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Beyond patent families
World Patent Information Pub Date : 2019-12-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.wpi.2019.101928
Alain Materne , Gershom Sleightholme , Nigel Clarke

Abstract Beyond patent families, there are other closely interrelated patents and patent applications. Firms who wish to be active in a particular area of technology need to ensure that their products will not infringe existing patents or existing patent applications which might later be granted. This requires an adequate patent search to uncover all interrelated patents and applications. Frequently, interrelated patents and applications are from a single applicant, but often with multiple inventors, or sets of inventors, and concern similar, but not identical subject-matter. The challenge is to identify such relationships between patents and applications, as distinct from other relationships such as citations or patent families, which may include divisional applications. This paper presents simple-to-use but effective techniques which anyone can apply, using freely available data, to retrieve such related applications. The techniques are based on the applicant name, inventors and titles. Additional possibilities derive from the application number, priority dates and classes. These techniques are based on ones used at the European Patent Office to find similar applications at the pre-search stage, techniques which have proven their value in widespread systematic use for over twenty years using tools the Office has developed. Compared to existing techniques such as patent landscaping, the techniques proposed here are simpler to use, quicker and less expensive. Examples from various fields of technology will be presented using Espacenet.

中文翻译:

超越同族专利

摘要 除了同族专利之外,还有其他密切相关的专利和专利申请。希望在特定技术领域活跃的公司需要确保他们的产品不会侵犯现有专利或以后可能被授予的现有专利申请。这需要进行充分的专利检索以发现所有相互关联的专利和申请。通常,相互关联的专利和申请来自一个申请人,但通常有多个发明人或多组发明人,并且涉及相似但不相同的主题。挑战在于确定专利和申请之间的这种关系,区别于其他关系,例如引文或专利家族,其中可能包括分案申请。本文介绍了简单易用但有效的技术,任何人都可以应用这些技术,使用免费可用的数据来检索此类相关应用程序。这些技术基于申请人姓名、发明人和职务。其他可能性来自申请号、优先权日期和类别。这些技术基于欧洲专利局用于在预检索阶段寻找类似申请的技术,这些技术已通过使用欧洲专利局开发的工具在 20 多年的广泛系统使用中证明了其价值。与专利美化等现有技术相比,这里提出的技术使用更简单、速度更快且成本更低。将使用 Espacenet 展示来自各个技术领域的示例。这些技术基于申请人姓名、发明人和职务。其他可能性来自申请号、优先权日期和类别。这些技术基于欧洲专利局用于在预检索阶段寻找类似申请的技术,这些技术已通过使用欧洲专利局开发的工具在 20 多年的广泛系统使用中证明了其价值。与专利美化等现有技术相比,这里提出的技术使用更简单、速度更快且成本更低。将使用 Espacenet 展示来自各个技术领域的示例。这些技术基于申请人姓名、发明人和职务。其他可能性来自申请号、优先权日期和类别。这些技术基于欧洲专利局用于在预检索阶段寻找类似申请的技术,这些技术已通过使用欧洲专利局开发的工具在二十多年来的广泛系统使用中证明了其价值。与专利美化等现有技术相比,这里提出的技术使用更简单、速度更快且成本更低。将使用 Espacenet 展示来自各个技术领域的示例。这些技术基于欧洲专利局用于在预检索阶段寻找类似申请的技术,这些技术已通过使用欧洲专利局开发的工具在 20 多年的广泛系统使用中证明了其价值。与专利美化等现有技术相比,这里提出的技术使用更简单、速度更快且成本更低。将使用 Espacenet 展示来自各个技术领域的示例。这些技术基于欧洲专利局用于在预检索阶段寻找类似申请的技术,这些技术已通过使用欧洲专利局开发的工具在 20 多年的广泛系统使用中证明了其价值。与专利美化等现有技术相比,这里提出的技术使用更简单、速度更快且成本更低。将使用 Espacenet 展示来自各个技术领域的示例。
更新日期:2019-12-01
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