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THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE

TO DISCOVERING

PATENTS

NUS Libraries

(Patent Resource Team)

Industry Liaison Office

25 September 2017

2pm – 4pm

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PROGRAMME OUTLINE

• Basics of Patent Searching

– Basics of Patent Documents

– Using Search Operators

– Find Other Relevant Patents

– Additional Tips: Using Workspace, Search History and Alerts

• Patsnap Landscape

– Generate Landscape Maps From Search Results

• Patsnap Insights

– Company or Technology Dashboards

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B A S I C S O F PAT E N T S E A R C H I N GL O H M E E L A N

S E N I O R L I B R A R I A N

L E A D , P A T E N T R E S O U R C E T E A M , N U S L I B R A R I E S

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WHY SEARCH FOR PATENTS

• Point out new directions in research

• Generate ideas for projects

• Reduce wastage on duplicating research

• Gain access to a wealth of technical information not published

anywhere else

• Don’t search patents only as last part of the research process

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BASICS OF PATENT DOCUMENTS

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View one of the patent record (US8119053)

Example of Patent:- Cover Page

- Bibligraphic Data

- Patent No, Inventor Name, Abstracts,

etc.

- Specifications

- Descriptions of Invention

- Technical Field, Background Art

- Claims

- Defines the legal boundaries of protection

Image Source:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.google

apis.com/pdfs/US8119053.pdf

Country & Kind Code

TYPES OF PATENT SEARCHES

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Topic Search

Search by Keywords

Search by Classification

US Classification (UPC)

International Patent Classification (IPC)

Cooperative Patent Classification

(CPC)

Locarno Classification

Known Patent Search

Search by NumberPatent/Publication No.

Application No.

Title

Search by NameInventor Name

Assignee Name

SEARCH TOPIC: 3D PRINTING

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Manufacture,

Manfactures,

Manufacturing

Manufact

ur*

Look for different

variations of keywords

“3D

Printing”

Use phrase

searching

Additive Manufacturing

Find the synonyms / alternate

terms of the keywords

“3D print*”

OR “Additive

Manufactur*”

Use Boolean

operators

3D Printing

Identify the keywords in

the topic

AND OR

KEYWORDS SEARCHING : USEFUL SEARCH OPERATORS

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Operator Explanation Example

AND 2 keywords must be found in document apple AND orange

OR Either keywords found in document apple OR orange

NOT 1st keyword must be found but exclude 2nd

keyword

apple NOT orange

“ “ Keywords within quotation marks must be next to

each other in the order specified

“apple juice”

( ) Using parentheses to define search order (apple OR orange) NOT juice

* Replace a string of characters function*

$Wn Search words within “n” words of each other, in any

order

vitamins $W5 nutrients

$WS Search words within SAME sentence vitamins $WS nutrients

Go to Search

Helper for

more tips:

Search Syntax

Tab

SEARCH STATEMENT

Query: (3D printing) OR (Additive Manufacturing)

All Fields: Retrieved : 652,483 applications

Query: “3D printing” OR “Additive Manufacturing”

All Fields: Retrieved : 31,618 applications

Query: “3D printing” OR “Additive Manufacturing”

Title / Abstract / Claims Fields : Retrieved: 14,620 applications

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REFINE YOUR SEARCH RESULTS

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Refine Search

(1) Select

options on

left of

screen

(1) Click

“Refine”

button

FIND OTHER PATENTS

• Retrieve Other Relevant Patents Using:

• More Like This

• Citation Map

• Patent Classifications

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ADDITIONAL TIPS: USING WORKSPACE, ALERTS, SAVED SEARCH, HISTORY

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Tips:

Add relevant

documents to

your

workspace

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Exercise

PAT S N A PL A N D S C A P EM R H A U J I U N C H E N

M A N A G E R , I N D U S T RY L I A I S O N O F F I C E

2 5 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 7

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Exercise

PAT S N A PI N S I G H TM R H A U J I U N C H E N

M A N A G E R , I N D U S T RY L I A I S O N O F F I C E

2 5 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 7

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Exercise

GUIDES & LINKS

- Industry Liaison Office. Information for researchers

(http://enterprise.nus.edu.sg/technology-commercialisation/for-

researchers)

- NUS Libraries. Patent Library Guide

(http://libguides.nus.edu.sg/patents)

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