News from patstat user conference

Some news about patstat future development were disclosed in Vienna @ patent statistics for decision makers conference.

First of all, as already cited, ECLA classification has been added in available informations.
Such classification is an ectension of IPC containing 135.000 symbols vs 70.000 in IPC.

April 2010 ediction added complete ECLA (ECLA, ICO, ECNO, IDT codes)
September 2010: added EST codes Y02 (ICO symbols) patents in the area of sustainanable energy technologies



About Ecla you can find on EPO website an e-learning module.

Another important issue is the possibility of querying patstat on line from EPO website.
From URL https://data.epo.org/expert-services/ you can run some queries (a part of them, those with a lock icon, are accessible only to service subscribers) and make also graphics, straight on epo data.

Also it has been announced what could be released in next patstat edictions:

• EP number of claims
• US number of claims
• US drawings
• PCT addresses
• A stable application id
• Cited References - New Features • IPC Classes - Core and Advanced

In detail:
Number of grants may be added to EP-B pubblications within a patstat table (probably TLS211)
Anyway EP-B publications may have different numbers of claims depending on designated countries and language considered
FI: EP 1311379 B1: GB/DE: 19 claims
AT/BE/.../TR: 13 claims

For unique and Stable Application Identifier, will be used published applications : DOCDB "R-id" ; for replenished applications will be used a surrogate key e.g : starting from value 900,000,000

Cited References:
In Sept 2010 - New origins have been added
 '5' - International Search Report
 '6' - Supplementary Search Report
 '7' - Chapter II

In April 2011 - International Search Authority will be added
Options :
 provide data inside CITN_ORIGIN
e.g. CITN_ORIGIN = '5SE'
or introduce a new field to contain authority

Cited References - Optional Features:
 Option : have cited applications included  origin '1' - cited by the applicant on filing  earlier application filed by same applicant  application that has not been published

IPC Classes - CORE and ADVANCED
In Sept 2010 : an application would have at least "core" level possibly "advanced" level
In April 2011 : an application will have either "core" level or "advanced" level