Strategies for Database Selection patent research Dana Neacsu Read your research question Before filing for a patent how comprehensive your preemptive research should be Clarify your question break it into smaller concepts if necessary ID: 782116
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Interdisciplinary Research in Law: Strategies for Database Selection: patent research
Dana Neacsu
Slide2Read your research questionBefore filing for a patent, how comprehensive your preemptive research should be?
Slide3Clarify your question (break it into smaller concepts, if necessary)
Do you need contextual information? (literature search)Can you go for the primary source (the filing or the standard)?Where do you start?
What is your jurisdiction?
Slide4Finding US patents
Google’Patent’Search’Espacenet‘
US Patent and Trademark Office
Slide5Patent Research Doing the research!
Free-of charge databasesGoogle’Patent’Search’
(all patents)
Espacenet
‘(Worldwide and European patents
)
WIPO
(International Patents)
US Patent and Trademark Office
2. Use
fee-based databases
WestlawNext
(Patents & Applications)
Derwent
Innovations Index
Slide6Patent Research – Let’s Search for a PatentGoogle
Advanced Patent Search
(http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search)
“All documents available through Google Patents originate from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the European Patent Office (EPO), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)” (
cite
).
European Patent Office
Espacenet
(http://worldwide.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_EP)
Three types of search:
1) Worldwide – collection of published opinions from 90+ countries
Includes select information from over 90 patent-granting authorities (
cite
). It includes patent applications filed or granted from the countries listed
here
.
2) EP – complete collection including full text of European published applications
3) WIPO – complete collection including full text of PCT published applications
PCT stands for the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) PATENTSCOPE
(http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/)
PATENTSCOPE includes “43 million patent documents including 2.5 million published international patent applications (PCT)” (
cite
) with complete details available
here
.
United State Patent and Trademark Office
(http://patft.uspto.gov/)
Two types of search
1)
PatFT
: Patents (full text from 1976)
2)
AppFT
: Applications (published since March 2001)
Slide7Finding Standards
Slide8Questions?
Dana
Neacsu
Email: edn13@columbia.edu