Lighthouse IP

Gert Frackenpohl

Tag der gewerblichen Schutzrechte Stuttgart, 4. Juli 2018

Diamond File

Global Bibliographic and Legal

Patent Data

Content

• Content coverage update • Introducing the Diamond Patent File

• Bibliographic and Legal IP databases • Content • Sourcing • Country and years coverage

Content Coverage Update:

Patent Data Expanding patent coverage • 70+ authorities in full text, original and English MT • 75 authorities original documents in PDF • 150+ countries bibliographic data • Access provided via partners (please visit our booth for more information)

Trademark Data • 200 authorities

IP Court Cases Data D&B IP Insight (index linking patents and tm’s to business info) PatentValuation dataset (cont. 30 million patentfamilies with values)

Introducing the Diamond Patent File

• Issues of databases today Landscape: • 152 countries under PCT treaty • 191 WIPO member states (not all publish patents) Currently available in the market place: 48 bibliographic countries 38 countries legal status Gap of over 100 authorities bibliographic Gap of 114 authorities status information The solution to this: the Diamond Patent File

Introducing the Diamond Patent File

• What does the Diamond Patent File cover: • Updated and current (latest publication is also the newest

publication from the authority) • Bibliographic data from 150+ authorities that are also PCT

authorities and 5 non-PCT authorities • 67 authorities that are not available anywhere else • 102 authorities that are more current than other sources

• Legal status data from 101 authorities • 61 authorities that are not available anywhere else • 71 authorities that are more current than current sources • Clustering over 4000 events into 20 categories

Definition of current: Meaning that the most recent official publication from an authority is available in the dataset.

Introducing: The Diamond Patent File

• How does it work? • Actively collecting publications from authorities • Permanently monitoring all new publications • Manually capturing data from each gazette • Adding translations of titles, abstracts and names • Launched on March 30, 2018

The Diamond File Sample of Biblio data input

BY Belarus BY_20170430_02 FG1K (12)

Publications of patents for utility models put in the state register of utility models of Republic of Belarus

126-157

11, 21, 22, 51, 54, 57, 71, 72, 73

abstract and figure

The Diamond File Biblio and legal content of the gazettes

• Bibliographic data • WIPO ST.9, INIDs for bibliographic data

• Legal status data • WIPO ST.17, Recommendation for the coding of headings of

announcements made in official gazettes (1990) • WIPO ST.27, Legal Status Standardisation (June 2017) • Clustering according to Lighthouse IP LS Index

The Diamond File ST.9 INID Codes for Bibliographic Data Elements

The Diamond File ST 17 Section identifiers

BY Belarus BY_20170430_02 MM4A Early termination of a patent due to non-payment of fees for maintaining a patent in force

189-190

BY Belarus BY_20170430_02 NF4A Restoration of a patent

190

BY Belarus BY_20170430_02 PD4A Change of

patentee's name

191

The Diamond File Legal Status content processing

The Diamond File Legal event clustering

The Diamond File Legal event clustering

• Legal events…. • Every country does something else….

• Some follow WIPO Standards • Some don’t follow anything

• Over 4,000 codes and events known • Challenging to identify status from events • Within Diamond clustering into 20 categories

Diamond Legal Event ID-Number

Diamond Legal Event category title ST.17 section codes

ST.17 section codes

ST.17 section codes

ST.17 section codes

ST.17 section codes

ST.17 section codes

ST.17 section codes

ST.17 section codes

ST.17 section codes

1 Application filed AZ AA AF 2 Application discontinued/ceased FA FC FD CD CE BF FE 3 Application revived AE AD CC 4 Document published BA BZ BB 5 Search and examination EA EE 6 Right granted FG FF 7 Right ceased/discontinued CD CE 8 Right revived NF NB NZ NG 9 Right maintained LD LZ 10 Renewal or extension of term of right (SPCs) ND 11 Termination of right or application MM MK MZ MA MC ME MF MG 12 Modification of document, specification DZ DC 13 Change of names, addresses TA TB TC TF TG TZ 14 Change of owner, applicant, transfer of right PD PC GB 15 Publication of licensing QB QF GD GZ 16 Fee payment event KZ 17 Administrative event, restoration, requests EZ NA NE DA 18 Appeal to court, opposition event CA CH CZ 19 Miscellaneous event RZ 20 Erratum TK TZ HK HZ HA HB HC HE TH

The Diamond File Legal event clustering (and relationship to ST.17)

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