1 / 13

How the EPO searches prior art in Biotech

How the EPO searches prior art in Biotech. 3rd Annual Forum for SMEs Information Workshop on European Bioinformatics Resources Vienna, 3rd-4th September 2009. Titus Vogt Patent examiner | European Patent Office Dir. 2.4.04 | Biochemistry and Diagnostics

mahala
Download Presentation

How the EPO searches prior art in Biotech

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. How the EPO searches prior art in Biotech 3rd Annual Forum for SMEs Information Workshop on European Bioinformatics Resources Vienna, 3rd-4th September 2009 Titus Vogt Patent examiner | European Patent Office Dir. 2.4.04 | Biochemistry and Diagnostics Grasserstr. 9 | 80339 Munich | Germany tvogt@epo.org | http://www.epo.org

  2. A short C.V. • Study chemistry at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands. • PhD at the "Centre for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology", of the Utrecht University, The Netherlands. • Post-doc at the lab "Chimie Physique des Macromolécules aux Interfaces" of the Université Libre des Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. • Post-doc at the independent junior research group "Fest-Körper NMR Spectroscopie" of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. • Patent examiner at the European Patent Office, Munich, Germany. Dr. TCB VOGT

  3. Model search strategy Intuitive and iterative process Analyze application End of search Quick search Analyze results: - keywords, classes - scope/focus search Complete the search Written opinion analyze results: - fields covered, - relevance of documents - select databases - formulate query - retrieve results Formulate opinion

  4. Analyze the application. • Determine what needs to be searched. • read the claims, • identify the technical features of the solution(s), • try to identify the "invention" (use the description when necessary). • Classify the claimed subject matter. • ECLA, IPC. • Collect keywords, synonyms, etc. • Identify applicant and inventors.

  5. Quick search The Aim of the quick search is to get an quick overview of the field. • Keyword search in e.g. Google, Scirus, PubMed. • Search for publications from the inventors and applicant. • scientific literature. • patent literature. • applicant web-site. • Search for a recent review on the subject. • Collect more keywords.

  6. Complete the search • Sequence/Structure searches, • large proteins/polynucleotides EBI • small peptides/polynucleotides Chem. Abstr., Registry • structure CA, Registry, Beilstein • Search patent and non-patent literature (full-text and bibliographic databases), • classification • keywords, synonyms, etc. • inventors/applicant • Chemical Abstracts • keywords • thesaurus

  7. Written opinion. • Analyze the documents. • new keywords? • additional players in the field? • citing/cited documents. • select the closest prior art. • Determine the objective technical problem to be solved. • inventive effect? • which feature(s) is/are responsible? • Everything covered? • Formulate opinion. • any missing links?

  8. The EPO tools: The Viewer

  9. The EPO tools: XFull (full-text search)

  10. The EPO tools: IBIS (sequence submissions)

  11. The EPO tools: IBIS (results)

  12. The EPO tools: Databases

  13. Thank you for your attention. Any questions?

More Related