Assignment title: Information
Thomson Innovation Patent Search Module Assessment. Make your answers to each of these questions as brief as possible. Answer what you can on the Word document and include relevant attachments for assessment where required: 1. Who are the top three inventors at Magna since priority year 2005? Remember priority year is the first filing. This is one of the date ranges you can use for a search (or choose it from the search preferences if it's not available). How many times do the top two inventors appear on the same patent? (Search All Content Available to your account, not the stand alone DWPI-DPCI database). Briefly explain how you determined who the top three inventors are and if they overlapped on any patents. The Filter option can be very useful for this exercise. 2. Why do some of the most recent patent publications contain no information from DWPI? 3. EP2803859A1 has a 3 cited patents. One cited patent is W02006045188A1, which is owned by Magna Powertrain Inc. (DWPI Assignee code MGIN-C). This Magna patent was cited by an Examiner who gave it a relevance category of X. a. What is relevance category X? b. Briefly describe why the examiner might have assigned an X category to the Magna Patent when reviewing EP2803859A1. 4. You run a keyword search in the text fields for a state of the art search for a technology you're working on. You have your results collapsed by DWPI family to speed up the review. After reviewing your results, you look at the five families of highest interest in their entirety by expanding them on your results page. Are you reviewing the whole family from the results page? How can you be sure to review the whole family if not? 5. What section of the record view on a patent would be most informative in regards to telling you who the current owner of the patent is?