Patent searching – some case studies

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Patent Searching – Some Case Studies

Björn Jürgens

E-Mail: bjorn.jurgens@gmail.com

Twitter: @benlogo

© 2011

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Case 1

• Patents related with Photovoltaic technology

• From Germany (First Filing in Germany)

• Filed in the US in 2010

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Identify relevant Classification

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Define Search

Strategy

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Export Results

(for each result list page, use compact mode!)

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Import into Excel (or other data analysis software)

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Data Visualization via Pivot tables

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Case 2

• Main players with Patents related with Fuel Cells

technology

• International Patent applied

• From 2000-2005

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Identify relevant Classification with TACSY

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Using PATENTSCOPE, restrict search to PCT patents only and

with pub date limitation

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Automatic Analysis in PATENTSCOPE

Table View

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Automatic Analysis in PATENTSCOPE

Graph View

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Case 3

• Information about legal status of patents from

APPLE INC. in KOREA regarding the antenna of its

phones!

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Search in Korean KPA Database, with

company name, country codes and

keywords!

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4 relevant results found!

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Bibliographic View with Legal Status!

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Case 4

• Food producers from Mexico which commercialize

their products in Spain (=> protect them with a

patent)

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Identify relevant Clasification

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Search in Spanish INTERPAT, with

country codes and clasification!

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Result List

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Edit Result List View, to generate table with

company names

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Edited Result List with company names

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Print View

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Contact Details:

Björn Jürgens

E-Mail: bjorn.jurgens@gmail.com

Twitter: @benlogo

Thank you very much!