Technique for Accessing Database- PATENTSCOPE -

Tokyo, JapanFebruary 27 – March 1

Ken-Ichiro NATSUMEHead, WIPO Japan Office

Agenda

PATENTSCOPE: a quick introduction

Pursuing a global coverage

Efforts to break the language barrier

What’s new?

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PATENTSCOPE: a quick introduction

WIPO’s Global Patent Database

Legal publication vehicle for international applications filed under the PCT

30 national collections and growing

Free system on the internet

New URL: patentscope.wipo.int

Powerful search capabilities

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PATENTSCOPE: a quick introductionwww.wipo.int

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PATENTSCOPE: a quick introductionwww.wipo.int/wipogold/en

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PATENTSCOPE: a quick introduction5

Agenda

PATENTSCOPE: a quick introduction

Pursuing a global coverage

Efforts to break the language barrier

What’s new?

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Today’s situation:

30 national/regional collections14 million biblio records8.2 million full text records

Pursuing a global coverage

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Data coverage updated weekly8

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Agenda

PATENTSCOPE: a quick introduction

Pursuing a global coverage

Efforts to break the language barrier

What’s new?

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Breaking the language barrier9 Interface languages:

Deutsch |English|Español

|Français

|日本語 | 한국어 |Português

|Русский |中文 |

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PATENTSCOPE

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PATENTSCOPE

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PATENTSCOPE

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PATENTSCOPE (Machine Translation)

Machine Translation

PATENTSCOPE CLIR*

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Free tool available at http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/clir/clir.jsp?interface

Language=en►

Enter a search query in either EN, DE, ES, FR, JP, RU, ZH, PT, IT, DU, SE

and it will be expanded into the

other languages (keywords translation)►

Built from bilingual dictionaries extracted statistically from Patent corpuses without supervision

(*) PATENTSCOPE CLIR: An empirical approach to applying SMT techniques to Cross Language Information Retrieval in the patent domain, C. Mazenc

in Asian-Pacific Association for Machine Translation Journal Nr 51, June 2012

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CLIR

(Cross lingual Information Retrieval)

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….. car……… ………

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…….自動車

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voitur e

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….. voiture …………….

car

car

auto

自動車

車

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EN JP FR

CLIR

carCLIR

ES, DE, KR

PT, CN, RU,

IT, NL, SE

・・・・・・

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create relevant terms in 12 languages

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Interface : Cross-lingual (CLIR)- Automatic

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Interface : Cross-lingual (CLIR)- Supervised

CLIR – supervise mode – choice of technology domains22

CLIR – supervise mode – choice of terms23

CLIR – Supervised mode – adjustment of terms and IPC24

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PATENTSCOPE: a quick introduction

Pursuing a global coverage

Efforts to break the language barrier

What’s new?

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PCT applicants can signal their willingness to license their patents (see http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pctndocs/en/2012/pct_news_2

012_13.pdf)In force since January 2012Possible when filing and up to the expiration of the 30-

month time period after filingLicensing information viewable and searchable in PATENTSCOPE

What’s new? PCT Licensing feature

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What’s new? Licensing feature

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What’s new? PCT Third party observations

Effective way for third parties to bring relevant prior art to the attention of applicants, International Authorities and designated Offices during the international phase of PCT processing (see http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/epct/pdf/epct_observations.pdf

)In operations since July 2012No fee requiredPossible after publication and until 28-months from the priority dateValidated 3PO viewable in PATENTSCOPE

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THANK YOU

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