Yves Verbandt & Els Vadot - Van Geldre The Hague, 3-4 April 2014Examiner Department Applied Physics & Biotech
Search matters 2014Non-patent literature
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Presenting today Yves Verbandt
Examiner Applied Physics−guided-wave optics−optical measurements− flow measurements Previously−PhD, Brussels−post-doc, Brussels, BE
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Presenting today Els Vadot - Van Geldre
Examiner Biotechnology−Diagnostics−Drug screening Previously−PhD, Univ. Ghent, BE
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Interactive workshop
Asking questions and sharing experiences
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Français
Deutsch
English
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Search & retrieval of scholarly papers
1.How do EPO examiners work?
2.How can you do it?
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Overview
Importance of NPL for prior art search
Internal resources
EPO tools
Internet resources
Demos 1- 3
Summary
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Importance of NPL for prior art search
EPO search reports 2013 ~ 200k search reports issued
~ 880k docs cited (<5 per SR)
~ 130k NPL docs cited (<1/7)
>3% of search reports only NPL citations
<2% of search reports only NPL as X or Y
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Importance of NPL for prior art search
Technical fields
1. Biotechnology>60% of citations
2. Pure and Applied Organic Chemistry >30% of citations
3. Telecom, Computers and Audiovisual Media each > 20% of citations
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Importance of NPL (2012)
~ 330.000 visits to publisher's sites
> 30.000 documents ordered
to be compared with ~ 130.000 NPL citations
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Overview
Importance of NPL for prior art search
Internal resources
EPO tools
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Demos 1- 3
Summary
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NPL Sources
Secondary publishers
INSPEC, CAS, COMPDX, BIOSIS, MEDLINE, FSTA
JournalsConference Proceedings
Books, Thesis, Technical reports,
MonographsStandards
Company Disclosures
Encyclopaedia, Dictionaries
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Internal databases
EPOQUE
standard searchable format
single query language
indexed
40 patent databases>120 Mdocs
35 NPL databases> 300 Mdocs
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Internal abstract databases
MEDLINE
−U.S. National Library of Medicine
−biomedical
EMBASE
−Elsevier
−biomedical, pharmacology
−meetings
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Internal abstract databases
BIOSIS− Thomson− Botany, zoology, microbiology,
agriculture, pharmacology, biochemistry, biophysics, ecology, bioengineering, medicine
− patents− meetings
FSTA− IFIS− Food science and technology− Journals, patents, books, conference
proceedings, reports, theses, standards
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Internal abstract databases
COMPENDEX− COMPuterized ENgineering inDEX− >5.600 engineering journals and
conference proceedings− publications engineering societies,
technical reports, monographs, books
INSPEC− Institution of Engineering and
Technology− Physics, electronics and computing
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Internal fulltext: Journals
Provider
Elsevier
IEEE
IEE
American Institute of Physics
Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences
Journals from the Institute of Physics
Open Access (Biomed Central, Chemistry Central, PhysMatCentral)
Springer and Kluwer
Institute of Navigation
International Association Cryptologic Research16
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Internal fulltext: Standards (including drafts)
Society
IEEE Standards
Digital Video Broadcasting project
European Telecom Standards Institute
Internet Engineering Task Force
JPEG/JBIG standards
Video Technology Standards
3rd Generation Partnership Telecom Standards
Open Mobile Alliance
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Internal fulltext: Defensive publications
Publisher
Alcatel, Siemens, Speech Recognition
Research Disclosures + IBM TDB
IP.COM Disclosures
Indian Traditional Knowledge
Traditional Chinese Medicine
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EPO virtual library (EVL)
Journals
Conference Proceedings
Standards
Books
Dissertations
Encyclopaedias
and more ...
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EPO virtual library
Expanding:
2003: < 3.000 journals
2012: > 8.000 journals
Free or open access 500+journals
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EPO virtual library
Elsevier Wiley
39%12%
ACSSpringer
8%7%
IEEE, HighwireNature
6%5%
Others <5%
Most consulted publishers 2012
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Overview
Importance of NPL for prior art search
Internal resources
EPO tools
Internet resources
Demos 1- 3
Summary
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EPOQUE search: XFull
Graphical interface
Integrates all NPL databases−abstracts− fulltext
One step search query
Ranking and splitting of results
Transfers results to Viewer
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EPOQUE retrieval: Doclink [internal citations]
list search results in internal databases
retrieve EVL info
retrieve XP from NPL− if already cited, retrieve citing patents
retrieve DOI from CrossRef
construct Internet hyperlinks
present results in web browser and Internal XFiles
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External retrieval: CiteNPL [external citations]
End-to-end electronic workflow for citing pdf docs
Avoids manual steps:
− informing about the availability of a document in our electronic subscriptions and linking to it
− fetching high quality bibliographic data provided by publishers (using DOIs, OpenURL, PUBMED Ids)
−automatically checking for duplicates in the internal NPL database
−automatically converting the document to our internal formats and loading the data on our systems
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Overview
Importance of NPL for prior art search
Internal resources
EPO tools
Internet resources
Demos 1- 3
Summary
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Meta Search Engines
Citation tracking
Tools
−Google Scholar
−Scopus
−Entrez
Internet Resources
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+ large coverage, growing quickly, including books, US patents
+result ranking+citation information+clustering+ translation+public data (FDA, EMEA, ...)– exact coverage unknown– indexing?
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Search Operators x AND y: x y x OR y: x OR y x AND (y OR z): x y OR Z +term: exact term -term: exclusion of term ~term: term and its synonyms term1* term2: terms separated by one or more words in the same
order term1 AROUND(#) term2: terms separated by # words t.rm: allowing any character at the place of . term1-term2: gives «term1term2» and «term1 term2» (term1 OR term2) (term3 OR term4): searching for terms within
parenthesis first, then combining with other termsImage search
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Watch out using advanced query! (see demo)
Highlighted Preview
Results GroupingCitationTracking
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Scopus
+ detailed query language (te?t, car*, pain w/15 morphine)
+ well-documented coverage:− sciencedirect, IOP, APS, Medline, Nature − eprints, open access− web− patents (wipo, uspto, esp@cenet)
+ citation tracking + result narrowing
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Entrez PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez
PubMed (MEDLINE) PubChem Nucleotide and Protein Sequences Protein Structures Complete Genomes Taxonomy
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Internet resources for specific topics
http://www.hprd.org/query
http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/
http://pandatox.xennexinc.com/pandatox
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
http://www.pubmeth.org/
http://www.mir2disease.org/
http://www.iedb.org/
http://www.genecards.org/
...
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Overview
Importance of NPL for prior art search
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Publication date
Demos 1- 3
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Legal certainty about publication dateScholarly publicationWell established (scientific) publishers (e.g. IEEE,
Springer, Derwent)− on-line = paper− reliability publication date very high− doubt: publisher is contacted
«print equivalent» pub: ESA, FDA, standardisationbody, newspaper, university, arXiv.org, Citeseer, ChemXseer, ...
−date reliable Non traditional pub: usenet discussion groups, e-mail
archives, wiki pages− reliability date variable
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Legal certainty about publication date
Pre-publication (e.g. Geophysics)
Notice concerning internet citationsOJ 08-09/2009, p. 456-462 & G-IV 7.5.3.1
Ways to determine publication date− "Wayback Machine" (www.archive.org)−CTRL-D (creation date .pdf)−Firefox: Tools – Page Info− indexing date Google («cached» – screenshot)−Wikipedia, blogs, forums, ... keep track of editing
history
When available + what is available
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Overview
Importance of NPL for prior art search
Internal resources
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Internet resources
Publication date
Demos 1- 3
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Demo 1
Transdermal nicotine with enhancers
Searching abstract databases
Expanding search
Transferring to Viewer
Fulltext
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Cluster of databases
RN = chemical abstracts (CAS) registry number
Step 1: Searching
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Publication dates Pre-publication Scenarios for NPL− Theses− Technical Reports− White Papers− Preprints, E-prints− Conferences− Other Journals− Same Journal
Demo 2
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Overview
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Demos 1- 3
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