PATENTSCOPE

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• PATENTSCOPE
• WIPOs flagship online patent system

Geneva, June 2013
Iustin Diaconescu Head, Patent Databases Service
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Agenda

• PATENTSCOPE
• Mission Vision
• Coverage
• Features
• Audience
• Statistics
• Whats new

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Mission Vision

• PATENTSCOPE is a global public good promoting
  research and innovation.
• It provides all stakeholders of innovation with
  resources and tools for search and analysis of
  trends and insights in business, technology and
  academia.

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Strengths

• Free public World Top resource of searchable
  patent description and claims (full text)
• The first site to view weekly PCT publications
• Search and read all patent collections in a
  familiar language and read in your own language
• A database with a global coverage

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Agenda

• PATENTSCOPE
• Mission Vision
• Coverage
• Features
• Audience
• Statistics
• Whats new

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Pursuing a global coverage

• Todays situation
• 32 national/regional collections including big
  offices like PCT, US, EPO, Japan, Korea, Russia
  
• 30 million biblio records, 20 million full text
  records
• Very soon China, Canada, Australia, UK

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Coverage Recently added

• United States of Americafrom 1790 to 2013, 10
  million records, full text from 1976
• JapanFrom 1993 to 2013, 8.3 million patent
  records, 7 million patent full text records
• China 4 million patents and applications to be
  added in a few months

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Coverage Full text OCR

• OCR is performed weekly for the PCT applications
  worse cases verified and analyzed by human
  operators afterwards.
• OCR for the national collections is performed on
  a regular basis.
• http//patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/help/data_co
  verage.jsf

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Agenda

• PATENTSCOPE
• Mission Vision
• Coverage
• Features
• Audience
• Statistics
• Whats new

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Search Forms - Examples
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Search Forms Cross Lingual Expansion
EN_AB("electric bicyle" OR power bike
OR electric bike) OR DE_AB"elektrisches
Steuerungseinrichtung" OR FR_AB("portage cycle
électriques OR "bicyclette à assistance
électrique") OR JA_AB("?? ????" OR "?? ????" OR
"??? ????) OR KO_AB("??? ??" OR "??? ???") OR
ZH_AB("?? ??" OR "?? ??")
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Features Search Forms

• Multiple search forms to suit different types of
  users. Simple Search, Field Search, Advanced
  Search, Multilingual Search
• Generic search fields as EN_ALLTXT, ALLNAMES,
  PCT_LASTPUBDATE
• Integrated Multi-lingual Stemmer
• Advanced Search capabilities such as complex
  boolean, wildcards, proximity, fuzzy, and range
  queries.

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Features Search query example

• DPpct_lastpubdate and PA(University of
  California)
• NPCCIN and IPCA61K
• EN_ALLTXT(electric NEAR bicycle)
• EN_AB((elect or solar) NEAR (bike OR bicycle))

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Features Result List

• Efficiently manage large result sets
• Sort results by search relevancy, latest
  Publication or application date
• Simple, Complete, Image Viewing
• Highlighting with advanced capabilities
• Incorporated translate functions
• Grouping by specific fields
• RSS, Excel download

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Features Application/Patent Viewing

• Full list of related documents, national entries
  records and notices for PCT applications
• OCR-ed description and claims contain embedded
  images
• All Non-English Title and Abstract can be now
  translated live to your familiar language using
  the inbuilt TAPTA Translator.
• PDF page by page viewer
• Drawings navigational tool

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Features Analyzing/Exporting Results

• Charts
• Excel export
• Search Map
• Search Tree
• IPC Statistics

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Features Query Tree
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Agenda

• PATENTSCOPE
• Mission Vision
• Coverage
• Features
• Audience
• Statistics
• Whats new

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Audience

• Innovators (research and innovation stakeholders
  such as companies and universities)
• Governments (patent offices and policy makers)
• Translators and analysts
• General public

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Agenda

• PATENTSCOPE
• Mission Vision
• Coverage
• Features
• Audience
• Statistics
• Whats new

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Statistics
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Agenda

• PATENTSCOPE
• Mission Vision
• Coverage
• Features
• Audience
• Statistics
• Whats new

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Whats New

• Full text search in Japanese
• Efforts to break the language barrierIPC codes
  translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool
• Electronic products
• New search operators
• Licensing Request, Third Party Observations

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Whats new Full text search in Japanese

• Since April 2012, PATENTSCOPE uses the LUCENE
  Kuromoji morphological analyzer (contributed by
  Atilika Inc. (?????????))
• Japanese text is tokenized in  words  before
  indexation and the obtained  words  are indexed
  the same way as for latin languages
• Proximity queries are more meaningful
• CLIR to be adapted to use Kuromoji in the near
  future

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Kuromoji segmentation example

• ????????
• HEAT EXCHANGE TYPE VENTILATION SYSTEM
  (PCT/JP2012/002438)
• ? ? ?
• ?   ??   ?   ??   ??
• HEAT EXCHANGE SHAPE VENTILATION EQUIPMENT (Google
  translate)

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Kuromoji highlight example
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Whats New

• Full text search in Japanese
• Efforts to break the language barrierIPC codes
  translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool
• Electronic products
• New search operators
• Licensing Request, Third Party Observations

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Mouse over display of translated IPC codes
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Machine Translation of results list
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Machine Translation of Description/Claims
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Whats New

• Full text search in Japanese
• Efforts to break the language barrierIPC codes
  translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool
• Electronic products
• New search operators
• Licensing Request, Third Party Observations

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Whats new? New bulk E. Products

PCT OCR Backfile Asian languages gt Provided on
DVD gt Searchable full text
PCT XML Backfile gt Provided on DVD gt Searchable
full text
PCT Backfile Bibliographic gt Provided on DVD gt
Searchable full text
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Whats New

• Full text search in Japanese
• Efforts to break the language barrierIPC codes
  translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool
• Electronic products
• New search operators
• Licensing Request,
• Third Party Observations

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New features New operators

• The powerful NEAR operator EN_TI(bicycle NEAR7
  electric) AND EN_AB((solar or electric) NEAR
  (bicycle OR bike))
• The BEFORE operator EN_ALLTXT(electric BEFORE
  bicycle)
• The empty field operator OFUS and
  PRIORPCTWO TO (the US patents that are PCT
  applications)

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Whats New

• Full text search in Japanese
• Efforts to break the language barrierIPC codes
  translation, Tapta, Google, Bing Translation tool
• Electronic products
• New search operators
• Licensing Request,
• Third Party Observations

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Whats new? PCT Licensing feature

• PCT applicants can signal their willingness to
  license their patents (see http//www.wipo.int/edo
  cs/pctndocs/en/2012/pct_news_2012_13.pdf)
• In force since 2012
• Possible when filing and up to the expiration of
  the 30-month time period after filing
• Licensing information viewable and searchable in
  PATENTSCOPE

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Whats new? Licensing feature

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Whats new? PCT Third party observations

• Effective way for third parties to bring relevant
  prior art to the attention of applicants,
  International Authorities and designated Offices
  during the international phase of PCT processing
  (see http//www.wipo.int/pct/en/epct/pdf/epct_obse
  rvations.pdf)
• In operations since July 2012
• No fee required
• Possible after publication and until 28-months
  from the priority date

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Whats new Improve User Communication

• Webinars
• User satisfaction survey
• Forum
• patentscope_at_wipo.int

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