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Patent Bits and Pieces. October 10, 2013. Overview. Types of Documents Types of Searches Parts of a Patent Types/Parts of Patent Numbers Incl. Country Codes and Kind Codes Patent Families/Equivalents If time: INID #s, File Wrapper, Country specific sites. Patent Documents. Patents. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Patent Bits and PiecesOctober 10, 2013
Overview
• Types of Documents• Types of Searches• Parts of a Patent• Types/Parts of Patent Numbers
– Incl. Country Codes and Kind Codes• Patent Families/Equivalents• If time: INID #s, File Wrapper, Country
specific sites
Patent Documents
Patents• Utility Patent• Design Patent (D)• Plant Patent (PP)• Statutory Invention
Registration (H)• Defensive Publications
(T)– April 1968 – May 1985
Other “Documents”• Search Report• File Wrapper• Change of Assignment (*)• Maintenance Fee
Information
Types of Searches
• Preliminary/Novelty/Freedom to Operate– Classification plus Maintenance
• Inventor/Assignee– New hire– Conference “expert”– Competitor
• Include families to find countries important to them
– Future partnership• General “State of the Art” Research
Searching is Iterative!
Keyword/Text Search
Document/ References Classification
Parts of a Patent Document
• Bibliographic – Title, Number, Date, Inventor, Assignee, Class
• References• Abstract • Drawings• Background• Summary/Description• Preferred Embodiments• Claims
Patent Numbers
• 10/023130• EP1131476 (A1) • DE4212755 (C2) • GB2434022 (B) • US20010023130 20011217• US H1749 (H) • US RE42710 (E1) • WO 2008101089 (A3)
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Application Numbers (US)
• Application Number (Series/number)• Publication Number (US YY/number)
Country Codes
• Based on ISO 3166-1• From the WIPO website -
http://www.wipo.int/pct/guide/en/gdvol1/annexes/annexk/ax_k.pdf
• Alpha list (by code and by country) from the USPTO – (more useful for quick lookup) http://www.uspto.gov/patft/help/helpctry.htm
• Same codes as used for URLs
Country Codes - Answers
Organization Code
African Intellectual Property
Organization (OAPI) OA
African Regional Intellectual
Property Organization (ARIPO) AP
Australia AU
Austria AT
Brazil BR
Canada CA
China CN
Democratic Republic
of the Congo CD
El Salvador SV
European Patent Office EP
Greece GR
Iceland IS
Organization Code
Ireland IE
Israel IL
Netherlands NL
Nordic Patent Institute XN
Norway NO
Oman OM
Russian FederationRU
Saudi Arabia SA
Serbia RS
South Africa ZA
Spain ES
Sweden SE
Switzerland CH
United Kingdom GB
World Intellectual Property Office WO
Kind Codes
• Come at the end of the number• Vary by country/issuing authority• A letter, usually followed by a number
Examples (general)• A – First publication level (application for most
countries)• B – Second publication level (granted/examined patent
for most countries)• C – Third publication level (granted patent in many
countries, reexam certificate in US)• R - Separately published search reports • T – Publication of Translations• U, Y, and Z are 1st/2nd/3rd level for utility models
US specific Kind Codes
Patent Numbers
• 10/023130• EP1131476 (A1) • DE4212755 (C2) • GB2434022 (B) • US20010023130 20011217• US H1749 (H) • US RE42710 (E1) • WO 2008101089 (A3)
Patent Equivalents
• Same invention / multiple countries• First application = Priority• English language publication
– US, UK – English Only– EP, WO – Some English– JP (in PAJ) – English Abstracts
• Patent Family = List of equivalents
Advanced Topics
• INID Numbers• Patent File Wrapper• Patent Information available from other
countries
INID Numbers
• WIPO Handbook on Industrial Property Information and Documentation, Standard ST.9
• Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of (bibliographic) Data
• …a list of approximately 60 distinct bibliographic data widely used on the first page of Patent documents or in Patent Gazettes
File Wrapper
• Official name for documentation that is part of the prosecution of an application/patent
• USPTO – online, can download individual pieces, or just the ones you want, as PDF
• EPO – “European Register” has similar information
• Other countries have this online, but in their own language
• Can be purchased – but $$$$
WON Website
• WON – Dutch Patent Information User Group• http://
www.won-nl.org/2008/public/en/patinf.shtml • Website lists IP related sites by region/country:
– Home Page– Bibliographic Database– Register– Full Documents (many are in PatentScope)– Machine Translations (very few)– Litigation Information– Other