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European Patent Office, The Hague

Emmeline Marttin
Wolfgang Sohrt
19-20 March 2012
G13 - Internet searching
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Emmeline Marttin
emarttin@epo.org
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Wolfgang Sohrt
woso@epo.org
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Internet citations as prior art

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Discussion
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555 million*
*in 2011
300 million*
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How?
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Internet
citations as
prior art
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Available to the public?
where
how
what
when
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Where?
accessible
subscription
paid
not confidential
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pictures
video
blogs
tweets
How?
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enabling
reliable
What?
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Examples
Let's look at some search
reports...
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WO2010031780
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Claim 2:
Marshmallow-like aerated
confectionery according to claim 1,
further comprising a flavour chosen
from: cheese, fish, vegetables, herbs,
spices, meat and salting flavours, such
as emmental, chilli, salmon, and
bacon.
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or how to determine
the publication date
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Wayback
Machine
http://www.archive.org
http://waybackmachine.org
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Wayback Machine
right-click on the page &
select "Resurrect this page..."
Legal FAQ
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Wayback Machine
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Resurrect this page
To retrieve lost sites!
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Wikipedia
View history tab
publication dates
all previous versions
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Wikipedia history
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Google
displaying date first indexed
click on the cache link in Google
link: for sites linking this site
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pdf documents
Ctrl-D to see publication date
Browser address bar
javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
Old-fashioned way
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balance
of
probabilities
Notice from the European Patent Office
concerning internet citations OJ 8-9/2009
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Search
engines
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J ai de la chance!
Auf gut Glck!
Ik doe een gok!
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relevant
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Boolean operators
AND
OR
NOT
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Operator Google Example
AND default red blue
OR OR (red OR blue)
NOT - -shopping
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Truncation?
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Google Finds
singular mouse mouse
mice
correction cockraoc cockroach
hyphen mouse-trap mousetrap
mouse trap
synonym canine canine
dog
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Google: hyphen operator
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but thats not what
I was looking for!
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Operator Google Finds
marttin marttin
a phrase a phrase
- -patent no patents
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Google: minus operator
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What was searched
&
where on the page?
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What
bold in snippet
Where
Ctrl-F in each found page
Check cached page
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Where can I find the cache
and what is it?
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Page cached by Google:
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Proximity operators?
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Operator Google
wildcard Article * EPC
amoxicillin * * tablet
AROUND(#)
cheese AROUND(2) apple
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Improve
ranking
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Repetition
Proximity
Repeat Repeat Repeat
a (b OR c) -d
Order
Repetition
Proximity
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Google: order of search terms
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intitle: restricts to term in title
intext: restricts to term in text
inurl: restricts to term in URL
filetype: restricts to filetypes, e.g.
filetype:pdf
filetype:doc
site: restricts to specified site, e.g.
boa site:www.epo.org
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More information on-line:
Cheat sheets
Advanced tips
How Google works
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Scripted
Tools
(Only for information -
no support!)
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GoogleBefore (1)
GoogleBefore
Usage: add e.g. "before:12/27/2005" to
search term
The tool makes Google search
documents published before (and
including) this given date
according to when Google thinks the documents
have been published (not always accurate)
=> risk missing valid results
but a useful pre-filter to prior art if many results
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GoogleBefore (2)
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GoogleBefore (3)
GoogleBefore is a Greasemonkey script
Only works with Firefox with the
Greasemonkey Add-on installed (see
Notes for links)
It changes the URL sent to Google to
activate the date range feature
Attention: Your internet location settings
may determine whether the Euro-Format
"DD/MM/YYYY" or the US Format
"MM/DD/YYYY" format has to be used
(check the date range displayed on the
resulting Google page)
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GoogleBefore (4)
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GoogleScholarBefore (1)
GoogleScholarBefore
Like GoogleBefore, but for Google
Scholar
No day or month, just year
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GoogleScholarBefore (2)
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GoogleNoRedirect (1)
GoogleNoRedirect
Allows you to directly download a linked
document to the local hard disk, e.g. for
using it in examination or opposition
citing it as Prior Art
OCRing it so it becomes searchable
etc.
by preventing Google from redirecting
links on mouse-down:
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Google Redirection
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Google Redirection
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GoogleNoRedirect (2)
GoogleNoRedirect
Prevents Google from redirecting
links on mouse-down
=> Now you can
right-click and save link targets,
such as PDF files
right-click and copy target URLs
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GoogleNoRedirect (3)
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GoogleNoRedirect (4)
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Differences
Number of sites indexed
Ranking algorithm
Privacy
Curated
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Blekko
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Blekko / slashtag
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Meta search
engines
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Why meta search engine?
If Google doesnt find anything
Comprehensive result
Other ranking
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Reference
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Clarity
Article 84 EPC
definitions
meaning
parameters
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Common general knowledge
Articles 56 and 83 EPC
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Wolfram|Alpha
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EPO and Google collaboration
on machine translation
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Leo for German
compare Wikipedia entries in different
languages
IATE terminology EU institutions
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Keeping up to date
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Read blogs
Follow experts
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Keep moving
or die
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The end
The end