International Conference ICSTI QUESTEL 40 years of experience mastering IP information to help cutting edge companies drive their strategy in an IP centric.

International Conference ICSTI

QUESTEL 40 years of experience mastering IP information to help cutting edge companies drive

their strategy in an IP centric world

Roma, 17th May 2012 Rossella Osella

• Company created in 1975 – France Telecom subsidiary

• Privately owned since 2001

• Over 4000 customers worldwide

• Over 30 000 users worldwide

Paris, France Sophia Antipolis, France Tokyo, Japan Alexandria, VA Headquarters R&D Asia Headquarters America

Headquarters

Our company

Our goal

Simply delivering each user the exact and needed

patent and design information

The Global IP Information PortalThe Global IP Information PortalDatabases, features and added valueDatabases, features and added value

Our solution

Fampat: patent family database

Language technology

14 Design databasesBenelux CanadaChina

CommunityFrance

GermanyInternational

JapanKoreaRussiaSpain

SwitzerlandUnited Kingdom

USA

Features

Truncations

Proximity operators

Display formats

Search fields

Highlight features

Downoload original pdf

Exports

Save searches

Alerts

Archiving

Lists

Workfiles

Statistical analysis

Links to registers

Graphs Mapping

Search history

Crude data refinery

Raw feeds

Main repositoryIntegration & normalization

Integration & normalization

Translation

Integration & normalization

OCR

AssigneeTracking

training

Dictionaries & rules

FamilyBuilding

Legal statusconsolidation

Business Rules

indexOnline

systems

exportData

Customers

ContinuousImprovement

Basic and essential value add

• Number normalization– application, priorities, publications

• Family grouping– One family > One invention– Based on priorities and rules

• Full-text translations– Human assisted machine translation– Domain specific training

High value add

• Tracking assignees

• Legal status

• Text mining

Tracking assignees• Assignee normalization

– Variants, abbreviations– Translation / Transliterations– Typos

• Many off-the-shelf packages – None of them able to cope

with international patent data

• Solution– Proprietary algorithm– Dedicated editorial team : 240000 assignee variants entered

• Reassignment tracking

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HP DEV CO LTD

HEWLTT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT

Legal status

• 45 countries => 45 different patent laws– Different legal events reflect this diversity

• Event groups– Providing a consistent view of similar events in different countries

• Precise national phase event identification and indexing• Expected expiration date– Based on application + extensions – lapses

– Takes into account each national law and PCT application dates

Text Mining

• Produce high quality extracts from full text

• Fast patent searching and scanning

– What is this patent about?

– Supplements uninformative first page abstracts

• Extract key concepts and sentences from full texts

– Similarity and semantic searching

– Mapping and analysis

IP Business Intelligence Module

Interactive statisticsInteractive statistics

Interactive mappingInteractive mapping

The Global IP Information PortalThe Global IP Information Portal

Grazie

спасибо

Thank you

www.questel.comrosella@questel.com