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Patent Information in Global Companies

Patent Information in Global Companies. Minoo Philipp President Patent Documentation Group www.p-d-g.org minoo.philipp@henkel.com. WIPO Global Symposium of IP Authorities Geneva September 17 – 18 2009. Introduction to the PDG Importance of Patents

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Patent Information in Global Companies

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  1. Patent Information in Global Companies Minoo Philipp President Patent Documentation Group www.p-d-g.org minoo.philipp@henkel.com WIPO Global Symposium of IP Authorities Geneva September 17 – 18 2009

  2. Introduction to the PDG • Importance of Patents • Patent Information and Intellectual Property

  3. Patent Documentation Group • 1957 PDG was founded as a working pool by 13 European chemical and petrochemical companies • 1960 Involvement in patent information management • 1970 Focus on on-line retrieval • 1976 First Working Group - Networks & Online Retrieval created • 1980 Working Group IMPACT established • 1984 PDG Statutes amended to open membership to non- chemical / petrochemical companies • 1986 Observer status at WIPO • 1992 Working Group Patent Database Vendors • 1994 Working Group Internal Management of Information

  4. Patent Documentation Group • 1998 Annual PDG-EPO FORUM • 2001 Working Group Biotechnology searching • 2002 Working Group Full-text searching • 2005 Working Group Education and Certification • 2006 Working Group Analysis & Visualisation (formerly IP tools since 2001) • 2007 Celebrated 50th Anniversary • 2009 Currently 36 leading multinational companies from major industrial sectors

  5. A Selection of PDG Corporate Members Status September 2009

  6. Four PDG companies are top PCT applicants

  7. Introduction to the PDG • Importance of Patents • Patent Information and Intellectual Property

  8. Why do we need Patents • Promote and protect our innovations • Enable entry of new products and services into market • Facilitate access to better products and services • Secure competitive advantage • Avoid infringements, litigations, or payment of large licensing fees • IP has enormous strategic and economic value

  9. Introduction to the PDG • Importance of Patents • Patent Information and Intellectual Property

  10. Patent Information is a Crucial Element for Success

  11. Access to Patent Information can Promote IP Rights

  12. Patent Information in Global Organisations • Freedom to operate in order to avoid litigation • Patent opposition • Product safety • Innovation • IP analysis & landscapes • Patent alerts & monitoring

  13. Workflow for a Search Request • Consultation • Search • Assessment and / or analysis of search results • Post-processing and documentation • Delivery of search results

  14. What are our Requirements? • Timeliness • Correctness • Completeness • Reliability

  15. What can WIPO do? • Offer training and educate the public • Cooperate closely with industry and patent information users and commercial providers • Invest in technology • Invest in manpower • Invest in staff training

  16. Improve Retrieval Capabilities • Introduce sophisticated tools to support searching • Cross / multi-lingual retrieval tools and solutions • Capability to search non-text information • Capability to identify & search document segments e.g. examples • Automatic concept identification • Patent analysis • Visualisation & mapping tools • Automatic machine translation – (JP, KR, CN)

  17. Standardization • Correction procedure • Citation harmonization • Kind-code standardization • Standardization of application numbers (PDG initiatives / PDG member of Task Force)

  18. Data / Information • Legal status information on PCT cases entering the national / regional phase • IPC Reform • Missing IPC classes still unsolved problem • Cooperation with Asian and Latin American countries to offer more legal status data • Translations of patent documents / utility models of Asian and other offices as readable text • Access to reliable worldwide IP statistics (PDG initiatives)

  19. Policy • Information policy of WIPO as a patent information provider - PatentScope, Translations etc. • IPC vs. Hybrid classification • WIPO's role in the new framework of Trilateral Offices, IP5 and others - what is the future of WIPO?

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