PATENTSCOPE Patent Search Strategies and Techniques Andrew Czajkowski Head, Innovation and Technology Support Section Centurion September 11, 2014
Review Main features Interfaces CLIR (cross-lingual) Simple search Field combination Advanced search Results analysis Documents RSS feeds
Strengths The most complete and up to date place to search for PCT publications including their related documents Searchable descriptions and claims Facilitated patent search in languages not familiar to the user Powerful Search Operators Data Analytic Tools
Summary of features – Searching A number of different search forms: Simple, Advanced, Field Combination, Multilingual Cross Lingual Expansion Integrated multilingual stemmer Advanced search capabilities such as complex Boolean, wildcards, proximity, fuzzy and range queries
Summary of features – Result List Displaying the result set in 5 different ways Sorting by search relevance, application or latest publication date Advanced highlighter Incorporated translation functions Grouping by specific fields Excel download of results RSS monitoring
Summary of features – Application/Patent Details Full list of related documents including third party observations, national entries and notices for PCT applications OCR-ed descriptions and claims with embedded images Inbuilt translation service (TAPTA) available for translating non-English titles and abstracts PDF page by page viewer Drawings navigational tool
Summary of features – Analyzing/Exporting Results Charts Excel export Query Tree IPC statistics
Coverage 39 national/regional collections including PCT 7 New collections recently added: Bahrain Canada China Egypt Estonia Eurasian Patent Organisation United Arab Emirates
Coverage Increased the number of patents to 37 Mio 24 Million Full text data in 9 languages Coming soon: Germany New Zealand United Kingdom 5,5 millions national entry phase records National entry phase data from China for the period from 1994 to 2012 recently added
Coverage : Collections PCT applications, ARIPO, EPO, LATIPAT and national collections
Coverage: Help menu
Coverage : Details of collections
Scenario A scientist at an agricultural research facility is considering whether to begin new work in the area of animal feed. Your task is to determine: which technologies already exist in this area which organizations or individuals are particularly active in this area (in terms of patenting)
Task breakdown Access the PATENTSCOPE search service Retrieve patent documents based on keywords classification Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the results Keep the scientist up-to-date on new patent documents
Task breakdown Access the PATENTSCOPE search service Retrieve patent documents based on keywords classification Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the results Keep the scientist up-to-date on new patent documents
WIPO homepage
PATENTSCOPE homepage
WIPO PATENTSCOPE
Task breakdown Access the PATENTSCOPE search service Retrieve patent documents based on keywords classification Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the results Keep the scientist up-to-date on new patent documents
WIPO PATENTSCOPE
PATENTSCOPE interfaces
Interfaces: CLIR
CLIR: Automatic mode Query language is the language in which your query is entered
Automatic mode: Query and results
CLIR: Synonyms and variants Original language animal feed animal food, … Other languages animal feed Tierfutter, … Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Swedish
Automatic mode: Query and results
Results
Automatic mode: Query and results
Interfaces: CLIR
CLIR: Automatic mode
CLIR: Supervised mode
Supervised mode: Domain selection automatic domain detection
Supervised mode: Domain selection
Supervised mode: Variant selection
Supervised mode: Field and distance selection
Supervised mode: Field selection
Supervised mode: Query and results
Results Machine translation
Machine translation
Task breakdown Access the PATENTSCOPE search service Retrieve patent documents based on keywords classification Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the results Keep the scientist up-to-date on new patent documents
Supervised mode: Query and results
Results
Results: Analysis
IPC: Official publication
IPC: Official publication
Classification: A23K
Supervised mode: Query and results
Interfaces: Simple search
Simple search: IPC
Simple search: Query and results
Results
Scenario: A twist The scientist contacts you again: She tells you that she is actually most interested in animal feed specifically designed for cows.
Classification: A23K No classification available for "Animal feeding-stuffs specially adapted for cows"
Task breakdown Access the PATENTSCOPE search service Retrieve patent documents based on keywords classification keywords and classification Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the results Keep the scientist up-to-date on new patent documents
Simple search: Query and results
Interfaces: Field combination
Field combination: Query
Field combination: Query and results
Results
Field combination: Query and results
Interfaces: Advanced search
Advanced search interface: Field codes International classification Title Abstract Claims IC:(…) TI:(…) AB:(…) CL:(…)
Advanced search interface: Field codes (Help)
Concepts and synonyms cow: cattle, bovine cow OR cattle OR bovine TI:(cow OR cattle OR bovine) OR AB:(cow OR cattle OR bovine) OR CL:(cow OR cattle OR bovine)
Classification: A23K
Query IC:("A23K 1/18") AND (TI:(cow OR cattle OR bovine) OR AB:(cow OR cattle OR bovine) OR CL:(cow OR cattle OR bovine))
Advanced search: Query
Advanced search: Query and results
Query tree
Results
Task breakdown Access the PATENTSCOPE search service Retrieve patent documents based on keywords classification keywords and classification Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the results Keep the scientist up-to-date on new patent documents
Results
Results: Analysis
Task breakdown Access the PATENTSCOPE search service Retrieve patent documents based on keywords classification keywords and classification Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the results Keep the scientist up-to-date on new patent documents
Results
Record
Record: Documents
Documents
Documents: International Search Report
Task breakdown Access the PATENTSCOPE search service Retrieve patent documents based on keywords classification keywords and classification Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the results Keep the scientist up-to-date on new patent documents
Advanced search: Query and results
RSS feed
Scenario A research institute intends to focus its activities on the genetic engineering of maize. You have been asked to carry out the following tasks to support the work of the institute: Gather information about related inventions; Identify possible cooperation partners; Show how patenting activity in this area has evolved over time.
Tasks Gather information about related inventions Retrieve individual documents Identify possible cooperation partners; Show how patenting activity in this area has evolved over time. Analyze document sets
Query Genetic engineering IC:("C12N 15/00" OR A01H) Maize ALLTXT:(maize OR corn OR mielie OR mealie OR "Zea mays" OR "Z mays") IC:("C12N 15/00" OR A01H) AND ALLTXT:(maize OR corn OR mielie OR mealie OR "Zea mays" OR "Z mays")
Results
Individual document Applicants and inventors Office Key dates Invention data
Individual document: Description
Results
Results: Analysis
Results: Analysis (applicant)
Analysis: Findings Top applicants include a number of well-known companies in the agriculture and agrochemicals industries but also a number of universities and public research institutions.
Results: Analysis
Results: Analysis (publication date)
Analysis: Findings Exceptionally strong growth in patent filing activity from 1995 onwards, even compared to growth in overall patent filing activity Slowdown in growth from 2002 onwards All fields Genetic engineering of maize
Thank you for your attention! For more information, please contact: