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Christian Soltmann 4 July 2015 5.4.2 | Patent Information Promotion
How the European patent system and patent information contributes to growth and innovation in Europe
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Patent system: Balance of interests
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Benefits for patent holder Benefits for public
Controlling commercialisation of protected technology
Inspiring further innovation
Giving patent holders time to recoup their development costs
Preventing duplication of R&D in industry and universities
Helping to identify new partners Making the latest technological knowledge available to the public
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Patent information helps to
1 – prevent duplications
7 - spot trends
3 - check out existing patents
6 - identify partners
2 - find out what exists
4 - avoid infringement
5 - keep track of others
Patent information supports product development and innovation
State of the art
State of the art
State of the art State of the art
State of the art
State of the art
State of the art
State of the art
State of the art
Risk of infringement
Risk of infringement
Risk of infringement
Risk of infringement
Market analysis Market analysis
Market analysis
Patent analyses
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How to use patent information in daily routine
Patent analysis
Management Research & development IP management, patent and legal divsion
Patent data
Technical information Legal information
Business information Other information
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Mission of the European Patent Office As the patent office for Europe, the European Patent Office support innovation, competitiveness and economic growth across Europe through a commitment to high quality and efficient services delivered under the European Patent Convention.
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Today, 38 member states and 2 extension states
Belgium • Germany • France • Luxembourg • Netherlands • Switzerland • United Kingdom • Sweden • Italy • Austria • Liechtenstein • Greece • Spain • Denmark • Monaco • Portugal • Ireland • Finland • Cyprus • Turkey • Bulgaria • Czech Republic • Estonia • Slovakia • Slovenia • Hungary • Romania • Poland • Iceland • Lithuania • Latvia • Malta • Croatia • Norway • Former Yugoslav Rep. Macedonia • San Marino • Albania • Serbia
European patent applications and patents can also be extended at the applicant's request to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro.
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Specialised products for patent information users
Open Patent Services (Free; Fair use policy)
Espacenet (Free)
Raw Data products (Subscription)
Machine Translation (Free)
EP Register (Free)
Publication Server (Free)
ASIAN Patent Information (Subscription + Free)
Patent information products of the European Patent Office
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Searching technical information: Espacenet
§ More than 90 million patent documents (applications, granted patents, search reports, non-patent literature)
§ Data from 90 patent authorities worldwide
§ Data from 1836 to today
§ Source of technical information
§ Available free-of-charge via the internet at www.epo.org/espacenet
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Espacenet: User-friendly interfaces
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Espacenet: Patent Translate
§ Reducing the language barrier
§ Makes access to prior art in different languages easier (member states of the European Patent Convention and other important languages)
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European Patent Register: Legal and procedural information
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• Free-of-charge access to: – legal status information – procedural information for patent
applications with the European Patent Office
– information about the maintenance of granted European patents
• Secured access • Register alert monitoring tool
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European Patent Register: Dossier view
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European Patent Register: Federated Register and Global Dossier
• Federated Register: ‒ access to register data of national patent offices for
European patents: • table view • links to online register interfaces of the national patent
offices • Global Dossier: ‒ file inspection for patent applications from leading patent
offices worldwide (China, Europe, Japan, Korea, U.S.A.) ‒ automatic machine translation ‒ accessible in European Patent Register and in Espacenet
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Patent intelligence
§ Approach different from 'traditional' types of patent searches
'Traditional' patent searches Patent intelligence
Examples • novelty/prior art search • freedom-to-operate search • technology or legal status monitoring
• market analysis • technology scouting
Main target audience
• patent attorneys • IP experts
• IP managers • R&D managers • upper management • PATLIB centres, technology transfer
offices
Purpose • preparing patent application • assess risk of patent infringement
• addressing strategy-related issues, e.g. - understanding technology trends - identifying potential partners - understanding strategy of
competitors
Quantity of documents
• rather individual patent documents or small groups of documents
• usually large quantities of documents
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Basic search
• patent classes • search concepts • applicants • countries of
residence • [...]
• further analyses/processing
• visualisation • reporting
Statistical analysis Processing results
Group 1 Group 2
Patent intelligence: Procedure
Report
Executive Summary
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EPO Worldwide
Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) European
Patent Register for
PATSTAT
EPO worldwide
legal status database for
PATSTAT
PATSTAT product line
• Unique basis for conducting sophisticated statistical analyses of patent data
• Bibliographic data on more than 90 million patent documents of leading industrialized and developing countries
• Can be supplemented by: – legal event data of patent documents in many
countries worldwide – European patent register data: Bibliographic,
legal and procedural information on published European patent applications and on published EURO-PCT applications
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EPO Worldwide
Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) European
Patent Register for
PATSTAT
EPO worldwide
legal status database for
PATSTAT
PATSTAT product line: Typical fields of application
Question important for ...
Question IP management Management Research & development
Technology transfer offices, PATLIB
centres
Which are the most important competitors? ● ● ●
Which technologies are used in the technical field/sector? ● ● ●
How has technical field changed over time? ● ● ●
How has technical focus of competitors changed over time? ● ● ● ●
Who may be interested in my technology? ● ● ●
Where are the most promising markets for my technology? ● ● ●
How has patent strategy of my competitors changed over time? ● ●
In which technical fields may I also use/sell my technology? ● ● ● ●
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Patent Intelligence: Example co-application behaviour
Technical field: Arrangements for programme control
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Patent Intelligence: Example renewable energies: Patent activity
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Geothermal energy
Hydro energy
Energy from sea
Solar thermal energy
Photovoltaic energy
Thermal-‐PV hybrids
Wind energy
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Case study: EPO-OHIM study
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Example: Linking patent data, trademark data and design data: § Joint project of European Patent Office and the Office
for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM): − purpose: to examine economic characteristics of IP-
intensive industries in Europe − methodology: − determine which industries use IP rights more than
others − determine employment and value added generated
in those industries − determine weight of IP-intensive industries in
Europe
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Example: Linking patent data, trademark data and design data: § methodological challenge: − matching EPO's Worldwide Patent Statistical
Database (PATSTAT) and OHIM's register database with commercial ORBIS database and EUROSTAT data − novel and sophisticated data-matching technique was
needed, including extensive data preparation/name harmonisation
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§ Linking patent data, trademark data and design data to determine IP intensive industries:
Patent applications
published and patents granted by
EPO
EPO's PATSTAT database
Community trademarks and
registered community
designs
OHIM's register database
PATSTAT-ORBIS
concordance
OHIM-ORBIS concordance
Concordance schema
ORBIS database
Industry classification and other information
for more than 20 million European
companies
Example: Linking patent data, trademark data and design data:
EUROSTAT data NACE code
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Example: Linking patent data, trademark data and design data: § Results include: − about half of European industries can be considered IP-
intensive − total number of IP-dependent jobs: about 77 million (35
per cent of all jobs) − IP-intensive industries pay significantly higher wages than
other industries − value added per employee is higher in IP-intensive
industries than elsewhere in European economy § further information available at:
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/intellectual-property/studies/index_en.htm
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Thank you for your attention!
Christian Soltmann European Patent Office Directorate 5.4.2 | Patent Information Promotion Rennweg 12 A-1030 Vienna [email protected]