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Dynamic Thinking : Patent Search and Analysis
www.wipsglobal.com
WIPS Headquarter DMC Tower 18~19th Floor, 189 Sungam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea
Trademark & Design Research & Analysis Center DMC Sangam-dong, Mapo, SeoulPatent Research & Analysis Center 386-2 Doryong-dong, Yuseong-gu, DaejeonIP Training & Education Center DMC Tower 19th Floor, 189 Sungam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, KoreaWorldwide Intellectual Property Service
Authorized Prior Art Search Institute.
Authorized Trademark & Design Art Search Institute.
Authorized Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Prior Art Search Institute.
ASPI (Access to Specialized Patent Information) program
DB Quality Award by Korea government
Partnership
Award&Recognition
CompanyProfile
Worldwide Intellectual Property Service
About WIPS
WIPS is Korea’s first company to offer on-line worldwide patent information service. Since starting the business in 1999, the service is being used by over 3,000 companies, patent law firms, academics, governments, and R&D centers including top Korean global companies and multinationals. With over 100,000 users worldwide, WIPS has kept the number 1 spot in Korea with largest market share for over 13 yrs term. In 2012, WIPS achieved 63% market share.
DB Quality Certification(Gold-Class) by Korea Database Agency
Designated as World Class Product / Service by Korea government
Certified ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Information Security Management System
Certification BS10012:2009 Personal Information Management System
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DB Coverage
※ KPA, PAJ is offered in English. KR and CN data is offered English machine translation. JP data is offered in native language.
Country Data collection Earliest records
US
Patents issued before 1975 1836Patent Application Publications 2001Patent Granted Publications 1976Assignments Information 1970
EPEuropean Patent Applications 1978Granted European Patents 1980
PCT(WO) - 1978
JP
Patent ApplicationUnexamined Publications 1993Japanese Translation of PCT 1996Domestic Re-Publication of PCT 1996
Patent GrantedExamined Publications 1994Granted 1996
Utility ApplicationUnexamined Publications 1993Unexamined Granted 1994
Utility GrantedExamined Publications 1994Granted 1996
Examined Utility PublicationsExamined Utility Publications 1994Granted Utilities 1996
PAJ (Patent Abstract of Japan –Unexamined Applications) 1976 Amendment Information (JP patent / Utility) 1993
KR
Patent Application Unexamined Publications 1983
Patent GrantedExamined Publications 1979Granted 1998
Utility Application Unexamined Publications 1983
Utility GrantedExamined Publications 1979Granted 1998
KPA (Korea Patent Abstract)KPA-A (Unexamined Applications) 1999KPA-B1 (Examined Applications) 1979
Amendment Information (KR patent / Utility) 2006
CN
Patent Application Publications 1985Patent Granted Publications 1985Utility Application Publications 1985Utility Granted Publications 1985
DOCDB (included INPADOC, Collection of published applications from 100+ countries Bibliographic, Abstract, Legal Status) 1968
GB Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1782FR Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1855DE Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1861RU Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1993IN Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1975TW Authorities Applications and/or Grant 1991Standardized Applicant Individual or corporate applicants that have filed over 50 patent applications.
KR Standardized Applicant The whole Korean companies that received an external audit. The foreign companies that maintain over 50 published patent and utility model documents.
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What are the Special Features of WIPS Global?
General Search
Theme Search
• Integrated Search : patent search in multiple countries with a single click
• Advanced Search : advanced search using various and exclusive search fields of WIPS
• Step Search : a cross-search of search results and information
• Number Search : a quick search using patent numbers
• Family Search : enables a quick custom search for patents by setting various search terms for patent families
• Citation Search : a quick search for citation relationships with specific document
• Company Search : enables extraction of applicable cases when wanting to analyze patent portfolios of a specific company
Search
Review
Quickly reviews and classifies a large amount of search results en bloc(user-defined tags)
Easy Viewer
View option : List, Block, Drawing type view List realignment with Family Group function
Search results
Quickly reviews major information (e.g., claims, drawing) of individual patent
Express View
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SmartAngle: Patent Statistics
Patent Analysis
• Chart Analysis : quickly and easily offers statistics of a large amount of patent information in chart forms, enables phased review of statistical information
• Cross Matrix : quickly extracts major statistics from a large amount of patent information by setting up statistics fields (X/Y Axis)
• Classification : quickly extracts the patents that satisfy the condition of review from a large amount of patent information
Download
Offers various output formats (XLS, TXT, MDB, PMDX) to allow major information of patents to be used in various ways
ThinKlear 2012
Offers editing and reporting tools to allow users to utilize the Output information in various ways
• Cla im Analys is : o ffers keyword extraction and a referential relationship with an individual patent claim, able to compare claims of published and granted patents
• Family Analysis : offers information on nations in which patent family is entered, time series information, and comparison of claims to enable multi-dimensional analysis on patent family information
• Citation Analysis : allows a multi-dimensional analysis on patent citation information through a citation map and citation statistics information
• Patent Folder : saves and shares searched results of patents
• Query Folder : saves and shares query information
• Query History : reuses the query information
Query SDI
Monitors trends through registering interested query (Keyword, IPC, etc.)
Citation SDI
Continually monitors changes to citation information in patents of interest
Family SDI
Continually monitors changes to family information in patents of interest
Monitoring
My Folder Statistics & Analysis
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Search
List type Block type Drawing type
• Optimizes the patent search environment by offering various and exclusive search fields
• Search Type: Integrated Search / Advanced Search / Step Search / Number Search
• Additional Functions: Query Matching Board, Error Check, Setting output items out of searched results, supporting various search field operators, etc.
• Search Results View: Provide List, Block, Drawing type view-option
• Family Group Function: List realignment with Family Group
Status information of patent families
Status Information of Forward / Backward Citation
Convenient search interface for applicants’ info.
Dictionary of representative names of applicants (EN/KR)
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• Quickly extracts patent document using the search terms and keywords for family patents
• Able to quickly figure the present conditions of domestic/overseas patent applications of competitors: enables establishing patent strategies for each nation
Citation Search
• Quickly and easily search Forward / Backward Citation through inte-
grated citation information of patents from Korea, the US, Japan, and Euro pean countries
• Easily searches the current status of patents of interest (competitors’):
conveniently establishes strategies to respond to disputes
Company Search
• Search patent document of an applicant for a patent without omis sions by making a representative name for the information of affiliated companies or applicants written in various forms
• Conveniently figures the trends of competitors’ patent applications: enables continuous monitoring of competitor patent portfolios
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Easy Viewer
Review
Select a folder to apply the user-classification tag
User-classification tag
My Folder
Express View
Description and Drawing
Claim and Drawing
Create Tag
• Able to quickly search major information in a large amount of patent document on a list of search results
• Able to quickly review search results of core content of technology from a large amount of patent information using the keyword highlighting function
• Able to conveniently classify the technical content of individual patent document through the classification tag function based on user’s viewpoint
• Able to quickly review description, claims, and drawings in individual patent document through the Express View
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Loading patents related to OOO saved in My Folder onto SmartAngle
1. Drag & Drop : US patent
2. Select Field (First output info): Applicant’s Nationality
Present status of patents applied in the US by Japanese applicants related to (technology areas)
3. Drag & Drop : JP data
Output
Input
• Conducts a multi-dimensional review of results through various statistics fields offered by the SmartAngle and the narrow down type statistics function for searched data or a large amount of patent data saved in My Folder
• SmartAngle is able to load 10,000 cases of searched data or 2,000 cases of saved data in My Folder
Q : I want to know the present status of patents applied in the U.S. by major Japanese applicants related to (technology areas)
A : SmartAngle(Chart Analysis)
4. Select Field (secondary output info) : Primary Applicant
SmartAngle
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• Easily and quickly extracts statistical information on two-dimensional correlation of a large amount of patent data through setting up statistics information fields (X/Y Axis) for search results or a large amount of patent data saved in My Folder
• Offers various chart views of the Cross Matrix results and the view function of a list of patents
• Easily and quickly clusters the patent document search results among a large amount of patent data using filtering operators and various classification fields
• Able to quickly review extracted results using Easy Viewer
Question
Answer
Setting classification fields
Setting Classification Fields
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US 2011 –XXXXXXX A1US 2005 –XXXXXXX A1
I want to know the present status of patents applied in the US by (company name) related to (technology areas)
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s • Offers a customized statistical analysis function through setting various statistics fields for the citation information of patents of interest (or competitors’) and offers visualized information of the citation relationship for user’s convenience.
• Offers integrated citation information for patents from Korea, the US, Japan, and European countries
• Offers such functions as statistics, family country profiles, time series view, and compare documents to enable a multi-dimensional analysis on family information of patents of interest (or competitors’)
• Conveniently figures the present status of competitor patents; enables strategic use of information to establish patent portfolio
Statistics
Time Series View
Family Country Profiles
Compare Documents
• Patent Portfolio• R&D Trends• Scope of Rights
Family Analysis
Visual Mode (Citation Map)Text Mode & Statistics
Analysis
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Claim
Analysis
• Offers information in diagram forms for users to conveniently analyze the classes and reference relationship among patent claims
• Offers a comparison function of claims per document and analysis function of keywords per claim for users to easily analyze public and registered patents from the same patent document and a range of rights for an individual claim
2. Analysis on Keywords by Claim 3. Disclosure of the Same Patent Document and Comparison of Claim in Published and Granted Patents
Can be used in various works such as prior art, invalidity, and infringement searches through
the convenient function of claim analysis
1.Classes of Claim and Reference Relationship Diagram
Dependent Claim
Independent Claim
Comparison of the range of rights between claims in a reference relationship
Information on keywords analysis
Highlighting major keywords
Present status of independent and dependent claims
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• Once the patent numbers of interest (or competitors’) are registered on the Web SDI, the updated news of patent families or citation patents of the applicable patent are regularly offered.
• SDI service can be effectively used to monitor competitors or the patent trends of technology of interest.
1. Setting Up Query SDI 3. Setting Up Family SDI
Obtaining prior art data before applying for a patent overseas
Blocking other applicants to register a patent relatedto the company’s rights
(Raising a formal objection)
Obtaining related patent data when developing new
technology
Get the trend of competitor’s patent applications
SDIUtilization of SDI Service
2. Setting Up Citation SDI
Setting the sharing person about SDI result
Setting up a range of monitoring and registering Query
Setting patent numbers of the monitoring object
Setting patent numbers of the monitoring object
Convenient management of the SDI History informationSDI Result
SDI
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My FolderFam
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Query H
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• Offers the function to save (2,000 cases/folder) patent data that will be applied to work and manage the data (data sharing and information classification)
• Enables a secondary use of the data by linking the saved data in Patent Folder with SmartAngle and Easy Viewer offered by the WIPS Global
The setting status of user-classification tags for the saved patent data in an individual folder
• Displays a list of the saved patent data in an individual folder
• Able to set up user-classification tag for individual patent data
• offers a search function of patent document in an individual folder
• Conveniently links the saved patent data in Patent Folder with other services such as Easy Viewer and SmartAngle
Setting to share the saved patent data in Patent Folder
Query Folder
• Convenient function to save and manage frequently used query information in folders
• Links the saved query information with SDI service
• Linked with Query Matching Board
• Offers the history of query information by used dates
• Offers the search terms used
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• Offers a wide range of information fields for users to use major patent information in various ways• Offers various output formats: XLS, TXT, MDB, PMDX (supported format by ThinKlear2012)
• ThinKlear2012 is a support tool for editing and analyzing patent information with an improved degree of freedom for users. Offered as software, this additional service can be used in various ways including analyzing or making a report on patent information.
• Its user interface is reinforced to enable customized analysis on downloaded patent information such as bibliographical information, patent families, citation information, applicants, and inventors from WIPS Global Advanced.
Offers various patent information fields (66 Fields) Reinforced set function for a customized output
Offers a list of patent information with representative drawing
Editing an order of output data
ThinKlear2012
Simple tool for automatic analysis Customized list of essentialsFunction to manage and edit group
work information
Supports a customized analysis
Various functions of information editing
(e.g., Standardized Applicant)
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“Provided answers to and solved many issues we were facing in regards to patent search & analysis”
Jung-Won Jo / Patent Attorney / ManagerETRI ( Electronic & Telecommunication Research Institute)
“I often search family or citation data while researching and WIPS service allows mean easy and effective access to do my job”
Min-Ho Kim / Patent Dep / ManagerLG Chem
“Cited patents within Patent document (abstract, claims, description) can be more useful than cited reference literature or search reports. In this respect, Citation From Description function of WIPS Global
Advanced is most useful and helpful.”Jae-Bok Yoo / General Manager
Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute
“The Classification Code search function in the WIPS Global Advanced is convenient for searching information. The F-Term code search function especially
allows me to figure out characteristics of technology at glance”Mi-gyeong Jeong / Manager
LG Electronics
“ With SmartAngle, conclusions can be quickly made according to different viewpoints even though there are many patents involved. One time, a case had to go to the Supreme Court due to a dependent claim.
The claim analysis function of WIPS clearly shows a linkage between an independent and dependent claim which can be useful for lawsuit cases”
Dr. Sin-ho KangFoundation of Agri. Tech. Commercialization & Transfer
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Contact Information WIPS Headquarter. Global sales & MarketingDMC Tower 18-19th Floor, 189 Sungam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea 121-904Tel +82-2-726-1104, 1130 Fax +82-2-777-7334 E-mail [email protected]
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Singapore Representative office.Korea Business Development Center – Singapore. 438 Alexandra Road, #17-02/03 Alexandra Point, Singapore, 119958, SINGAPORE Tel +65-9695-9662 E-mail [email protected]
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Dynamic Thinking : Patent Search and Analysis
www.wipsglobal.com
WIPS Headquarter DMC Tower 18~19th Floor, 189 Sungam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea
Trademark & Design Research & Analysis Center DMC Sangam-dong, Mapo, SeoulPatent Research & Analysis Center 386-2 Doryong-dong, Yuseong-gu, DaejeonIP Training & Education Center DMC Tower 19th Floor, 189 Sungam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, KoreaWorldwide Intellectual Property Service
