Presentación de Patentscope en el Cuarto curso de Capacitación Latipat del 26 al 29 de febrero de 2008. Panamá.

1. Andrew Czajkowski 26 February 2008 Panama

2. Overview WIPO’s patent information objectives P ATENTSCOPE ® Five challenges in patent information Possible cooperation activities Introduction

5. WIPO Background WIPO’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

6. WIPO’s Patent Information Objectives Publication and dissemination of PCT international applications Enhanced utilisation of patent information Electronic publication via P ATENTSCOPE ® PCT data products - dissemination of high -volume data to offices and subscribers Seminars, workshops, etc Guides, tutorials Technology studies, patent landscapes, particularly on issues related to public policy Integration of more data

7. What is P ATENTSCOPE ® 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 publication of PCT international applications More information on emerging issues, patent data, patent information and statistics

8. P ATENTSCOPE ® Development ’ 07 ’ 06 ’ 05 P ATENTSCOPE ® Graphics feature added Searchable full text collection from 1978 (Latin languages) January March P ATENTSCOPE ® becomes the platform for PCT electronic publication PCT National Phase entries online RSS notifications of new search results April May P ATENTSCOPE ® released with complete PCT backfile and file inspection functions June Establishment of the single and authentic PCT database ’ 04~’05

9. P ATENTSCOPE ® Development Experiences Continued growth in usage 20,000,000 0 Pageviews 10,000,000 1/2006 3/2006 5/2006 7/2006 9/2006 11/2006 Many small-medium sized offices use P ATENTSCOPE ® as their primary source of PCT documentation Positive feedback from patent searchers and offices (survey results)

10. P ATENTSCOPE ® Search - Features Flexible and fast full-text search engine Search term highlighting Updated bibliographic and status information PCT national phase entries Access to search and examination results, and other file contents Graphical analysis RSS notifications

11. P ATENTSCOPE ® Cross-language search function Machine translation Spanish interface: ongoing translation process National Phase data Support for Spanish language users

12. P ATENTSCOPE ® Search 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 Very flexible search using

13. P ATENTSCOPE ® Search Full Text Fully searchable description and claims text (OCR, not perfect) Search term highlighting Distribution maps

14. P ATENTSCOPE ® Search - Bibliographic information Bibliographic information Bibliographic data is always the most recent available , including status changes after publication

15. P ATENTSCOPE ® Search National Phase More than 2.6 million notifications from 30+ offices status information (where available) Internet hyperlinks to some offices databases (national language translations, status information, etc)

17. P ATENTSCOPE ® Search Graphical analysis 1. Enter any search criteria 2. Click on the Graphics icon

18. P ATENTSCOPE ® Search - Graphical analysis Graphical analysis

19. P ATENTSCOPE ® Search - RSS Notifications RSS notifications RSS is an internet standard for notifying users of updates to web pages Requires a free RSS reader Weekly updates RSS

20. Five Challenges

21. Challenge #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 English is only searching 65% of the database 16% are in Japanese, 12% in German, etc

23. Cross-language search User Cross-language semantic analysis Machine translation Search Results WIPO Terminology Search: “mouse trap” Lang #1 Lang #2

24. Challenge #2 - Electronic Environment The transition to fully-electronic patent documents: 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

25. Challenge #2 - Electronic Environment All documents are converted to TIFF images - “lowest common denominator” format OCR post-processing creates search-quality text Bib Data TIFF OCR Image-based processing Paper PDF XML P ATENTSCOPE ® Today’s process

26. Challenge #2 - Electronic Environment Full XML processing for XML input (JP first) Paper PDF XML P ATENTSCOPE® XML process Image processing TIFF OCR XML TIFF early 2008 Filing or conversion of all inputs to XML? Future

27. Challenge #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

30. Challenge #4 - Business use Graphical analysis tools More under investigation - leverage cheap or open - source analysis tools RSS notifications Our response

34. ¡Muchas Gracias!