Transcript PIUG 2007 Patent and Business Information” – Panel Discussion

SLA – “Embedded Librarians”
Denver, 2007
James L. Grant
GLIST – Global Legal Information Science Team
Pfizer Corporate Legal Patent Department
La Jolla, CA, 92037
Working with Intellectual Property
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IP – Space
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Trademarks
Copyrights
Patents
Patents & Pharmaceuticals
Making a Difference,
…One Patient At a Time
The Business Model
“Creating and Managing a Patent Information Group in a Global Environment”
Donna Kaye Wilson, World Patent Information, pp 136-139
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Collaborating with Research Scientists
& other I.S.
Patent
Attorney
GLIST
Information
Scientist
Research
Scientist
PGRD Information
Scientist
Alignment along Corporate Goals
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Pfizer Inc. To be the world’s most valued
company to patients, customers,
colleagues, shareholders, business
partners and the communities where we
work and live.
GLIST To thoroughly interrogate prior
knowledge and anticipate future
developments to protect and insure
Pfizer’s leadership position and intellectual
property portfolio. We accomplish this by
providing high quality search results and
analysis.
Business Information
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Basic COMPANY INFORMATION, such as address,
telephone number, and company officials, and key financial
data like 10-K reports.
Company and industry news, including introduction of new
products, sales, increases in research and development
spending.
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Analyst reports on companies, an industry, or a specific
country.
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Detailed market research on specific industries or
companies.
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Product information, such as new product launches.
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Information on mergers, acquisitions, alliances, and
partnerships.
Working With Patent Information
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Other uses for Patent Analysis and Mapping include:
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Identifying emerging technologies and trends, including an analysis of
the rate of development of a technology
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Revealing gaps in a technology which could be new development
opportunities
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Observing when a competitor abandons a technology
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Assessing the risk of infringement (providing information to attorneys)
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Monitoring competitors activities, including new players entering a
market
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Detecting possible partnering opportunities
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“The War of Patents Information and Competitive
Intelligence”
Monday, December 18, 2006, by: Vinod Kumar Singh
Valuable Opportunities
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“Triumphs and Trials in Tech Transfer”
“As tech transfer offices sprouted, they became increasingly
valuable to their home universities. In some cases, the
benefit to the university was completely financial, such as the
gene insertion patents that have made more than $300
million for Columbia University. That money can be
funneled back into research, or into startup packages to lure
prestigious recruits to the institution”.
“At Wisconsin, we have this billion-dollar endowment that
has been generated entirely out of patents,” says
Handelsman. “The quality of life in science at UW is a lot
better than at a lot of universities [because of that].” A
number of her students, for instance, have been supported by
fellowships offered through Wisconsin’s tech transfer arm”.
“From Stigma to Street Cred: Tech Transfer Is Gaining Ground”
Genome Technology, March 2007, by Meredith Salisbury
Other Roles
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Corporate Portals
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Knowledge Sharing…across the
corporation
US and International Patent Offices
Derwent Abstracts via the DIALOG
Intranet Toolkit
Pipeline Data via the DIALOG Intranet
Toolkit
LexisNexis® Research
Westlaw®Information