1. Policy into Practice:
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IPR
What is and what to do with it
7. www.ponspatentesymarcas.es
Where to patent?
To decide taking into account:
. Nature of the invention
. Economic relevance
. Inventive quality (Utility model where possible)
Geographic interest
. Market penetration
. Possibility of licensing
Costs
10. Intellectual Property
a) Inventions
Patents – Utility models
b) Distinctive signs
Trademarks – commercial names
c) Designs
Industrial models and designs
d) Copyright
e) Software
f) Domain names
g) Personal data
11. Signs
Trademarks and commercial names
Products, services and the activity of a
company, making a difference with the
competence
Legal protection instrument.
Marketing purposes: best tool for publicity
15. New technologies
Personal data protection
It is mandatory for companies and Administration working with personal
data to protect them
16. VISIO2007, 18 October 2007 Marta Catarino
In the beginning was the patent…
- the role of Intellectual Property in Competitive
Intelligence
17. What kind of questions does IP analysis answer?
How does your organisation identify technology licensing
to other markets? Do you provide licenses to suppliers or
customers? Engage in cross-licensing?
How does your organisation avoid R&D duplication,
internal or external?
How much is your company taking advantage of potential
cross-over technologies owned by yourselves?
How much is your company looking to emerging markets,
e.g. South America, Eastern Europe, Africa? How much are
your Competitors?
18. Introduction
In a knowledge-based economy, the protection of
Intellectual Property is crucial.
Why are patents important?
Monopoly and restraint on trade and encouragement for
further technical development
Foster industry and commerce within a secure and
disciplined framework
Patents are also relevant as a source of information
19. Introduction
Why is patent information relevant?
Widest source of technical information
Complete and detailed information
May be the only disclosure of an invention
Easy retrieval of patent information
21. The importance of patent information
What type of information can we find in a patent
document?
TITLE
INVENTORS
DATA
APPLICANT DATA
CLASSIFICATION
PUBLICATION
NUMBER
FILING DATE
TERRITORY
26. From patent information, an analysis can be
performed which can range from using common
sense and simple tools to patent mining -
discovering meaningful new correlations, patterns
and trends by sifting through patent information
using statistical, data analysis and mathematical
techniques.
The importance of patent information
27. What kind of questions does IP analysis answer?
How does your organisation identify technology licensing
to other markets? Do you provide licenses to suppliers or
customers? Engage in cross-licensing?
How does your organisation avoid R&D duplication,
internal or external?
How much is your company taking advantage of potential
cross-over technologies owned by yourselves?
How much is your company looking to emerging markets,
e.g. South America, Eastern Europe, Africa? How much are
your Competitors?
28. The importance of patent information
Insights to be extracted from Patent information
(Patent Intelligence):
Assess novelty and patentability
Update information in a field of technology
Identify prior or latest technology (Trends)
Provide stimulus of ideas - develop new Product or process or improve
existing product or process
Planning of R&D objectives, avoiding duplication (re-inventing the wheel)
29. The importance of patent information
Insights to be extracted from Patent information
(Patent Intelligence) – cont’d:
Identify possible partners and clients
Identify alternative technology and its source
Monitor competitor’s R&D activities and technology strategy
Avoid infringing others’ patents
Exploitation of rights (e.g. checking out useful expired patents)
30. Who are our competitors and what are they
doing?
1. Identify assignees for relevant areas (these are the competitors… or
potential partners!)
2. Characterise activity of each competitor:
- application areas (Classification codes)
- main markets (countries of filing)
- evolution of patents per year
- main collaborations (who they are patenting with)
- …
This can be quite consuming due to the level of information: different
software tools are available for statistic and bibliometric analysis.
Case study
31. Going beyond the state-of-the-art
1. Existing similar products in the market
2. To ensure the freedom-to-operate and the opportunity
3. To reinforce the existing IP
4. To watch competitors
34. Novelty
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35. Users/market
1. Technology trends
2. Main market segments
3. Secondary niche markets
4. To check the competitors
To:
1. Freedom-to-operate and the opportunity
2. To reinforce the existing IP
61. Patents are one of the most valuable and comprehensive source of the
technological information.
Patent analysis and mining in combination with other tools (market research,
financial analysis) can build up a strong competitive positioning, allowing a
company (even with little resources available) to gather knowledge on its
environment.
Patent Intelligence provides information about specific conditions in relation
to technological or market-related development, which is of crucial
importance for the decision makers in tracking competitors’ activity and new
innovation trends.
Conclusions
62. - Advances in information technology have greatly improved mining techniques
and visualisation techniques.
- Patent data could provide a sound foundation for evaluating technological
innovations and R&D trends, which is part of the Business Intelligence.
- Although one might find more and more visual and intuitive software, not all
the information can be analysed by these tools.
- The use of cognitive human features could help us to elaborate more intuitive
graphs.
- We can access to data sets in ways absolutely unthinkable a few years ago,
which implies, less time to make a decision, less time to understand and new
approaches to solve problems arise.
Conclusions
63. - Bibliometrics - as a truly interdisciplinary field - has strong links with related
research fields and fields of applications and services.
- Bibliometrics is traditionally strongly related with library science, information
retrieval and sociology of science.
Conclusions