Engr. Maria Concepcion S. ZabalaIP Rights Specialist II
IP Search and Documentation Division
Patent information is available from
both free and fee-based sources.
FREE SOURCES OF PATENT
INFORMATION
Newspapers, journals
Radio, television
Internet, Information databases
Company Publications
Official publications by government authorities such as reports, statistics, etc.
FREE SOURCES OF PATENT
INFORMATION
Patent Documents
PATENT DATABASES
Free DatabasesCommercial Databases
FINDING SPECIFIC PATENT
INFORMATION
Patent document reference numbers and dates
Applicants or inventors names
Keywords
Patent classification
Patent document reference
numbers and dates
Application number Publication number Priority number if filed initially in another
country
Date of Filing Date of Publication Priority dates
Novartis, BMW, Sony, Mittal, etc.
Dyson, Smith, etc.
Applicants or inventors name
Note: Be careful since same applicant may use differentversions of their name, e.g. International BusinessMachines, IBM, IBM Ltd., etc.
Keywords
These are words or phrases which describe essential technical features of the invention
Keywords can be searched in the title, abstract, description or claims
Remember:
Search for synonyms e.g. using specialized dictionaries
Search for word variations e.g. US plow vs. GB plough
Languages: Only EN documents retrieved with EN
keywords
Truncation/ word-stemming uses wildcard characters such as * or ? to
substitute for any other character or characters when added next to a string of search terms.
Examples:attach* - attach, attached, attaching, attachment,
attachable*attach - reattach (re-attach)*attach* - reattaching (re-attaching), reattached (re-attached)
speciali?ation specialisation, specializationcommerciali?ation commercialisation, commercialization
How to Limit or Widen Keyword Search?
Phrase searching using Examples:
electrical conductor, laser beam, etc.
Boolean Operators
used to join words or concepts with defined TRUE or FALSE
operators such AND, OR, NOT, XOR, NEAR
How to Limit or Widen Keyword Search?
Boolean Logic Overview
All things that are Cars
All things that are Airplanes
All things that are both Cars and Airplanes
Search : Car OR Airplane
Result : Will return anything that is a car or an airplane
OR searches are inclusive and return many results!
Boolean Logic OR
Search : Car AND Airplane
Result : Will only return things that are both cars and airplanes.
AND searches are exclusive and will narrow your results!
Things that are both Cars and Airplanes
Boolean Logic AND
Search : Car NOT Airplane
Result : Will return cars, but not cars which are airplanes
NOT searches are exclusive and will narrow your results!
Boolean Logic NOT
NEAR Operator Documents having both the words car and
airplane within a certain number of words of each other
Useful when searching variations on phrases containing two terms, e.g. airplane with engine of car, car with parts of an airplane,, etc.
Check default value of distance
How to Limit or Widen Keyword Search?
Parentheses (nesting) to clarify/order search queries
wheel AND (steel OR alloy)
not wheel AND steel OR alloy
Note:
Using parenthesis is a way of forcing the order of processing of logical expressions
Has great impact on the search results
How to Limit or Widen Keyword Search?
SUMMARY PATENTSCOPE ESPACENET USPTO IPDL PHIL PAT
SEARCH
Boolean Operators
AND, OR, NOT, ANDNOT
AND, OR, NOT OR, AND,ANDNOT
AND, OR AND, OR
Wildcard ?, * ?, #, * $ (space), (tab), #, $, *, ., , - , /,
?, etc.
*, ?
Phrase Searching
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Proximity Operator
NEAR, ~ prox/distance
Selecting the Right Search tools
Patent Collections (Which Countries or Regions?)
Document Types (Patent Applications? Granted Patents? Utility Models? Industrial Designs? More?)
Document Elements (Bibliographic Data? Descriptions? Claims?)
Data Coverage
Languages (Multiple language versions? Translations?)
FREE PATENT DATABASES
WIPO PatenScope
EPO Espacenet
USPTO Patent Database
JPO IPDL
IPOPHL PhilPat Search
Name PATENTSCOPE
Patent Collection 10,116,437 patent documents
Document Types patents
Document Elements Bibliographic Data, Description, Claim, National Phase Information, Machine Translations, Patent Application Related Documents, Full-text Documents
Data Coverage 1978 present (PCT)
Language Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese
http://www.wipo.int/wipogold/en/
PATENTSCOPE
PATENTSCOPE
PATENTSCOPE
PATENTSCOPE
PATENTSCOPE
SIMPLE SEARCH:
Select the field of interest; Enter keywords; Select the collections you are interested in; Hit the SEARCH button
PATENTSCOPE
ADVANCED SEARCH:
Enter keywords/Boolean expression/field codes etc.;Select the language in which you would liketo perform the search; Select the collection/s you are interestedin; and Hit the SEARCH button.
PATENTSCOPE
FIELD COMBINATION:
Select the field/s of interest using the arrow of the drop-down menu; Use the AND/OR boxes to add or includefields; If you would like to add more fields or remove one or more fields, please click on:
PATENTSCOPE
FIELD COMBINATION:
Select the language in which you would like to perform the search; Select the collection/s you are interested in; and Hit the SEARCH button.
CLIR- Automatic Mode
Enter the search query in the search box.
Select the language of your query.
Select the Expansion mode:
AUTOMATIC will generate the results immediately without any further user input.
Decide on the balance between PRECISION and RECALL for your query.
Click on SUBMIT QUERY
PATENTSCOPE
CLIR- Supervised Mode
Enter the search query in the search box.
Select the language of your query.
Select the Expansion mode:
SUPERVISED will allow you to select the technical domain associated with your query and the variants relevant to your query.
Decide on the balance between PRECISION and RECALL for your query.
Click on NEXT
PATENTSCOPE
CLIR- Supervised Mode
Select the technical domains.
Click on Expand Synonyms.
Select the variants relevant to your query or ADD VARIANT if you know a variant that is not in the proposed list.
Click on TRANSLATE SELECTED TERMS or START OVER if necessary
Define the fields in which the search should be performed
PATENTSCOPE
CLIR- Supervised Mode
Untick the STEMMING option if you would like to have results including only the exact term of your search.
Click on SUBMIT QUERY
PATENTSCOPE
http://worldwide.espacenet.com
Name ESPACENET
Patent Collection More than 70 million patent documents worldwide
Document Types patents
Document Elements Bibliographic Data, Description, Claims, Mosaics/ Drawings, Original Document, Machine Translations, Cited and Citing Documents, INPADOC legal status, and INPADOC patent family
Data Coverage 1836 - present
Language English, French, German
ESPACENET
ESPACENET
ESPACENET
ESPACENET
ESPACENET
SMART SEARCH
All you have to do is to enter a word or words describing the type of invention youre looking for and click on SEARCH.
Alternatively, you can type in the number of a patent document, the name of an inventor or company or the date or year of a patent document.
ESPACENET
SMART SEARCH
ESPACENET
QUICK SEARCH Allows you to carry out a simple search using a
keyword, an inventor or a company name.
ADVANCED SEARCH Advanced search can be used if you want to combine
various search terms. For example, you can search for patent documents from a particular year and country that have specific words in their title or abstract.
ESPACENET
NUMBER SEARCH A quick way to get a patent document when you
know the publication, application or priority number. You do not need to know the exact format of the number fuzzy logic takes care of that.
CLASSIFICATION SEARCH the option to use if you are interested in finding all
the patent publications in a particular technical area a powerful tool used by professional patent searchers, it can take a bit of time to get used to, but it is usually worth the effort.
ESPACENET
http:// patft.uspto.gov/
Name USPTO
Patent Collection US
Document Types Patents, utility models, industrial designs, plant varieties
Document Elements Full Documents (HTML and PDF)
Data Coverage 1790- present
Language English
USPTO
USPTO
USPTO
QUICK SEARCH Select a year or range of years to search from the Select
years to search drop-down menu.
Enter a term in the text entry box labeled Term 1.
Select which field to apply to Term 1 by using the Field 1 drop-down menu located to the right of the Term 1 box.
Select a Quick Operator (AND, OR, or ANDNOT) from the menu located between the two Term boxes.
Enter a term in the text entry box labeled Term 2.
Select which field to apply to Term 2 by using the Field 2 drop-down menu located to the right of the Term 2 box.
Hit the SEARCH button.
USPTO
ADVANCED SEARCH Select a year or range of years to search from
the Select years to search drop-down menu.
Type your search statement into the Text Entry box marked Query.
Hit the SEARCH button.
USPTO
PATENT NUMBER SEARCH Type the patent number or numbers into the box. If
you include more than one number, they should be separated by a space. It is not necessary to include commas or to capitalize the prefix.
Hit the SEARCH button.
USPTO
http:// www.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/homepg_e.ipdl
Name IPDL
Patent Collection Japan
Document Types Patents
Document Elements Patent abstracts , Bibliographic data, original documents
Data Coverage 1976- present
Language English
IPDL
IPDL
TEXT SEARCH You can look for any word that is included in the Applicant,
Title of invention, and Abstract part of the PAJ.
You can enter multiple keywords separated by a SPACE in one box like "computer semiconductor". Select AND/OR operation from the drop-down list on the right.
The maximum number of characters that can be entered is 200.
In the publication date, you can search for exact date, date range, after or before a date.
You can also enter IPC symbol.
Click "Search" to perform the search after entering your query.
IPDL
NUMBER SEARCH If you want to find a particular document from application/
publication/ patent number or Appeal/trial number, please select an applicable number type and then enter the number in the box.
Click "Search" to perform the search after entering your query.
Note:
You can enter several numbers by separating them with
spaces.
IPDL
http:// patents.ipophil.gov.ph/patsearch2/
Name IPDL
Patent Collection Philippines
Document Types Published Pending Patent Applications, Granted Patents, Utility Models, Industrial Designs
Document Elements Bibliographic data, Original documents (PDF)
Data Coverage 1948- present
Language English
FIELD COMBINATION SEARCH Select the field/s of interest using the drop-
down menu;
Use the AND/OR boxes to add or include fields;
Click "Search" to perform the search after entering your query.
PHIL PAT SEARCH
OTHER FREE (PATENT) DATABASES
KEY POINTS
At present no database has complete coverage of all patent documents ever published worldwide
Make full use of the Web. Sometimes it is worth searching the internet as well as patent databases. Patents or inventors often feature on the internet, giving additional input for follow-up searches in patent databases.
Specific patent searches are sometimes best conducted using both the information available on the Web and in patent databases.
HELP!
Intellectual Property Center#28 Upper McKinley RoadMcKinley Hill Town CenterFort Bonifacio, Taguig City1634 Philippineswww.ipophil.gov.ph238-6300
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