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1 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Who is PIUG? We are a non-profit organization for (passionate) individuals having a professional, scientific or technical interest in patent information. Over 700 active members from around the world. We are searchers, analysts, agents, and attorneys who work in-house, in academia, at law firms, and as independent consultants.

2 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Shared Difficulties Prior Art Searching is never perfect! - We all balance precision versus recall (aka “Finding versus Searching”) - We all have limited resources (time) - Applicants do not make our lives easy (no attorney bashing allowed!)

3 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Gap Analysis USPTO Examiners have incredible technical resources available to them. (There is no secret database with all the good stuff out there!) How do we utilize these resources a bit more efficiently? How do we make the most of the time we do have to search?

4 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Gap Analysis 1) Searching in Circles – the infinitely iterative loop 2) Patents versus Non-Patents 3) Drafting Queries - narrow to broad 4) Tagging References - broad to narrow 5) Classification searching 6) Text searching 7) Citation searching 8) Secure funding for PE2E 9) Random Tips!

5 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Searching in Circles** Text searching (patents) Text searching (NPL) Classification Classification with Text Citations Iterate

6 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Patents versus Non-Patents Approach these differently Patents are easy to search Non-Patents are hard to search Learn terminology from one dataset to use in the other Terms, Inventors, Assignees The examiner is the subject matter expert. Only they know what is relevant versus noise.

7 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Draft Queries - narrow to broad Start with a “finding” query and then expand incrementally. Let the art teach you the proper terms and classification areas as you progress. Follow leads. Be willing to change strategies.

8 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Tag References - broad to narrow Put a few broad references in your back pocket. These are your fall back references and will hopefully not be needed. Move forward to improve upon them. Tag only references which make your rejection “better”. Save your careful review of the tagged art for the end of the search process.

9 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Classification searching For the software arts, this is somewhat of a “broken tool”, but even a broken tool can be useful. (1/1.ccls.) Use classification as a synonym. For example: (701/ ccls. or gps) and… (GUI or 715/ ccls.) and… Learn the CPC system. It is the future. Use the IPC system to help find CN, KR, and JP art. **Check the 0’s: G06F1/03.ipcr. Or G06F001/03.ipc.

10 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Text searching – Part 1 Proximity operators – The over reliance upon the “and” command loses the context of text based searching. For example: A and B = 3000 hits… too many to review Examiners chooseA and B and C and D = 300 hits Consider insteadA same B = 400 hits Consider insteadA with B = 200 hits

11 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Text searching – Part 2 Do not fixate on the specific terms in the claims. The subject matter expert (Examiner) knows what is analogous! These terms are often applicant specific.

12 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Citation searching The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Allow the work of others to serve you! Beware the Rule 1.56 data dumps though. Citation searching creates a set of potentially relevant art for you independent of Classification and Text. This can be priceless. **Beware the automatic database switching in EAST though!

13 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Secure funding for PE2E No database in the world is perfect. Each has significant pros and cons. That said, EAST was developed in the 90’s and while powerful, is showing its age in many ways. We need a new system very badly to handle all of the raw patent data (80 million records and counting) and new search techniques being developed.

14 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Random Tips – Part 1 Translations of most non-English art for free at the EPO! Visit them at Review non-US backcites at the same place as a bonus. Google Scholar will link through most of the USPTO subscriptions. This includes big ones like IEEE and ScienceDirect. Others like ACM and Springer require direct entry of queries.

15 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Random Tips – Part 2 To search art with only Abstracts available, limit your queries to (terms).ti,ab. Another very valuable section is the “brief summary of the invention”. This is searchable using (term).bsum. The Derwent database is not noise! It is a human generated Abstract for the subject reference. (No attorney joke intended.)

16 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Random Tips – Part 3 There are actual magazines about prior art searching! Check out World Patent Information (WPI) accessible through the USPTO ScienceDirect subscription. Many of the articles are written by the EPO training academy instructors and others by PIUG members. Look up the two good articles by Evert Nijhof!

17 December 5, 2013USPTO Software Partnership Meeting Thank You! Dominic DeMarco PIUG Director at Large Managing Director DeMarco Intellectual Property, LLC