Digest X - Aug 17

Patents

IP5 Patent office news from EPO, JPO, KIPO, KIPRIS, SIPO

The European Patent Office (EPO) published its first ever ‘Quality Report’, a newly implemented annual review of how the Office’s quality policy is implemented in all of its products and services.     The report highlights the EPO’s prior art collection – the largest of its kind with over 730 million patent and non-patent literature records in over 85 databases.   The EPO makes much of this content available to others through espacenet, and Open Patent Services (OPS).   To promote innovation in the field of renewable energy technologies, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the EPO signed an agreement in April aimed at enhancing co-operation between the two bodies who have been cooperating since 2015 launching the INSPIRE platform. INSPIRE provides access to patents, standards, news, networking and more on renewable energy.

The Japan Patent Office (JPO) released its preliminary statistical data on applications, requests and registrations for June. JPO releases these statistics every month. The stats show that whilst the number of Utility models filed in Japan is falling, trademark applications are up, and design and patent filings are stable. The JPO updated its “Handbook for PCT International Search and Preliminary Examination in JPO”, a provisional English translation has also been provided.

JPO and the National Institute of Industrial Property of Chile (INAPI) started a PPH (Patent prosecution highway pilot programme) on 1st of August. This is reciprocal and allows Japanese companies to obtain patent rights in Chile more quickly. The JPO had already begun a similar programme with Brazil and Argentina in April. These PPH programmes are important for Japanese companies building businesses in South America, particularly in automotive and manufacturing sectors, patent filings for Brazilian patents by Japanese companies have increased three fold over the last ten years.

Dr. Sung Yunmo will be the new commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office, it was announced in August (News 366).

KIPRIS (Korean Intellectual Property Rights Information Service) most recently published the June KR bibliographic information of Examined and Unexamined applications. Stats on the number of documents published each month is made available.

He Zhimin, Deputy Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO) signed a memorandum of understanding with Armenia. (AM).   SIPO delegates also visited Georgia, and signed a 2017-2018 working plan with the National Intellectual Property Centre of Georgia. The China-Georgia free trade agreement was also under discussion.    On the patent information front, since June SIPO began publishing CN patent applications, granted patents, registered utility models and designs and legal status information twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays.

In the US anti-counterfeiting and the global marketplace was also the subject of a seminar. Aimed at helping companies understand more about US IP attaches overseas and how to protect their business using IPRs.

Patent searching
Ambercite’s first product was Amberscore, this was followed by Ambercite cluster searching, and in June with Ambercite Ai. Both search tools are still available, and whereas Amberscore visually links patent citations, and provided a visual network and score which could be used for analysis, AmberCite Ai brings the data together in a ranked table, built using similarity scoring. The core premise is still the use of forward and backward patent citations to identify similar documents.

Chemistry searching

InfoChem's name-to-structure tool is now integrated in version 4.8 of Thieme’s Science of Synthesis. (SOS) Science of Synthesis is a full text resource for methods in synthetic organic chemistry. It provides information on methods from the 1800s covering organic and organometallic chemistry. . Infochem’s ‘name to structure’ functionality allows users to generate chemical structures from many versions of the chemical name, and search via structure.  SOS is continuously updated.

Scientific and technical information sources

Elsevier announced the first edition of an ‘Encyclopaedia of Sustainable Technologies’, a new major reference work by, Dr. Martin Abraham.

Citation searching and analysis
Elsevier announced the availability of 2016 annual values for CiteScore on over 22,000 journal titles in Scopus.

Healthcare citations, data and text mining
Linguamatics and RealHealthData announced a strategic partnership in August.   The companies will combine Linguamatics Natural Language Processing (NLP) with RealHealthData ®’s database of ‘narrative medical records’. RealHealthData® provides access to the narrative records allowing subscribers to access information on how people actually use drugs, on adverse events, and on product-switching in real-life. RealHealthData® collects information on age, race, gender, medical information, family history for the records, which are de-personalised.

AI developments
IBM announced a new feature for Watson®’s Tone Analyzer – aimed at customer service applications and chatbots. The Tone Analyser can recognise seven emotional tones from language, and from emojis. An Australian start-up, Oovvuu is using Watson’s AI within its own platform, Compass, to connect videos to relevant news articles. Oovvuu was established in 2014 its aim is to provide advertisers with a view of how their advertising is actually being discovered by internet users amongst news and other content online.

Machine translations software
Omniscien Technologies held a webinar on the use of its Language Studio – advanced machine translation software – in use for complex translation projects such as patents, catalogues and other user-generated content.

Commercial information and IP services company and product news
Anaqua merged with Lecorpio in August, Lecorpio has developed IP management software which can handle the whole process from invention disclosure to patent prosecution management and should complement well Anaqua’s IP management and information suite of products. A survey of 40 start-up companies in Sweden conducted by AWA showed that around 55% had zero IP protection, and were unaware of how patents and trademarks could fit in their business models. Aistemos have moved to a larger HQ still in central London.   MaxVal announced Symphony, a new IP management software which syncs with USPTO data.  RWS Inovia published its 2017 global IP indicators report. The report began eight years ago surveying IP attorneys and management in house and in legal firms in the US, now it covers six continents, and makes for interesting reading on filing strategies adopted across industries.

Conferences and Events
IP.com presented at the Patent Information Annual Conference (PIAC) in China in September. on ‘Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Neural Networks’ :

Forthcoming events
A few places are still remaining on the Cambridge Information and IP Meeting Training day which takes place on October 11th in Cambridge, UK. If you are interested in the training but not available on that day, please get in touch so we can let you know when new dates or webinars are available.
The EPO PIC , the event for anyone interested in patent information in Europe takes place this year in Sofia, Bulgaria, providing 3 days of news, exhibition, discussion and networking with 2 days of training either side.

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