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

2. 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

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

4. THE COVERAGE

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

6. 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?

7. Coverage : Details of collections

9. 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

10. 4 ways to search

11. Interface : Simple
Basic search fields are provided

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

13. Interface : Advanced
Full flexibilities are enabled

14. Interface : Cross-lingual (CLIR)
Automatic mode

16. Result : the query from “container” to:

17. Search results

18. Interface CLIR: Supervised mode

19. Domain selection

20. Variants selection

21. Fields selection

22. Same presentation of search results
+ IPC codes

23. Bibliographic data tab

24. Description tab

25. Claims tab

26. 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

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

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

30. Main applicant per year

31. Main applicant

32. Publication date

33. Main IPC

34. Analysis features : Clustering

35. Analysis features : Clustering (filtering)

36. Analysis features : Clustering (filtering)

37. Online help

38. Thank you for your attention!
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