PATENTSCOPE WIPOs flagship online patent system Geneva, June 2013 Iustin Diaconescu Head, Patent Databases Service

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PATENTSCOPE is a global public good promoting research and innovation. It provides all stakeholders of innovation with resources and tools for search and analysis of trends and insights in business, technology and academia. Mission & Vision

Free public World Top resource of searchable patent description and claims (full text) The first site to view weekly PCT publications Search and read all patent collections in a familiar language and read in your own language A database with a global coverage Strengths

Agenda PATENTSCOPE Mission & Vision Coverage Features Audience Statistics Whats new

Todays situation: 32 national/regional collections including big offices like: PCT, US, EPO, Japan, Korea, Russia … 30 million biblio records, 20 million full text records Very soon China, Canada, Australia, UK Pursuing a global coverage

United States of America from 1790 to 2013, 10 million records, full text from 1976 Japan From 1993 to 2013, 8.3 million patent records, 7 million patent full text records China 4 million patents and applications to be added in a few months; Coverage – Recently added

OCR is performed weekly for the PCT applications; worse cases verified and analyzed by human operators afterwards. OCR for the national collections is performed on a regular basis. overage.jsf Coverage – Full text OCR

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Search Forms - Examples

EN_AB:("electric bicyle" OR power bike OR electric bike) OR DE_AB:"elektrisches Steuerungseinrichtung" OR FR_AB:("portage cycle électriques OR "bicyclette à assistance électrique") OR JA_AB:(" " OR " " OR " ) OR KO_AB:(" " OR " ") OR ZH_AB:(" " OR " ") Search Forms – Cross Lingual Expansion

Multiple search forms to suit different types of users. Simple Search, Field Search, Advanced Search, Multilingual Search Generic search fields as EN_ALLTXT, ALLNAMES, PCT_LASTPUBDATE Integrated Multi-lingual Stemmer Advanced Search capabilities such as complex boolean, wildcards, proximity, fuzzy, and range queries. Features – Search Forms

DP:pct_lastpubdate and PA:(University of California) NPCC:IN and IPC:A61K EN_ALLTXT:(electric NEAR bicycle) EN_AB:((elect* or solar) NEAR (bike* OR bicycle)) Features – Search query example

Efficiently manage large result sets Sort results by search relevancy, latest Publication or application date Simple, Complete, Image Viewing Highlighting with advanced capabilities Incorporated translate functions Grouping by specific fields RSS, Excel download Features – Result List

Full list of related documents, national entries records and notices for PCT applications OCR-ed description and claims contain embedded images All Non-English Title and Abstract can be now translated live to your familiar language using the inbuilt TAPTA Translator. PDF page by page viewer Drawings navigational tool Features – Application/Patent Viewing

Charts Excel export Search Map Search Tree IPC Statistics Features – Analyzing/Exporting Results

Features – Query Tree

Agenda PATENTSCOPE Mission & Vision Coverage Features Audience Statistics Whats new

Innovators (research and innovation stakeholders such as companies and universities) Governments (patent offices and policy makers) Translators and analysts General public Audience

Agenda PATENTSCOPE Mission & Vision Coverage Features Audience Statistics Whats new

Statistics

Agenda PATENTSCOPE Mission & Vision Coverage Features Audience Statistics Whats new

Whats New Full text search in Japanese Efforts to break the language barrier IPC codes translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool Electronic products New search operators Licensing Request, Third Party Observations

Whats new: Full text search in Japanese Since April 2012, PATENTSCOPE uses the LUCENE Kuromoji morphological analyzer (contributed by : Atilika Inc. ( )): Japanese text is tokenized in « words » before indexation and the obtained « words » are indexed the same way as for latin languages Proximity queries are more meaningful CLIR to be adapted to use Kuromoji in the near future

Kuromoji segmentation example HEAT EXCHANGE TYPE VENTILATION SYSTEM (PCT/JP2012/002438) HEAT EXCHANGE SHAPE VENTILATION EQUIPMENT (Google translate)

Kuromoji highlight example

Whats New Full text search in Japanese Efforts to break the language barrier IPC codes translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool Electronic products New search operators Licensing Request, Third Party Observations

Mouse over display of translated IPC codes

Machine Translation of results list

Machine Translation of Description/Claims

Whats New Full text search in Japanese Efforts to break the language barrier IPC codes translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool Electronic products New search operators Licensing Request, Third Party Observations

Whats new? New bulk E. Products PCT OCR Backfile Asian languages => Provided on DVD => Searchable full text PCT XML Backfile => Provided on DVD => Searchable full text PCT Backfile Bibliographic => Provided on DVD => Searchable full text

Whats New Full text search in Japanese Efforts to break the language barrier IPC codes translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool Electronic products New search operators Licensing Request, Third Party Observations

The powerful NEAR operator: EN_TI:(bicycle NEAR7 electric) AND EN_AB:((solar or electric) NEAR (bicycle OR bike)) The BEFORE operator: EN_ALLTXT:(electric BEFORE bicycle) The empty field operator: OF:US and PRIORPCTWO:[* TO *] (the US patents that are PCT applications) New features – New operators

Whats New Full text search in Japanese Efforts to break the language barrier IPC codes translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool Electronic products New search operators Licensing Request, Third Party Observations

PCT applicants can signal their willingness to license their patents (see 012_13.pdf) In force since 2012 Possible when filing and up to the expiration of the 30- month time period after filing Licensing information viewable and searchable in PATENTSCOPE Whats new? PCT Licensing feature

Whats new? Licensing feature

Whats new? PCT Third party observations Effective way for third parties to bring relevant prior art to the attention of applicants, International Authorities and designated Offices during the international phase of PCT processing (see ) In operations since July 2012 No fee required Possible after publication and until 28-months from the priority date

Whats new – Improve User Communication Webinars User satisfaction survey Forum