1. PATENTSCOPE Patent Search Strategies and Techniques Andrew Czajkowski Head, Innovation and Technology Support Section Centurion September 11, 2014

2. Review Main features Interfaces CLIR (cross-lingual) Simple search Field combination Advanced search Results analysis Documents RSS feeds

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Summary of features – Analyzing/Exporting Results Charts Excel export Query Tree IPC statistics

8. Coverage 39 national/regional collections including PCT 7 New collections recently added: Bahrain Canada China Egypt Estonia Eurasian Patent Organisation United Arab Emirates

9. 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

10. Coverage : Collections PCT applications, ARIPO, EPO, LATIPAT and national collections

11. Coverage: Help menu

14. Coverage : Details of collections

15. 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)

16. 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

17. 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

18. WIPO homepage

19. PATENTSCOPE homepage

20. WIPO PATENTSCOPE

21. 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

22. WIPO PATENTSCOPE

23. PATENTSCOPE interfaces

24. Interfaces: CLIR

25. CLIR: Automatic mode  Query language is the language in which your query is entered

26. Automatic mode: Query and results

27. 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

28. Automatic mode: Query and results

29. Results

30. Automatic mode: Query and results

32. Interfaces: CLIR

33. CLIR: Automatic mode

35. CLIR: Supervised mode

36. Supervised mode: Domain selection  automatic domain detection

37. Supervised mode: Domain selection

38. Supervised mode: Variant selection

41. Supervised mode: Field and distance selection

42. Supervised mode: Field selection

43. Supervised mode: Query and results

44. Results  Machine translation

45. Machine translation

46. 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

47. Supervised mode: Query and results

48. Results

49. Results: Analysis

50. IPC: Official publication http://www.wipo.int/ipcpub

51. IPC: Official publication

52. Classification: A23K

53. Supervised mode: Query and results

55. Interfaces: Simple search

57. Simple search: IPC

58. Simple search: Query and results

59. Results

60. Scenario: A twist The scientist contacts you again: She tells you that she is actually most interested in animal feed specifically designed for cows.

61. Classification: A23K  No classification available for "Animal feeding-stuffs specially adapted for cows"

62. 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

63. Simple search: Query and results

65. Interfaces: Field combination

66. Field combination: Query

67. Field combination: Query and results

68. Results

69. Field combination: Query and results

71. Interfaces: Advanced search

72. Advanced search interface: Field codes International classification Title Abstract Claims  IC:(…)  TI:(…)  AB:(…)  CL:(…)

73. Advanced search interface: Field codes (Help) http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/help/fieldsHelp.jsf

74. 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)

75. Classification: A23K

76. 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))

77. Advanced search: Query

78. Advanced search: Query and results

79. Query tree

80. Results

81. 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

82. Results

83. Results: Analysis

86. 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

87. Results

88. Record

89. Record: Documents

92. Documents

93. Documents: International Search Report

94. 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

95. Advanced search: Query and results

96. RSS feed

97. 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.

98. 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

99. 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")

100. Results

101. Individual document Applicants and inventors Office Key dates Invention data

102. Individual document: Description

104. Results

105. Results: Analysis

106. Results: Analysis (applicant)

108. 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.

109. Results: Analysis

110. Results: Analysis (publication date)

111. 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

112. Thank you for your attention! For more information, please contact: tisc@wipo.int