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Use of Free DB for Patent Searches

Mexico City, Mexico


25 Feb., 2011

Insun CHOI
Consultant, ASPAC Bureau, WIPO
Contents

1. Patent Search and DB

2. PATENTSCOPE®

3. Useful Resources for Patent Searches

4. Closing
1. Patent Search and DB
Why Patent Searches?

Freedom to Operate
Transfer of Technology
Mining Technical Information
Avoiding Wasted Rearch Efforts
General Procedures of Patent Search

1. Understand the technology


2. Determine scope of search
3. Formulate search approach
4. Develop a list of search terms
5. Choose search database/service
6. Formulate searches
Selection of DB

Search Requirement DB Information

Kind of Information Coverage


Field of Technology Search Tool & Functuality
Depth of Search Language
Display and Visualization
Available Resources

Public Sector Patent Database

Commercial Patent Database


 Free of Charge
 Fee-based

Patent Analytics

Non Patent Literuture


New Trend of DB Service

Service Provider
 New Service
 Merger and Discontinuation
 Transition to Paid Services

Web Technology
 Web 2.0
 Semantic Web
 Visualization
 Web Analytics
2. PATENTSCOPE®
3. Useful Resources for Patent Searches
Espacenet - http://ep.espacenet.com
Espacenet – Quick Search
Espacenet – Advance Search

Search of
keywords
only in title
and abstract
Espacenet – Number Search
Espacenet – Classification Search
Espacenet – Classification Search
Espacenet – Classification Search
Espacenet – Classification Search
Espacenet – Classification Search
Espacenet – Classification Search
Espacenet – Classification Search
Espacenet – Classification Search
Register Plus – https://register.epoline.org/
Register Plus
Google Patent –
http://www.google.com/patents

Education Material
Google Patent
Google Patent

Education Material
Google Patent
Patent Lens
Patent Lens
Patent Lens
FreePatentsOnline -
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
FreePatentsOnline – Patent Search
FreePatentsOnline – Chemical Search
FreePatentsOnline
Intellogist

Education Material
4. Closing
Thank you very much

Feel free to contact me at insun.choi@wipo.int

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