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Digest XIV - Dec 17

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

December 2017

At the end of 2017 there was lots of news to digest as companies put out there final press releases and round-ups at the end of the year. The blog started by covering 40 organisations in April 2016 and is now following over 60, using ds9 newstracker software. Organisations we track range from the very small start-up to multi-national businesses. We also now follow the major IP offices. Here is our summary of news published online during December 2017, split into two sections with the IP Office news, followed by commercial industry news. We are especially interested in new products and upgrades to existing databases and software particularly for patent search and analysis.

IPO Office News

Inter office meetings and agreements

The EPO and SIPO met in November and signed an ‘Agreement on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’, topics discussed included – ‘patent data exchange, CPC classification, examination capacity building, examination quality improving, patent re-examination, and patent information and cooperation between the IP five offices’ . Another agreement was signed by Brazil and the EPO forming a ‘PPH’, or fast track patent examination procedure for companies applying for patents for the same invention at the two offices. The EPO also announced in December that EP patents can also now be validated in Tunisia. The agreement (originally signed in 2014) provides the same legal effects for a validated EP patent as a Tunisian patent and will be subject to Tunisian patent law. Tunisia joins the ‘extension states’ of Morocco and Moldova , where EP patents can already be validated within six months of the publication of a search report, or upon entering the European phase from an international application.

WIPO has estimated that 3.1 million patent applications were published in 2016, and that Chinese applicants were responsible for 98% of this growth. In 2016 over 230,000 applications were filed under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), according to the WIPO IP indicators 2017 publication. Trademark applications reached 7 million. For the first time WIPO published information on ‘Geographical Indications’ which it collected from 54 countries, and will look at ways to continue to monitor this new form of IP which is administered and protected in a variety of ways.

Individual offices news

At the JPO the handling fee for international applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) will increase at by JPY300 , where the receiving office was not the JPO. Fees also increased at the USPTO where the plan is to recover some costs of USPTO patent operations, such as Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) , and administration. The Swedish government announced the appointment of Peter Stromback as Director General of the Swedish Patent and Registration Office. There are now 50,000 Eurasian Patent Organization ( EAPO) patents ; a medal was awarded to Tsinghua University and Nuctech for this filing. The most active patent applicants are Novartis and Eli Lilly, but the USA files the largest number of applications, mostly using EAPO-ONLINE system.

Trademarks news from the Offices

The Annual TM5 meeting was held late in 2017. Officials from China, Europe, Korea, Japan, and the United States Trademark Office met to discuss progress on 13 existing projects and to agree on new projects. Some example of the cooperative projects are the: “Bad Faith Trademark Project, “Image Search Project” , “User Association Involvement Project”, and “Quality Management Project” . The next TM5 annual meeting will take place in South Korea. Trademark registrations are defined and searched within specific goods and services (Nice Agreement) . The 11th Edition of the International Classification of Goods and Services enters into force in January 2018, a Japanese version is also available courtesy of the JPO.

Research information: Academic, scientific, social sciences,
EBSCO introduced two new indexes this month – one for theologians and one for musicians. Rare music periodicals are now available through EBSCOs ‘Retrospective Index and Online Archive of Music Periodicals.’ (RIPM) . The collection, produced by Le Répertoire international de la presse musicale . RIPM contains music related literature from 1760 to 1966. ATLAS PLUS from the American Theological Library Association, provides over 425 full-text journals on religion and theology in 16 different languages from over 30 countries.

Scientific Literature: Document Delivery
Very often when searching a scientific database which contains abstracts and indexing only we need to source the complete article. FIZ AutoDoc works with many document suppliers to provide copies of literature to STN (and other) customers. One supplier the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) can now provide document deliveries via e-mail in plain PDF. This makes it easier for readers to access their purchased copies. The plain PDF comes without encryption, and no additional software is needed either. Using these plain PDF copies may also mean a reduced price, as the CLA default copyright charge is applied.

Patent Information: Content
Patent information provider Gridlogics increased its full text patent coverage to an impressive 50 with data (of patent applications, and / or granted patent texts) from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Poland, Uruguay, Singapore, South Africa, and Italy to its PatSeer database.

Patent Information: Search
Each year Clarivate Analytics updates the manual codes used in its DWPI database. As well as helping searchers to identify patents filed in emerging or growing technology fields, these new codes are a good indicator of trending technology areas. 36 new Manual Codes have been added to the 2018 classification. These comprise 15 new CPI (Chemical Patents Index) codes and 21 new GMPI/EPI (General and Mechanical Patents Index and Electrical Engineering Patents Index) codes. Look up DWPI Manual Codes on Clarivate’s website: https://clarivate.com/mcl/

M&A activity
RWS recently acquired Article One Partners (AOP) for $8million. AOP provides an online crowdsourcing platform for clients to pose search questions to over 42,000 IP patent searchers .

People
Mike Morhardt is now Head of Global Sales at Clarivate Analytics . He joins from Forrester Research. Eric Schmidt will become a technical advisor at Google, a new non-Executive Chair is likely to be appointed.

Financials
Alphabet – owner of Google announced its 10Q data in December. Advertising revenue rose by $5.3 million globally this is for cost-per-click / cost per time viewed of an ad, and cost-per-impression.

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Digest XIII - Nov 17

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Nov 17

Introduction

Although we are reporting on November news, this is the last edition which will be published this year, so I’d like to start by wishing you all the best for the Festive Season and for the New Year. The blog tracks 75 organisations all of who are active in providing software , and / or services in the information industry and IP world, highlights from the commercial sector were enhancements to Patbase Analytics and I2E, and in the governmental sector a publication commemorating 10 years of the IP5. This month we also report on some IP office events on trademarks and designs. Did you realise that a ds9 newstracker can be set up to follow the published activities of any organisation in any industry? More on this in 2018.

Patent information news from the IP5 offices and WIPO
The blog follows the IP5 offices – EPO, SIPO, KIPO, JPO, USPTO and WIPO and reports primarily on their information related news, and events, starting with meetings and announcements from multiple offices and finishing up with single office events and changes in information products.
So starting with the IP5 who published their annual statistics report this month which indicated that patent applications grew by 10% in 2016 at their offices, meaning they published between them more than 2.6 million patent applications. This year the IP5 celebrated 10 years of cooperation, a cooperation which has notably resulted in two patent information portals of great use to patent searchers as well as to patent examiners - the Global Dossier and the Common Citation Document (CCD ).
EPO and SIPO officially renewed their 30 year-long cooperative relationship by signing a comprehensive, unlimited by time, strategic partnership agreement. No surprise that technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and green technologies were included in the collaborative efforts. It was also reported that China is now the 6th largest country of origin for applicants for EPO patents. A strong indication of the usage of IP by Chinese companies to protect their own goods overseas.
The EPO and the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) held a conference in November in Brussels to learn from industry and provide an update on biotechnology patenting in Europe as the two organisations work more closely together to provide more certainty for plant variety innovators in Europe wanting to protect their IP in the most appropriate manner. At the moment only 1 in 3 biotechnology patent applications becomes a granted patent at the EPO.

JPO Deputy Commissioner attended the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) Sixteenth session of the council of Ministers in November. The JPO cooperates with ARIPO through WIPO to support the development of industrial property systems in African countries.
KIPO and WIPO held ‘Appropriate Technology’ Competitions in four countries including El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Panama, and Costa Rica. Appropriate Technology (AT) refers to technology that is developed to suit the environment, cultural, social and economic conditions of a region. The competition encourages the use of technologies described in expired patents to develop low cost solutions. So far products developed have included sugar cane charcoal manufacturing process , bamboo housing, a cooking stove, and herbal oil extractor. China held its 11th ‘China Patent Week’ where IP creation, IP commercialisation and fostering an environment where IP is protected in China are promoted.

IP Offices Trademarks, Designs, Copyright and Cyber News
Executives from the JPO and the USTPO agreed to work in cooperation to create a JP-US common design classification system which should lead to smother industrial designs protections for companies in both countries wishing to protect in the other one. This initiative stems from the ID5 cooperation – analogous to the IP5 for patents, but for industrial designs. The ID5 met in December, and we will publish information related learnings from that event next time. WIPO hosted the 38th SCM (Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications) on Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications law. The meeting considered GUIs and typeface / font based industrial designs, how to prevent country names being used as trademarks, and the issue of trademark domain name registrations was discussed. SIPO has published a concordance between the International Design Classification scheme and its National Economy Industries Classification . This will facilitate the mapping between design patents and China’s industries, allowing statisticians and policy makers to review the usage of design IP in different sectors. The USPTO is looking at ways to remove unused but registered trademarks from the Trademark Register with a simple procedure. Sometimes this would just be to cancel a mark from certain classes. These are some of the options under consideration at the USPTO Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB). The Swiss Federal Council is planning a strong approach to protecting creative artist’s work online, without criminalising end-users. The first court dedicated to handling e-commerce and internet related cases opened in Hangzhou China, appropriately all processing by the court is handled electronically. ‘Cyber’ cases rose from 600 in 2013 to over 10,000 in 2016. Finally A Study conducted by WIPO presented the first-ever figures on value of “ Intangible Capital ” in manufactured goods. The results of the study revealed that almost one third of the value of manufactured products sold around the world comes from “ Intangible Capital ,” meaning branding, design and technologies.

Patent information and patent databases
Minesoft launched an enhanced Legal Status Viewer for PatBase this month. The Legal Status viewer integrates data from the European, American and Japanese National Patent Offices, as well as other legal status data into PatBase. Minesoft present several options to view the legal status results for a family including timeline and table views, and there is a priority relationship diagram. Patbase can also show calculated expiry dates which actually do provide for SPC, and Patent Term Extensions where these exist.

IP Analytics
PatBase Analytics v2.0 is now live offering analytics on up to 250,000 records with the availability of 3-dimensional views, and more customizable graphics. Charts and data can be shared and annotated using a “note” function. Users searches can be filtered to focus the analysis on specific assignees, jurisdictions, date ranges and patent types. Users can also take advantage of, Basic Analysis and Standard Analysis. IFI Claims launched its ‘Data Enrichment Dataset’ to coincide with the launch of Google Public Patent Datasets. The IFI data is subscription only, it facilitates accurate company name searching of the patent data.

Scientific and medical databases
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) released the 2018 version of MeSH this month. MeSH 2018 is a controlled vocabulary thesaurus used to index articles for the Medline / PubMed databases, available direct from the NLM and also available on hosts such as ProQuest , EBSCO and STN where additional functionality, content and efficient multi database searching is possible. For 2018 there will be 474 new descriptors (471 terms and 3 new publication types.), 106 replacement updated terms and 7 descriptors deleted. The three new publication types are ‘Adaptive clinical trial’, Equivalence clinical trial’ and Expression of Concern (this is to do with article integrity – not clinical trials).

Text mining / text analytics/ NLP
A recently published report by Tractica on AI technologies their potential markets, current value estimated at $ 644 million and potential usages. Of the top ten markets, those relevant for the search / information field are 1) - Visual recognition, classification and tagging. Much has been achieved in facial recognition for photos. Could this one day be re-purposed for patent drawings, and trademark images recognition and retrieval? 2) to improve text mining of unstructured documents, examples given are medical records, but such technology could be utilised for retrieval of patent descriptions and claims. Similarity and semantic search tools are already available, but currently these leave much to be desired. 3) Using AI technology such as Datacap , which can ‘learn’ key parameters and speed up the digitization of paper-based collections. Linguamatics released I2E 5.2.0 , the new interface with access to many more ‘items’ and with Connected Data Technology enabling locally stored data and cloud-based data to be combined together, indexes and queries can be seen in a single tree view, are faster to run, and the results screen makes it easier to identify hits. Lexis Advance was enhanced with data relating to US Department of Defense Boards for the Correction of Military Records. The data related to 127,000 decisions and changes to service records and discharge status, which are important for veterans when they leave the military.

Past Events London Info International
This year the meeting was held at the London Design Centre, a much more convenient and convivial location. Companies exhibiting and talking at the conference were a mix of large publishers, and young technology companies, and some individual academic journal publishers. Noteworthy newcomers were 1 science ( indexing and searchability to a very large collection of scientific and technical publications,) , deepsearch9 (web tracking, indexing, search and analytics for any content collection) , NexGen (healthcare communities builder introduced its new repository for discovery of posters from medical conferences), and Scibite , all are bringing something new to the information scene.

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Copy of Digest XII - Oct 17

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Introduction

This month the Blog report on new content announcements, new functionality for search and analytics tools, news from the patent offices and a brief roundup of the EPO PIC in Sofia, which as well as the plenary presentation and workshops always has a great exhibition area with many new and established participants from the patent information industry. This year I also met some blog readers which was great, glad you are finding the Blog useful! This month deepSearch 9 collected over 110 stories from 69 companies for the Blog. This month’s highlights are news of the next EPO President, a new pharmaceutical patent information resource, dissertations searchable in google scholar.

News from the Offices
The next president of the European Patent Office (EPO) was announced in October as Antonio Campinos. A Portuguese national, Mr Campinos will begin his new role on July 1st, 2018. Significantly, he brings experience of running both patent and trademark offices - he is currently Executive Director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), and he has previously served as President of the Portuguese Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). The President of the EPO is elected by the Administrative Council. The Administrative Council is responsible for supervising the activities of the EPO (Office), approving the budget and appointing the President of the EPO.

The Japan Patent Office (JPO) published its 2016 statistics , interesting to see who the top 10 patent applicants for patent registrations in 2016 were. Namely - Panasonic Corporation, Canon Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Toyota Motor Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Denso Corporation ,Seiko Epson Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Ricoh Company, Ltd., Jfe Steel Corporation. There are lots more charts available for those interested in tracking Japanese technologies, and patenting.

Patent Office Agreements
A validation agreement between EPO and Tunisia was signed and will enter into force on 01/12/17. The EPO also entered into two new ‘Patent Prosecution Highway’ agreements his month with Brazil and with the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO). SIPO (China) and MIH (Cambodia) dignitaries signed a Memorandum of Understanding whereby Chinese patents are automatically validated in Cambodia, in return SIPO will provide search and examination assistance to the Cambodia Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts.

Trademarks at EUIPO
Some new rules for trademark filing came into effect on October 1st at EUIPO (the European Union Intellectual Property Office). One change abolished the ‘graphical representation’ requirement for t ‘signs’ . Signs can now be presented in in any way, so long as the representation is clear. The EUIPO will be providing guidelines on what formats are acceptable. A new type of trademark is now available - certification marks. They can be used by certifying institutions to indicate that the awarding body has met the certification requirements.

Patent offices at meetings and trainings
Sino-German Patent System Meeting was held in Beijing. At the meeting the revision of the Guidelines for Patent Examination in China and patent examination under the German Industry 4.0 framework were reviewed. The Japan Patent Office ( JPO) ran a training course on patent examination practice in Thailand . SIPO delegates attended the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), and at the request of the organisers led a Special Session on China’s intellectual property system development. The AIPPI held its 120th anniversary event in Sydney, Australia.

Patent information
WIPO signed an agreement with International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), to create a database called Patent Information Initiative for Medicines, or “Pat-INFORMED” which will be hosted by WIPO. Twenty pharmaceutical companies have agreed to provide information for the service. Pat-INFORMED will link published patent information, including legal status information to registered medicines to make it clearer what is protected by patents and what is not in the business of pharmaceuticals. Although this data is already available, for example in the US through the Orange Book, it is not available worldwide. This is what Pat-INFORMED hope to achieve. The database should be available mid-2018 with patent information relating to WHO Essential Medicines List.

Patent search and analysis
The EPO recently made some changes to the way it processes US fee payment legal status event codes, and STN have already implemented the new codes into the INPADOC database . From week 2017/43 (23rd October ) onwards the new codes will be in use bringing more specific information which will enable searchers to have a better idea whether the patent is ‘dead’ or ‘alive’ or likely to go either way in the near future. The changes mean that there will be more INPADOC legal events for US fee payment data (11 million to 15 million records). The year of fee payment information is also included. The new codes cover the following USPTO events: Fee Payment Procedures, Filing Fee Payment, Maintenance Fee Payment, Reinstatement After Maintenance Fee Payment Confirmed, And Lapse For Failure To Pay Maintenance Fee, And Refunds.
Gridlogics announced new features to PatSeer which will enhance search and analytic capabilities. There are now fields for Parent Corporate Owner, and industry mapping, and Mathematical Expressions and numbers can be searched more easily and the introduction of a Claims Analyzer.

Citation search and analysis
Ambercite just realised search engine 4.0 with the new AI approach, and also an enhanced display with drawings and abstracts for faster review of retrieved documents. PATSEER now enables search of Forward Cited Examiner Rejections and Examiner citations separately.

Healthcare citations and text mining
EBSCO Health introduced ‘Dynamic Health’ , a resource of evidence-based content aimed at nurses and other front line health professionals which can now be searched on EBSCO Health. The file will be integrated within EBSCO’s HealthStream Learning Center and HealthStream Checklist Management .

Non Patent Literature

Academic, legal and historical, research information
EBSCO are now making available through EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service five HeinOnline databases. The HeinOnline databases contain legal historical and US governmental documents. The databases include the HeinOnline Legal Classics, and Federal Register (from 1936 ), which are available now and the Code of Federal Regulations, US Congressional Documents (from 1980 ), HeinOnline US Congressional Documents which will be available soon. The Code of Federal Regulations XML Files are available as bulk download through the US GPO and partners open data initiatives. The ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global database (PQDT) can now be searched through Google Scholar. Those searching in an authenticated library gain access to the full text according to their subscription, some dissertations are open access. Dissertations are a useful source for emerging technologies research and for invalidity searching. ProQuest has also expanded its ‘Academic Complete’ ebook collection with the addition of 6,000 ebooks from Taylor & Francis.

Company news
Questel acquired ULT Research . ULT Research develops Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) software and is based in Japan. The software will now be enhanced with Questel’s patent and trademark data.

Financial news
Alphabet , the company who owns Google published its 10Q accounts reporting $14,324m increase in sales over the same 9 month period in 2016. Most of Google’s revenue comes from advertising which is implemented through AdWords, DoubleClick Bid Manager and DoubleClick AdExchange which customers buy as ‘Cost-per-click’ or ’Cost-per-impression’ and commission on purchases of Apps through Google-Play. Alphabet also reported on its two life science companies Calico (investigating lifespan and diseases related to ageing). AbbVie is a collaborator. And Verily , a health data company.

Forthcoming events

In November Patbase , STN and Questel are all holding user meetings and trainings around Europe. Deep Search Nine , MD Klaus Kater will be talking at the LII conference in December, this year’s meeting will be at the Business Design Centre in London. Klaus’s presentation will be on Managing intelligence in the age of automated deep search and web analysis.

Past events
This year’s EPO PIC conference was held in Sofia, the conference attracted around 330 attendees, and a 35 companies and patent offices took part in the exhibition. The exhibition is a great place to meet newcomers in the patent information field, and this year several companies from the IP service industry also presented. There is a growing trend towards merging of patent information with IP management software. This year Continux GmbH , (IP Management software), octimine technologies (patent search) , Patently (search and IP management), and Teqmine Analytics (task-based search) all made their debut.

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Digest XI - Sep 17

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT

This month’s edition of the blog provides news from China (PIAC meeting), a new website from the DPMA, new releases of software from Linguamatics and Patbase, and much more. The blog is created using deepSearch9 ’s news tracking software, and this month we collected over 100 news stories published from 60 organisations to bring you this synopsis of the latest happenings in the wider patent information industry. Click on the links to go to the original articles and find out more.

News from the offices – websites, content and classification matters
The JPO revised a list of 114 technical fields from the FI classification scheme where re-classifications are planned. The new scheme should be available in November. The scheme is revised bi-annually in April and November. Reviewing new and changing FI classifications can provide a useful indicator of technology advances in Japan. From December the IPI (Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property ) will begin classifying Swiss patent applications using CPC (Cooperative Patent Classifications) which will be added in addition to any CPCs added by the EPO on related applications, and the CPCs will not be published on the applications nor will they appear in SwissReg .

An interesting news item from SIPO this month announced that the IPR information system for the national defence industry is online, containing documentation of the military patents filed since 1985. There is also a database of military use software copyrights. The DPMA (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) introduced a new website (in English and German) with improved graphics and functionality suitable for use on mobile platforms. The ‘ Services ’ menu presents legal information on IPR filing and fees, and the ‘ Search ’ menu links to the DPMA databases and services.

Bilateral and other meetings hosted by the patent offices. (EPO, JPO, SIPO, WIPO)
The EPO released a synopsis of their ‘Role of patents in advancing climate change mitigation technologies’ (CCMT) conference/ event held in Athens in September. From the patent information perspective a classification tag is added to patents aimed at renewable energy technologies, and it is good to see the brief extended to include other technologies at this event.

The JPO reported on two bi-lateral meetings the first was with SIPO for a discussion on designs and with the EUIPO on trademarks. Both meetings discussed trends, examination and quality. JPO and SIPO held the 7th Design meeting in late August to share information on design registration system and examination practice, including The Hague agreement, and industrial design forum. The 7th Trademark Experts Meeting held between JPO and EUIPO shared information on trademark trends, examination and quality management. A review of the ‘ Memorandum of Cooperation ‘ (MOC) took place between Japan’s JPO and India’s DIPP (Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion), the agreement was originally filed in 2015 to encourage cooperation in the field of industrial property between the two countries, and has been renewed this year, one aim is to enable the growing number of Japanese companies filing for IP in India to obtain protection earlier. The MOC covers training of ’ CGPDTM’ (India) new examiners, sharing examination practices, information such as gazettes and journals and raising IP awareness. SIPO signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ with the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan for cooperation on IP activities. A WIPO team led by Yoshiyuki Takagi, Assistant Director General, met with SIPO Deputy Commissioner for discussions on patent data exchange and international patent classification matters.

Each September the PIAC meeting takes place in Beijing. This year was the 8th meeting, and the largest so far with 4,000 participants, 76 exhibitors and 78 speakers over two days. The event was opened by SIPO Commissioner Shen Chengyu . The conferences theme was; “Patent, Driving the Growth of Real Economy” and featured plenary presentations, breakout sessions and exhibitor workshops providing an overview of the patent information industry in China, and a look at the future with AI implementations from Patsnap, and Patentics, and a look at how to file patents to protect AI methodologies from UNIUS. Another theme was licensing, SEPs, and collaborations, particularly important as Industry 4.0 innovations continue apace.

Legislative
The Unitary Patent moved two steps closer as Lithuania and Estonia both ratified the Treaty. However, the UK and Germany both seem far from ratification, so it is still unclear when the UPC may come into being. It looks unlikely to be early in 2018 now.

Patent Analytics
PatBase Analytics version 2 was released in September, bringing faster analysis of more data, and extended charting, e.g. 3d views. IFI Claims Patent Services has introduced two indicators to help patent analysts get more accurate data on patent expiries, and to work out if a patent is ‘in force’ …….or not. Legal status indicators are provided for US, EPO, German, Canadian, Japanese, UK, French and Spanish patent office data by IFI..

Text mining / text analytics/ NLP
Linguamatics introduced a new version of I2E (5.1) bringing additional power and allowing improvements for queries created. A "fuzzy matching" approach enables spellings variants, OCR (optical character recognition) errors, and accents in words to be retrieved. Users can also carry out their own ‘data normalization’ prior to building queries for instance for numeric ranges.

Chemistry and Medical information
STN announced that the CHEMLIST (Regulated Chemicals Listing) database now lists chemicals from the Taiwan Chemical Substance Inventory (TCSI). Organisations in Taiwan must comply with regulations under the Toxic Chemical Substances Control Act, which was introduced in 1986 and has undergone several revisions. 91,000 substances are covered, and registrants include manufacturers of new substances and importers of substances. EMTREE, Elsevier’s life sciences hierarchical classification scheme (ontology) has been revised for the third time in 2017, and is integrated within EMBASE on STN with 2,740 terms added since the May 2017 release. Only 115 of these are drug terms, the majority are cell line names (approx.. 2,000) and medical device trade names (approx. 670).

Commercial information and IP services company news.
Minesoft have appointed the Intellectual Property Publishing House Co., Ltd (IPPH) as a new distributor for Patbase in China . Minesoft have distributors in many countries including Argentina and Isreal. The IPPH, founded in 1980, is the legal publisher for Chinese patent literature under SIPO, and is co-organiser of PIAC meeting. MultiLing , a global patent translation company, appointed a new Sales VP – Jim Watson in September. Averbis announced its participation in a medical informatics research project over four years from 2018 providing text analytics expertise for unstructured data. .

Forthcoming User Meetings
Patbase , STN, and Questel all have announced training and user meetings in the Autumn in various European cities, whilst October sees the Linguamatics Text Mining Summit in the USA. The next issue will be reporting on the EPO PIC meeting in Sofia – the largest patent information in Europe, hosted by the EPO and the Bulgarian Patent Office.

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Digest X - Aug 17

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Autumn! I hope all Blog readers had a good summer. Whilst everyone was away on holiday over the summer, the newstracker was still busy monitoring the wider patent information industry, read more below. The most newsworthy event happened at the end of August with LA based buyout firm Leonard Green & Partners L.P. purchasing CPA Global for £2.4billion in an auction. This figure is 15 times more than CPA’s turnover., and is 2.5 times what Cinven payed for CPA 5 years ago. So why the high level of interest in CPA which led to this high valuation? CPA was founded in 1969, and is the world’s largest IP management company, handling patent renewals, and other IP services for major companies around the globe. Cinven, CPA’s owner for 5 years, invested in CPA’s IT, and was also responsible for the purchase of Innography in 2015, which enabled CPA to offer its clients built in IP analytics to support their IP portfolio decision making, and improved CPA’s technology capabilities in house. This deal is also an indicator of high interest in the IP services sector, where technology savvy start-ups are looking to shake up the industry. Below are a selection of news highlights from the patent offices, product announcements from information providers, and events in the industry which I found of interest, and I hope you will too.

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 s igned 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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This month the InfoBlog brings you updates on the information initiatives from the major patent offices, and from the many commercial vendors and their products in the information industry, in particular for scientific, technical and patent information. The InfoBlog now follows 60 organisations, large and small to bring you a synopsis of the latest news, and trends we observe. My highlights from June are the news items from Clarivate Analytics which indicate they are back in business, with the revival of the Derwent name for patent information products, and with the acquisition of a company providing software used by those engaged with academic publishing. No news from Questel, and STN have announced STNext – which means STN classic users can benefit from enhanced functionality without subscribing to New STN of downloading software onto their desktop. PatSEER Pro also plays to the browser based trend. Enjoy this edition of the ‘blog, the next will be in September. Have a good Summer!

Patent information and patent office news.

The 10th meeting of the IP5 Offices (JPO, EPO, USPTO, SIPO, KIPO) took place this month in Malta.. In celebrating 10 years of cooperation, the IP5 also set forth their next steps for the creation of an international patent landscape that is; “efficient, cost-effective, and user friendly”. Against the backdrop of increasing numbers of patent filings, this includes working towards harmonization of practices and procedures, work-sharing between the offices, high-quality and timely search and examination results, and , most importantly for readers of this blog - ‘seamless access to patent information ’ . The IP5 offices are also aiming to improve their cooperation on the preparation of international search reports for international applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). The PCT, administered by WIPO is not part of the IP5 group, but PCT applications are growing, and tend to be used by applicants wishing to file broadly – often a sign of important innovations.

News from the Asian offices.
The Japan Patent Office (JPO) has extended a pilot programme with Egypt for a further three years. JPO works to assist and promote understanding of IP and its usage in developing economies, particularly in Asia and the Pacific Region. Through the JPO’s International Cooperation Division it provides access to the text of industrial property laws and regulations in English and Japanese from many countries, and this month regulations for Patents and Trademarks from Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Ireland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, USA were updated. Six proposals from SIPO were approved at the 37th session of the WIPO International Patent Classification (IPC) working group. The proposals, and others, will come into effect in the 2018 IPC edition. China became a member of the IPC Union in 1997, and since then SIPO has contributed to IPC revisions for the fields of bio-pesticides, electrical and food processing, reflecting the strength of its technological advances in these fields.

European office news.
The European Union Agreement to set up a Unified patent court which will handle European Union wide patents is slowly getting nearer as the UK and Estonia prepare to ratify the UPC Agreement , the German ratification however is held up over a constitutional matter. The UPC Committee announced this month that the December 2017 commencement date cannot now be maintained. The DPMA (German Patent Office) celebrated its 140th anniversary. The DPMA last year handled over 130,000 patents, trademarks, utility models and designs, now has over 2,500 members of staff and an income of EU394 million, making it the largest national patent office in Europe. A history of the DPMA is also being created, with a new article published each month: https://presse.dpma.de/presseservice/englisch/unserservice/140years/index.html

Professional Search .
Each edition of the ‘blog reports on new products and product enhancements which help us to find the right document(s) and build collections for analysis; this is the focus of the blog. The blog provides just brief details of products announced in June within each domain, with links so you can find out more about any item of interest.

Academic search and scientific information
Clarivate Analytics acquired Publons , for its platform allowing sharing, and discussions for those engaged in the peer review and editing of academic research for publication. This acquisition enhances Clarivate Analytics tools for academic researchers and publishers, which already include Web of Science, EndNote and ScholarOne.

Chemistry searching

Infochem, the German chemical information software specialists, announced a new release (version 3.0) of its computer aided synthesis design tool IC SYNTH . New features are the implementation of a genuine reaction graph and a new 'Projects' section to allow for team working. IC SYNTH enables chemists to generate synthetic pathways for a target molecule.

Data Mining / Text mining / text analytics/ NLP
Averbis announced the release of the latest versions of ‘Information Discovery’ its text analytics platform (versions 4.9 to 4.11). Information Discovery provides a platform for the collection and analysis of many types of documents from in house and third party sources, such as patents, academic literature, databases, websites. Documents can be integrated using tools for terminology, and annotation, and an evaluation tool. Texts can be compared for precision, recall, F1, and standard deviation. Linguamatics Health enterprise NLP platform, which utilises I2E, is now in use at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and it has been developed to enable the University to make better use of its unstructured patient data, such as clinical notes.

Patent searching
Ambercite introduced Ambercite Ai , a new search tool intended as a complement to Ambercite’s ‘cluster searching’ (citations based) approach. Ambercite Ai provides three search choices : novelty, validity and licensing. Date limiters for priority and other dates, and display limiters on number of results, and family members of choice e.g. just US documents are also provided. Ranking is carried out based on Ambercite’s own algorithms. Clarivate Analytics pays homage to its heritage - Derwent Innovation is the new name for Thomson Innovation. This was announced at the US PIUG Annual meeting in May. ProQuest Dialog are selling and supporting the Gridlogics’ patent analytics platform . Gridlogics continue to enhance PatSeer and PatentINSIGHTPro, and this month announced several enhancements –namely a corporate tree and current owner field, legal status for US patents now gives a direct view to US PAIR, improved expiry date calculations, and a family level dead / alive status indicator. For pharmaceutical patents there is now Orange Book integration with deep linking to the FDA website. For improved search precision two new fields can be isolated from the full text . These are ‘summary / advantages of invention’ and ‘brief description of drawings’ available for 'US', 'EP', 'WO' and 'CN' when the format of the document permits, and for improved recall a new country is there for the searching – Portugal (PT) – applications and granted documents are available from 2007 until 2016, in Portuguese. STN also introduced a new search platform – STNext™. STNext, available to all STN users, enhances the browser based version of STN classic.

IP services and IP legal company news.

Five AWAPatent consultants were recognized as being among the top trademark lawyers in their respective jurisdictions by the legal industry publication, ‘Who’s Who Legal’. Another recognition for AWAPatent who were listed in ‘IAM Patent’ as “ highly recommended ” for patent prosecution and related activities in 2017. Two Danish companies, who are also AWA clients top the ‘ Brand Finance’ listing – Pandora and Lego. Questel formed a partnership with Concur IP earlier this year, as it moves away from being a search and analytics software provider to a full service IP firm. Concur IP offer a patent drafting service for English language jurisdictions.

Events

There are a lot of meetings, conferences and events for those engaged in the business of patents and searching, and I have attended two events recently - PIUG Annual meeting in May in Atlanta, and my own CIIPM meeting in Cambridge UK. In the interests of timely publication of the Blog, I’ll report briefly on those next time! A full report on the PIUG Annual meeting will be published in World Patent Information . And a review of CIIPM will shortly be available through Cambridge Network.