THUR - PIUG 2022 Virtual

T H U R S D A Y M O R N I N G

Mixed Patent/Design Databases and Families: Are We Going Towards a Comprehensive IP Information System? GuidoMoradei (Quaestio-Patent Information Partners srl) 9:40 – 10:10 am

ABSTRACT We are often asked to search designs as prior art to challenge the validity of a previous design patent/ registration. In case of FTOs regarding a product having a shape, a texture or a GUI it is essential to cover designs as well as patents, and to know where the IPRs really exist. There are specialized sources for that and a few AI-based tools already available on the market offering reverse image search, not only browsing the web but also design patent/registra tion databases. But several classic patent databases too have a coverage of designs that seems to be ex panding. In this presentation I would like to examine the state of the art of the information about design patents/registrations included in patent databases, the different search options with particular reference to the “mixed families”, the criteria behind the art of building them and the priority regulations.

BIOGRAPHY Guido is the founder and CEO of Quaestio – Patent Information Partners srl, an Italian firm specialized in providing IP information services to attorneys, lawyers and IP departments of big companies. With more than 30 years of experience as IP information specialist and QPIP, Guido has developed special skills in searching designs prior art and information, testing databases, comparing tools, analyzing clas sifications. Guido is also a Trademarks and Designs registered attorney before the Italian and the EU Intellectual Property Offices and editor of a virtual special issue of the World Patent Information about Industrial Design Intellectual Property and Informa tion Retrieval.

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