Patent Lab Flashcards
Different purposes of Patent intelligence
- Freedom to operate
- Screening of a technology
- Monitor / inform company strategy
- Sell, license, or enforce
- Prior art
Search engines for patents (data bases)
Free:
* Espacenet (EPO), USPTO, JPO, CPO, ..
* Patentscope, Patentsview, Google Patents, Patstat, ..
Proprietary (subscription with fee):
* Derwent Innovation (Clarivate)
* Orbit (Questel)
Both fill coverage difference in data processing extraction, languages available, etc.
- Front page
- Bibliographic data
- Title
- Abstract
- Description
- Drawings
- Claims
- Search report
Structure of a patent document
Basic information
- Applicant / assignee name (owner of right) [73]
- Inventor name and country [72]
- Application and patent number [11]
- Date of filing [22]
- Date of publication [45]
- Designated states (at EPO) [84]
Economic rights
Assignee
Moral rights
Inventors
INPADOC
International Patent Documentation
information on the life of patents
Legal Status and Patent family
- Legal Status
- Procedural information (exam, grant, opposition, translation..)
- Legal events (lapsing in a country, withdrawn, renewal, re-assignation..)
Patent family («also available as»)
*documents that share at least one priority
code.
*Includes applications and patents.
*Includes the extensions to foreign countries.
- Normally each patent family corresponds to 1 invention.
2-characters codes added after the patent or application number.
A: Application
B: Patent (granted)
Patent offices worldwide use ≠ sets of ______
Kind codes
Codes you find in The search report (A1 or A3, last page)
A= must cite / sufficient disclosure problem
X= novelty problem
Y= novelty/inventive step problem
Patent intelligence why is it useful?
*Assess risk - freedom to operate
*Patentable idea- screen tech
*benchmarking
*enforce potential users- licence
In which countries is it possible to extend patents for pharmaceutical substances? How long? Why?
(EU, US, JP, AU, IS)
5 years
to compensate regulatory approval.
Oly for pharmaceutical and plant protection products.
Meant to compensate delayed entry into market
due to the compulsory testing (clinical trials) required prior to
obtaining regulatory marketing approval.
Suppl ementary Protection Certificates (SPC)
*extends a patent right in the EU beyond 20 years
Freedom to operate what to consider…
- Start
- Duration/ expiry
- Coverage (geographic)
- Extension
Answering questions like:
I am working on a technology. Which inventions have been deposited or covered?
We can search by
1. Terms and Keywords
2. Classifications
3. Comprehensive search (professional approach)
Screening of a technology
About___of the documents in patent databases are in public domain
90%
8-characters classification introduced in 1971 and used internationally by all patent office
International Patent Classification IPCs
International Patent Classification IPCs
- A- Human Necessities
-B- Performing Operations; Transporting
-C- Chemistry; Metallurgy -D- Textiles; Paper
-E- Fixed Constructions
-F- Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating; Weapons; Blasting Engines or Pumps
-G- Physics
-H- Electricity
Drawback of IPC
tech evolve, new categories evolve last patents not reclassified
extension of IPC 9 classes (the 8 IPC + the Y section)
Y section for tagging emerging technologies of special interest
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
if available, is more useful and effective when searching for new/emerging technologies.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
when searching for consolidated technologies
IPC or CPC may be equivalent
Who is doing R&D and in what… Company strategy monitoring
We need professional tools as Derwent.
*Patent count: 1 invention = 1 patent family
*Citations count: 1 citaton = 1 use of the patent in subsequent technologies
