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Patent Lab Flashcards

1
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Different purposes of Patent intelligence

A
  1. Freedom to operate
  2. Screening of a technology
  3. Monitor / inform company strategy
  4. Sell, license, or enforce
  5. Prior art
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Search engines for patents (data bases)

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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.

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  • Front page
    • Bibliographic data
    • Title
    • Abstract
  • Description
  • Drawings
  • Claims
  • Search report
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Structure of a patent document

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Basic information

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  • 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]
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Economic rights

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Assignee

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Moral rights

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Inventors

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INPADOC

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International Patent Documentation

information on the life of patents

Legal Status and Patent family

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  • Legal Status
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  • Procedural information (exam, grant, opposition, translation..)
  • Legal events (lapsing in a country, withdrawn, renewal, re-assignation..)
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Patent family («also available as»)

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*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.
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2-characters codes added after the patent or application number.

A: Application
B: Patent (granted)

Patent offices worldwide use ≠ sets of ______

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Kind codes

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Codes you find in The search report (A1 or A3, last page)

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A= must cite / sufficient disclosure problem
X= novelty problem
Y= novelty/inventive step problem

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Patent intelligence why is it useful?

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*Assess risk - freedom to operate
*Patentable idea- screen tech
*benchmarking
*enforce potential users- licence

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In which countries is it possible to extend patents for pharmaceutical substances? How long? Why?

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(EU, US, JP, AU, IS)
5 years
to compensate regulatory approval.

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14
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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.

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Suppl ementary Protection Certificates (SPC)
*extends a patent right in the EU beyond 20 years

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Freedom to operate what to consider…

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  1. Start
  2. Duration/ expiry
  3. Coverage (geographic)
  4. Extension
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16
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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)

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Screening of a technology

17
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About___of the documents in patent databases are in public domain

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90%

18
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8-characters classification introduced in 1971 and used internationally by all patent office

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International Patent Classification IPCs

19
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International Patent Classification IPCs

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  • 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
20
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Drawback of IPC

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tech evolve, new categories evolve last patents not reclassified

21
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extension of IPC 9 classes (the 8 IPC + the Y section)

Y section for tagging emerging technologies of special interest

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Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)

22
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if available, is more useful and effective when searching for new/emerging technologies.

A

Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)

23
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when searching for consolidated technologies

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IPC or CPC may be equivalent

24
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Who is doing R&D and in what… Company strategy monitoring

A

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

25
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Strategic way to check infringers, interested people in PI licence….

A

Citations. Family patent!! check all

26
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Information known publicly before the filing date of a patent application

A

Prior art

27
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Prior art sources

A

*Patents and published patent applications
* Journal and magazine articles
* Books, manuals, and catalogs
* Websites
* Conference proceedings
* Scientific papers

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When you work with keywords what do you do…

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  1. Brainstorm main technical features
  2. Describe the invention in written sentence x3.
  3. Develop a search strategy using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
  4. focus in the solution
29
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When you work with classifications what do you do…

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  1. Compare get IPC/CPC
  2. Match IPC/CPC with my topic
  3. Search for those codes

Done with parallel keyword search

30
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EP-RoBERTa

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AI-Driven Tool for prior art search

31
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How does EP-RoBERTa works

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  1. It identifies key terms, phrases and concepts
  2. It vecorizes them to one single vector. Each dimension = CPC
    3.It is staged in the MD space
  3. It matches prior art relevance due to vector proximity Cos()
32
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When you work with scientific literature searching what do you do…

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Identify and list key databases for scientific literature like PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar

Kewords basic and strategy to search

33
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When you work with product searching what do you do?

A

Search for what it is already in the market

online
offline
obsolete
development

physical products

34
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The goal is not to examine all the prior art out there,…

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but enough to gain a
comprehensive understanding of where the invention stands in the industry

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