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Search Matters 2012European Patent Office, The Hague

Emmeline MarttinWolfgang Sohrt

19-20 March 2012

G13 - Internet searching

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Emmeline Marttin

emarttin@epo.org

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Wolfgang Sohrt

woso@epo.org

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Today

Internet citations as prior art

Search engines

Advanced Google search tips

Tools

Finding reference materials

Keeping up to date

Discussion

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555 million*

*in 2011

300 million*

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How?

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Internetcitations as

prior art

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Available to the public?

where

howwhat

when

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Where? accessible

subscription paid not confidential

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pictures video

blogs

tweetsHow?

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enabling

reliableWhat?

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Examples

Let's look at some search

reports...

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WO2010031780

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvkTLugHAAw

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Claim 2:Marshmallow-like aeratedconfectionery according to claim 1,further comprising a flavour chosen

from: cheese, fish, vegetables, herbs,spices, meat and salting flavours, suchas emmental, chilli, salmon, andbacon.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/yardsalebloodbath/3785557391/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/yardsalebloodbath/3785557391/

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or how to determinethe publication date

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WaybackMachinehttp://www.archive.orghttp://waybackmachine.org

http://www.archive.org/http://waybackmachine.org/http://waybackmachine.org/http://www.archive.org/

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Wayback Machine

right-click on the page &

select "Resurrect this page..."

Legal FAQ

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Wayback Machine

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Resurrect this page

To retrieve lost sites!

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Wikipedia

View history tab

publication datesall previous versions

http://www.wikipedia.org/

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Wikipedia history

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Google

displaying date first indexed

click on the cache link in Google

link: for sites linking this site

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pdf documents

Ctrl-D to see publication date

Browser address bar

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)Old-fashioned way

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balance

of

probabilities

Notice from the European Patent Officeconcerning internet citations OJ 8-9/2009

http://localhost/tp/::archive.epo.org:epo:pubs:oj009:08_09_09:08_4569.pdfhttp://localhost/tp/::archive.epo.org:epo:pubs:oj009:08_09_09:08_4569.pdf

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Searchengines

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Boolean operators

ANDOR

NOT

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Operator Google Example

AND default red blue

OR OR (red OR blue)

NOT - -shopping

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Truncation?

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Google Finds

singular mouse mousemice

correction cockraoc cockroachhyphen mouse-trap mousetrap

mouse trapsynonym canine canine

dog

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Google: hyphen operator

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but thats not what

I was looking for!

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Operator Google Finds

marttin marttin

a phrase a phrase

- -patent no patents

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Google: minus operator

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What was searched

&

where on the page?

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What

bold in snippet

Where

Ctrl-F in each found pageCheck cached page

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Where can I find the cache

and what is it?

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Page cached by Google:

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Proximity operators?

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Operator Google

wildcard Article * EPC

amoxicillin * * tablet

AROUND(#) cheese AROUND(2) apple

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Improve

ranking

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Repetition

Proximity

Repeat Repeat Repeata (b OR c) -dOrder

Repetition

Proximity

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Google: order of search terms

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intitle: restricts to term in title

intext: restricts to term in text

inurl: restricts to term in URLfiletype: restricts to filetypes, e.g.

filetype:pdffiletype:doc

site: restricts to specified site, e.g.

boa site:www.epo.org

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More information on-line:

Cheat sheetsAdvanced tips

How Google works

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ScriptedTools

(Only for information -no support!)

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GoogleBefore (1)

GoogleBefore Usage: add e.g. "before:12/27/2005" to

search term The tool makes Google search

documents publishedbefore

(andincluding) this given date according to when Google thinks the documents

have been published (not always accurate)=> risk missing valid results

but a useful pre-filter to prior art if many results

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GoogleBefore (2)

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GoogleBefore (3) GoogleBefore is a Greasemonkey script

Only works with Firefox with theGreasemonkey Add-on installed (see

Notes for links) It changes the URL sent to Google to

activate the date range feature

Attention: Your internet location settingsmay determine whether the Euro-Format"DD/MM/YYYY" or the US Format

"MM/DD/YYYY" format has to be used(check the date range displayed on theresulting Google page)

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GoogleBefore (4)

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GoogleScholarBefore (1)

GoogleScholarBefore

Like GoogleBefore, but for Google

ScholarNo day or month, just year

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GoogleScholarBefore (2)

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Google Redirection

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Google Redirection

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GoogleNoRedirect (2)

GoogleNoRedirect

Prevents Google from redirecting

links on mouse-down=> Now you can

right-click and save link targets,such as PDF files

right-click and copy target URLs

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GoogleNoRedirect (3)

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GoogleNoRedirect (4)

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Differences

Number of sites indexed

Ranking algorithm

Privacy

Curated

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Blekko

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Blekko / slashtag

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http://zuula.com/http://harvester42.fzk.de/jss/Search

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Why meta search engine?

If Google doesnt find anything

Comprehensive result

Other ranking

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Reference

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Clarity

Article 84 EPC

definitions

meaning

parameters

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Common general knowledge

Articles 56 and 83 EPC

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Wolfram|Alpha

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EPO and Google collaborationon machine translation

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Leo for German

compare Wikipedia entries in differentlanguages

IATE terminology EU institutions

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Keeping up to date

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Read blogs

Follow experts

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Keep moving

or die

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The end

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