PATENTS ARE

- PER LAW -

OPEN DATA

#OPENDATA-WEBSCI Track at WWW2012 by @herrkrueger

OPEN PATENT DATA

70mio disclosed inventions collected (by the epo)

25 pages description/claims, 5 pages drawings

1,7mio distinct word triplets, human translated

200tsd classifications symbols, hierarchical

120mio citing links, within the data

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OPEN PATENT DATA

patent information are open data and

since 95 every patent gets published digital

full backlog scanned, ocr’ed, indexed, classified

each office has still it’s own collection

five of tim’s five open data stars

ops, espacenet, raw data sets, data.epo.org

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OPEN PATENT DATA

open data is about giving amateurs access

patent information are open data, but

too complex, too connected, too local

only from professionals for professionals

no amateurisation possible yet

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OPEN PATENT DATA

patent professionals need to innovate too

platform thinking, get out of the way

abundance, cloud computing characteristics

co-creation, crowd sourcing priciples

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OPEN PATENT DATA

open patent data are by default social data

actors: authority, inventor, assignee, user,...

objects: application, grants, query, hitlists,...

actions: filing, opposing, listing, reading,...

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