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Patexia Web Series:Patent and Prior Art 101
Patexia. March 2013
www.patexia.com
Disclaimer: Patexia is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice
Pedram Sameni Founder and CEO
Outline
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● Intellectual Property: definitions and types
● Patent and patentability
● Prior Art: definition and types
● Patent Search: types and strategies
● Available resources
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Patexia Web Series: IP MattersAs part of its mission to bring transparency and efficiency to the IP world, Patexia is
committed to educate its community on important matters in IP. This is our first monthly
webinar. In the following months, we plan to cover:
● Defensive Publications
● Business of Intellectual Property
● Strategies for Licensing Search
● Patent Analytics
● YOUR SUGGESTION, EMAIL: [email protected]
Webinar: Every Second Thursday of the month
10:30am (PST) - about 20 minutes
Tweet questions to @patexia
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Why IP Matters?
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The ratio of tangible to intangible assets has been reversed over the past four decades.
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What is Intellectual Assets?
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● Academic Description○ Intellectual assets are the intangible assets of the company:
■ Intellectual Property: Patent, Trade Secret, Trademark, Copyright■ Other Intellectual Capital: Know-how, human capital , experience, knowledge, insight.
● Legal Description○ Intellectual property is the legal right that can be asserted in court
Intellectual Assets
Intellectual Property● Patent● Trademark● Trade Secret● Copyright
Know-How
Experience
Knowledge
Insight
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Patent and Patentability
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Patent: A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a national government to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention (protecting against import, export, offer to sale, sale and use).● Novelty
○ At least some aspects of the invention must be new● Non-obviousness
○ The invention should not be obvious to a person skilled in the art● Utility
○ The invention should have a credible utility
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Claim, Description and Drawings
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Claims are the legal part of the patent and what can be asserted in the court.
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What is Prior Art?
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Prior Art: All information that has been disclosed to the public in any form before a
given date that might be relevant to the originality of an idea/patent. Examples:
● Patents (US and foreign)
● Patent applications
● Books and papers (conference proceedings and journals)
● Product, White papers, datasheets, product brochures, ...
● Web pages (with date information)
● Any clearly dated publicly available document
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Types of Patent Search
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● Patentability / Novelty
● Validity / invalidity
● Clearance / Freedom to operate / right-to-use
● Infringement / out-licensing
● In-licensing / Technology acquisition
● State-of-the-art
● Landscape
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Search Strategy
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● Phase 1 - Preparation
● Phase 2 - Search
● Phase 3 - Reporting
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Phase 1 - Preparation
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Familiarize
Auxiliary concepts
Main concept (novelty)
Synonyms
Classification Codes
Identify search terms
Identify Search Domains
Patent / Non-patent
US / Foreign
Datasheet / product
Function
Assignees
Inventors
Problem / requirement
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Phase 2 - Search
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Searchcombine
synonyms, codes, assignees,inventors,
fwd/backward citations, boolean
and proximity operators
Refinefind more
synonyms, codes, and narrow down
search
AnalyzeReview,
compare with search requests
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Phase 3 - Reporting
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Finalize Analysis
Combine references
Claim analysis
Report
Subject matter
Reference discussion
Summary
Search History
Claim chart (possibly)
Review references
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Resources (1)
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1. US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (Free)
(www.uspto.gov)
2. European Patent Office (EPO) (Free)
(www.espacenet.com)
3. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (Free)
(http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/search.jsf)
4. Google Patents (US and EU) (Free)
(www.google.com/patents)
5. Google Scholar (IEEE, PubMed, ...) (Free)
(scholar.google.com)
6. Free Patents Online (Free)
(http://www.freepatentsonline.com/search.html)
7. General Searching Best Practices
(http://www.intellogist.com/wiki/General_Searching_Best_Practices)
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Resources (2)
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8. Bio and Chem:
○ Elsevier Science Direct, ○ Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ○ Springer Link, ○ Oxford University Press
9. CS and EE:
○ IEEEXplore, ○ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ○ Softbase, ○ Ei Compendex, ○ INSPEC, ○ National Technical Information Service (NTIS),
○ Japanese Science and Technology (JICST-EPlus), PASCAL 10. Thomson Innovation (Delphion)
11. Thomson Derwent World Patent Index (DWPI)
12. Patexia (US, and PubMed): text search and visualization
(www.patexia.com/ip-research)
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Questions or Suggestions
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