The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a self-funded international organization of the United Nations (UN) that has 193 signatory parties as to its member states. WIPO came into existence by virtue of the WIPO Convention in 1967. The organization was formed to promote the creation of IP and mandate the protection of IP across the world.
Prior to the establishment of WIPO, the process of filing a patent was a very time-consuming and costly process for an applicant to file for a patent in different jurisdictions. This resulted in a reduction in the creation of IP across the world. WIPO was established to promote cooperation among its member states and in collaboration with other international organizations. Its headquarters are established in Geneva & Switzerland.
The creation of WIPO allowed a patent applicant to file an international application designating various states without having to approach each state individually. WIPO does not only allow for the filing of international applications but also provides databases and platforms to search the existing IP.
WIPO provides a patent searching database named PATENTSCOPE. This database allows a user to access internationally filed Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications as well as patent documents of participating national and regional patent offices. WIPO patent search allows to access the patents in different languages by machine translating the text. Documents can be seen in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, etc.
PATENTSCOPE allows a user to perform 5 kinds of searches, namely:
Simple Search is a basic searching platform provided by PATENTSCOPE where a user can access patent documents by searching using any of the 7 provided fields of search in the “Field Section”. These 7 Fields of Searching are:
There are some limitations while doing a simple search. A maximum of 3 wildcards per query can be entered for non-logged-in users and 7 wildcards maximum per query for logged-in users.
There are some steps that are needed to be followed for doing a Simple Search in PATENTSCOPE:
| Field | Definition | Usage Examples | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
|
FP |
Front Page |
FP:(“car battery cooling”~10)
FP:(Drake)
FP:( WO2010000001)
FP:( EP2002001709)
FP:( “deliver* drone”~5)
FP:(elect?icit?)
FP:( battery^10 and cooling^3) |
The search is done in the Field Section against the Title, Abstract, Numbers, Names, etc. |
|
EN_ALL |
Any Field – English All |
EN_ALL:(“car battery cooling”~10)/ (drone or quadcopter) |
The search is done in any of the fields (in English). |
|
EN_ALLTXT |
Full Text – English Text |
EN_ALLTXT:(“car battery cooling”~10)/ (drone or quadcopter) |
The search is done in Full text of a patent reference( in English). |
|
ALLNUM |
All Numbers and IDs |
This function can be used to search against the application number, the PCT publication number, the national publication number, and the priority number in WIPO patents
ALLNUM:(US201000*)
ALLNUM:(29876 CU)
ALLNUM:(2019 1233 MX) |
When searching for a particular patent reference number, the patent reference number is entered in the search field. The database searches the value against the application number, the PCT publication number, the national publication number, and the priority number. |
|
IC |
International Class |
IC:(A or A61F or “A61F7” or “A61F7/00”) |
It allows to search patent references classified under specific International Classification(s) |
|
IM |
Inventor Name |
IN:(WAYNE, Bruce) |
It allows to search patent references with specific inventor(s) |
|
PA |
Applicant Name |
PA:(CORPORATION, Bayer) |
It allows to search patent references with specific assignee(s) |
|
DP |
Publication Date |
DP:(2020)
DP:(202001)
DP:( 20200112)
DP:([01.01.2010 TO 01.12.2019]) |
It allows to search patent references that were published within a specific time-period. |
PATENTSCOPE also provides Advanced Search interface, which is an advanced version of the simple search interface. It is a more useful and effective tool as it offers a wide range of operators that allow customizing results with Boolean operators, proximity operators, range operators, and wildcard operators.
Steps of conducting an Advanced Search:
Type in the search terms in search bar.
Expand the search bar to check your query.
Select offices within which authority a user wants to conduct the search.
Specify the language of your search terms.
Select stemming if you want to avoid the inflected words.
Run the search.
Different option of searches while doing an advanced search:
There is another type of search interface provided by PATENTSCOPE. It is called Field Combination Search. This interface of the PATENTSCOPE allows a user to search for and access patents across the countries by combining different patent field of search. It allows a user to do a more structural and narrower search as compared to the previous two interfaces. By combining different search fields, a user can save a lot of time by removing some junk patents from the result list using different operators and combining fields during the search.
Process of performing Field Combination search:
The fourth type of searching interface provided by the PATENTSCOPE is Cross Lingual Expansion Interface. It is also referred to as Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Interface (CLIR). This interface allows you to enhance the power of search in PCT and National Patent Data Collections. This interface allows users of different languages to perform a search in their language. A searching term can be put in different languages and the term/phrase gets translated by special software developed by WIPO into several other languages.
Currently, the cross-lingual search is available in different languages like English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Italian, etc.,
Steps for performing a cross lingual search
The fifth searching interface provided by WIPO is Chemical Compounds Search Interface. The above explained four interfaces can be used by any person without any need of a WIPO user account. But this interface can be used by only those who have WIPO account credentials. This interface allows a user to search for patents and NPLs which are mentioning a particular chemical compound.
Process of performing Chemical Compound Search:
The following table shows usage examples of different field functions while using PATENTSCOPE database.
| Field | Definition | Usage Examples |
|---|---|---|
|
PD |
Priority Date |
PD:(2020) ,
PD:(202001) ,
PD:( 20200112) ,
PD:([01.01.2010 TO 01.12.2019]) |
|
AD |
Application Date |
AD:(2020)
AD:(202001) ,
AD:( 20200112) ,
AD:([01.01.2010 TO 01.12.2019]) |
|
DP |
Publication Date |
DP:(2020)
DP:(202001) ,
DP:( 20200112) ,
DP:([01.01.2010 TO 01.12.2019]) |
|
DG |
Grant Date |
DG:(2020) ,
DG:(202001) ,
DG:( 20200112) ,
DG:([01.01.2010 TO 01.12.2019]) |
|
AN |
Application Number |
Application numbers with or without the country code can be used in various forms.
AN:(US2010*) |
|
PN |
Publication Number |
Publication numbers with or without the country code can be used in various forms.
PN:(CU121*) ,
PN:(JP1997764886) ,
PN:(JP9887665) ,
PN:(JP09098765) ,
PN:(JPH9764457) ,
PN:(JPH9-098765) |
|
WO |
WIPO Publication Number |
WO:(2010/000152) |
|
CPC |
Cooperative Patent Classification |
CPC:(A61F7/00) |
|
IC |
International Class |
IC:(A or A61F or “A61F7” or “A61F7/00”) |
|
CLASSIF
|
All Classifications |
CLASSIF:(A61F 7/00) |
|
IN |
Inventor Name |
IN:(WAYNE, Bruce) |
|
PA |
Applicant Name |
PA:(CORPORATION, Bayer) |
|
ALLNUM |
All Numbers and IDs |
This function can be used to search against the application number, the PCT publication number, the national publication number, and the priority number in WIPO patents
ALLNUM:(US201000*) ,
ALLNUM:(29876 CU) ,
ALLNUM:(2019 1233 MX) |
|
CTR |
Country |
CTR: (US or CN) |
|
EN_AB |
English Abstract |
EN_AB:(“car battery cooling”~10)
EN_AB:(drone or quadcopter) |
|
EN_ALL |
English All |
EN_ALL:(“car battery cooling”~10)
EN_ALL:(drone or quadcopter) |
|
EN_ALLTXT |
English Text |
EN_ALLTXT:(“car battery cooling”~10)
EN_ALLTXT:(drone or quadcopter) |
|
EN_CL |
English Claims |
EN_CL:(“car battery cooling”~10)
EN_CL:(drone or quadcopter) |
|
EN_DE |
English Description |
EN_DE:(“car battery cooling”~10)
EN_DE:(drone or quadcopter) |
|
EN_TI |
English Title |
EN_TI:(“car battery cooling”~10)
EN_TI:(drone or quadcopter) |
|
FP |
Front Page |
FP:(“car battery cooling”~10) ,
FP:(Drake) ,
FP:( WO2010000001) ,
FP:( EP2002001709) ,
FP:( “deliver* drone”~5) ,
FP:(elect?icit?) ,
FP:( battery^10 and cooling^3) |
Furthermore, WIPO is not only limited to do Patent Searching, but can also be utilized to do searching in the fields of Trademarks, Designs, Geographical Indications, and Plant Variety Protection.
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