Patent familiarity calc scripts

I made available on Github a set of MySQL and python scripts to create familiarity indicator by IPC class, on NBER patents dataset.

https://github.com/gtarasconi/NBER-familiarity-indicators

Inventor’s familiarity with components of the invention measured by the (a) recent and (b) frequent usage of focal patent’s classes across all US patents. Thus, we calculate a measure of familiarity for each separate class of a focal patent. Therefore, the more recently and frequently a class has been used, its individual measure will be higher.

Based on Fleming 2001
https://funginstitute.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Recombinant-Uncertainty-in-Technological-Search.pdf

Google Patents public dataset

Since october 31st 2017 are available in google cloud and BigQuery platform patents data that stand behind google patents, that means worldwide bibliographic information on more than 90 million patent publications from 17 countries and US full text, provided by IFI CLAIMS Patent Services.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/10/google-patents-public-datasets-connecting-public-paid-and-private-patent-data

in below page you can also find more details and examples

https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/google_patents_public_datasets/google-patents-public-data

IPtools: a compilation of tools for IP data treatment

At web address https://ip-tools.org/ is possible now to find a compilation of open source tools and resources in the field of patent information, filed from Andreas Motl (https://github.com/amotl).

It is a list of programs in R, Python and Ruby allowing to interface with existing data providers (mainly LENS, USPTO and EPO) or to easily process patent data.

The portal aims to be collaborative thus any contribution from other sources are welcome.

Searching patent litigations

Surfing within patent legal data is not very easy, even if register data can do the job for EPO and for USPTO some free access data are available.

the site:

http://www.patentfreedom.com/

allows to use a easy interface for searching patent litigation procedures for USPTO.
A plus for this engine is the implementation of entity disambiguation and group structure that allows also to search by ultimate parent.


Thanks to Davide Cannito for reporting this website.

Pearl: WIPO’s multilingual terminology portal

WIPO Pearl is WIPO’s multilingual terminology portal; it gives free access to scientific and technical terms derived from patent documents. It helps promote accurate and consistent use of terms across different languages, and makes it easier to search and share scientific and technical knowledge.

• Developed by WIPO language experts and terminologists.
• Currently contains some 16,000 concepts and over 105,000 terms and is constantly growing.
• 10 languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

• All the content has been validated and given a term reliability score.
• If there is no equivalent in the target language in the database, WIPO’s machine translation engine may offer you a translation proposal.
• Integrated with PATENTSCOPE so you can search the entire PATENTSCOPE corpus for terms and their equivalents in other languages. 

 An introductory video can be found here: http://www.wipo.int/reference/en/wipopearl#wipoModal1

It allows both a  Concept Map Search and Linguistic search

The former returns concept link from given words in 10 languages. FI for Car, in the automotive sector we get:




The latter, gives access to scientific and technical terms derived from patent documents.

EP Register for patent data analysis

Recently released from EPO, EP Register data contains information on all the steps of a patent application.

This presentation aims to show at a glance how Register data can be used in combination with other datasets or by themselves in order to enrich patent studies or get new non trivial indicators.

The presentation is centered on examples in the subfield of wind energy.

Ep register for patent data analisys from Gianluca Tarasconi

Seeking for patent license data in EP Register

Recently released EP register for patstat, is a snapshot of the dataset where the European Patent Office stores all the publicly available information it has on European patent applications.

Among other interesting pieces of information, we find also two tables containing data about licensing of patents:

REG111_LICENSEE: Licensee
This table contains information about licensees and rights in rem (R.23 and R.24 EPC).

REG112_LICENSEE_STATES: License state
A license might be valid for all states which are covered by a patent, or only by a subset of these countries. In the latter case this table lists the countries for which the license is valid.

It is not specified how good is the coverage.


Some other information sources state:

Formal requirements for registration of licences

- Application must have been published
- Formal request must be filed by an interested party
- Fee for each application must be paid
- Evidence
   - Copy of any official document or extract thereof or
   - Declaration signed by both parties

- Patent has not already been granted
   - Last date on which a licence may be recorded is the date of  mention of the grant in the 
      European Patent Bulletin (J 17/91, OJ EPO 1994, 225)
   - After grant, responsibility for registration of licences is transferred to the national offices.

What is in detail an evidence:

Signature of the parties
European patent application number concerned
Contracting states for which the licence applies
Any language (Rule 3(1)EPC), but EPO may require a translation into one of its official languages.

Exclusive licence and sub-licence Rule 24 EPC

A licence is recorded as an exclusive licence if both licensor and licensee agree to the indication being shown in the Register (Rule 24(1)EPC)

A licence is recorded as a sub-licence if it is granted by a licensee whose licence is recorded in the Register  (Rule 24(2)EPC)

In sintesys a license is mentioned in register if:

- Formal request is filed
- Evidence signed by both parties
- The fee is paid