European Patent Office epoline ® Using patent information: a workshop for scientists, tradesmen and IP specialists Bazna 15 March 2007.

European Patent Officeepoline®

Using patent information:a workshop for scientists,

tradesmen and IP specialists

Bazna 15 March 2007

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About this workshop:

Patents - what are they?Debunk the mythsWhy should I be interested?The Patent Information Journey.How can I find out about them?What can I find out?

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Patents - what are they?IP Right -1-

Public Information -2-

Scientific, Technical, Legal, Commercial and Financial Information -3-

See "European Patents and the grant procedure"

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Debunk the MythsPatents are secret

Patents make you rich

Patents allow illegal R&D

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Why should I be interested?Scientific, Technical, Legal, and Commercial Publications

Impact on new technologies

Impact on new businesses

Impact on economy

Public interest

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The Patent Information Journey...................

1a) Ignorance

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The Patent Information Journey.....................

1b) Ignorance

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The Patent Information Journey.......................

2) Discovery

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The Patent Informatin Journey........................

3) Prospecting

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The Patent Information Journey.....................

4) Surveying

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The Patent Informatin Journey........................

5) Active Development

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The Patent Information Journey......................

6) Exploitation

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Ignorance Discovery Prospecting Surveying Development Exploitation

Cost

Impact

Risk

Increasing Sophistication

Patent Offices and Patent Information Centres

Commercial Vendors

Consultancies Custom Products

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Why should I be interested? Because you are a prime source of

information to your stake holders, be it students, enterprises, patent applicants, decision makers

(politicians,...).

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How can I find out about patents ?

What's on offer?

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Patent

Database

2 points of view

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What do you know, typically?Inventor

The organisation he works for

His invention

Patent number

Brand name

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What can you find out?Who else is working in the field

Competitors

Rival technologies

Other patents

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For science, technology and innovation:

esp@cenet

www.espacenet.com

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For business law and economics

Register Plus

www.epoline.org/registerplus.htm

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Patent informationRegister Plus

Register Plus automates access to the

- bibliographical and procedural data relating to European and international applications in which EPO member states are designated

- legal status data that is also available for the national phase of the European applications

- original European and international patent application files

→ find all the information relating to a European patent application

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Patent InformationRegister Plus

You can

- access about two million EPO patent documents

- view the status of an application

- view the latest change to an application

- use truncations * , ? , #

- search by 11 different categories

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For daily monitoring and alerts:

WebRegMT

www.epoline.org/webregmt.htm

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Patent informationWebRegMT

- stands for "Web Register Monitoring Tool"

- triggers automatic e-mail alerts when changes are made to the Register

- monitors up to 250 cases per e-mail address

- is only available within the secure My.epoline® portal

- can be used with username/password or smart card

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Don't underestimate the power of:

and Google...

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Distributing Patent Information

It's our job