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S h P t tSearch Patent Literature

September 2011Esther Arias Pé[email protected]

Patents offer different kind of information:

‐Tecnichal‐CommercialLegal‐Legal

They can help to know:

‐What are new, upcoming developments in theWhat are new, upcoming developments in the field?‐Who are my potential competitors/partners?‐What are my competitors doing?‐What are other uses for my invention?

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And even they can become WorldHeritage Documents

In 2008 there were applied 1.907.915 patents and 320.000 utility models (nearly 140

applications per hour)

Patent collections grow and grow

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Search tools in the patent world: FREE or PAYMENT

National Offices: USPTO, SPTO… http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html; p p g phttp://invenes.oepm.es/InvenesWeb/faces/busquedaInternet.jsp

Google: http://www.google.com/patents

Espacenet: http://www.espacenet.com/access/index.en.htm

Lexis‐Nexis: http://researchport.umd.edu/source=UMD02132

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Almost every month a new tool is launched

HOW CAN WE BE AWARED?

Blogs

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Discussion groups

Users “Ejercicio de Vigilancia Tecnológica de patentes con herramientas gratuitas de Internet”. E.Arias. madri+d 20/11/2008

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Example: VIAGRA patent

Tool 1:

•Simple, advance , smartsearch, number, Classification

•English, German, French

•ECLA classification

•More than 70 milliondocuments from90 countries

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Tool 1:

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•Export results

•PDF and html

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Tool 1:

•Family list

•INPADOC information

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Tool 2:

• Espacenet devoted toLatinoamerican patents

• Machine Translation

•“Vigilancia Tecnológica”

Tool 2:

“Vigilancia Tecnológica”

Classification searches in Biotechnology and Green Patents

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Tool 3:

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•Search interface formobile

•28 patent collections

Tool 3:

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Tool 3:

Statistics: graphs ranking of applicants, Classsification, Publication

dates applicationsdates applications…

Tool 4:

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Tool 4:

•PDF•Included information fromIncluded information from Google

•New development (beta version)

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version) •Analisys tool

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Tool 5:

•USA documents

•Search in full textSearch in full text

Tool 5:

•Not always the sameresults

•Not revision of index

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Tool 5:

•Spanish documentssince 1960since 1960

•PDF

•Export

Each database offerdifferent capabilities.

We have to choose the bestto our needs.

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FREE INTERNET PATENT DATABASES:FREE INTERNET PATENT DATABASES:What are they good for?•Sampling data, answers to easy questions •State of the art searches•Verifying results from other databases•Verifying results from other databases•Free patent copies from main countries

What are their limits?•Assignee and status info unreliable•Slow and ineffective search toolsP titl b t t i d i•Poor titles, abstracts, indexing•No chemical, protein, sequences searchs

How reliable is the data?•Sometimes may be incomplete, no updated or inaccurate

RECOMMENDATIONSRECOMMENDATIONS1. Use free databases for quick answers and to

verify results from other sources.

2. Use mid‐range fixed subscription databases. for general high volume searching.

3. For critical project verify and check results

b ibl d b hon best possible sources and bear the costs.

4. Don´t forget that patents have legal effects and there are other kind of sources of information we must consult.

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Tool 6: ON LINE FILE INSPECTION

Tool 6: ON LINE FILE INSPECTION

You can find tips fordrafting patents

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Tool 7: EXPIRED PATENTS (USPTO)

Tool 7: EXPIRED PATENTS (SPAIN)

http://www.oepm.es/es/propiedad_industrial/transferencia_de_tecnologia/Patentes_Caducadas.html

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FUTURE: FROM “PAUL OTLET FUTURE: FROM “PAUL OTLET VISION” TO THE “INTERNET CLOUD”VISION” TO THE “INTERNET CLOUD”

Tool 8: OPEN PATENT SERVICE Web sites that use EPO, USPTO or national

offices “raw data”

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Tool 9: Semantics/concept search Tools

•Semantic searches

• PAYMENT

•Trial versions


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ThanksThanks

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Esther Arias Pé[email protected]