1. IPR Workshop
January 12th, 2010

2. Outline
 09:30 Welcome & Coffee
 10:00 IP essentials
 12:00 Sandwich lunch
 12:45 Testimonial JPEG2000, 1T3XT
 13:15 IP search: technical & legal data available
 15:15 Coffee break
 15:30 Testimonial Siruna, SUMO, Geosparc
 16:30 Closing networking reception

3. Intellectual Property search

4. IBBTs valorisation toolbox for business
Knowledge
People
People Knowledge
Business

5. Integrate IP in your business model
 Start asap, i.e.during idea
generation
 IP landscape
 state-of-the-art
 freedom to operate
 market & competition
 red sea versus blue ocean strategy

6. Prior-art search
 Number 1: Google !!!
 Free patent databases
 Non-patent literature
 Other...

7. Prior-art search: free patent databases
 Espacenet
 http://ep.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_V3
 USPTO
 http://patft.uspto.gov/
 Google patents
 http://www.google.com/patents
 Patentscope®
 http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/index.jsp

8. Prior-art search: non-patent literature
 Google scholar
 http://scholar.google.be
 IEEE Xplore
 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp
 ACM Digital Library
 http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm

9. Start searching...
 Google, entering keywords
 Espacenet
 Patents and patent applications from EU and beyond (ww)
 Advanced search
 Keywords, result list, bibliographic data and other tabs
 Classifications
 Patentscope
 International Patent Applications
 Structured search
 Google patents
 US granted/issued patents
 USPTO
 US patents and patent applications

10. Espacenet example

11. Patent process
REPORT THE PRIOR ART
DRAFTING
INVENTION SEARCH & FIRST FURTHER
PATENT
TO PATENT PATENTABILITY FILING FILING
APPLICATION
ATTORNEY STUDY
CLAIMS PRIORITY PRIORITY
PRIOR ART DATE YEAR
EMBODIMENTS
DRAWINGS
© 2008 BiiP

12. Patent: from filing to grant...
27-JUL-2011
PCT FILING PCT REGIONAL PHASE
PATENT APPLICATION
GRANTED PATENT
UNDER EXAMINATION
1-5 YRS
27-JAN-2009 27-JAN-2010 27-JUL-2010
PRIORITY SEARCH PRIORITY PUBLICATION GRANT EXPIRY
DATE REPORT YEAR with SRP
(first filing)
12 MONTHS
18 MONTHS
30 MONTHS
20 YEARS
© 2008 BiiP

13. EPO patent procedure

14. Patents for software
 CIIs are in principle patentable
 Referral to Enlarged Board of Appeal
 No patents on trivial inventions
 No source code necessary
 Patent applications create transparency
 Patents secure competitiveness
 More information on EPO website:
http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/computer-implemented-
inventions/software.html

15. Questions?
Eefje Vandamme
Manager Intellectual Property IBBT
T: +32 9 331 48 25
F: +32 9 331 48 05
M: +32 476 89 62 61
E: eefje.vandamme@ibbt.be
Thank you