Lighthouse IP

Update on Lighthouse IP

Gert Frackenpohl

II-PIC 2017, Bangalore

CONTENT

– Patent coverage update

– IP Data and Business Information

- Cooperation with Dun and Bradstreet

- DIAMOND: Global Bibliographic and Legal IP database

PATENT COVERAGE UPDATE

Expanding patent full text coverage

– 70 authorities in full text and MT new additions include a.o:

• Mongolia

• Ukraine

• Iran

• Belarus

– 140 countries bibliographic data (not just DOCDB)

– Sourcing gazettes directly from 80+ authorities

– Expanding legal status to 100+ authorities

– Access provided via partners (please visit our booth for more information)

IP AND BUSINESS INFORMATION

Growing interest from various sides of industry to have insight into IP holdings

For finance departments patents are often a black box

Representing an increasingly growing part of the business

Who owns what?

COOPERATION WITH DUN AND BRADSTREET (D&B)

Dun and Bradstreet is the worlds largest business information provider

Over 90% of fortune 500 companies use D&B data

Introduction to the DUNS®• Unique number per company (entity)• Assigned by D&B• Required by various government bodies in US

Corporate tree (ownership, structure, holdings)

INTRODUCTION OF IP INSIGHT

IP Insight is the worlds first matched dataset where patent owners (applicants and assignees) are linked to DUNS numbers

Extensive global map of patent ownership

Standardizing cleaned up applicants and assignees

All patents owned by companies (not individuals)

Keeping track of owner changes

Being able to see ownership of all patents within a group of companies

Some statistics:

• 24 million patent families (active and alive)

• Over 2 million unique companies (patent owners)

• 110 authorities

DIAMOND Global Bibliographic and Legal IP Data

Data sources today: DOCDB and INPADOC

• analyzing gaps in DOCDB

• completeness of countries and years

• Latency/topicality/frequency of update

• analyzing gaps in INPADOC

• 57 countries, 25 up-to-date

DIAMOND Global Bibliographic and Legal IP Data

Diamond 4 stages:

• 1. Diamond Bibliographic PRS : DOCDB-EPO 106 countries; 47 up-dated by LHIP.

• 2. Diamond Bibliographic Global : DOCDB + data of all available countries,

currently 156 countries

• 3. Diamond Legal Status PFS : INPADOC-EPO + enhanced by LHIP (up-to-date from gazettes)

• 4. Diamond Legal Status Global : INPADOC + data of all available countries

Data Content and FormAnalyzing the biblio and legal content of the gazettes, applications, grants, utility models, designs

• Bibliographic data:WIPO ST.9INIDs

• Legal data:• WIPO ST.17

RECOMMENDATION FOR THE CODING OF HEADINGS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE IN OFFICIAL GAZETTES (1990)

• WIPO ST.27• Legal Status Standardisation (June 2017)

QUESTIONS?

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