Overview of the PATENTSCOPE® search service Jerusalem

21 July2010

Alex Riechel

Associate Officer, Innovation and Technology Support Section

What is the PATENTSCOPE® search service?

Access to over 3.4 million patent documents

International patent applications (PCT)

Patent applications and patents from 8 participating national and regional patent offices

And it’s free of charge!

How do I access the PATENTSCOPE® search service?

http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/dbsearch/

Overview

Coverage

Search features

Interfaces

Flexibilities

Analysis tools

Records (PCT)

Coverage : Collections

PCT first publication worldwide

ARIPO

Cuba

Israel

Mexico

Republic of Korea

Singapore

South Africa

Viet Nam

Coverage : Details

Biblio. data Abstracts Full-TextDocument

images

PCT(1978-2010)

x EN/FR x x

ARIPO(1985-2008)

x x

Cuba(1968-2009)

x x ~80%

Israel(1900-2010)

EN/HE x(2000-2010)

~60% x

Mexico(1991-2009)

x x ~70% x

Coverage : Details (cont’d)

Biblio. data Abstracts Full-TextDocument

images

Korea(1973-2009)

x x

Singapore(1995-2009)

x

S. Africa(1984-2008)

x ~80% ~80% ~80%

Viet Nam(1997-2008)

x x

Search features

Office selection : Define patent collection or collections to be searched

Language selection : Define query language (all or specific)

Stemming : Automatically include all variants of search terms (plural, noun/adjective/adverb)

Cross-lingual search : Include variants of search terms in multiple languages

Interfaces : Simple

Search by individual fields

Interfaces : Structured

Search by field combination

Interfaces : Advanced

Command-line search

Interfaces : Cross-lingual (CLIR)

Interfaces : Cross-lingual (CLIR)

Interfaces : Cross-lingual (CLIR)

Narrow the technical field

Interfaces : Cross-lingual (CLIR)

Add synonyms system-generated or user-added

Interfaces : Cross-lingual (CLIR)

Search simultaneously for variants in English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish

Flexibilities : Operators

Boolean operators : AND, OR, ANDNOT, XOR

Proximity operators : NEAR, "term1 term2"~n

Range operators : [term1 TO term2], ->

Wildcard operators : ? , *

Flexibilities : Boolean operators

Results in PCT collection (English titles):195 (tennis)2454 (ball)2649 total

tennis ball

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (AND)

Results in PCT collection (English titles)34 (tennis AND ball)

tennisballe

tennisANDballe

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (OR)

Results in PCT collection (English titles)2,615 (tennis OR ball)

tennis OR ball

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (NOT)

Results in PCT collection (English titles)161 (tennis NOT ball)

tennis NOT ballball

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (NOT)

Results in PCT collection (English titles)2,420 (ball NOT tennis)

tennis ball NOT tennis

Flexibilities : Boolean operators (XOR)

Results in PCT collection (English titles)2,581 (tennis XOR ball)

tennis XOR ball ball XOR tennis

Flexibilities : Proximity operators

Operators : NEAR, "term1 term2"~n

Search terms within a certain range of each other (regardless of order)tool NEAR metal metal tool

tool to cut metal

“tool metal"~5 tool for determining metal quality

NOT : tool for cutting wood and support frame made of metal

Default for NEAR : 5 words (or other text units)

Flexibilities : Range operators

Operators: [term1 TO term2], ->

ID number ranges[WO/1999/012345 TO WO/1999/012350]

WO/1999/012345->WO/1999/012350

Date ranges[20100101 TO 20100601]

[20100101->20100601]

Name rangesPA:[m* TO n*]

Flexibilities : Wildcard operators

Operators: * , ?

Unlimited characters : *

elect* electric, electronic, electron, election …

Single character (stackable) : ?

coll?sion collision, collusion …

foc?? focus, focal …

Analysis features

Graphical analysis

Data clustering additional filtering

Top offices

Top fields of technology (IPC)

Top applicants

Top inventors

Publication dates

Analysis features : Clustering

Analysis features : Clustering (filtering)

Analysis features : Clustering (filtering)

Analysis features : Graphical analysis

Analysis features : Graphical analysis

Analysis features : Graphical analysis

Analysis features : Graphical analysis

Analysis features : Graphical analysis

Notification features : RSS feeds

Continuously updated information automatically includes latest documents related to search

Records (PCT) : Bibliographic data

Publication and application number

Filing and publication date

Priority data

Classification (IPC)

Applicant, inventor, and agent data

Title and abstract

Designated states

Filing and publication language

Special indications (Chapter 2 demand, withdrawals …)

Records (PCT) : Bibliographic data

Records (PCT) : National phase

Notifications (national phase entry data available from over 40 patent offices including Israel Patent Office)

Legal status (where available)

Hyperlinks to certain offices (further status information, translations, etc.)

Records (PCT) : National phase

Records (PCT) : Documents

International Application Status Report (IASR)

International application

Search and examination reports

Priority documents

Request forms

Declarations

Records (PCT) : Documents

Records (Israel) : Bibliographic data

Records (Israel) : Description and claims

Searchable description and claims (OCR)

Embedded tables and formulas

Records (Israel) : Documents

TIFF format

Bookmarked PDF format

Front page

Description

Claims

Drawings

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