Taiwan IPO “Global Patent Search System” launched on January 1, 2018

　To effectively assist local industries and small and medium enterprises to have access to any information with respect to industrial technology developments and trends, Taiwan IPO completed establishment of the “Global Patent Search System” (hereinafter referred to as the “GPSS”) for free-of-charge use by the industry, government, and the academia.  Launched since January 1, 2018, the GPSS provides the local industries with a significant, high efficient, and convenient patent research and development tool. 

　For meeting the novelty requirement, prior art search must be first conducted on the system of every patent office, which causes part of R&D works to be inefficient and ineffective because every patent office has its own search database containing diverse patent data.  To integrate all patent data, Taiwan IPO has worked with every patent office to exchange patent data and build up a search platform, on which the patent data of Taiwan IPO’s and the five major patent offices of other countries for the past ten years (2006-2017) are collected, maintained, and available to the industry.  Taiwan IPO has been expanding the database of this search platform to avail transnational patent search by the industry.  Following the search instructions provided by the GPSS, the industry can find accurate patent data to get a clear picture of technology development and further to elevate their competitiveness. 

　Besides, as it is difficult to export and integrate the data searched from every major patent office to have it analyzed in graphics, the functions of analysis by statistics and by graphics and other functions have been introduced and provided on the GPSS in 2018 to facilitate the industry’s analysis of the data searched and to get a grasp of the industrial development and patent portfolio and R&D trends.  (December 2017)
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