What the User community needs Towards effective collaboration between East and West Dr. Peter Kallas BASF SE East meets West, Vienna April 10, 2019

Agenda The Patent Documentation Group - Who we are How the patent information is used in information analyses What are the main challenges in accessing patent information? Questionnaire 2009 Achievements PDG Workshop - What has improved? Questionnaire 2019 Improvements Plans Challenges Conclusion 2

Who are the PDG? Founded in 1957 Annual Members Conference, May 2018, Siemens, Munich Founded in 1957 Objective: to facilitate and promote the efficient and effective use of patent information Non profit organization Registered in Switzerland 3

What is the PDG ? 42 corporate members Agfa Graphics Lundbeck AkzoNobel Merck KGaA ALTANA MSD ASML Nestec AstraZeneca Nouryon BASF Novartis Bayer Pfizer Beiersdorf Philips BMS Philips Lighting Boehringer Ingelheim Procter & Gamble BP International Robert Bosch Clariant International Sanofi DSM Shell International Evonik SIEMENS FrieslandCampina Solvay F. Hoffmann-La Roche Syngenta GlaxoSmithKline ThyssenKrupp Henkel Total Research IFPEN Unilever Lanxess L'Oreal Voestalpine Volvo 42 corporate members From different industries Chemicals, Pharma, Electrical, Consumer Goods, Automotive, Oil and Gas, Cosmetics, Health Care, Agriculture… 3 PDG members among the top 10 EPO applicants PDG cooperates with all stakeholders Regular high-level meetings with EPO, WIPO, IP5 and individual patent offices 4

PDG How does PDG work as organization? Cooperation in patent information and documentation Exchange knowledge and experience in all areas relating to patent information Debate, discuss and stimulate improvements and new developments in patent information products Determine and communicate proposals to third parties involved in IP information PDG 5

PDG The PDG WG IMPACT works as a Round Table - Who are our Partners ? Asian and Latin American Offices EPO IP5 Offices JIPA, CEPIUG, PIUG CAS, Clarivate, Questel, STN, Providers WIPO European Patent Institute epi USPTO National Offices (Europe) Observer Status 6

Workflow for Patent Information Analyses Search Analysis Visualization Evaluation Patent § Legal status data Abstract Request Search in Databases Full text 7

Why do user requirements exist Why do user requirements exist ? What information professionals in industry are doing Patentability searches State-of-the-art searches Opposition and invalidation searches Monitoring and current awareness searches Freedom-to-operate searches (FTO) Legal status and patent family searches Patent landscapes and patent portfolio analyses White Space Analyses and more….  Our needs go beyond those of the patent offices 8

Still true... Some general remarks Patents go global: Asia, Latin America, Gulf countries… The number of patent applications globally is still growing dramatically Language barriers become a deter- mining factor in accessing patent information Consequences: Streamlining and harmonization procedures are key: e.g. IP5 activities! Setting up priorities between patent offices, user groups and commercial providers is indispensable!  We need an intensified cooperation because we have similar needs! 9

What are the main challenges in accessing patent information ? The growth of application filings from Asia is continuing > 65 % of all patent applications are coming from Asia (2017) Among the TOP 10 PCT applicants (2018) six are from Asia, led by Huawei In 2011 CNIPA became the largest patent office in the world In 2018: 1,54 Mio patent and 2,07 Mio utility model applications have been filed ! 10 INTERN

What European industry thinks – Questionnaire 2008 In 2008, we consulted PDG members on their opinions on the needs for improvement of patent information from Asia, mainly with respect to the recent emergence of Asian offices as major players All PDG-companies were asked 28 PDG-companies responded to a detailed questionnaire Results were distributed internally in February 2009 11

What European industry thinks – Some results from 2009 consultations Do you see need for improvement with respect to Asian patent information ? Availability of detailed legal status in English Searchable English full text (CN, KR) Images of documents Added value abstracts (by commercial providers) (High quality) machine translation Standardized applicants' names Status 2009 96 % 96 % 100 % 68 % 92 % 96 % 86 % 12

What European industry thinks – Some results from 2019 consultations Do you see need for improvement with respect to Asian patent information ? Availability of detailed legal status in English Searchable English full text (CN, KR) Images of documents Added value abstracts (by commercial providers) (High quality) machine translation Standardized applicants' names Status 2019 96 % 96 % 100 % 68 % 92 % 96 % 86 % 13

General Achievements of the PDG Asian Patent Information Initiative Availability of machine translations in English has improved dramatically: Asian offices EPO – Google PATENTSCOPE Commercial providers Searchable full text Added value abstracts of Asian countries Legal status data via the central source INPADOC (EPO) 14 14

The Users – Questionnaire 2019 - Users Most impressive improvements International cooperation in IP5: Global Dossier, Patent Assignee Harmonization Dramatically improved machine translation (Asian offices, EPO, WIPO etc.) including neural translation technologies More legal status data available in EPO’s INPADOC: CN, JP, KR, TW and better access via national portals: IN, SG, TW Structure searching in Asian patent documents Classification of Asian documentation with CPC Solutions for double/dual filing in China available 15

The Users – Questionnaire 2019 - Users Challenges Improved coverage of Asian and Arabian data beside CN, JP, KR Legal status data in INPADOC: IN, ASEAN states, [RU (before 2005)] Easy access to patent term extension data for some countries English translation or descriptions of legal status terms/events Establishment of “one” portal for all kinds of patent information Eliminate differences in information between native and English language register content Harmonized patent assignee names Quality and timeliness problems of added value abstracts Full coverage of documents including utility models with CPC Machine translations for non-Latin NPL (e.g. IPPH provides MT for CN NPL) and smaller Asian countries We need better English documentation and legal status data from Saudi Arabia and ARABPAT countries 16

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - IP India Developments Public search portal www.ipindia.nic.in provides various types of information on already published and granted patent applications filed in India and designed in such a way that meets demand of the users; CBR (cash book receipt) – is issued online and in few cases offline where application filed is offline; All other communication through email as well as sms; All documents are available on the web portal; Status of patent application is also available; Patent certificate generated with qr code and available online; Most of the information uploaded in the portal are real time basis be it issuance of FER, hearing notice, letter of patent etc. 17

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - IP India Plans Complete dissemination of information except the instances debarred by the statute, this office is striving it‘s best to provide best service to the users; All most all plans an advanced patent office provides to users, the same is committed by Indian patent office to adopt and provide; Proper execution of the work undertaken in the recent past and its implementation is the important aspect ; Valuable suggestions if any for further improvement in the portal through this forum may help further improving the services; It takes lots of time to develop a system at par with the users requirements. Indian patent office is also moving faster in this regard. 18

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - IP India Challenges During the recent past, various measures are undertaken to achieve full efficiency, to maintain quality and to inculcate best standards in the functioning Indian Patent Office. This includes; Global best practices and compatibility with international practices; Reducing delays in processing of patent applications; HR augmentation to reduce backlogs to deliver timely justice to the innovators. The system adopted is working very well and the objective is achieved. Presently, IPO does not have so much challenges; Once the backlog clearance drive is attained, focus will be made exclusively to the activities which the users feel that has not been emphasized! 19

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - IPPH Developments, plans and challenges The developments The new version “CNIPR” Chinese patent retrieval system “Design Scope” image retrieval system New version Chinese-English machine translation engine The plans Promote new version “CNIPR” Promote “Design Scope” image retrieval system Promote Chinese-English machine translation service, such as machine translation data, machine translation engine etc. The challenges Very hard to meet European enterprise customer 20

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - JAPIO Developments Providing patent information of China and Korea（improved machine translation quality）via our online-service (Japio-GPG/FX) <Japio Global Patent Gateway Full Text（Japio-GPG/FX）> Japio provides services of a search system that stores the whole patent publication text of China, Korea, Japan, US, EP, PCT, Germany, France and United Kingdom as well as DOCDB abstracts, and also stores translation in English, Chinese, Korean, German, French into Japanese as well as Japanese into English using a machine translation system. Full text of patent publications of the above major countries can be cross-searched both in Japanese, English and original language basically. (However, English search for full text of Chinese and Korean patent publications is excluded.) 21

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - JAPIO Plans and challenges Providing patent information of Taiwan via our online-service (Japio-GPG/FX) Challenges Bulk state of patent information of middle-south Asia is short supply. High cost of machine for NMT(Neural Machine Translation). 22

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - JPO Developments J-PlatPat is planned to be renewed in May, 2019 More Timely Provision of Status Information of Examination/Trial and Appeal Addition of a Variety of Documents (Design, TM, Appeal) Expansion of Contents for Search (Expired TM) Improvement of Machine Translation Quality (Japanese to English) Providing the latest information by RSS feed 23

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 JPO Plans Accuracy of Machine Translation is to be improved (Japanese to English in May, 2019) (Chinese and Korea to Japanese in April, 2020) Challenges Digitalization of Patent Documents in Asian countries 24

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - KIPO Developments (KIPRIS) Supporting Chinese and Japanese translation system for PCT Documents (KIPRISPLUS) Expanding a support system for IP related start-ups so called the IP data gift support system Target for support : Expanded from Start-ups within 3 years to 7 years Support period : Expanded from 3 years to 5 years 25

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 – KIPO Plans and challenges (KIPRIS) Expanding service range QR(Quick Response) code to trademark and design publications. (Examiner) Provide a advanced machine translation system based on artificial neural network. Challenges Patent information is needed to be used more actively, but it conflicts with personal information protection issue. It needs to support IP related start-ups, but some start-ups expect more government sector to be opened to private sector like patent publication related tasks. 26

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - MyIPO Developments In Malaysia, patent information to users is clearly states under Section 34 of the MPA. The Registrar shall make available for public inspection after 18 months from the priority/filing date of a patent application upon payment of the prescribed fees. However, MyIPO provides bibliographical info including the abstract through our IP online system for public FOC provided users register on line. https://iponline2u.myipo.gov.my/myipo/www/ 27

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 MyIPO Plans and challenges Currently, we are reviewing our laws for possible amendment which may involve patent information to users. However, details of the subject is confidential at this stage. Challenges We received numerous request from various parties seeking complete patent specifications at no costs. Unfortunately, we can‘t comply due to existing provision. Patent information particularly the patent specifications provided by the Asian patent offices normally in national language Many offices also do not provide full patent specifications FOC. 28

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - TIPO Developments TWPAT(Taiwan Patent Search System) provided following features in 2018 1. Legal status filter function - Users can see the current legal status of the patent search result‘s pages. - Users can choose the specific legal status when searching patents. 2. Statistical analyses of patent data GPSS(Global Patent Search System) provided following features in 2018 1. One-stop global patent search service: free access to patent data of IP5, WIPO and TIPO 2. Multilingual Search (Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean) 3. Legal status from INPADOC and information of patent family from DOCDB 4. Statistical analyses of patent data 29

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 TIPO Plans and challenges TWPAT(Taiwan Patent Search System) will provide following features this year 1. Improve User Interface 2. legal status alert - Users can monitor specific TW patents, and receive an e-mail notification when the status is changed 3. Improve the statistical analysis of patent data GPSS(Global Patent Search System) will launch English version at the end of this year Challenges Provide timely complete information and keep the good performance Semantic search and search by image High quality machine translation 30

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - Rospatent Developments, plans and challenges Developments Upgrading of the official website Development of electronic interaction tools with the applicant Development of new patent analytic system based on Patsnap Plans Further development of new patent analytic system Further development of providing information about applications for industrial designs Further development of Search reports publication in xml format Challenges Creating an open patent search infrastructure Disposal of intellectual property rights using new technologies (e.g. Blockchain) Image search using new technologies (e.g. AI) New formats of the representation of IP objects (e.g. 3D models) 31

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - Jordan Developments Official Gazette Scanned Copies are available on Website WIPO Publish WIPO Publish – Jordan - Search Key words - Advanced Search Applicant‘s name, File name, Patent number, Registration number, Invention name, Inventor‘s Name, Abstract ...... Etc. 32

The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - Jordan Developments WIPO Publish – Jordan - Journal Search Journal number Publications of the Grants Publication of Applications (Affective16/12/2018) Legal Status Classification – Not applicable to all files Downloads of XML are available Publication of Jordanian Patents bibliographic data are also available on: - Espacenet - ArabPat – Platform - Patent Scope 33

The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 – Jordan Plans and challenges Planes Patent document - (Description, Drawings, Abstract & Claims) make them available in PDFs on Jordan WIPO Publish Challenges Next Step - Full Text - Images 34

The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 – LN Developments, plans and challenges Developments Adding IP related data, e.g. appeal, litigation Standardizing legal data Plans MT translation to Asian languages More legal and litigation data Challenges To find „official“ sources for south east Asian countries Huge data stream from China Language and distance barriers in conversation 35

The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 - Questel Developments Korea : Retranslation Patents in Full Text Normalization of Key Content & Technical Concepts Korean patents now included in patent topographic map China : Improved, up-to-date Legal Status Reassignments Licensed Patents Details Australia : Patents in Full Text India : Patents in Full Text (new, better & more up-to-date source) 36

The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 - Questel Developments Industrial Designs from : Indonesia Singapore Thailand Laos Cambodia Vietnam Brunei Patent Litigations and Oppositions from : China New Zealand India Australia Taiwan Malaysia Japan Thailand South Korea Singapore Philippines Hong Kong 37

The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 - Questel Plans Patent Full Text Re-Translation (AI based Neuro-Translation) : China Japan Korea Patent Full Text from : Singapore Eurasia Philippines Vietnam Patent Biblio from : Indonesia Malaysia Bahrein Brunei Cambodia 38

The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 Questel Plans and challenges Industrial Designs from : Taiwan Challenges Up-to-date legal status information Names translation and normalization Lack of consistency Translation quality (although making great progress) Full text often not available electronically & difficult to obtain 39

The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 - FIZ Developments and Plans Improved quality of Machine Translations Plans Title and abstract as well as inventor and patent assignee from CN, JP and KR should be made available in DocDB in translated and transliterated form earlier as today (about 3 months) More detailed legal status from CN and KR in DocDB For smaller countries, the gaps of bibliographic coverage should be filled or the delivery should resume in DocDB, e.g. GC, ID, KZ, TH, TJ, VN, UZ And of course: more data from India … 40

Summary The user community greatly appreciates the offer of the Asian, Arabian and other offices and related organizations to cooperate In the questionnaires, offices expressed their requirement to get input from users to improve content, tools, and services We in PDG are convinced that meetings like this workshop have improved the cooperation between the user community and other Patent Offices We believe that a common approach is of mutual benefit! 41

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