Free sources for iberoamerican patent searches

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Free Sources for Iberoamerican Patent Searches

Björn Jürgens

E-Mail: bjorn.jurgens@gmail.com

Twitter: @benlogo

© 2011

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Why take into account Iberoamerican

Patent Searches for a Technology Watch

Activity?

• With more than 20 countries and 385 Million

People, it is an Economic Sector with strong ties

(language & similar cultural background)

• Strong presence of some multinational companies

(TELEFONICA, REPSOL, etc)

• Important to know where to search if you want to

gain business intelligence in this geographical

area!

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Patent Databases hosted by the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office

URL(English Interface):

http://invenes.oepm.es/InvenesWeb/index.jsp?user=INTERNET&locale=en

INTERPAT

• Offers bibliographic data of Patents and Utility Models since 1929 and

PCT Patent applications designated to Spain.

• Original Documents since 1988 (PDF).

LATIPAT

• Offers bibliographic data of Patents of 18 Latin American countries since

1955, as well as original documents from 1991 and Original Documents

from Mexican Patents.

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Home Screen (English Interface)

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Advanced Search (Field Search)

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Expert Search (individual & combinable field search)

Field description

Query History (with number

of Hits)

Go to result List

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Result List

Patent List Export

Original Doc available (PDF)

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Bibliographic View ( only available in spanish)

Original Document (in PDF)

Seach Report References Claims

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Original Document View

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PROs

• Good (English) Search Interface

• Offers search in titles not available in multinational databases (utility

models + designs)

• Export Documents (but: not in table format, which makes it difficult to

use for patent analysis)

CONs

• Search with Spanish keywords only

• No machine translation available (alternative: copy paste to the google

translator)

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Contact Details:

Björn Jürgens

E-Mail: bjorn.jurgens@gmail.com

Twitter: @benlogo