1. International Conference ICSTI QUESTEL 40 years of experience mastering IP information to help cutting edge companies drive their strategy in an IP centric world Roma, 17th May 2012 Rossella Osella

2. Company created in 1975 – France Telecom subsidiary Privately owned since 2001 Over 4000 customers worldwide Over 30 000 users worldwide Paris, France Sophia Antipolis, France Tokyo, Japan Alexandria, VA Headquarters R&D Asia Headquarters America Headquarters Our company

3. Our goal Simply delivering each user the exact and needed patent and design information

4. The Global IP Information Portal Databases, features and added value Our solution

5. Fampat: patent family database One database FamPat Legal Status information 40 countries Full Text Data 21 countries Bibliographic patent data 95 countries Patent copies 40 countries Citations 20 countries US reassignments

6. Language technology Machine translations Multilingual wizard Key-content Concepts

7. 14 Design databases Benelux Canada China Community France Germany International Japan Korea Russia Spain Switzerland United Kingdom USA

8. Features Truncations Proximity operators Display formats Search fields Highlight features Downoload original pdf Exports Save searches Alerts Archiving Lists Workfiles Statistical analysis Links to registers Graphs Mapping Search history

9. Crude data refinery Raw feeds Main repository Integration & normalization Translation Integration & normalization OCR Assignee Tracking training Dictionaries & rules Family Building Legal status consolidation Business Rules index Online systems export Data Customers Continuous Improvement

10. Basic and essential value add Number normalization – application, priorities, publications Family grouping – One family > One invention – Based on priorities and rules Full-text translations – Human assisted machine translation – Domain specific training

11. High value add Tracking assignees Legal status Text mining

12. Tracking assignees Assignee normalization – Variants, abbreviations – Translation / Transliterations – Typos Many off-the-shelf packages – None of them able to cope with international patent data Solution – Proprietary algorithm – Dedicated editorial team : 240000 assignee variants entered Reassignment tracking HEWLETT PACKARD HEEWLETT PACKARD HELWETT PACKARD CO HEWLETT PACKARAD DEV CO LTD HEWLETT PACKARADCO HP DEV CO LTD HEWLTT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT

13. Legal status 45 countries => 45 different patent laws – Different legal events reflect this diversity Event groups – Providing a consistent view of similar events in different countries Precise national phase event identification and indexing Expected expiration date – Based on application + extensions – lapses – Takes into account each national law and PCT application dates

14. Text Mining Produce high quality extracts from full text Fast patent searching and scanning – What is this patent about? – Supplements uninformative first page abstracts Extract key concepts and sentences from full texts – Similarity and semantic searching – Mapping and analysis

15. IP Business Intelligence Module

16. Interactive statistics

17. Interactive mapping

18. The Global IP Information Portal Easier Searching Easier Searching Comprehensive Searching Comprehensive Searching Efficient Searching Efficient Searching Powerful Searching Powerful Searching Efficient Scanning Efficient Scanning Reporting Reporting Storing, customizing, sharing Storing, customizing, sharing Patent Mapping Patent Mapping

19. Grazie спасибо Thank you www.questel.com rosella@questel.com