patent Information Resource CLASSIFICATIONS

EPO Patent Information Resource Bibliographic Data Cited References Acquisition Translated Abstracts EPO Search and Examination External Search Engines Exchange Partners National Offices External Contractors Validation Normalisation Standardisation Classification Data Quality Improvement IFD ST REFI Correction Circulation

So how is PATSTAT different from DocDB ?? PATSTAT comes with a suggested database structure Your computing department need to design a structure for DocDB DocDB and PATSTAT have the same publication, application, priority, citation and IPC data DocDB has more abstracts PATSTAT has more address data for EP and US patents DocDB is updated weekly

PATSTAT Central Database Application Applicants Inventors Classes Publications Citations Priorities

Applicants and Inventors

STANDARDISED_NAME TEXACO DEVELOPMENT CORP NGUYEN KEVIN H WHEAT WILLIAM S MIRKOVIC VESNA R STANDARDISED_NAME NGUYEN KEVIN H WHEAT WILLIAM S MIRKOVIC VESNA R From DocDB database table TDO103_INVENTOR: From DocDB database table TDO101_APPLICANT:

PERSON names are 'original' names

Applicants and inventors tables in PATSTAT Data Management "social security number " of the filing application is {auth,nr,kind} EP A

Relationships between applications Priorities under the Paris Convention (INID 30)  Table 204 References to other related domestic  Table 216 patent documents (INID 60) Data related to other International  Table 201 Conventions (INID 80) eg. PCT addition continuation in part division reissue substitute Technical relations  Table 205

Data present in EPO PATSTAT Application Authority Application number Kind of application Filing date of application Type of Intellectual Property Right Title of application Abstract of application (english) Identification of claimed priority Identification of designating international application Identification of parent application Identification of the technically related application Applicant/Inventor name Applicant/Inventor address Applicant/Inventor country code DocDB standard name...

Data present in EPO PATSTAT IPC Reform CORE classification symbol IPC Reform ADVANCED classification symbol Nanotech Classifications Y01N Publication Authority Publication number Publication kind Publication date Identification of cited patent publication Cited Non-Patent Literature text Category of the citation Origin of the citation

Data Catalog Table description

Future developments Next steps requested : Grant dates Extension with legal data and post-grant data Harmonise company names: Standard DocDB applicant name (STAN process)‏ OECD / EuroSTAT standardised name (when available) ‏ Proposal: Additional table: first grant Retrieve information via OPS OECD / EuroSTAT task force algorithm in development

Other ideas Use family information (for citations)‏ –Simple family (available in PATSTAT)‏ –INPADOC family (available in PATSTAT)‏ Use technology fields (concordance with IPC)‏ –30 (44) technology fields –NACE or others Use third party software to visually interpret the PATSTAT data – using pre-defined queries –EPO patstat Graph life demo final.wmv –allowing complete choice of queries Use MIMOSA to interpret PATSTAT data

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