What Does a Patent Engineer Do?

Patent inquiry is a procedure before patent application. It is not necessary, but it is necessary. An effective search report allows applicants to avoid that the rights they want to protect are not the same as or similar to the patent rights of the previous application, so as to guarantee the application. The patent is valid.

Patent search

Patent inquiry is a procedure before patent application. It is not necessary, but it is necessary. An effective search report allows applicants to avoid that the rights they want to protect are not the same as or similar to the patent rights of the previous application, so as to guarantee the application. The patent is valid.

Chinese name

Patent search

Foreign name

Patent query

Function

Query patent real-time status

Range

Suitable for international queries

1. Inquiry channels and patent inquiries can be found on the website of the State Intellectual Property Office ^[1]

The purpose of searching patents is to compare whether they are similar. You can operate through the patent search channel of the State Intellectual Property Office. In order to check the comparison results more accurately and professionally, you can find a professional agency to handle it for you.

Patent inquiry operation process

1. Select the right patent database

Why choose the right patent database? Because patents have territoriality, if the inventor's technology or technology extension products want to "exclude others" from using, selling, and manufacturing in a certain country, then they need to apply for patent protection in that country. In addition, because patent information is a technical disclosure that encourages inventions, every country will apply for or approve the disclosure of invention patents in that country, and therefore there will be free databases in each country.

However, patent applications and arrangements often involve several countries. Therefore, searching separately in different free patent databases is not only a waste of time, but also errors due to the different languages and grammars used in different databases (the grammars used in databases in each country are different). Therefore, it is especially important to choose a comprehensive source file library with many data materials.

2. What is included in the general patent database

Take the patent analysis system BaiTeng Patent Search as an example. The patent database included in the USPTO (the full text of the English language of the public library and the authorized database), the European Union EPO, the Japanese JPO, the Korean KPO, the Chinese SIPO, and the German (DE ), The United Kingdom (GB), France (FR) and Switzerland (CH) (English bibliographic information), and WIPO PCT, etc., and the above patent information query can be carried out under a unified search syntax and structure. All in all, these patent databases allow users to search for patents from multiple countries simultaneously by constructing a unified search interface, thus making patent search and analysis easier.

3. Search syntax involved in general patent databases

Let s take an example, for example, (car or auto *) and (Siemens or Hyundai) .ap. And navigation.ab. And @ad> = 19860301 <= 19931010 means (car or auto *) appears in all The column, "(Siemens or Hyundai)" appears in the patentee, "navigation" appears in the abstract, and the application date is between March 1, 1986 and October 10, 1993. The rest are related to advanced Retrieval can be further drilled and expanded using this model.

4. Basic steps in the patent inquiry process (planned keywords)

The work that needs to be done in the second stage is to formulate keywords. Among them, there are five ways of "planning keywords". Are

1. Formulating basic keywords (researcher)

2. Synonym expansion (researcher)

3. Expansion of higher term (patent engineer)

4. Company name merger (IT engineer) and 5. Time and technology classification limitation (patent search staff). In the above five items, the person in parentheses indicates which role should play the main role, such as the formulation of basic keywords. We believe that it should be provided by researchers, and higher-level terms should be provided by patent engineers. In addition, in the above five main work items, in principle, the related work is performed and operated by the patent searcher (of course, it can also be searched by the researcher). Among them, the role of the patent searcher is to coordinate Different experts complete the work of patent search and analysis, and the relevant detailed operation skills will be further explained in subsequent columns.

Patent query patent reading analysis

Patent inquiries are a means and process. Reading and analysis after retrieving information is the purpose and importance.

Once the above inquiry procedure is completed, we can use the results of the patent search to conduct patent reading and analysis. Take the patent analysis system provided in BaiTeng Patent Search as an example. In principle, the most basic way to read patents is of course to start with the first one. For example, when there are 375 patents retrieved this time, patent searchers can print out these 375 patents one by one and provide relevant patent engineers or It is a reference for developers. However, patent information can be used in many different places, so we have initially divided patent reading and analysis into three parts, namely preliminary patent statistics (patent searchers), patent reading skills (researchers), and patent application scope deconstruction (patents Engineer) and so on. That is to say, the patent searcher uses the patent search skills to find key patents or provide researchers with similar patent portfolios for further patent interpretation. Of course, it should be emphasized that the preliminary statistical work of patents is mainly to accelerate the content of patent technology and rights The interpretation of the patent cannot replace the interpretation of the final patent. In addition, the most important part of a patent is not the interpretation of the technical content, but the deconstruction of the legal claim of the patent application in the patent specification. The so-called deconstruction of the scope of patent application is to determine the scope protected by independent or subsidiary items (that is, the scope of the rights granted to the patent by law) for each scope of the application through the patent engineer. Matrix of patent application scope constructed by the scope of application.