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

PATENTSCOPEPatent Search Strategies and Techniques

Andrew Czajkowski

Head, Innovation and Technology Support Section

CenturionSeptember 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: Help menu

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



keywords

classification




WIPO homepage

PATENTSCOPE homepage

WIPO PATENTSCOPE

Task breakdown



keywords

classification




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


Results



Interfaces: CLIR



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



keywords

classification





Results

Results: Analysis

IPC: Official publication

http://www.wipo.int/ipcpub

IPC: Official publication

Classification: A23K



Interfaces: Simple search

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.


No classification available for "Animal feeding-stuffs specially adapted for cows"

Task breakdown



keywords

classification

keywords and classification






Interfaces: Field combination

Field combination: Query

Field combination: Query and results

Results



Interfaces: Advanced search

Advanced search interface: Field codes

International classification

Title

Abstract

Claims

IC:(…) TI:(…) AB:(…) CL:(…)

Advanced search interface: Field codes (Help)

http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/help/fieldsHelp.jsf

Concepts and synonyms

cow: cattle, bovinecow OR cattle OR bovineTI:(cow OR cattle OR bovine) OR AB:(cow OR cattle OR

bovine) OR CL:(cow OR cattle OR bovine)


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



keywords

classification





Results

Results: Analysis

Results: Analysis

Results: Analysis

Task breakdown



keywords

classification





Results

Record

Record: Documents

Record: Documents

Record: Documents

Documents

Documents: International Search Report

Task breakdown

Access the PATENTSCOPE search serviceRetrieve patent documents based on

keywordsclassificationkeywords and classification

Analyze the whole set of results according to applicants and inventors Examine a specific patent document and its related documents within the resultsKeep 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

Individual document: Description

Results

Results: Analysis

Results: Analysis (applicant)

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

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