Broadening the Scope of an
Institutional Repository:
The Patent Project
Laura Waugh
CTLC Annual Conference
July 25, 2014
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About Patents
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About Patents
Exclusive rights to your discovery:
• Limited monopoly
• Specific rights/use
• Sovereign states
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About Patents
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About Patents
Exclusive rights to your discovery:
• Make
• Use
• Sell
• Distribute
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About Patents
Limited period of
Exclusive Rights
Public Disclosure
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About Patents
U.S. Patents:
Filed after 1995
1. Utility Patent ~ 20 years
• New and useful process
• Machine, manufacture, comp. of matter
• Useful improvement
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About Patents
U.S. Patents:
2. Plant Patent ~ 20 years
• New, distinct, invented or discovered
• Asexually reproduced plant
• Cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids,
newly found seedlings
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About Patents
U.S. Patents:
3. Design Patent ~ 14 years
• New, original and ornamental design
• Embodied in or applied to an article of
manufacture
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UNT Patent Process
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UNT Patent Process
Office of Technology
Transfer
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UNT Patent Process
Office of Technology Transfer:
Average 50 – 70% Acceptance
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UNT Patent Process
Why Patents Matter to IRs:
• Public Domain
• Prestigious scholarly output
• Underrepresented in IRs
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Workflow
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Workflow
Obtaining Patents:
Public Domain
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Free Patents Online
• Google Patents
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Workflow
US Patent & Trademark Office:
 Search capabilities
 Includes all U.S. patents
✕ Complicated
✕ Not all full-text patents
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Workflow
Free Patents Online:
 Full-text patents
 Easy to navigate
✕ Search capabilities
✕ Limited information
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Workflow
Google Patents:
 Familiar
 Full-text patents (sometimes)
✕ Search capabilities
✕ Complicated
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PDF Document
~ 30 pages+
Institutional
Repository
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Metadata Considerations
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Metadata Considerations
UNT Digital Library:
• Qualified Dublin-Core
• Full-text Searching
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Metadata Considerations
Basic Information:
• Creator Type = Inventor
• Contributor = UNT (assignee)
• Publisher = U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office
• Rights: Public Domain
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Metadata Considerations
Unique Identifiers:
• Patent number
• Government Identification Numbers:
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Application number
Prior application number
Provisional application number
Patent Cooperative Treaty (PCT) number
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Metadata Considerations
Coverage
• Place Name = Location of each inventor
• Examples:
• United States – Texas – Denton County –
Denton
• Saudi Arabia – Riyadh Province – Riyadh
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Metadata Considerations
Display Notes:
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Prior publication data
Division data
Associated data
Patent Cooperative Treaty (PCT)
Withdrawn patent data
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Metadata Considerations
Keywords:
Aqueous Dispersion of Hydrogel
Nanoparticles with Inverse
Thermoreversible Gelatation
Keywords?
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Metadata Considerations
Keywords:
• Keywords from the text
• Library of Congress Subject Headings
• Field of Classification Search Terms
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Next Steps
• Collaborations
• Fellow Institutions and Repositories
• UNT Office of Technology Transfer
• Continue improving
• Metadata
• Usability
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Questions?
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