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1. Patent Searching – Some Case Studies
Björn Jürgens
E-Mail: bjorn.jurgens@gmail.com
Twitter: @benlogo
© 2011
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2. Case 1
• Patents related with Photovoltaic technology
• From Germany (First Filing in Germany)
• Filed in the US in 2010
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3. Identify relevant Classification
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4. Define Search
Strategy
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5. Export Results
(for each result list page, use compact mode!)
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7. Import into Excel (or other data analysis software)
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8. Data Visualization via Pivot tables
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9. Case 2
• Main players with Patents related with Fuel Cells
technology
• International Patent applied
• From 2000-2005
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10. Identify relevant Classification with TACSY
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12. Using PATENTSCOPE, restrict search to PCT patents only and
with pub date limitation
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13. Automatic Analysis in PATENTSCOPE
Table View
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14. Automatic Analysis in PATENTSCOPE
Graph View
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15. Case 3
• Information about legal status of patents from
APPLE INC. in KOREA regarding the antenna of its
phones!
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16. Search in Korean KPA Database, with
company name, country codes and
keywords!
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17. 4 relevant results found!
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18. Bibliographic View with Legal Status!
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19. Case 4
• Food producers from Mexico which commercialize
their products in Spain (=> protect them with a
patent)
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20. Identify relevant Clasification
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21. Search in Spanish INTERPAT, with
country codes and clasification!
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22. Result List
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23. Edit Result List View, to generate table with
company names
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24. Edited Result List with company names
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25. Print View
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26. Thank you very much!
Contact Details:
Björn Jürgens
E-Mail: bjorn.jurgens@gmail.com
Twitter: @benlogo
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