Transcript Patent Information in Global Companies Minoo Philipp President Patent Documentation Group www.p-d-g.org [email protected] WIPO Global Symposium of IP Authorities Geneva September 17 – 18 2009

Patent Information in Global Companies
Minoo Philipp
President Patent Documentation Group
www.p-d-g.org
[email protected]
WIPO Global Symposium of IP Authorities
Geneva September 17 – 18 2009
 Introduction to the PDG
 Importance of Patents
 Patent Information and Intellectual Property
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Patent Documentation Group
 1957
PDG was founded as a working pool by 13 European
chemical and petrochemical companies
 1960
 1970
 1976
 1980
Involvement in patent information management
 1984
PDG Statutes amended to open membership to nonchemical / petrochemical companies
 1986
Observer status at WIPO
Focus on on-line retrieval
First Working Group - Networks & Online Retrieval created
Working Group IMPACT established
 1992 Working Group Patent Database Vendors
 1994 Working Group Internal Management of Information
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Patent Documentation Group
 1998
 2001
 2002
 2005
 2006
Annual PDG-EPO FORUM
Working Group Biotechnology searching
Working Group Full-text searching
Working Group Education and Certification
Working Group Analysis & Visualisation (formerly IP tools
since 2001)
 2007 Celebrated 50th Anniversary
 2009 Currently 36 leading multinational companies from major
industrial sectors
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A Selection of PDG Corporate Members
Status September 2009
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Four PDG companies are top PCT applicants
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 Introduction to the PDG
 Importance of Patents
 Patent Information and Intellectual Property
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Why do we need Patents
 Promote and protect our innovations
 Enable entry of new products and services into market
 Facilitate access to better products and services
 Secure competitive advantage
 Avoid infringements, litigations, or payment of large licensing fees
 IP has enormous strategic and economic value
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 Introduction to the PDG
 Importance of Patents
 Patent Information and Intellectual Property
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Patent Information is a Crucial Element for Success
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Access to Patent Information can Promote IP Rights
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Patent Information in Global Organisations
 Freedom to operate in order to avoid litigation
 Patent opposition
 Product safety
 Innovation
 IP analysis & landscapes
 Patent alerts & monitoring
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Workflow for a Search Request
 Consultation
 Search
 Assessment and / or analysis of search results
 Post-processing and documentation
 Delivery of search results
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What are our Requirements?
 Timeliness
 Correctness
 Completeness
 Reliability
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What can WIPO do?
 Offer training and educate the public
 Cooperate closely with industry and patent information users and
commercial providers
 Invest in technology
 Invest in manpower
 Invest in staff training
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Improve Retrieval Capabilities
 Introduce sophisticated tools to support searching
 Cross / multi-lingual retrieval tools and solutions
 Capability to search non-text information
 Capability to identify & search document segments e.g. examples
 Automatic concept identification
 Patent analysis
 Visualisation & mapping tools
 Automatic machine translation – (JP, KR, CN)
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Standardization
 Correction procedure
 Citation harmonization
 Kind-code standardization
 Standardization of application numbers
(PDG initiatives / PDG member of Task Force)
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Data / Information
 Legal status information on PCT cases entering the national / regional
phase
 IPC Reform
 Missing IPC classes still unsolved problem
 Cooperation with Asian and Latin American countries to offer more
legal status data
 Translations of patent documents / utility models of Asian and other
offices as readable text
 Access to reliable worldwide IP statistics
(PDG initiatives)
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Policy
 Information policy of WIPO as a patent information provider PatentScope, Translations etc.
 IPC vs. Hybrid classification
 WIPO's role in the new framework of Trilateral Offices, IP5 and others
- what is the future of WIPO?
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