Patent information at the EPO: News about our services and promotion activities

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1 Patent information at the EPO: News about our services and promotion activities Dr Jutta Hausser European Patent Office Patent Information Fair & Conference Tokyo, 6 November 2014

2 Where do I find access to EPO s PI products? 2

3 Espacenet Espacenet Data Coverage: More than 80 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today Target Group/Business Use: Ranging from beginners to professional searchers who use Espacenet as complementary service Distinguishing Features: Global coverage, prior art search, Machine translation "Patent Translate", CPC classification search Frequency Update: Daily updates Pricing Policy: Free of charge 3

4 Espacenet - patent search free access to worldwide patent information free starting point for searching patent information no guarantee for completeness of data not a professional search tool 4

5 Espacenet - Japanese interface 5

6 Espacenet - Japanese interface search with numbers, names, dates, keywords, classification on different interfaces search terms must be entered in English! 6

7 Espacenet - patent search almost 80 million patent documents from 85 patent authorities worldwide dating from the early 19th century to today access to: bibliographic data full document download (PDF) legal status information post-grant information patent family information all citations online machine translation non-patent literature 7

8 Espacenet - useful features enhanced citation information (backward, forward, opposition, appeal,...), including NPL "claims tree" function, showing independent and dependent claims (EP and WO) full text search for EP and WO documents highlighting of search terms in the text sorting of results list (< 500 hits; according to upload date, priority date, applicant, inventor, classification) RSS feed for updates export function (to Excel) integrated machine translation function ( Patent Translate ) 8

9 Machine translation ("patent translate") Launch of patent translate: 29 Feb 2012 System integrated in Espacenet, the EPO Publication Server and EPOQUE 9

10 Machine translation ("patent translate") Collaboration EPO-Google Patent documents and their translation/corresponding documents are prepared and stored in a corpora repository Translation system is trained using these corpora Translation quality check to decide whether the translation is usable for its purpose Languages with a sufficient quality are offered to the public Since 2013 also Chinese, Korean and Japanese 10

11 Patent Translate 11

12 Patent Translate 12

13 European Patent Register EP Register Data Coverage: EP and Euro-PCT applications (all the publicly available information on EP applications as they pass through the grant procedure, including oppositions, patent attorney/epo correspondence through public file inspection) Target Group/Business Use: Professional representatives Distinguishing Features: In depth examination of the patent application through on-line file inspection and legal status Frequency Update: Daily updates Pricing Policy: Free of charge 13

14 European Patent Register 14

15 European Patent Register 15

16 European Patent Register procedural information on all European patent applications from publication onwards legal status data all public documents in the EPO's file ("file wrapper") linked to Espacenet linked to European Publication Server various data views (main data, legal status, event history, citations, patent family, all documents and document filters) 16

17 European Patent Register can be used to: follow the procedure for a particular application see if a European patent application has been granted/refused/withdrawn check whether any oppositions have been filed read correspondence between EPO and patent applicant/attorney batch process and store documents offline for future reference 17

18 European Patent Register - search example 18

19 European Patent Register - bibliography 19

20 European Patent Register - complete file 20

21 European Patent Register - complete file filter the documents in the file according to type 21

22 European Patent Register - family information 22

23 European Patent Register - citations 23

24 European Patent Register - legal status 24

25 Field sets for Quick search and Advance search 25

26 RSS feeds Maintenance news and News flashes 26

27 RSS feeds Results list 27

28 RSS feeds Results list Links to the European Patent Register preserved 28

29 RSS feeds All documents 29

30 Download - Search results list 30

31 Download - All documents 31

32 All documents download Zip Archive 32

33 Event history Sorting by date 33

34 Links to the European Publication Server 34

35 Deep linked countries 27 countries* * Stand Summer

36 Other improvements 1/4 Improved readability and visual contrast by replacing the dark grey text with black Tooltips were included all over the application Only three IPC symbols displayed in the Search results Link to the European Patent Bulletin from the EPO online services menu Modification of the URL removing «/espacenet/» ( Search for EP application numbers including the check digit is now possible (ex. EP ) 36

37 Other improvements 2/4 «Report error» button redirects now to the contact form 37

38 Other improvements 3/4 Help index reviewed and enhanced 38

39 Other improvements 4/4 Additional data available New «Appeal folowing opposition» section in «About this file» Information about «Request for correction of the decision to grant filed» in «About this file/examination procedure» and «Events history» 39

40 Register Alert Register Alert Data Coverage: EP and Euro-PCT applications (data contained in the European Patent Register) Target Group/Business Use: Professional representatives and patent searchers, competition watchers Distinguishing Features: Monitoring up to files of your choice, dispatch of an automatic every time a change occurs to one of your selected files Frequency Update: Daily updates Pricing Policy: Free of charge 40

41 Register Alert 41

42 Register Alert can be used to: track specific European patent applications receive automatic alerts every time something happens to any of these applications during grant procedure 42

43 Register Alert free registration/password access monitor up to individual cases of own and third-party applications on-screen display of changes since last log-in alerts to up to five addresses choice of which events will trigger a notification import and export lists of documents secure environment to ensure confidentiality integrated into the European Patent Register 43

44 Monitored applications list Possibility to select all the monitored applications Change status monitored applications 44

45 Register Alert notification Includes now the title of the application being monitored Shows the contracting state(s) where the lapse ocurred 45

46 Other improvements Register events list reviewed and enhanced Procedural actions that trigger a Register Alert notification 46

47 Last but not least... EPR introductory video in EN, DE and FR Update EPR online assistant ( 47

48 Promotion, training & user support 48

49 Principles of patent information user support of the EPO Goal: enabling the understanding and the effective use of patent information Implementation: product-specific user support conferences & trade fairs dedicated training on patent information Patent Information News (quarterly publication) info material, manuals, brochures contact with users/target groups 49

50 e-learning and other training classroom training virtual classroom, monthly "Newsflash" e-learning: PI tour & Espacenet assistant Recordings information is available on the "learning & events" webpages on the EPO website 50

51 Learning & events webpages 51

52 IP training calender searchable calender for training events 52

53 Patent information publications Brochures, Manuals 53

54 Contact with patent information users EPO Patent Information Conference Meetings with target groups November 2014 Warsaw, Poland Trade fairs & other events 54

55 Thank you! 55