Chapter 17. Commercial intelligence search and analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface to fourth edition VII
3. Preface to third edition IX
4. Preface to second edition XI
5. Contents XIII
6. Index of figures XIX
7. Index of tables XXI
8. Part I: Patent processes and documentation
9. Chapter 1. Principles of patenting 3
10. Chapter 2. The European Patent system 35
11. Chapter 3. The United States Patent system 59
12. Chapter 4. The Japanese patent system 81
13. Chapter 5. The Patent Co-operation Treaty 101
14. Chapter 6. National patent systems of the G8 countries 121
15. Chapter 7. Asia and Australasia 185
16. Chapter 8. South America and Mexico 255
17. Chapter 9. Africa and the Middle East 303
18. Part II: Databases and search techniques
19. Chapter 10. Patent guides and libraries 377
20. Chapter 11. National and multi-national patent information sources 389
21. Chapter 12. The non-patent literature for the patent searcher 457
22. Chapter 13. Common search types (I) – alerting searches 483
23. Chapter 14. Common search types (II) – patentability and freedom-to-operate searches 491
24. Chapter 15. Common search types (III) – portfolio and legal proceedings searching 501
25. Chapter 16. Sources for legal status searching 507
26. Chapter 17. Commercial intelligence search and analysis 533
27. Chapter 18. Specialist techniques 539
28. Chapter 19. Future developments 557
29. Annex A: Member states of the PCT as of 2nd January 2020 567
30. Annex B: Numerical tables for reformatting national application numbers 573
31. Annex C: Website addresses of national and regional patenting authorities 579
32. Annex D: Comparison of the class-level structure of the CPC (2018.05 edition) and IPC (2018.01 edition) 605
33. Annex E: Selective comparison of Japanese FI classification schedules with the corresponding IPC 617
34. Annex F: The theme groups of the Japanese F-term system (2016 revision) 629
35. Appendix 1: Glossary of patent terminology 633
36. Appendix 2: Index of abbreviations 639
37. Index 649