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Monday Jul 08, 2013

Announcing the Global Patent Search Network - Chinese Patent Documentation

Blog by Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the USPTO Teresa Stanek Rea

In an effort to expand our coverage of worldwide patent collections, I am pleased to announce the launch of the USPTO’s Global Patent Search Network. With this new search network, we hope to make patent research easier and more comprehensive by providing streamlined search capability to multiple international patent collections.

As a result of cooperative effort with the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the People’s Republic of China, Chinese patent documentation is now available for search and retrieval in the inaugural release of this search network. Accessible from the USPTO website, the data available includes both full text Chinese patents and English machine translations enabling users to search Chinese patent documents in the English or Chinese language. Users can search documents including published applications, granted patents and utility models from 2008 to 2011 in this collection, which will periodically be updated with more current data.

This new search tool delivers to the public, as well as our patent examiners, an additional source of foreign patent collections. Furthermore, the immediate availability of English machine translations will effectively address the language barrier and allow for quick analysis of the relevancy of the prior art while reducing the need for costly human translations. Machine translation technology can sometimes generate awkward wording, but it provides an excellent way to determine the gist of the information in a foreign patent. As this is the initial launch of the search network, we value any suggestions you may have to help us identify future enhancements to the tool. Please send your ideas to GPSN@uspto.gov

We believe that the introduction of the Global Patent Search Network and the future inclusion of additional foreign patent collections will be a valuable tool for improving search quality and comprehensiveness in today’s global IP market.

Additionally, in support of the federal government’s responsibility to achieve cost, agility, and innovation benefits of cloud computing, the Global Patent Search Network is the first patent-related initiative to use cloud technology. Our cloud computing solution will provide public value by increasing our operational efficiency and allow us to respond faster to the needs of the public and our examiners.

I invite you to begin searching our Chinese patent collection as we continue working to expand our set of foreign patent collections via this new Global Patent Search Network.

Comments:

This might be a very useful search tool and I would like to try it. But where is the link to the Global Patent Search Network / Chinese Patent Documentation ?

Posted by Hans Geelback Andersen on July 16, 2013 at 11:08 PM EDT #

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