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Patent Information Bibliography - ArticlesThese patent information bibliography pages were originally created on the PIUG wiki in ca. 2008 and augmented subsequently. Further suggestions for improvement are welcome by the PIUG webmaster, webmaster@ piug.org. Articles: 2020"Identifying Inventions in the Public Domain. A Guide for Inventors and Entrepreneurs" Contributed by Dominic Demarco Articles: 2019"Mistakes Happen: A Patentability Case Study" "Enhanced Patent Search Systems Revolutionize Searching" "Freedom-to-Operate Search Strategy: Hitting the Target" Articles: 2018"Want to find? Break the rules!" Articles: 2015"Update on the Confederacy of European Patent Information User Groups (CEPIUG)"
"Guidelines for Preparing Patent Landscape Reports"
Articles: 2012"Improving Patent Information Quality: Development and the Disclosure Requirements" "What’s So Special about Patent Invalidity Searching?" Articles: 2011"A proposed framework for the certification of the patent information professional" "Searching? Or actually trying to find something? – The comforts of searching versus the challenges of finding"
Contributed by Dominic Demarco Articles: 2010"Continuous Learning" "Patent Search Primer – Guidelines from Practitioners. A White Paper" Contributed by Dominic Demarco "Education and Certification of Patent Information Professionals in Europe" "Patents in the Realm of Independent Information Professionals" "Patent Users Group – Collaborating via PIUG wiki and discussion forums" Articles: 2009"The patent information users' group - Twenty excellent years: PIUG's impact on patent information" Articles: 2008"Freedom-to-Operate Patent Searching: My Six Basic Rules" Contributed by Dominic Demarco Articles: 2007"Improving Patent Quality through Identification of Relevant Prior Art: Approaches to Increase Information Flow to the Patent Office" "Subject analysis and search strategies – Has the searcher become the bottleneck in the search process?"
"Half a century of the Patent Documentation Group (PDG) 1957-2007" Articles: 2004"Making the Case for Patent Searchers? Go Tell the Clients" Contributed by Dominic Demarco Articles: 2002"Automatic Categorization Applications at the European Patent Office" Contributed by Georg Richter, October. 2002 "Bases of the United States Patent Classification" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Patent Information at Henkel: From Documentation and Information to Collaborative Information Commerce" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Search Combinatorial Chemistry: from Biochips to Catalysts and Beyond -An EPO Perspective" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 Articles: 2001"Hierarchical Classification of real Life Documents" Contributed by Georg Richter, October 2002 "Classifying Patent Applications with Winnow" Contributed by Georg Richter, October 2002 "Patent and Copyright Term Extension and the Constitution: A Historical Perspective" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "A Patent Lust for Life" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Citation Analysis Using Online Databases: Feasibilities and Shortcomings" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Bioinformatics - A Patenting View" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Current State of the Art of Markush Topological Search Systems" Contributed by E.Cheeseman, June 2002 "Web Sites for Patent Information Centers: the US Experience" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Sources of Japanese Patent Information" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "The Reform of the IPC" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Perspectives on Machine Translation of Patent Information" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "European Patents for Biotechnological Inventions - Past, Present, and Future" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Bioinformatics in the Post-Genomic Age" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 Articles: 2000"Skills for Patent Searching - A Personal View" Contributed by Stephen R. Adams, Magister Ltd. "The Seventh Edition of the IPC" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Patent Information on the Internet" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "An Evaluation of Patent Searching Resources: Comparing the Professional and Free On-Line" Contributed by E Cheesman, June 2002 "The Referencing of Prior Art Documents in European Patents and Applications" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "The Future of Patent Information" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 Articles: 1999"The European Patent System: An Introduction for Patent Searchers" Contributed by Suzanne Robins "A Patent Search and Classification System" Contributed by Georg Richter, October 2002 "Creating Customized Shared Databases of Patent Information Using Lotus Notes" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Free Patent Databases on the Internet: A Critical View" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "International Patent Classification in Derwent Databases" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "CrossFire Searching with QPAT- US Using WordBasic Macro Tools" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Barriers to the Use of Patent Information in UK Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. Part I: Questionnaire Survey" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "Patenting - Pitfalls and Prizes" Contributed by E. Cheeseman, June 2002 "How Technology Got a Boost from the Japanese Patent Office" An interesting article on Japanese Patent Law and its impact on the dissemination of technology...This is a very digestible summary of Japanese Patent Law and includes some comparisons to US patent law. This article basically builds a strong case for the premise that the methods used by the Japanese patent system promoted the diffusion of technology and had a positive effect on technical progress. Contributed by Sandra Unger, Exxon "The Newly-Engineered Status of APILIT and APIPAT" This article may also available online. It is based on a talk given at the 217th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA on March 21, 1999, Division of Chemical Information. Contributed by Aleksandr Belinskiy, Information Specialist, Brooklyn, NY Articles: 1998"Enhanced Hypertext Categorization Using Hyperlinks" Contributed by Georg Richter, October 2002 "Database Secrets of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office" The article covers the rational for patent office searching and the current state of searching at the USPTO. It includes a description of some of the specialized software information sources available to searchers at the PTO and the examiners they support. Contributed by Edlyn S. Simmons Articles: 1997"Virtual File Merging: A Technique to Enhance Patent Searches" A detailed discussion of the use of multi-file and cross-file searching techniques at intermediate stages of a search to "merge" the indexing of the different databases being searched. Examples, both simple and complex, are included. Contributed by Nancy Lambert "But What's In It For IBM?: Patents on the Net" A detailed look at this most extensive (so far) of the free U.S. patent databases on the Internet; a look at the security paranoia it has inspired; and a comparison of the IBM site with a product that IBM is selling for its clients to mount in-house. Contributed by Nancy Lambert Articles: 1996"Patent Searching: What, Why, When, Where?" Not aimed at the professional searcher, but a useful article to hand your search clients: A brief primer on patent information and an evaluation of Internet patent information resources. Contributed by Nancy Lambert "QPAT-US: A Patent Searcher's Evaluation" A detailed look at this Internet U.S. patent full-text search resource, with an extensive wish list. Contributed by Nancy Lambert "Drilling for Gold: Databases for Petroleum Information" A close look at the American Petroleum Institute and Petroleum Abstracts databases. Some reflections on specialty databases that currently require hefty up-front subscriptions, and how they can continue to survive. Contributed by Nancy Lambert "Online Statistical Techniques as Patent Search Tools. Part 2: Patent Classifications" A two-part article discussing how to use online patent statistical techniques, not to generate statistics, but to help you formulate searches and find heavily-cited or very old patents in a subject. Some detailed information on finding and searching both U.S. and International Patent Classifications. Contributed by Nancy Lambert Articles: 1995"More Patents - Lots More - On the Internet" A look at the controversy that arose among commercial patent information providers, professional searchers, and private inventors and end-user searchers when the USPTO put a free front-page US patent database on the Internet. Some recommendations to all of these, as well as to managers who pay for patent information, are provided. Contributed by Nancy Lambert "Pharmaceutical Patent Alerting Services: Patents Preview and Patent Fast-Alert" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons, "Patent Family Databases 10 Years Later" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons The Idiot's Guide to Patent Resources on the Internet" The first of many articles on Internet patent resources. The content is out of date, but the conclusion can still give some useful ammunition to use against management who wonder why they're paying for expensive patent databases "when it's all there for free on the Internet." Contributed by Nancy Lambert "Survey of Patent Documentation from the Pacific Rim Countries" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons Articles: 1994"Patent Information in Biotechnology" Abstract: Patents represent an important source of scientific and legal information. Unfortunately, many of the major sources of biotechnology scientific information, (for example, Medline and Biosis) do not index patents. It is probable that information of importance to the field of biotechnology reported in patents is not available in the scientific journal literature. This article gives a brief overview of patent law from the standpoint of the technical information content of patents, and provides a survey of relevant sources of patent information for retrospective searching and for current awareness. Contributed by Andrew H. Berks, Ph.D. "Derwent's New Plasdoc Indexing: A User's View" A look at how Derwent indexed polymers over the years; a detailed analysis of their latest major version of polymer indexing, complete with wish list. Contributed by Nancy Lambert "Some problems in the Translation of Japanese Patents" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons "The ECLA Classification System" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons "Japanese Patent Information" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons Articles: 1993"Comparing Grapes and Watermelons" Part of Edlyn's and Nancy's answer to Francis Narin: A compendium of detailed caveats regarding generating and drawing conclusions from patent statistics. Contributed by Nancy Lambert "Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations" A good example of the use of patent citations to draw information about the effects of information disclosure from patent documents. Contributed by Jon Putnam "WIPO. Glossary of terms concerning industrial property information and documentation" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons Articles: 1992"Patents: A Valuable Resource in the Information Age" Contributed by Madeline Douglass Articles: 1991"Online searching of polymer patents: precision and recall" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons "Editorial. Markush or Generic Structures" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons "The grammar of Markush structure searching: vocabulary vs syntax" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons "A comparison of different approaches to Markush structure handling" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons "After the grant: Online searching of legal status information for U.S. patents" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons Articles: 1990"Patent Statistics as Economic Indicators: A Survey" Summarizes a very large number of empirical studies that use patent counts in conjunction with other economic data to infer the performance of firms, industries, and national economies. Contributed by Jon Putnam Articles: Pre-1990"Patent Statistics Searching: Practices and Pitfalls" Nancy's first major article on patent statistics: Lots f examples using GET, MEMSORT, and Derwent's PatStat; lots of caveats about what you'll get. Contributed by Nancy Lambert "Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development" This article is cited as the source of most "conventional wisdom" about the use of patents (and other mechanisms of earning returns to R&D, such as secrecy) across a large number of industries. Except in a few industries, such as pharmaceuticals, patents are not cited as the most important mechanism. Contributed by Jon Putnam "How to Search the IFI Comprehensive Database Online... Tips and Techniques" ...my favorite all time Patent Searching article (obviously biased due to the subjects I search) I studied this article over and over long before I met Nancy Lambert, so this is not biased by the fact that she has become a good friend. It is well written with lots of explicit details. Whenever I attempt to teach any new searcher how to use the IFI Claims database, I make certain to point them to this article. Contributed by Sandra Unger, Exxon "Complementary Searching in Patent Databases" Contributed by Edlyn Simmons "Use of Descriptor Search Language in Automated Patent Information System" Describes an experimental study which includes comments on increased precision by combining classification with keywords. Contributed by Lucy Akers "Comparison of Keywords and Classification for Building Strategies" Contributed by Lucy Akers "Patents as Options: Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks" A technically very demanding article that computes the value of patent rights held in Germany, France and the U.K. It won the Ragnar Frisch award for the best paper in Econometrica during the previous 5 years. Its methods are still state-of-the-art. Contributed by Jon Putnam "The Paradox of Patentability Searching" The searcher charged with confirming the patentability of an invention is thus presented with three dilemmas: how to design and exhaustive search for a reference that is believed not to exist, how to recognize a reference describing the invention in a different context or vocabulary, and, if no relevant references are found, how to tell when the search is complete. Another dilemma for searchers working at the behest of the inventor is that a successful search, one that finds prior art, can lead to an unhappy customer. I didn't find any formal training that helped as much as this article did in giving me critical insights about the job that I do. Contributed by Thomas E. Wolff, Wolff Information Consulting LLC "Online Patent Searching: The Realities" For years, Stu Kaback has referred to a 1983 article that he considers the best thing he has ever written. I asked him about it in and in two seconds he handed me a copy with the comment that he considers it the best (or at least very nearly the best) thing he has ever written. It is now a bit dated, but the truths and the insight from this article showed great vision when you consider that it was written over 13 years ago. Contributed by Sandra Unger, ExxonMobil "Computer-Based Patent Searches: using the IPC or Free-Text?" Contributed by Lucy Akers "Scientific and Technical Information Contained in Patent Specifications - Extent and Time Factors of its Publication in Other Forms of Literature" Contributed by Peter Steele "Mainly on Patents: The Use of Industrial Property and Its Literature" Contributed by Julia M. Fletcher This page was originally created on the PIUG wiki in ca. 2008. Further suggestions for improvement are welcome by the PIUG webmaster, webmaster @ piug.org. |
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