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Patent Bits and Pieces

Patent Bits and Pieces. October 10, 2013. Overview. Types of Documents Types of Searches Parts of a Patent Types/Parts of Patent Numbers Incl. Country Codes and Kind Codes Patent Families/Equivalents If time: INID #s, File Wrapper, Country specific sites. Patent Documents. Patents.

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Patent Bits and Pieces

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  1. Patent Bits and Pieces October 10, 2013

  2. Overview • Types of Documents • Types of Searches • Parts of a Patent • Types/Parts of Patent Numbers • Incl. Country Codes and Kind Codes • Patent Families/Equivalents • If time: INID #s, File Wrapper, Country specific sites

  3. Patent Documents Patents Other “Documents” Search Report File Wrapper Change of Assignment (*) Maintenance Fee Information • Utility Patent • Design Patent (D) • Plant Patent (PP) • Statutory Invention Registration (H) • Defensive Publications (T) • April 1968 – May 1985

  4. Types of Searches • Preliminary/Novelty/Freedom to Operate • Classification plus Maintenance • Inventor/Assignee • New hire • Conference “expert” • Competitor • Include families to find countries important to them • Future partnership • General “State of the Art” Research

  5. Searching is Iterative!

  6. Parts of a Patent Document • Bibliographic • Title, Number, Date, Inventor, Assignee, Class • References • Abstract • Drawings • Background • Summary/Description • Preferred Embodiments • Claims

  7. Patent Numbers • 10/023130 • EP1131476 (A1)  • DE4212755 (C2) • GB2434022 (B) • US20010023130 20011217 • US H1749 (H) • US RE42710 (E1) • WO 2008101089 (A3)

  8. Parts of a Patent Number

  9. Application Numbers (US) • Application Number (Series/number) • Publication Number (US YY/number)

  10. Country Codes • Based on ISO 3166-1 • From the WIPO website - http://www.wipo.int/pct/guide/en/gdvol1/annexes/annexk/ax_k.pdf • Alpha list (by code and by country) from the USPTO – (more useful for quick lookup) http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/helpctry.htm • Same codes as used for URLs

  11. Country Codes - Answers Organization Code African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) OA African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) AP Australia AU Austria AT Brazil BR Canada CA China CN Democratic Republic of the Congo CD El Salvador SV European Patent Office EP Greece GR Iceland IS Organization Code Ireland IE Israel IL Netherlands NL Nordic Patent Institute XN Norway NO Oman OM Russian Federation RU Saudi Arabia SA Serbia RS South Africa ZA Spain ES Sweden SE Switzerland CH United Kingdom GB World Intellectual Property Office WO

  12. Kind Codes US specific Kind Codes • Come at the end of the number • Vary by country/issuing authority • A letter, usually followed by a number Examples (general) • A – First publication level (application for most countries) • B – Second publication level (granted/examined patent for most countries) • C – Third publication level (granted patent in many countries, reexam certificate in US) • R - Separately published search reports • T – Publication of Translations • U, Y, and Z are 1st/2nd/3rd level for utility models

  13. Patent Numbers • 10/023130 • EP1131476 (A1)  • DE4212755 (C2) • GB2434022 (B) • US20010023130 20011217 • US H1749 (H) • US RE42710 (E1) • WO 2008101089 (A3)

  14. Patent Equivalents • Same invention / multiple countries • First application = Priority • English language publication • US, UK – English Only • EP, WO – Some English • JP (in PAJ) – English Abstracts • Patent Family = List of equivalents

  15. Advanced Topics • INID Numbers • Patent File Wrapper • Patent Information available from other countries

  16. INID Numbers • WIPO Handbook on Industrial Property Information and Documentation, Standard ST.9 • Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of (bibliographic) Data • …a list of approximately 60 distinct bibliographic data widely used on the first page of Patent documents or in Patent Gazettes

  17. File Wrapper • Official name for documentation that is part of the prosecution of an application/patent • USPTO – online, can download individual pieces, or just the ones you want, as PDF • EPO – “European Register” has similar information • Other countries have this online, but in their own language • Can be purchased – but $$$$

  18. WON Website • WON – Dutch Patent Information User Group • http://www.won-nl.org/2008/public/en/patinf.shtml • Website lists IP related sites by region/country: • Home Page • Bibliographic Database • Register • Full Documents (many are in PatentScope) • Machine Translations (very few) • Litigation Information • Other

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