Overview of PATENTSCOPE® search service Webinar September 2010 Sandrine Ammann Communications & Marketing Coordinator

What is PATENTSCOPE®? WIPO’s gateway to patent activities & services: Search interface Data products Cooperation projects in patent information Projects to support developing world Focus on developing countries where patent information coverage is currently limited (e.g. ARIPO, South Africa, Kenya Vietnam, Mexico, Cuba, etc, etc) Demand-driven Assistance with digitisation and dissemination Assistance with office automation

Today Focus on the search interface: Coverage Search features Interfaces Flexibilities Analysis tools

THE COVERAGE

Coverage : Collections ARIPO: African Regional IP Org PCT: 1st publication worldwide As well as PCT applications and the ARIPO collection

Coverage : General distinctions Patent collections Which countries or regions? Document types Patent applications? Granted patents? More? Document elements Bibliographic data? Descriptions? Claims? Time period Languages Multiple language versions? Translations?

Coverage : Details of collections

Search Features Bibliographic search (patent numbers, applicant, inventor, dates, etc) Classification search (IPC) Full text search in Description and/or Claims text Unlimited Keywords Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) Word stemming Proximity and truncation operators Relevance ranking Tabular and graphical analysis RSS Notifications

4 ways to search

Interface : Simple Basic search fields are provided

Interface : Field Combination - Structured Additional search fields can be selected

Interface : Advanced Full flexibilities are enabled

Interface : Cross-lingual (CLIR) Automatic mode

Result : the query from “container” to:

Search results

Interface CLIR: Supervised mode

Domain selection

Variants selection

Fields selection

Same presentation of search results + IPC codes

Bibliographic data tab

Description tab

Claims tab

Documents tab For all collections: Published Documents For PCT: Search reports (prior art) Written opinions and preliminary examination reports (patentability) Most documents from the PCT international phase

National Phase tab 3.5 Million notifications from 36+ offices Legal status (where available) Internet hyperlinks to certain offices (further status information, translations, etc)

Results - Analysis features Graphical analysis Data clustering  additional filtering Top offices Top fields of technology (IPC) Top applicants Top inventors Publication dates

Main applicant per year

Main applicant

Publication date

Main IPC

Analysis features : Clustering

Analysis features : Clustering (filtering)

Analysis features : Clustering (filtering)

Online help

Thank you for your attention! Any questions? For more information, please contact: patentscope@wipo.int