Dynamic Thinking : Patent Search and Analysis

Dynamic Thinking : Patent Search and Analysis

About WIPS Worldwide Intellectual Property Service Partnership Authorized Prior Art Search Institute. Authorized Trademark & Design Art Search Institute. Authorized Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Prior Art Search Institute. ASPI (Access to Specialized Patent Information) program Award & Recognition Certified ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Information Security Management System Certification BS10012:2009 Personal Information Management System DB Quality Certification(Gold-Class) by Korea Database Agency DB Quality Award by Korea government Designated as World Class Product / Service by Korea government WIPS Global 1 Company Profile WIPS is Korea s first company to offer on-line worldwide patent information service. Since starting the business in 1999, the service is being used by over 3,000 companies, patent law firms, academics, governments, and R&D centers including top Korean global companies and multinationals. With over 100,000 users worldwide, WIPS has kept the number 1 spot in Korea with largest market share for over 13 yrs term. In 2012, WIPS achieved 63% market share.

DB Coverage Country Data collection Earliest records Patent Application Publications 2001 US Patent Granted Publications 1976 Assignments Information 1970 EP European Patent Applications 1978 Granted European Patents 1980 PCT(WO) - 1978 1993 Unexamined Patent Publications 1989 Patent Application Japanese Translation of PCT International Applications 1996 Domestic Re-Publication of PCT International Applications 1996 Examined Patent Publications Examined Patent Publications 1994 Granted Patents 1996 JP 1993 Unexamined Utility Publications Utility Application 1989 Unexamined Granted Utilities (Published after 1994) 1994 Examined Utility Publications Examined Utility Publications 1994 Granted Utilities 1996 PAJ (Patent Abstract of Japan Unexamined Applications) 1976 Amendment Information 1993 Patent Application Publications Unexamined Patent Publications 1983 Patent Granted Publications Examined Patent Publications 1979 Granted Patents 1998 Utility Application Publications Unexamined Utility Publications 1983 KR Examined Utility Publications 1979 Utility Granted Publications Granted Utilities 1998 KPA (Korea Patent Abstract) KPA-A (Unexamined Applications) 2000 KPA-B1 (Examined Applications) 1979 Amendment Information 2006 Patent Application 1985 CN Patent Granted 1985 Utility Application 1985 Utility Granted 1985 GB Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1782 FR Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1855 DE Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1861 RU Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1993 IN Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1975 TW Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1991 DOCDB (included INPADOC, Collection of published applications from 100+ countries Bibliographic, Abstract, Legal Status) 1968 Standardized Applicant 2010 KR Standardized Applicant 2010 KPA, PAJ is offered in English. KR data is offered English machine translation. JP data is offered in native language. www.wipsglobal.com 2

What are the Special Features of WIPS Global? Search General Search Integrated Search : patent search in multiple countries with a single click Advanced Search : advanced search using various and exclusive search fields of WIPS Step Search : a cross-search of search results and information Number Search : a quick search using patent numbers Theme Search Family Search : enables a quick custom search for patents by setting various search terms for patent families Citation Search : a quick search for citation relationships with specific document Company Search : enables extraction of applicable cases when wanting to analyze patent portfolios of a specific company Review WIPS Global 3 Easy Viewer Search results Express View Quickly reviews and classifies a large amount of search results en bloc (user-defined tags) View option : List, Block, Drawing Quickly reviews major information (e.g., claims, drawing) of individual patent

My Folder Patent Folder : saves and shares searched results of patents Query Folder : saves and shares query information Query History : reuses the query information Statistics & Analysis SmartAngle: Patent Statistics Chart Analysis : quickly and easily offers statistics of a large amount of patent information in chart forms, enables phased review of statistical information Cross Matrix : quickly extracts major statistics from a large amount of patent information by setting up statistics fields (X/Y Axis) Classification : quickly extracts the patents that satisfy the condition of review from a large amount of patent information Patent Analysis Claim Analysis : offers keyword extraction and a referential relationship with an individual patent claim, able to compare claims of published and granted patents Family Analysis : offers information on nations in which patent family is entered, time series information, and comparison of claims to enable multidimensional analysis on patent family information Citation Analysis : allows a multidimensional analysis on patent citation information through a citation map and citation statistics information Monitoring Query SDI Monitors trends through registering interested query (Keyword, IPC, etc.) Citation SDI Continually monitors changes to citation information in patents of interest Family SDI Continually monitors changes to family information in patents of interest Download Information Download Offers various output formats (XLS, TXT, MDB, PMDX) to allow major information of patents to be used in various ways ThinKlear 2012 Offers editing and reporting tools to allow users to utilize the Output information in various ways www.wipsglobal.com 4

General Search Search O ptimizes the patent search environment by offering various and exclusive search fields S earch Type: Integrated Search / Advanced Search / Step Search / Number Search A dditional Functions: Query Matching Board, Error Check, Setting output items out of searched results, supporting various search field operators, etc. S earch Results View: offers in such types like List, Block, and Drawing Theme Search List type Block type Drawing type Family Search Citation Search Company Search Quickly extracts patent document using the search terms and keywords for family patents Quickly and easily search Forward / Backward Citation through integrated citation information of patents from Korea, the US, Japan, and Euro pean countries Search patent document of an applicant for a patent without omis sions by making a representative name for the information of affiliated companies or applicants written in various forms A ble to quickly figure the present conditions of domestic/overseas patent applications of competitors: enables establishing patent strategies for each nation Easily searches the current status of patents of interest (competitors ): conveniently establishes strategies to respond to disputes Status information of patent families Conveniently figures the trends of competitors patent applications: enables continuous monitoring of competitor patent portfolios Convenient search interface for applicants info. Status Information of Forward / Backward Citation WIPS Global 5 Dictionary of representative names of applicants

Review Able to quickly review search results of core content of technology from a large amount of patent information using the keyword highlighting function Able to conveniently classify the technical content of individual patent document through the classification tag function based on user s viewpoint Able to quickly review description, claims, and drawings in individual patent document through the Express View Easy Viewer Able to quickly search major information in a large amount of patent document on a list of search results My Folder Select a folder to apply the user-classification tag SOC (34) gear (18) Create Tag User-classification tag Express View Description and Drawing www.wipsglobal.com Claim and Drawing 6

SmartAngle Chart Analysis Conducts a multi-dimensional review of results through various statistics fields offered by the SmartAngle and the narrow down type statistics function for searched data or a large amount of patent data saved in My Folder SmartAngle is able to load 10,000 cases of searched data or 2,000 cases of saved data in My Folder Q : I want to know the present status of patents applied in the U.S. by major Japanese applicants related to (technology areas) A : SmartAngle(Chart Analysis) Input Loading patents related to OOO saved in My Folder onto SmartAngle 1. Drag & Drop : US patent 2. Select Field (First output info): Applicant s Nationality Output Present status of patents applied in the US by Japanese applicants related to (technology areas) 3. Drag & Drop : JP data 4. Select Field (secondary output info) : Primary Applicant WIPS Global 7

Offers various chart views of the Cross Matrix results and the view function of a list of patents Able to quickly review extracted results using Easy Viewer Q I want to know the present status of patents applied in the US by (company name) related to (technology areas) Classification Easily and quickly clusters the patent document search results among a large amount of patent data using filtering operators and various classification fields Cross Matrix Easily and quickly extracts statistical information on two-dimensional correlation of a large amount of patent data through setting up statistics information fields (X/Y Axis) for search results or a large amount of patent data saved in My Folder Answer Setting Classification Fields US and 000 Corp. and G06F-017 Question A US 2011 XXXXXXX A1 US 2005 XXXXXXX A1 www.wipsglobal.com Setting classification fields 8

Family Analysis Analysis Offers such functions as statistics, family country profiles, time series view, and compare documents to enable a multidimensional analysis on family information of patents of interest (or competitors ) Conveniently figures the present status of competitor patents; enables strategic use of information to establish patent portfolio Statistics Family Country Profiles Family Analysis Time Series View Compare Documents Citation Analysis Patent Portfolio R&D Trends Scope of Rights WIPS Global 9 Offers a customized statistical analysis function through setting various statistics fields for the citation information of patents of interest (or competitors ) and offers visualized information of the citation relationship for user s convenience. Offers integrated citation information for patents from Korea, the US, Japan, and European countries Text Mode & Statistics Visual Mode (Citation Map)

Offers a comparison function of claims per document and analysis function of keywords per claim for users to easily analyze public and registered patents from the same patent document and a range of rights for an individual claim 1.Classes of Claim and Reference Relationship Diagram Claim Analysis Offers information in diagram forms for users to conveniently analyze the classes and reference relationship among patent claims Independent Claim Dependent Claim Comparison of the range of rights between claims in a reference relationship Can be used in various works such as prior art, invalidity, and infringement searches through the convenient function of claim analysis 2. Analysis on Keywords by Claim 3. D isclosure of the Same Patent Document and Comparison of Claim in Published and Granted Patents Present status of independent and dependent claims Highlighting major keywords www.wipsglobal.com Information on keywords analysis 10

SDI SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) SDI is a notification service of newly registered patents that regularly provides users with new patent information every time applicable patent information is updated according to the user s query of interest (Keyword, IPC, Applicant) registered on the Web SDI. Once the patent numbers of interest (or competitors ) are registered on the Web SDI, the updated news of patent families or citation patents of the applicable patent are regularly offered. SDI service can be effectively used to monitor competitors or the patent trends of technology of interest. 1. Setting Up Query SDI 2. Setting Up Citation SDI 3. Setting Up Family SDI Setting up a range of monitoring and registering Query Setting patent numbers of the monitoring object Setting patent numbers of the monitoring object Setting the sharing person about SDI result SDI Result Convenient management of the SDI History information Utilization of SDI Service SDI WIPS Global Obtaining prior art data before applying for a patent overseas Blocking other applicants to register a patent related to the company s rights (Raising a formal objection) Obtaining related patent data when developing new technology Get the trend of competitor s patent applications 11

My Folder Offers the function to save (2,000 cases/folder) patent data that will be applied to work and manage the data (data sharing and information classification) Enables a secondary use of the data by linking the saved data in Patent Folder with SmartAngle and Easy Viewer offered by the WIPS Global Setting to share the saved patent data in Patent Folder Convenient function to save and manage frequently used query information in folders Links the saved query information with SDI service Linked with Query Matching Board Query Folder The setting status of userclassification tags for the saved patent data in an individual folder offers a search function of patent document in an individual folder Conveniently links the saved patent data in Patent Folder with other services such as Easy Viewer and SmartAngle Displays a list of the saved patent data in an individual folder Able to set up userclassification tag for individual patent data Offers the history of query information by used dates Offers the search terms used Family Analysis Query History www.wipsglobal.com 12

Family Analysis Download Information Offers a wide range of information fields for users to use major patent information in various ways Offers various output formats: XLS, TXT, MDB, PMDX (supported format by ThinKlear2012) Offers various patent information fields (66 Fields) Reinforced set function for a customized output Offers a list of patent information with representative drawing Citation Analysis Editing an order of output data ThinKlear2012 is a support tool for editing and analyzing patent information with an improved degree of freedom for users. Offered as software, this additional service can be used in various ways including analyzing or making a report on patent information. Its user interface is reinforced to enable customized analysis on downloaded patent information such as bibliographical information, patent families, citation information, applicants, and inventors from WIPS Global Advanced. Simple tool for automatic analysis ThinKlear2012 WIPS Global 13 Supports a customized analysis Various functions of information editing (e.g., Standardized Applicant) Customized list of essentials Function to manage and edit group work information

WIPS Global Network WIPS Online Patent Service User Reviews Provided answers to and solved many issues we were facing in regards to patent search & analysis Jung-Won Jo / Patent Attorney / Manager ETRI ( Electronic & Telecommunication Research Institute) I often search family or citation data while researching and WIPS service allows me an easy and effective access to do my job Min-Ho Kim / Patent Dep / Manager LG Chem Cited patents within Patent document (abstract, claims, description) can be more useful than cited reference literature or search reports. In this respect, Citation From Description function of WIPS Global Advanced is most useful and helpful. Jae-Bok Yoo / General Manager Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute The Classification Code search function in the WIPS Global Advanced is convenient for searching information. The F-Term code search function especially allows me to figure out characteristics of technology at glance Mi-gyeong Jeong / Manager LG Electronics With SmartAngle, conclusions can be quickly made according to different viewpoints even though there are many patents involved. One time, a case had to go to the Supreme Court due to a dependent claim. The claim analysis function of WIPS clearly shows a linkage between an independent and dependent claim which can be useful for lawsuit cases Dr. Sin-ho Kang Foundation of Agri. Tech. Commercialization & Transfer Contact Information WIPS Headquarter. Global sales & Marketing DMC Tower 18-19th Floor, 189 Sungam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea 121-904 Tel +82-2-726-1104, 1130 Fax +82-2-777-7334 E-mail global@wips.co.kr Japan Tel +82-2-726-1113, 1107 Fax +82-2-777-7334 E-mail wips-jp@wips.co.kr Singapore Representative office. Korea Business Development Center Singapore. 438 Alexandra Road, #17-02/03 Alexandra Point, Singapore, 119958, SINGAPORE Tel +65-9695-9662 E-mail wipsglobalsg@wips.co.kr

WIPS Headquarter DMC Tower 18~19th Floor, 189 Sungam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea Worldwide Intellectual Property Service Trademark & Design Research & Analysis Center DMC Sangam-dong, Mapo, Seoul Patent Research & Analysis Center 386-2 Doryong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon IP Training & Education Center DMC Tower 19th Floor, 189 Sungam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea