Patent scope ompi

Andrew Czajkowski

26 February 2008

Panama

OverviewOverview

WIPO’s patent information objectives

PATENTSCOPE®

Five challenges in patent information

Possible cooperation activities

Introduction

Global BackgroundGlobal Background

Innovation-driven Economic GrowthInnovation-driven Economic Growth

• A country’s ability to compete in the knowledge- based economy is not dependent on its size, raw materials or low labor costs, but on its innovative capability

• Transformation of patent system from a classic patent granting system of the industrial economy to an information system of the knowledge economy

The context of patent informationThe context of patent information

Increasing diversity of :1. Countries of origin2. Countries of filing3. Languages

Number of Resident Patent Applications FiledNumber of Non-Resident Patent Applications Filed

Number of Filings

0 50,000 100,000 150,000 250,000 300,000 350,000 400,000 450,000200,000

JapanU.S.AChina

Republic of KoreaEuropean Patent Office

GermanyCanada

Russian FederationAustralia

United KingdomIndia

FranceBrazxilMexico

Hong Kong, ChinaSingapore

New ZealandPoland

ThailandIsrael

PatentOffices

+0.9%

+9.5%+32.9%

+14.8%

+4.1%+1.7%

+1.5%

+6.8%

+3.3%

-6.5%

+1.3%

-2.1%

-13.8%

+9.4%

+17.6%

+0.2%

+7.3%

-14.9%

+18.0%

+6.1%

<Source : WIPO Statistics Database>

WIPO BackgroundWIPO Background

WIPO’s Role and ObjectivesWIPO’s Role and Objectives

Promote an IP Culture

Integrate IP into national development policies and programmes

Develop international IP laws and standards

Deliver quality services in global IP protection systems

WIPO’s Patent Information ObjectivesWIPO’s Patent Information Objectives

Publication and dissemination of PCT international applicationsPublication and dissemination of PCT international applications

Enhanced utilisation of patent informationEnhanced utilisation of patent information

Electronic publication via PATENTSCOPE®

PCT data products - dissemination of high-volume data to offices and subscribers

Seminars, workshops, etc

Guides, tutorials

Technology studies, patent landscapes, particularly on issues relatedto public policy

Integration of more data

What is PATENTSCOPE® www.wipo.int/patentscope What is PATENTSCOPE® www.wipo.int/patentscope

Access to WIPO’s patent and PCT resources in one place

Access to the technical information contained in nearly 1.4 million international patent applications

The platform for online electronic publicationof PCT international applications

More information on emerging issues, patent data, patentinformation and statistics

PATENTSCOPE® DevelopmentPATENTSCOPE® Development

’07

’06

’05

PATENTSCOPE® Graphics feature added

Searchable full text collection from 1978 (Latin languages)

January

March

PATENTSCOPE® becomes the platformfor PCT electronic publication

PCT National Phase entries online

RSS notifications of new search results

April

May

PATENTSCOPE® released with complete PCT backfileand file inspection functions

June

Establishment of the single and authentic PCT database’04~’05

PATENTSCOPE® DevelopmentPATENTSCOPE® Development

ExperiencesExperiencesContinued growth in usageContinued growth in usage

20,000,00020,000,000

00

Pageviews

10,000,00010,000,000

1/2006 3/2006 5/2006 7/2006 9/2006 11/2006

Many small-medium sized offices use PATENTSCOPE®

as their primary source of PCT documentation

Many small-medium sized offices use PATENTSCOPE®

as their primary source of PCT documentation

Positive feedback from patent searchers and offices(survey results)

Positive feedback from patent searchers and offices(survey results)

PATENTSCOPE® Search - FeaturesPATENTSCOPE® Search - Features

Flexible and fast full-text search engineFlexible and fast full-text search engine

Search term highlightingSearch term highlighting

Updated bibliographic and status informationUpdated bibliographic and status information

PCT national phase entriesPCT national phase entries

Access to search and examination results,and other file contentsAccess to search and examination results,and other file contents

Graphical analysisGraphical analysis

RSS notificationsRSS notifications

PATENTSCOPE® PATENTSCOPE®

Support for Spanish language users

Cross-language search function

Machine translation

Spanish interface: ongoing translation process

National Phase data

PATENTSCOPE® SearchPATENTSCOPE® Search

Very flexible search using

Unlimited keywords

Bibliographic fields(IPC,applicant name,publication date,etc)

Full text of Description and Claims

Boolean operators(AND, OR, NOT)

Right truncation, near operator,range searches, etc

Full TextFull Text


Fully searchable description and claims text (OCR, not perfect)

Search term highlighting

Distribution maps

Bibliographic informationBibliographic information

PATENTSCOPE® Search - Bibliographic informationPATENTSCOPE® Search - Bibliographic information

Bibliographic data is always the most recent available,including status changes after publication

National PhaseNational Phase


More than 2.6 million notifications from 30+ officesstatus information (where available)

Internet hyperlinks to some offices databases(national language translations, status information, etc)

File contentsFile contents

PATENTSCOPE® Search - File contentsPATENTSCOPE® Search - File contents

• Official publication and file contents in one place• View or download complete documents• Choice of formats (PDF, XML, TIFF)

Documents



1. Enter any search criteria 2. Click on the Graphics icon


PATENTSCOPE® Search - Graphical analysisPATENTSCOPE® Search - Graphical analysis

RSS notificationsRSS notifications

PATENTSCOPE® Search - RSS NotificationsPATENTSCOPE® Search - RSS Notifications

RSS is an internet standard for notifying users ofupdates to web pages

Requires a freeRSS reader

Weekly updates

RSS

Five ChallengesFive Challenges

Challenge #1 - LanguagesChallenge #1 - Languages

PCT applications are filed in more than 22 languages,and published in 8 different

languages

Only 65% are published in English

A full-text search in Englishis only searching 65% of

the database

16% are in Japanese,12% in German, etc

Languages - WIPO’s capabilities and approachLanguages - WIPO’s capabilities and approach

• 70+ professional translators

• Parallel texts in 7 languages

• Terminology databases

WIPO has

Build a terminology database,leveraging existing resources

Cross-language multi-lingualsearch engine

Machine translation of search results

Cross-language searchCross-language search

User

Cross-language semantic analysis

Machine translation

Search Results

WIPO Terminology

Search: “mouse trap”

Lang #1 Lang #2

Challenge #2 - Electronic EnvironmentChallenge #2 - Electronic Environment

Demand for high-quality full-text output

Diversity of filing formats (PDF, PCT-Easy, ...)

Only half of those are in full-text XML format

>50% of PCT applications are filed electronically

The transition to fully-electronic patent documents:


Bib Data

TIFF

OCR

Image-basedprocessing

Paper

PDF

XML

PATENTSCOPE®

All documents are converted to TIFF images- “lowest common denominator” formatOCR post-processing creates search-quality text

Today’s processToday’s process


Paper

PDF

XML

PATENTSCOPE®XML process

Imageprocessing

TIFF

OCR

XML

TIFF

Full XML processing for XML input (JP first)early 2008

Filing or conversion of all inputs to XML?Future

Challenge #3 - New UsersChallenge #3 - New Users

Integration of IP into public policy issue

Contribution of IP to development

Importance of IP to technological and economic progress

Increasing public interest / concern

Today’s environment of intellectual property

Challenge #3 - New UsersChallenge #3 - New Users

• Guides, training, seminars• Patent landscapes on topical issues

Limited knowledge of the role of patent information

Accessibility

Application of patent information to today’s issues

Challenges include

Challenge #4 - Business useChallenge #4 - Business use

Analysis of technology, market, product, competitive environment, etc

Typically restricted to large enterprises using expensive services

Limited use by SMEs

Use of patent information in business

Challenge #4 - Business useChallenge #4 - Business use

Graphical analysis tools

More under investigation - leverage cheap or open-source analysis tools

RSS notifications

Our responseOur response

Challenge #5 - Status information and coverageChallenge #5 - Status information and coverage

• PCT national phase• Geographical coverage• Grant, refusal, maintenance

Information is still limited

PCT national phase entries, with hyperlinks- 30+ offices to date, and more to come...

Technical assistance to national offices for digitisingtheir patent data and creating online services

Our response

Possible cooperation activities with WIPOPossible cooperation activities with WIPO

• Local scanning projects

• Collection and publication of PCT national phase entry data

• OCR’ing images allowing full textsearching

WIPO assistance in: WIPO assistance in:

Increasing availability of Latin American data

Possible cooperation activities with WIPOPossible cooperation activities with WIPO

• Greater accessibility of Latin American data using WIPO portal

• Greater search and analysis possibilities using PATENTSCOPE® functionalities

• Greater national visibility usingcountry interfaces in PATENTSCOPE®

Data available on PATENTSCOPE® Data available on PATENTSCOPE®

Increasing accessibility to Latin American data

¡Muchas Gracias!

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