Patent searching a way for innovation24.03

SEMINAR ON PATENT SEARCH AND PATENTING MARCH 24, 2012

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PATENT SEARCH: A WAY FOR INNOVATION

Dr. Y. Srinivasa RaoNIT Rourkela

March 24, 2012

CONTENTS

• Intellectual Property Right (IPR)• What is Patent?• Why Do Need Patents?• Why Do Need Patents?• Patenting Strategy and Promotion• IPR Stat in India• Patents Stat – Subject/State/Organizations Wise • Patents - World Stat• Why Do Need a Patent Search?• Why Do Need a Patent Search?• Patent Databases• Searching Various Patent Databases


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Intellectual Property Right (IPR)

1999Trade

1999

product sign and symbols

Creations of the mind...........

• Defined as anyoriginal creative

IPRIndia

1970Patent

20 Years

Mark14 Years

1957Copyright60 Years

2000Industrial

Design15 Years

(10+5)

1999Geographical Indication

10 Years

shape,configuration, pattern,ornament or

literary, dramatic, musical, creative

inventionsgoods as originating in the territory

work manifestedin a tangible formthat can be legallyprotected.

Two types of IPR

• Industrial Property2000

Protection of IC

10 Years

ornament orcomposition of lines orcolours applied to anyarticle

creative works

layout design

2001Plant Breeders

Right10 Years use the seeds from their

own crops for planting thenext crop

• Industrial Property• Copyright

Used as tool

• to protect creativity• generate revenue 1959, Jack Kilby (taxas instruments) US 3138743

on IC got noble prize in 2000 in physics for “method of making miniaturized electrical circuilt”

What is Patent?Patent is a main source for nation growth and development.

‘Invention’ means a new product or process involving aninventive step and capable of industrial application -SecSec..22((11)(J))(J)

New meansNew meansI ti t t b

• A patent is an exclusive rightgranted by a country to the ownerof an invention to make, use,manufacture and market thei ti id d th i ti Invention must not be ………

• Published in anywhere in India or elsewhereIn prior public knowledge /use within India• Claimed before in any specification in IndiaInventive step……….

• involves technical advance as compared to the existing knowledge h i i ifi

invention, provided the inventionsatisfies certain conditionsstipulated in the law – India.

• A patent granted by the UnitedStates Government gives theinventor the right to excludeothers from making, using,selling, importing, and offering an

• have economic significanceIndustrial application means……….

• Invention is capable of being made or used in any kind of industry

invention for up to 20 years –USPTO.

the patent system is “the fuel of interest to the fire of genius.” ‐ Abraham Lincoln’s

1st Indian Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, who own a patent on “Detector for electrical disturbances” US 755840 On 29 March 1904 (filed on Sept. 30, 1901)


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Why Do Need Patents?Patents are imparting knowledge through scientific and technological advances for the benefit of society

• To promote science and the useful arts (Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution )

1st patent

2nd patent, f )

• Social and Economic development of the country

• Provide incentives to encourage innovation

• Hold high recognition

• To protect inventive works

• To enjoy monopoly rights over invention

• To generate finance (by licensing or selling)

• Scope – broad/narrow, but it should not be both at the same time

• Characteristics ‐ clear, complete and

Patenting Strategy and PromotionClaims are boundaries for protecting the patent

Direct Inputs to encourage inventions

Need Initiative

Need Education of the Workforcesupported

• Economic viability ‐ product is worth patenting • Geographical jurisdictions• Beware of Patent trolls

Need User Education Programs

Need Local Research Infrastructure

Need Technical Expertise

Need a Wide Range of Policies

Need collaboration (Institute to institute or Industryand Institute relationship)and Institute relationship)

In order encounter those challenges…… need a Patent Search and Retrieval System


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IPR Stat in India

Source: Annual Report 2009-10

Patents Stat – Subject Wise

Source: Annual Report 2009-10


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Patents Stat – State/Organizations Wise State‐wise Patents output during 2006‐2009

Source: CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 102, NO. 2, 25 JANUARY 2012

IT‐Madras gets award for highest no. of patents (78) ‐Source: Times of India, April 30, 2011

Patents - World Stat

Source: European Patent Office website


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Patents – World RankingPatent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) international

applications filed by the Indian applicants

Patents granted (most recent) by country

...Source: Annual Report 2009-10

As compared to the previous year it was 15% decrease

Source: NationMaster.com

IBM ‐ 4,914 Samsung ‐ 3,611 Microsoft ‐ 2,906.

Source: The Economic Times , Jan 14, 2010

Highest number of US patents

The reasons for performing a patent search is…Why Do Need a Patent Search?

• To discover originality of the patent

• To find out existing literature available in the field ofstudy

• To know market information

• To track competitors

• To track technology

• To present the idea of patent in structural form

• Opportunity to improve patent product and design No search is 100% complete...........without violating the previous invention Techniques for search and retrieval

Boolean Search ... By inserting (AND, OR, NOT)ex. bicycle AND wheel NOT spokes OR seat

Wild card search… by Inserting special characters such as ‘$’ and ‘?’

In order to achieve the challenges, need a patent search using databases

• Cost• Quality• Time

Selection of databases based on the three factors


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Patent DatabasesMore than one million patents applied worldwide each year.Wide variety of databases available for patent search & retrieval

Sl.No. Govt. Organizations (Freely Available) Commercial Open Access

E i i Vill 2 P L1 USPTO Engineering Village2 PatentLens

2 EspaceNet (EPO) SciFinder Google Patent Database

3 Japan Patents (IPDL) Delphion Free Patents Online

4 Indian Patent Information Retrieval System

Patentec (Egypt) IP.com Intellectual Property Library System y

5 PatentScope (WIPO) Patentstorm (USA)

USPTO's PATFT searches and serves over 70,00,000 patents, all three types of U.S. patents (utility, design and plant).• 1976 to present (full-text)• 1790 to present (entire database) • 1790 to 1975 search by Issue Date/Patent Number,/Classification

http://patft.uspto.gov Coverage

See statistics : http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm


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Espacenet offers free access to more than 70million patent documents worldwide, containinginformation about inventions and technicaldevelopments from 1836 to today.

http://www.epo.org/searching/free/espacenet.html

Using PATENTSCOPE you can search 10,621,920 patent documents including 2,027,182 published international patent applications (PCT). Detailed coverage information can be found here (‐>)

Coverage http://www.wipo.int

"Process and synthesizer for molecular engineering and synthesis of materials"


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http://www.patentlens.net

Patent Lens is a worldwide, open-access, free full-text patentinformatics resource by Cambia, Australia

Coverage

Process and synthesizer for molecular engineering and synthesis of materials

bicycle AND wheel

FPO is home to the world's most popular patent search engine – a fast, easy‐to‐use, and reliable service used by 100's of millions world‐wide since 2004.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

Coverage

NOT spokes OR seat


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http://www.google.com/patents Google Patents searches only U.S. Patents. It covers over 8 million patent s. It has digitized the U.S. TIFF-only patents into a searchable PDF format.

Coverage

Use of turmeric in wound healingUS 5401504

http://www.engineeringvillage.com/Engineering Village is a Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields.


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https://scifinder.cas.org/scifinder SciFinder is a research discovery tool that covers scientificdisciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering,materials science, agricultural science, and more!

Process and synthesizer for molecular engineering and synthesis of materialsWO 2003076790

Gokaraju

http://ipindia.nic.in/ipirs1/patentsearch.htm

Public Search for Patents

Public Search for Patents (No. 1 ‐ 80000)

Public Search for Patents (No. 80001 to 1,53,697)

Public Search for Patents (No.1,53,698 to 1,69,500)

Public Search for Patents (New Records )


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