PIUG 2021 - Thursday (Biotech)

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PIUG 2021  BIOTECH DAY  Virtual Meeting

 T H U R S D A Y M O R N I N G 8 : 0 0 A M – 12 : 1 0 P M

Fighting Coronavirus with Patent Information Geert Boedt (European Patent Office) 9:30 – 10:05 am

 ABSTRACT The European Patent Office has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways. With its extensive patent databases and freely available patent search tools, the EPO created curated dynamic datasets of patents on the “Fighting coronavirus” platform covering technologies directed at combating COVID 19. The data is specifically directed to researchers, clinicians, and other professionals working in the front line. The platform allows easy user access to dynamically updated patent searches in the EPO’s Espacenet database, and to pre-calculated patent statistics in selected technical fields. Users can also download raw data sets to analyse for themselves. Examples of searches, patent statistics and downloads will be presented.  BIOGRAPHY Geert Boedt has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Informatics. After many years working in IT for international organisations he joined the EPO in 2004 in the Espacenet customer support area and subsequently gained experience in all of the EPO’s public patent information tools. He moved to become business application manager for the PATSTAT database; and is an expert on statistical analysis of patent datasets. He advises researchers and policy makers worldwide on correct interpretation of patent data and value indicators and has many years’ experience of presenting on patent analytics topics.