Overview of the PATENTSCOPE® search service Jerusalem 21 July 2010 Alex Riechel Associate Officer, Innovation and Technology Support Section

What is the PATENTSCOPE® search service? Access to over 3.4 million patent documents International patent applications (PCT) Patent applications and patents from 8 participating national and regional patent offices And it’s free of charge!

How do I access the PATENTSCOPE® search service?

Overview Coverage Search features Interfaces Flexibilities Analysis tools Records (PCT)

Coverage : Collections PCT  first publication worldwide ARIPO Cuba Israel Mexico Republic of Korea Singapore South Africa Viet Nam

Coverage : Details Biblio. dataAbstractsFull-Text Document images PCT ( ) xEN/FRxx ARIPO ( ) xx Cuba ( ) xx~80% Israel ( ) EN/HE x ( ) ~60%x Mexico ( ) xx~70%x

Coverage : Details (cont’d) Biblio. dataAbstractsFull-Text Document images Korea ( ) xx Singapore ( ) x S. Africa ( ) x~80% Viet Nam ( ) xx

Search features Office selection : Define patent collection or collections to be searched Language selection : Define query language (all or specific) Stemming : Automatically include all variants of search terms (plural, noun/adjective/adverb) Cross-lingual search : Include variants of search terms in multiple languages

Interfaces : Simple Search by individual fields

Interfaces : Structured Search by field combination

Interfaces : Advanced Command-line search

Interfaces : Cross-lingual (CLIR)

Narrow the technical field

Interfaces : Cross-lingual (CLIR) Add synonyms  system-generated or user-added

Interfaces : Cross-lingual (CLIR) Search simultaneously for variants in English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish

Flexibilities : Operators Boolean operators : AND, OR, ANDNOT, XOR Proximity operators : NEAR, "term1 term2"~n Range operators : [term1 TO term2], -> Wildcard operators : ?, *

Flexibilities : Boolean operators Results in PCT collection (English titles): 195 (tennis) 2454 (ball) 2649 total tennis ball

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (AND) Results in PCT collection (English titles) 34 (tennis AND ball) tennis balle tennis AND balle

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (OR) Results in PCT collection (English titles) 2,615 (tennis OR ball) tennis OR ball

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (NOT) Results in PCT collection (English titles) 161 (tennis NOT ball) tennis NOT ball ball

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (NOT) Results in PCT collection (English titles) 2,420 (ball NOT tennis) tennis ball NOT tennis

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (XOR) Results in PCT collection (English titles) 2,581 (tennis XOR ball) tennis XOR ball ball XOR tennis

Flexibilities : Proximity operators Operators : NEAR, "term1 term2"~n Search terms within a certain range of each other (regardless of order) tool NEAR metalmetal tool  tool to cut metal “tool metal"~5tool for determining metal quality NOT : tool for cutting wood and support frame made of metal Default for NEAR : 5 words (or other text units)

Flexibilities : Range operators Operators: [term1 TO term2], -> ID number ranges [WO/1999/ TO WO/1999/012350] WO/1999/ >WO/1999/ Date ranges [ TO ] [ > ] Name ranges PA:[m* TO n*]

Flexibilities : Wildcard operators Operators: *, ? Unlimited characters : * elect*  electric, electronic, electron, election … Single character (stackable) : ? coll?sion  collision, collusion … foc??  focus, focal …

Analysis features Graphical analysis Data clustering  additional filtering Top offices Top fields of technology (IPC) Top applicants Top inventors Publication dates

Analysis features : Clustering

Analysis features : Clustering (filtering)

Analysis features : Graphical analysis

Notification features : RSS feeds Continuously updated information  automatically includes latest documents related to search

Records (PCT) : Bibliographic data Publication and application number Filing and publication date Priority data Classification (IPC) Applicant, inventor, and agent data Title and abstract Designated states Filing and publication language Special indications (Chapter 2 demand, withdrawals …)

Records (PCT) : Bibliographic data

Records (PCT) : National phase Notifications (national phase entry data available from over 40 patent offices including Israel Patent Office) Legal status (where available) Hyperlinks to certain offices (further status information, translations, etc.)

Records (PCT) : National phase

Records (PCT) : Documents International Application Status Report (IASR) International application Search and examination reports Priority documents Request forms Declarations

Records (PCT) : Documents

Records (Israel) : Bibliographic data

Records (Israel) : Description and claims Searchable description and claims (OCR) Embedded tables and formulas

Records (Israel) : Documents TIFF format Bookmarked PDF format Front page Description Claims Drawings

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