1. What the User community needs Towards effective collaboration between East and West
Dr. Peter Kallas
BASF SE
East meets West, Vienna
April 10, 2019

2. Agenda The Patent Documentation Group - Who we are
How the patent information is used in information analyses
What are the main challenges in accessing patent information?
Questionnaire 2009
Achievements
PDG Workshop - What has improved?
Questionnaire 2019
Improvements
Plans
Challenges
Conclusion 2

3. Who are the PDG? Founded in 1957
Annual Members Conference, May 2018, Siemens, Munich
Founded in 1957
Objective: to facilitate and promote the efficient and effective use of patent information
Non profit organization
Registered in Switzerland 3

4. What is the PDG ? 42 corporate members
Agfa Graphics
Lundbeck
AkzoNobel
Merck KGaA
ALTANA
MSD
ASML
Nestec
AstraZeneca
Nouryon
BASF
Novartis
Bayer
Pfizer
Beiersdorf
Philips
BMS
Philips Lighting
Boehringer Ingelheim
Procter & Gamble
BP International
Robert Bosch
Clariant International
Sanofi
DSM
Shell International
Evonik
SIEMENS
FrieslandCampina
Solvay
F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Syngenta
GlaxoSmithKline
ThyssenKrupp
Henkel
Total Research
IFPEN
Unilever
Lanxess L'Oreal
Voestalpine
Volvo
42 corporate members
From different industries Chemicals, Pharma, Electrical, Consumer Goods, Automotive, Oil and Gas, Cosmetics, Health Care, Agriculture…
3 PDG members among the top 10 EPO applicants
PDG cooperates with all stakeholders
Regular high-level meetings with EPO, WIPO, IP5 and individual patent offices 4

5. PDG How does PDG work as organization?
Cooperation in patent information and documentation
Exchange knowledge and experience in all areas relating to patent information
Debate, discuss and stimulate improvements and new developments in patent information products
Determine and communicate proposals to third parties involved in IP information
PDG 5

6. PDG The PDG WG IMPACT works as a Round Table - Who are our Partners ?
Asian and Latin American Offices
EPO
IP5 Offices
JIPA, CEPIUG, PIUG
CAS, Clarivate, Questel, STN, Providers
WIPO
European Patent Institute
epi
USPTO
National Offices (Europe)
Observer Status 6

7. Workflow for Patent Information Analyses
Search
Analysis
Visualization
Evaluation
Patent
Legal status data
Abstract
Request
Search in Databases
Full text 7

8. Why do user requirements exist
Why do user requirements exist ? What information professionals in industry are doing
Patentability searches
State-of-the-art searches
Opposition and invalidation searches
Monitoring and current awareness searches
Freedom-to-operate searches (FTO)
Legal status and patent family searches
Patent landscapes and patent portfolio analyses
White Space Analyses and more….
 Our needs go beyond those of the patent offices 8

9. Still true... Some general remarks
Patents go global: Asia, Latin America, Gulf countries…
The number of patent applications globally is still growing dramatically
Language barriers become a deter- mining factor in accessing patent information
Consequences:
Streamlining and harmonization procedures are key: e.g. IP5 activities!
Setting up priorities between patent offices, user groups and commercial providers is indispensable!
 We need an intensified cooperation because we have similar needs! 9

10. What are the main challenges in accessing patent information ?
The growth of application filings from Asia is continuing
> 65 % of all patent applications are coming from Asia (2017)
Among the TOP 10 PCT applicants (2018) six are from Asia, led by Huawei
In 2011 CNIPA became the largest patent office in the world
In 2018: 1,54 Mio patent and 2,07 Mio utility model applications have been filed ! 10
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11. What European industry thinks – Questionnaire 2008
In 2008, we consulted PDG members on their opinions on the needs for improvement of patent information from Asia, mainly with respect to the recent emergence of Asian offices as major players
All PDG-companies were asked
28 PDG-companies responded to a detailed questionnaire
Results were distributed internally in February 2009 11

12. What European industry thinks – Some results from 2009 consultations
Do you see need for improvement with respect to Asian patent information ?
Availability of detailed legal status in English
Searchable English full text (CN, KR)
Images of documents
Added value abstracts (by commercial providers)
(High quality) machine translation
Standardized applicants' names
Status 2009
96 %
96 %
100 %
68 %
92 %
96 %
86 % 12

13. What European industry thinks – Some results from 2019 consultations
Do you see need for improvement with respect to Asian patent information ?
Availability of detailed legal status in English
Searchable English full text (CN, KR)
Images of documents
Added value abstracts (by commercial providers)
(High quality) machine translation
Standardized applicants' names
Status 2019
96 %
96 %
100 %
68 %
92 %
96 %
86 % 13

14. General Achievements of the PDG Asian Patent Information Initiative
Availability of machine translations in English has improved dramatically:
Asian offices
EPO – Google
PATENTSCOPE
Commercial providers
Searchable full text
Added value abstracts of Asian countries
Legal status data via the central source INPADOC (EPO) 14 14

15. The Users – Questionnaire 2019 - Users Most impressive improvements
International cooperation in IP5: Global Dossier, Patent Assignee Harmonization
Dramatically improved machine translation (Asian offices, EPO, WIPO etc.) including neural translation technologies
More legal status data available in EPO’s INPADOC: CN, JP, KR, TW and better access via national portals: IN, SG, TW
Structure searching in Asian patent documents
Classification of Asian documentation with CPC
Solutions for double/dual filing in China available 15

16. The Users – Questionnaire 2019 - Users Challenges
Improved coverage of Asian and Arabian data beside CN, JP, KR
Legal status data in INPADOC: IN, ASEAN states, [RU (before 2005)]
Easy access to patent term extension data for some countries
English translation or descriptions of legal status terms/events
Establishment of “one” portal for all kinds of patent information
Eliminate differences in information between native and English language register content
Harmonized patent assignee names
Quality and timeliness problems of added value abstracts
Full coverage of documents including utility models with CPC
Machine translations for non-Latin NPL (e.g. IPPH provides MT for CN NPL) and smaller Asian countries
We need better English documentation and legal status data from Saudi Arabia and ARABPAT countries 16

17. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - IP India Developments
Public search portal provides various types of information on already published and granted patent applications filed in India and designed in such a way that meets demand of the users;
CBR (cash book receipt) – is issued online and in few cases offline where application filed is offline;
All other communication through as well as sms;
All documents are available on the web portal;
Status of patent application is also available;
Patent certificate generated with qr code and available online;
Most of the information uploaded in the portal are real time basis be it issuance of FER, hearing notice, letter of patent etc. 17

18. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - IP India Plans
Complete dissemination of information except the instances debarred by the statute, this office is striving it‘s best to provide best service to the users;
All most all plans an advanced patent office provides to users, the same is committed by Indian patent office to adopt and provide;
Proper execution of the work undertaken in the recent past and its implementation is the important aspect ;
Valuable suggestions if any for further improvement in the portal through this forum may help further improving the services;
It takes lots of time to develop a system at par with the users requirements. Indian patent office is also moving faster in this regard. 18

19. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - IP India Challenges
During the recent past, various measures are undertaken to achieve full efficiency, to maintain quality and to inculcate best standards in the functioning Indian Patent Office. This includes;
Global best practices and compatibility with international practices;
Reducing delays in processing of patent applications;
HR augmentation to reduce backlogs to deliver timely justice to the innovators.
The system adopted is working very well and the objective is achieved.
Presently, IPO does not have so much challenges;
Once the backlog clearance drive is attained, focus will be made exclusively to the activities which the users feel that has not been emphasized! 19

20. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - IPPH
Developments, plans and challenges
The developments
The new version “CNIPR” Chinese patent retrieval system
“Design Scope” image retrieval system
New version Chinese-English machine translation engine
The plans
Promote new version “CNIPR”
Promote “Design Scope” image retrieval system
Promote Chinese-English machine translation service, such as machine translation data, machine translation engine etc.
The challenges
Very hard to meet European enterprise customer 20

21. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - JAPIO Developments
Providing patent information of China and Korea（improved machine translation quality）via our online-service (Japio-GPG/FX)
<Japio Global Patent Gateway Full Text（Japio-GPG/FX）>
Japio provides services of a search system that stores the whole patent publication text of China, Korea, Japan, US, EP, PCT, Germany, France and United Kingdom as well as DOCDB abstracts, and also stores translation in English, Chinese, Korean, German, French into Japanese as well as Japanese into English using a machine translation system.
Full text of patent publications of the above major countries can be cross-searched both in Japanese, English and original language basically. (However, English search for full text of Chinese and Korean patent publications is excluded.) 21

22. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - JAPIO Plans and challenges
Providing patent information of Taiwan via our online-service (Japio-GPG/FX)
Challenges
Bulk state of patent information of middle-south Asia is short supply.
High cost of machine for NMT(Neural Machine Translation). 22

23. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - JPO Developments
J-PlatPat is planned to be renewed in May, 2019
More Timely Provision of Status Information of Examination/Trial and Appeal
Addition of a Variety of Documents (Design, TM, Appeal)
Expansion of Contents for Search (Expired TM)
Improvement of Machine Translation Quality
(Japanese to English)
Providing the latest information by RSS feed 23

24. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 JPO Plans
Accuracy of Machine Translation is to be improved
(Japanese to English in May, 2019)
(Chinese and Korea to Japanese in April, 2020)
Challenges
Digitalization of Patent Documents in Asian countries 24

25. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - KIPO Developments
(KIPRIS) Supporting Chinese and Japanese translation
system for PCT Documents
(KIPRISPLUS) Expanding a support system for IP related start-ups so called the IP data gift support system
Target for support : Expanded from Start-ups within 3 years to 7 years
Support period : Expanded from 3 years to 5 years 25

26. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 – KIPO Plans and challenges
(KIPRIS) Expanding service range QR(Quick Response) code to trademark and design publications.
(Examiner) Provide a advanced machine translation system
based on artificial neural network.
Challenges
Patent information is needed to be used more actively, but it conflicts with personal information protection issue.
It needs to support IP related start-ups, but some start-ups expect more government sector to be opened to private sector like patent publication related tasks. 26

27. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - MyIPO Developments
In Malaysia, patent information to users is clearly states under Section 34 of the MPA.
The Registrar shall make available for public inspection after 18 months from the priority/filing date of a patent application upon payment of the prescribed fees.
However, MyIPO provides bibliographical info including the abstract through our IP online system for public FOC provided users register on line. 27

28. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 MyIPO Plans and challenges
Currently, we are reviewing our laws for possible amendment which may involve patent information to users.
However, details of the subject is confidential at this stage.
Challenges
We received numerous request from various parties seeking complete patent specifications at no costs. Unfortunately, we can‘t comply due to existing provision.
Patent information particularly the patent specifications provided by the Asian patent offices normally in national language
Many offices also do not provide full patent specifications FOC. 28

29. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - TIPO Developments
TWPAT(Taiwan Patent Search System) provided following features in 2018
1. Legal status filter function
- Users can see the current legal status of the patent search result‘s pages.
- Users can choose the specific legal status when searching patents.
2. Statistical analyses of patent data
GPSS(Global Patent Search System) provided following features in 2018
1. One-stop global patent search service: free access to patent data of IP5, WIPO and
TIPO
2. Multilingual Search (Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean)
3. Legal status from INPADOC and information of patent family from DOCDB
4. Statistical analyses of patent data 29

30. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 TIPO Plans and challenges
TWPAT(Taiwan Patent Search System) will provide following features this year
1. Improve User Interface
2. legal status alert
- Users can monitor specific TW patents, and receive an notification when the
status is changed
3. Improve the statistical analysis of patent data
GPSS(Global Patent Search System) will launch English version at the end of this year
Challenges
Provide timely complete information and keep the good performance
Semantic search and search by image
High quality machine translation 30

31. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - Rospatent
Developments, plans and challenges
Developments
Upgrading of the official website
Development of electronic interaction tools with the applicant
Development of new patent analytic system based on Patsnap
Plans
Further development of new patent analytic system
Further development of providing information about applications for industrial designs
Further development of Search reports publication in xml format
Challenges
Creating an open patent search infrastructure
Disposal of intellectual property rights using new technologies (e.g. Blockchain)
Image search using new technologies (e.g. AI)
New formats of the representation of IP objects (e.g. 3D models) 31

32. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - Jordan Developments
Official Gazette
Scanned Copies are available on Website
WIPO Publish
WIPO Publish – Jordan
- Search
Key words
- Advanced Search
Applicant‘s name, File name, Patent number,
Registration number, Invention name, Inventor‘s
Name, Abstract Etc. 32

33. The Patent Offices – Questionnaire 2019 - Jordan Developments
WIPO Publish – Jordan
- Journal Search
Journal number
Publications of the Grants
Publication of Applications (Affective16/12/2018)
Legal Status
Classification – Not applicable to all files
Downloads of XML are available
Publication of Jordanian Patents bibliographic data are also available on:
- Espacenet
- ArabPat – Platform
- Patent Scope 33

34. The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 – Jordan Plans and challenges
Planes
Patent document - (Description, Drawings, Abstract & Claims) make them available in PDFs on Jordan WIPO Publish
Challenges
Next Step
- Full Text
- Images 34

35. The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 – LN
Developments, plans and challenges
Developments
Adding IP related data, e.g. appeal, litigation
Standardizing legal data
Plans
MT translation to Asian languages
More legal and litigation data
Challenges
To find „official“ sources for south east Asian countries
Huge data stream from China
Language and distance barriers in conversation 35

36. The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 - Questel Developments
Korea :
Retranslation Patents in Full Text
Normalization of Key Content & Technical Concepts
Korean patents now included in patent topographic map
China :
Improved, up-to-date Legal Status
Reassignments
Licensed Patents Details
Australia :
Patents in Full Text
India :
Patents in Full Text (new, better & more up-to-date source) 36

37. The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 - Questel Developments
Industrial Designs from :
Indonesia
Singapore
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Vietnam
Brunei
Patent Litigations and Oppositions from :
China New Zealand
India Australia
Taiwan Malaysia
Japan Thailand
South Korea Singapore
Philippines Hong Kong 37

38. The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 - Questel Plans
Patent Full Text Re-Translation (AI based Neuro-Translation) :
China
Japan
Korea
Patent Full Text from :
Singapore
Eurasia
Philippines
Vietnam
Patent Biblio from :
Indonesia
Malaysia
Bahrein
Brunei
Cambodia 38

39. The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 Questel Plans and challenges
Industrial Designs from :
Taiwan
Challenges
Up-to-date legal status information
Names translation and normalization
Lack of consistency
Translation quality (although making great progress)
Full text often not available electronically & difficult to obtain 39

40. The Providers– Questionnaire 2019 - FIZ Developments and Plans
Improved quality of Machine Translations
Plans
Title and abstract as well as inventor and patent assignee from CN, JP and KR should be made available in DocDB in translated and transliterated form earlier as today (about 3 months)
More detailed legal status from CN and KR in DocDB
For smaller countries, the gaps of bibliographic coverage should be filled or the delivery should resume in DocDB, e.g. GC, ID, KZ, TH, TJ, VN, UZ
And of course: more data from India … 40

41. Summary
The user community greatly appreciates the offer of the Asian, Arabian and other offices and related organizations to cooperate
In the questionnaires, offices expressed their requirement to get input from users to improve content, tools, and services
We in PDG are convinced that meetings like this workshop have improved the cooperation between the user community and other Patent Offices
We believe that a common approach is of mutual benefit! 41

42. for your contributions !
Thank you
for your contributions ! 42