Patent Documentation Group 1957 - 2008 · Patent Documentation Group 1957 - 2008 Minoo Philipp ......

Patent Documentation Group

1957 - 2008

Minoo Philipp

President

Patent Documentation Group

http://www.P-D-G.org

PIUG Annual Conference May 2008 Contact: [email protected]

Patents are a very important source of technical information

•Need for abstracts of patent information

•Need for patent family and legal status information

•Need for searching patent information

•Need for reliable and up-to date information


PDG Companies united to share the burden of patent work

•Abstracting patent documents

• Finding equivalents and collating ‘patent families’

•Distributing the information between companies

•Developing common indexing system


History 1957


History

• 1957 - The PDG was founded as a working group by 13 international

chemical and petrochemical companies to share the task of

preparing patent abstracts and indexing the content

• 1960 - Successful work expanded to include patent information management

• 1970 - Focus changed to online retrieval and networks

• 1980 - Activities also cover impact of patent laws on patent information and documentation

• 2008 - Has 41 multinational companies as members from 8 countries

and major industrial sectors


Purpose and Objectives

•Cooperation in patent information and documentation

•Exchange knowledge and experience in all areas relating to patent

information

•Debate, discuss and stimulate improvements and new

developments in patent information products

•Determine and communicate proposals to third parties involved in

the field of intellectual property information


Membership

•Member companies are actively engaged in industrial R&D and invest

considerable funds in R&D

•Members are significant players in their own industrial sector and

have a major presence in Europe

•Members have an active patent and / or patent information

department and have professional staff engaged in patent information

activities

•Members are expected to participate actively in at least one of the

PDG Working Groups and other activities such as Annual Members’

Conference


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Membership development

PDG

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Milestones

• 1969 - PDG became a registered association

• 1970 - Abstracting of patent specifications discontinued by PDG due

to availability of the Derwent Service

• 1976 - First official PDG Working Group - Networks and Online

Retrieval was established

• 1980 - Working Group IMPACT established

• 1984 - PDG Statutes amended to enable non-chemical/oil companies

to join the PDG

• 2007 - Celebrated its 50th Anniversary


Past Successes

Our efforts have contributed to major achievements

•Significant improvements in database content and functionality

• Introduction of Markush chemical structure searching

•Availability of fulltext patent databases

• Launch of patent citation databases

• Introduction of Left Hand Truncation

•Online thesauri / dictionaries

• Legal status databases


Past Successes – cont’d

•Availability of software tools for post processing and patent analysis

• Introduction of systematic correction procedures at patent offices

and vendors

•Extension of data coverage in Inpadoc

•Patent publications available on the internet

•PCT cases entering national/regional phases

•SPC data: availability and implementation


PDG-Organisation

PDG

WG PDV

Patent Database

Vendors

PDG

WG IMI

Internal

Management

of Information

PDG Board

PDG Annual Conference

Main Delegates

PDG

WG Online

Networks and

Online RetrievalExperts from

PDG companies

PDG

WG

IMPACT

Experts from

PDG companies,

PTO’s, WIPO,

Providers, EPI

Experts from

PDG companies Experts from

PDG companies

Analysis & Visualization

Biotechnology

Associated Working Groups

Education & Training

Chemical Reactions in Patents

Secretary General

Fulltext Searching


PDG Board & Secretary General

President: Minoo Philipp (Henkel)

Vice-President: Monika Hanelt (Agfa Graphics)

Board Members: Mathias Boenig (Boehringer Ingelheim)

John Bullen (BP)

Anni-Barbara Endler-Jobst (F. Hoffmann-La Roche)

Gerold Frers (Siemens)

Gerhard Fischer (Syngenta)

Werner Fröhling (Volvo)

Secretary General: Sandy Mullen


A Selection of PDG Corporate Members

Agfa Graphics DAIMLER Pfizer

Akzo Nobel DSM Philips

AstraZeneca Eli Lilly Procter & Gamble

BASF Evonik Degussa Robert Bosch

Bayer F. Hoffmann-La Roche Sanofi-Aventis

Beiersdorf GlaxoSmithKline Schering-Plough

BMS Henkel Shell International

Boehringer Ingelheim IFP SIEMENS

BP International Lanxess Solvay

Ciba Lyondellbasell Syngenta

Clariant International L'Oreal Tetra Pak

Cytec Specialty Chemicals Novartis Unilever

Volvo


PDG Board

•Executive authority of the PDG

• Five to nine members

•Elected by the Main Delegates at the Annual Members’ Conference

Tasks of the Board:

• Implement decisions of Main Delegates made at AMC

•Define and lead the course of action for the PDG

•Elect President and Vice President

•Appoint and supervise the Secretary General


Annual Members` Conference

•Authority to decide on official matters concerning the internal

organisation of the PDG

•Election of Board Members

•Decides on the policy of the PDG with respect to the interaction with

information providers, international and national patent offices

•Distinguished guest speakers are invited


PDG Working Groups

Working Groups are where the project work within the PDG is

accomplished

At present these are the main working groups

• ONLINE founded in 1976

• IMPACT founded in 1980

• PDV founded in 1992

• IMI founded in 1994


Further Working Groups

•Analysis & Visualization

•Biotechnology

•Chemical Reactions in Patents

•Education & Training

• Fulltext searching


PDG WG ONLINE

Mission

• to exchange knowledge and experience in fields of electronic patent

information

• to maintain close contacts with database producers and suppliers

(Derwent, CAS, STN, Questel-Orbit, Thomson-Dialog etc)

• to encourage and assist information providers in improving the quality

of patent information products


PDG WG ONLINE

Actively involved in:

•Monitoring quality, timeliness and correctness of data in patent

databases

•Assessing chemical structure searching capabilities

•Checking database content and search features

•Studying the application of software tools in patent information

retrieval

•Evaluating post processing and statistical analysis tools


PDG WG IMPACT

Mission

•To ascertain the effect of changes in patent laws on patent

information – members deal with:

• How to react to changes

•Weaknesses in publication process

• How to smooth out irregularities

• User-friendly new procedures and tools


PDG WG IMPACT continued

Actively involved in:

•Impact of patent laws on patent information

•Quality management at patent offices and vendors

•Standardisation procedures

•Patent information policy

•Closely involved in the implementation of the new IPC Reform

IMPACT WG maintains close contacts with WIPO, EPO, the National

Patent Offices and commercial vendors


PDG WG PDV

Mission

•Primarily works towards establishing close relationships with patent

information suppliers at a strategic level

Deals with:

•Database content

•Database quality

• Information policy


PDG WG IMI

Mission

•Addresses the highly challenging function of Information Management

• Organization and tasks of information centres

• Internal marketing

• Competitive intelligence

• Cost-analysis

• End-user searching and training


PDG External Activities

•Annual PDG Forum with the EPO

•PDG has an observer status at WIPO meetings

•Sub Advisory Committee before the EPO (SACEPO)

•Cooperation in several committees and working parties (SCIT, IPC)

•Contact and cooperation with national user groups and other

organizations interested in intellectual property information


Ongoing challenges

The economic impact of IP is becoming more and more significant

•Need for accurate indexing and abstracts of patent information which

truly reflect the actual content of the full specification

•Need to be able to retrieve specific information located in patents

•Need for reliable and up-to-date patent information in a language we

can understand

•Need for reliable and comprehensive patent family and legal status

information


Some challenges for the near future

•How to deal with the hype of supposedly free information

•Cope with the dramatic growth in patent filings from South East Asia

•Need for English translations of Chinese patents and utility models

•Education and training of patent information searchers

•Qualification for professional patent information specialists

•Maintain our strong relationship with our information providers

•Continue to strive for a fair partnership between the suppliers and the

users

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