1. FAR EAST AND PATENT INFORMATION
Workshop Questel
FAR EAST AND PATENT INFORMATION
Rome, 5th June 2008

2. Questel French company
Producer and provider of online and internet services
Collection of intellectual property, scientific and technical Information
30 years worldwide experience
Paris Sophia-Antipolis Alexandria, USA Brussels
Headquarters R&D Patents Headquarters R&D, Trademarks

3. Patents Trademarks Designs
QWEB
CATAMARAN
PATOLIS-e
EDITAL
PATLEGAL
DESIGNFINDER
DIGIPAT

4. Asian context Emerging economies Growth in information volumes
Multilinguism

5. Asian PCT filings

6. Asian PCT filings

7. China

8. User needs
Awareness
Access to texts
Translations

9. Questel’s answers
Patents
Trademarks
Designs

10. Patents
Coverage
Invention driven families
Machine translations

11. Fampat Patent Family Database New family concept prior art driven
Closer to the heart of the invention

12. Fampat COVERAGE CLASSIFICATION IMAGES CITED REFERENCES
78 Patent authorities
Back to the 1920’s for some major countries
Updated weekly
English abstracts: US, PCT, EP, GB, FR, DE, CH, JP,CN
Full text summaries of EP, PCT and US
CLASSIFICATION
Updated and revised
IPC 8, ECLA, ICO, USPCL, FI/FTerms
IMAGES
US, EP, PCT, JP, FR, and other
CITED REFERENCES
AU, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, EP, ES, FI, JPA, JPB, NL, PCT, TR, US

13. Asian patent coverage FAMPAT Country Country code Coverage
China CN
Utility models
Hong Kong HK
Japan JP
Utility models
Korea KR
Utility models
Taiwan TW
Utility models
Vietnam VN
Utility models

14. Asian patent coverage FAMPAT CN : 2,205,911 documents;
1,088,716 abstracts (MT for recent)
JP : 14,166,423 documents; 9,040,135 abstracts (MT for recent)
KR : 1,365,044 documents; 725,345 abstracts
TW: 325,219 documents; 177,846 abstracts (MT for recent)

15. Asian patent coverage MT MT* Abstracts^ Online Full texts PDF Images
Titles & Abstracts
English
Online
Full texts
PDF
Images
Japan: A & U3 documents from
1-2 weeks
after publication MT
Searchable
In-house mosaic
1 week
MT* Abstracts^
6 months
China: A & Y documents from
Korea: A & U documents from
Taiwan: A documents from 2003; B & Y from 1998
*Only title ^On request MT=machine translation

16. Invention driven families
BETTER QUALITY SEARCH
Text
CN/PN and AB=YES
PlusPat :
FamPat :
Classification codes
IPC
US Class
JP FI and Fterms

17. Abstract

18. Classification

19. Machine translations Technology Lingway
document translation i.e.English query run against search files translated into English
Lingway
semantic search engine
development of ontologies

20. Machine translations Title and abstract English machine translations
JP A & U3 backlog planned
CN A & Y backlog planned
KR A & U on request
Full text English machine translations
JP planned
(Human translations when available)

21. Patolis-e
Comprehensive Legal Status
Bibliographic data
Images

22. Patolis-e

23. Patolis-e

24. Japanese codes and citations
FI for 13,528,768 documents
Fterms for 12,107,772 documents
Citations for 4,460,942 documents

25. Trademarks Coverage Goods and services machine translation
Japan in CaTaMaran
Other Asian countries planned
Goods and services machine translation

26. Trademarks

27. Designs global designs research service Japan and Korea planned
DesignFinder
global designs research service
Japan and Korea planned

28. Designs

29. Designs

30. Issues for the future
Evolution
Quality
Solutions

31.
POWERFUL
EFFICIENT
PRECISE

32. Integrated solution Search Analyze Order Watching Work-files
Visualize Documents

33.  ありがとう 谢谢 당신을 감사하십시오 Merci. Thank you. Danke. Grazie
 ありがとう 谢谢 당신을 감사하십시오 Merci! Thank you! Danke! Grazie! Rossella Osella Roland Gissler