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PATENTSCOPE Patent Search Strategies and Techniques. Centurion September 11, 2014. Andrew Czajkowski Head, Innovation and Technology Support Section. Review. Main features Interfaces CLIR (cross-lingual) Simple search Field combination Advanced search Results analysis Documents
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PATENTSCOPE Patent Search Strategies and Techniques Centurion September 11, 2014 Andrew Czajkowski Head, Innovation and Technology Support Section
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
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 • 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 • 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
CLIR: Automatic mode Query language is the language in which your query is entered
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
Supervised mode: Domain selection automatic domain detection
Results Machine translation
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
IPC: Official publication http://www.wipo.int/ipcpub