Presentation which describes with screenshots LATIPAT and INTERPAT, 2 important free public databases for iberoamerican patent searching, its main functionalities and its PROs and CONs. Feel free to share it!

1. Free Sources for Iberoamerican Patent Searches
Björn Jürgens
E-Mail: bjorn.jurgens@gmail.com
Twitter: @benlogo
© 2011
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2. Why take into account Iberoamerican
Patent Searches for a Technology Watch
Activity?
• With more than 20 countries and 385 Million
People, it is an Economic Sector with strong ties
(language & similar cultural background)
• Strong presence of some multinational companies
(TELEFONICA, REPSOL, etc)
• Important to know where to search if you want to
gain business intelligence in this geographical
area!
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3. Patent Databases hosted by the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
URL(English Interface):
http://invenes.oepm.es/InvenesWeb/index.jsp?user=INTERNET&locale=en
INTERPAT
• Offers bibliographic data of Patents and Utility Models since 1929 and
PCT Patent applications designated to Spain.
• Original Documents since 1988 (PDF).
LATIPAT
• Offers bibliographic data of Patents of 18 Latin American countries since
1955, as well as original documents from 1991 and Original Documents
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4. Home Screen (English Interface)
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5. Advanced Search (Field Search)
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6. Expert Search (individual & combinable field search)
Field description
Query History (with number
of Hits)
Go to result List
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7. Result List
Patent List Export
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Original Doc available (PDF)

8. Bibliographic View ( only available in spanish)
Original Document (in PDF)
Seach Report References
Claims
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9. Original Document View
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10. PROs
• Good (English) Search Interface
• Offers search in titles not available in multinational databases (utility
models + designs)
• Export Documents (but: not in table format, which makes it difficult to
use for patent analysis)
CONs
• Search with Spanish keywords only 
• No machine translation available (alternative: copy paste to the google
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translator)

11. Contact Details:
Björn Jürgens
E-Mail: bjorn.jurgens@gmail.com
Twitter: @benlogo
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