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EuropeanPatent Office
Les outils de recherche brevet
Paul SchwanderOEB, La Haye
EuropeanPatent Office
Les outils de recherche brevet
1. La recherche documentaire à l'OEB
2. Les activités Information Brevets
3. Utilisation des outils gratuits sur Internet
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A l'OEBA l'OEB
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Les outils gratuits
The EuropeanPatent Office
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What was search like?
• Reading the patent
application• Assessing the relevant
technical fields: classification
symbols.• Retrieving the relevant
“groups” from “pigeon hole”
shelves.• Browsing through the groups.• Selecting the best
documents to be cited in the
search report.
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What it meant for Documentation
•Maintenance of a huge classified
paper collection:• Acquiring paper collections.• Maintaining and classifying
them.
•Maintenance of an up-to-date
classification scheme:• Classifying all incoming
documents.• Maintaining a classification
scheme: deletion and addition
of new classes.
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The patent paper collection
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The paperless move
• A huge enterprise that
took more than a
decade.• Replacing the paper
environment by an
electronic environment.• Re-thinking and re-
building our work
process and habits.• Documentation issues
were central in this
process.
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Classification
• Major investment resulting in a unique classified collection: more than 130 000 subdivisions.
• This system allows instantaneous access to documents relating to one of these 130 000 subdivisions.
•Some examples:• Quantum Cryptography:
H04L9/08Q, 142 documents.• Heated steering wheels:
B62D1/06B, 318 documents.• Conductive polymers:
H01B1/12, 3724 documents
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How do we access the data: EPOQUE
• EPOQUE: integrated tool
to perform searches− Standard query
language− Access to internal and
external databases
• Viewer: to display and
peruse all the information
available: bibliographic,
text and image data
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Special cases: biotechnology and chemical formulae
• Specific tools to access this information.
• Specific procedure to file this type of patent applications.
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Database Acquisition Policy
Bibliographic data: acquire the
bibliographic data for all patent
documents published in the
world.
Full-text: provide examiners with
the searchable full-text of all
available unique patent
documents in an official language
Abstract: acquire an English
language abstract of all patent
documents published in the
world.
Image: acquire the image of
every patent document published
in the world.
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Front-file Timeliness (Bibliographic data as per 9/07/2004)
In advance/On time
≤1 month delay
≤3 months delay
≤1 year delay
>1 year Delay
AT,BR,CH,CZ,DE,EE,EP,FI,FR,GB,HU,IE,LT,NL,NZ,PL,RO,SE,SI,US
AU,BE,BG,CA,CN, DK,ES,GR,JP,SK,WO
EA,HK,HR,IL,LU,MC,NO,PT,RU,SG,ZA
EG,ID,IT,KR,MD,OA,TJ,TR,TW
AL,AP,AR,BA,CU,CY,IN,KE,LV,MA,MK,MN,MT,MW,MX,MY,PH,VN,YU,ZM,ZW
Unchanged Improvement WeakeningLEGEND:
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Some figures (Sept. 2004)
• 180 million of records in the 80 databases available to examiners internally.
• 15.4 million abstracts available in DOCDB and PAJ, also via esp@cenet®
• 14 Million patent full-text records.
• 46 Million patent images in the EPO digital library also available via esp@cenet®.
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Data correction: a contribution to the knowledge based economy
• Bibliographic data:
800 000 corrections per
year• Citation data:
200 000 corrections per
year
EPO Databases
Quality
Non-Patent Literature
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NPL Citations per EP search report
0,37 0,360,38 0,41
0,47
0,11
0,16
0,21
0,26
0,31
0,36
0,41
0,46
0,51
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
NPL Citations in EP search reports
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The top "NPL" fields
EPO Databases
Quality
Non-Patent Literature
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The growing importance of full-text databases
EPO Databases
Quality
Non-Patent Literature
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Information Brevets à l'OEB
The EuropeanPatent Office
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Principal Directorate Patent Information
• 1991 EPO taking over INPADOC.
• All EPO publications activities.
• Distribution-Promotion
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PATLIB
• A network of European Patent Libraries.
• In 1995: 116 centres; by 2004: 301.
• Annual event, common standards
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Other patent information highlights
• Databases: INPADOC,
Japanese patent,
CD-ROM, Internet
services, etc.
• Major annual event in
the field of patent
information: EPIDOS
Annual Conference.
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Les outils de recheche gratuits
esp@cenet®
The EuropeanPatent Office
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Some facts and figures about esp@cenet®
• Service introduced in 1998.
• European Patent Organisation tool.
• Third version released in 2003 considering user needs and ergonomics.
• New features added: INPADOC data access, etc.
• Weekly:• 920 000 searches• 55 000 users
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Lesson 1
Usually, a prior art search
boils down to a combination
of concepts defining the
subject you are looking for.
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Landing gear prerotat*
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B64C25/40
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Patent Classification
C12N15/82A
Further divided in 30 fields in ECLA
C C12C12N C12N15
70 000 subgroups
8 Sections
Class
Subclass
Main group
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B64C25/40
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B64C25/40
389 Patents !
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Classification = Searched subject
268 PATENTSclassified inB60R21/18
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77 PATENTSclassified inE05B19/22
Classification = Searched subject
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79 PATENTS79 PATENTSclassified inclassified inA61J9/02A61J9/02
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244 PATENTSclassified inB62D1/06B
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42 PATENTSclassified in B26B21/46
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Lesson 2
The easiness of a prior art
search is proportional to the
number of documents
relevant to your subject that
are contained in the
searched collection.
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The more the easiest
A manually
rechargeable
cellular phone
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Example
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First attempt
X
XXX
XX
XXX
XXX
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Further attempt
X
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Lesson 3
Using free patent search
tools is not necessarily
more cost effective than
using fee based databases.
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The limits of free patent databases
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esp@cenet
EP1241930
A method of forming an adhesive force includes
removing a seta from a living specimen, attaching the
seta to a substrate, and applying the seta to a surface
so as to establish an adhesive force between the
substrate and the surface. The seta is applied to the
surface with a force perpendicular to the surface. The
seta is then pulled with a force parallel to the surface
so as to preload the adhesive force of the seta.
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Derwent
AB - WO200149776 NOVELTY - An adhesive force is formed by removing seta from living specimen. The seta is attached to a substrate and applied to a surface to establish an adhesive force between substrate and surface.
- DETAILED DESCRIPTION - INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are also included for (A) a method of fabricating an adhesive microstructure comprising fabricating an array of shafts and
forming spatula on the array of shafts; and (B) a fabricated microstructure comprising a shaft and an array of spatula formed at an end of the shaft. Each spatula includes curved segment of a sphere at spatula terminal end. The shaft is less than 500 mu m long, and has a diameter of 0.01-0.1 times its length. The array of spatula is less than 10 mu m wide.
- USE - The method is for forming an adhesive force for use in e.g., micro-manufacturing, micro-manipulation, and microsurgery applications. The adhesive force can also be used in manipulating retinal prosthesis implants, and pick and place of silicon wafer or disk drive components. It can also be used as clutch mechanism in micro-machines. It can also be used in insect trapping, tape, robot feet or treads, glove/pads for climbing, gripping e.g., clean room processing tools, micro-optical manipulation, micro-brooms, micro-vacuums, flake removal from wafers, optical removal of individual particles, climbing, throwing, and sticker toys, press-on fingernails, silent fasteners, substrate to prevent adhesion on specific locations, broom to clean disk drive, post-it notes, band aids, semiconductor transport, and clothes fasteners.
- ADVANTAGE - The formed adhesive force is greater than the cumulative force of the applying and the pulling steps of the forming method. The
removing step is analogous to cutting hair, thus allowing the gecko to harmlessly regenerate its seta. The seta is easily harvested without sacrificing the living specimen.
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Special search tools: when the concept approach fails
• Biotech
• Chemistry
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Lesson 4
Specific patent searches are sometimes best
conducted using both the information available
on the Web and in patent databases.
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Patent m2a
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Lesson 5
Absence of evidence is no
evidence of absence
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Absence of evidence
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New developments in this field
• INPADOC based on the Open Patent Service
• RSS technology (news feed) for technology
watch.
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INPADOC datahttp://www.ipnewsflash.com/family.php
us4000000
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RSS Newsfed for patents
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Conclusion
• Use free tools for:
• Introductory state of the art
searches• Basic bibliographic
searches• Basic Technology watch• Specific legal statutory
information
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Further reading
SimplyPatent.com
EuropeanPatent Office
Merci pour votre attention
Paul SchwanderOEB, La Haye03-11-2004