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European Patent Office. Patent Information & Licensing. Paul Schwander EPO, The Hague. The Innovation steps. The European Patent Office. Innovation process: a simplified approach. Creation: inspiration from patent databases

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European Patent Office

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  1. European Patent Office Patent Information & Licensing Paul SchwanderEPO, The Hague

  2. The Innovation steps The European Patent Office

  3. Innovation process: a simplified approach • Creation: inspiration from patent databases • Checking: What has been done earlier by whom? Valuation of an idea. • Protection: what protection can I get? • Exploitation: finding partners, valuation of my invention.

  4. Case StudiesSearch examples and Basic Principles The European Patent Office

  5. The more, the easiest principle • Example of an "always successful" search: the heated steering wheel

  6. heated steering wheel

  7. 259 results

  8. Do not reinvent the wheel!

  9. Airbag garments: 179 Patents

  10. Drag reduction of ships by injecting bubbles: 887 patents

  11. The easiness of a prior art search is proportional to the number of documents relevant to your subject that are contained in the searched collection.

  12. The more the easiest • A manually rechargeable • cellular phone

  13. Example

  14. Graphic representation of a search Irrelevant record Relevant record X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Retrieved results

  15. Successful combination X X X X X X X X X X X X

  16. To get out of a search dead end try to think lateral to find new concepts defining your subject.

  17. Think lateral

  18. cool* and moist*

  19. New concepts • Refrigerating systems: F25 • Where can this invention be used? In developing countries = countr*

  20. Specific patent searches are sometimes best conducted using both the information available on the Web and in patent databases.

  21. Patent m2a

  22. given imaging

  23. Bear in mind • Combining WWW information with esp@cenetyields relevant results • esp@cenet reduces the distance to the information

  24. Absence of evidence is no evidence of absence

  25. Absence of evidence

  26. Professional search tools: more statistical possibilities • Retrieving the basic patent protecting an active ingredient. • Using citation analysis. • Zantac=Ranitidine • Most cited patents in patents containing the term ranitidine.

  27. EPODOC under EPOQUE

  28. Cited 173 times (all family members)

  29. Cited 80 times

  30. Cited 80 times

  31. Velcro: cited 213 times

  32. Pushing tools to their limits: profiling a research organisation • IMEC: Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center • Staff: 1272 • 85% in R&DKnow the co-owners of their patent porfolio

  33. EPODOC under EPOQUE

  34. IMEC has applied for patents with 1 431 IMEC INTER UNI MICRO ELECTR 2 54 IMEC VZW 3 24 UNIV GENT 4 19 UNIV BRUXELLES 5 14 KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV 6 8 CIT ALCATEL 7 8 UNIV LEUVEN KATH 8 6 UMICORE 9 5 IMEC INTERUNIVERSITY MICROELEC 10 5 IMEC VZW LEUVEN HEVERLEE 11 5 LORANET NV 12 5 UMICORE S A 13 4 APPLIED MATERIALS INC 14 4 DOW CORNING 15 4 EASTMAN KODAK CO 16 4 INTERUNIVERSITAIRE MICROELEKTR 17 4 KATHOLIEKE HOGESCHOOL BRUGGE O 18 4 SIEMENS AG 19 4 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC

  35. IMEC Inventors worked for?Hidden relations detection Patent assignees holding patents held by IMEC inventors IMEC Patents IMEC Inventors Patents held by IMEC Inventors

  36. IMEC Inventors worked also for • 1 (110 IMEC INTER UNI MICRO ELECTR) • 2 32 SIEMENS AG • 3 31 KONINKL PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NV • 4 (17 IMEC VZW) • 5 16 CIT ALCATEL • 6 16 STEAG MICRO TECH GMBH • 7 15 INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG • 8 13 AGFA GEVAERT • 9 12 CFMT INC • 10 12 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC • 11 10 APPLIED MATERIALS INC • 12 10 CITIZEN ELECTRONICS • 13 10 FRANCE TELECOM

  37. A common inventor: IMEC - France Telecom and STM... • AN - US28642702A • IN - JURCZAK MALGORZATA [BE]; ROOYACKERS RITA [BE]; AUGENDRE EMMANUEL [BE]; BADENES GONCAL [ES] • PA - IMEC INTER UNI MICRO ELECTR [BE]PN - US2003052355 A1 20030320 • IN JAOUEN HERVE [FR]; SKOTNICKI THOMAS [FR]; JURCZAK MALGORZATA [FR] • PA - ST MICROELECTRONICS SA [FR] • PN - US6713356 B1 20040330 • IN - SKOTNICKI THOMAS [FR]; JURCZAK MALGORZATA [FR] • PA - FRANCE TELECOM [FR]

  38. Legal Data: assessing the legal validity of a patent

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