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The Use of Technological Information: Presentation of the TISC Platform, WIPO Green and other databases
Casablanca
November 16, 2017
Nathalie Montillot
Associate Program Officer, Innovation and Technology Support Section
Patent system
2 fundamental elements:
Protection: patent owner gets
exclusive right to exploit his
invention for limited duration
rewards investments made in
developing a new invention
Disclosure: system requires
inventor to disclose technical
information about the new
invention to the public
Cost and benefit
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Patent documents Over 100 million patent documents published to date,
nearly 3 million new patent applications published yearly
Since 1883, over 94% of patents in the public domain
80% of scientific/technological info in patent documents
50% of this information only in patent documents!
Many patent collections are available online and
accessible to all free of charge:
PATENTSCOPE (hosted by WIPO)
Espacenet (hosted by the European Patent Office)
National/regional databases Patent Register Portal
Source: WIPO, 2016
Adding value to the matooke banana
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Banana juice/wine production process
search example
Search results
Bibliographical data
Where is the invention protected?
Top offices of filing With which offices do applicants tend to file their patent applications in this
field of technology?
Strategic uses of patent information
Technical/business
avoid “reinventing the wheel”: insufficient use of patent information wastes R&D investments
Find most-up-to-date information: find existing solutions to a technical problem and existing technologies
Technology transfer: find a technology you may be interested in that is available for licensing
Search for inventors/companies active in a field of technology, track research activities of competitors
Legal: avoid litigation - putting a new product on the market without doing a search can result in high litigation costs
WIPO platforms and tools to facilitate access to
scientific and technological information
TISC Program
Establishment and capacity-building of TISCs
ASPI & ARDI Programs
WIPO GREEN
WIPO TISC Program
TISC Networks
WIPO capacity building for TISCs
On-site training (including training of trainers)
Access to patent documentation and scientific and
technological literature
Assistance in patent searches
Patent analytics (new training area)
E-learning tools
Webinars
E-Tutorial
WIPO capacity building for TISCs
WIPO Academy Distance learning courses
DL-101 General course on IP
DL-301 Advanced course on Patents
DL-318 Patent Information Search
DL-320 Patent Drafting
Source: TISC Annual Report, 2016
WIPO capacity building for TISCs
Publications
Patent Landscape Reports in areas of public health,
food and agriculture, environment, energy Palm Oil Production and Waste Treatment Technologies
Microalgae-Related Technologies
Solar Cooking
PLRs by other entities (24 in food & agriculture)
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/programs/patent_land
scapes/plrdb.html
WIPO Guides to Patent Databases and Using Patent
Information
eTISC Members
~ 2000 users from > 100 countries
IP Offices’ staff
Government officials
Academics
Researchers
Lawyers
Private Sector representatives
IGOs
Source: TISC Annual Report, 2016
Forum
News Blog
Ask the Expert
TISCs in Africa
Source: TISC Directory
TISCs in your country – who to contact
http://www.wipo.int/tisc/en/search/
Access to Specialized Patent Information
Free or low-cost access for 116 developing and least developed
countries to advanced patent search and analysis tools in
commercial patent databases
Eligible: patent offices and academic and research institutions
Partnership with 7 commercial patent databases
LexisNexis TotalPatent
Minesoft PatBase
Questel Orbit
Thomson Reuters Thomson Innovation
WIPS WIPS Global
Gridlogics Patseer
Ambercite
Access to Research for Development and
Innovation
Free or low-cost access for 121 developing and least
developed countries to scientific and technical
literature (to more than 28,000 journals and books)
Eligible: academic, government and research
institutions in developing countries
Research4Life: Programs
World Health Organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations
United Nations Environment
Programme
World Intellectual Property
Organization
What is WIPO GREEN?
Two principal components
WIPO GREEN Database
Freely accessible, offers
a broad listing of:
Products, services and IP
assets (inventions,
technologies, know-how)
for sale and/or license, as
well as opportunities for
collaboration
Needs for products,
processes, know-how
transfer, collaborations and
finance
WIPO GREEN Network
Connects green
technology providers and
seekers:
catalyzes mutually
beneficial commercial
transactions
offers many resources
and services
The WIPO GREEN Database
WIPO GREEN database
Farming & Forestry
The WIPO GREEN Network
82 partners from around the globe:
Multinational companies, financing institutions, IGOs/NGOs
SMEs, industry associations and consultants/experts
Academia and research institutions
Services offered by WIPO and partners include: arbitration
and mediation, learning and training activities on IP, IP
licensing, IP management
IP legal assistance (300 hours of pro bono services)
Matchmaking events and green tech exhibitions
Matchmaking project in East
Africa on wastewater technologies
Identification of 70 needs in Ethiopia,
Kenya and Tanzania
Survey of solutions responding to those
needs
Matchmaking event April 5-7, 2016,
supported by the Government of Japan
9 letters of intent
AfricAqua (Kenyan company) entered
into a collaboration with South Korean
company Segi Environment to access a
low cost, energy saving water filtration
technology from Segi Environmental
which will assist AfricAqua in effectively
addressing local drinking water issues
and distributing safe water
WIPO GREEN Partners
Northern Africa and Western Asia
• Moroccan Office of Industrial and Commercial Property
(OMPIC)
• Environment Public Authority of (Kuwait)
• K. A. CARE (Saudi Arabia)
• League of Arab States (Egypt)
• Inovent (Turkey)
• Sabanci University (Turkey)
• Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (Turkey)
WIPO GREEN Partners
Sub-Saharan Africa
• African Agricultural Technology Foundation (Kenya)
• Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative (Ghana)
• Kenya Climate Innovation Center (Kenya)
• Strathmore University / Center for Intellectual Property
and Information Technology Law (Kenya)
• The Innovation Hub (South Africa)
• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) (Kenya)
