Focus of the different PDG Working Groups and Board Task Forces
There are four working groups and two board task forces within PDG. Some WGs have task forces of their own, tackling special topics within the scope of their overall WG agenda. An extended version of this one pager can be found here.
by intended audience
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A&V |
Analysis & Visualization People who are interested in the analysis of patent metadata and patent content, and their presentation in graphic form |
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CC |
Customer Consultancy People who are interested in how to work together with stakeholders in different departments understanding the "real" customer needs (behind a request) and learn how to present the answer in the appropriate business language |
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Dig.IP |
Digitalization in IP information Forward-thinking professionals wanting to explore innovative IT solutions for patent data utilization, driving digital transformation within the PDG and shaping the future of Patent Information Professionals |
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IMPACT |
Aspects of the provision and quality of worldwide patent data People concerned with the legal status, citations and raw data of patents and how the decisions of patent offices or law makers may influence these data and its use and availability |
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PDV |
Patent Database Vendors People who are interested in the discussion on the future of the (patent) information market with the patent data providers and the challenges and requirements of the PDG members to deal with this |
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R&E |
Retrieval & Evaluation People who are interested in the exchange on the classical as well as AI assisted use of patent information and the challenges of finding and classifying patent data for freedom-to-operate, patentability and other types of searches |
by content of patent data
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A&V |
Patent data in a statistical context for analysis and presentation |
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CC |
Social and corporate aspects of a patent information department |
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Dig.IP |
All accessible and processable data as well as further data sources |
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IMPACT |
Original and aggregated raw data, citations, classification and legal status, necessary for the evaluation and validity of patents |
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PDV |
Strategic aspects of the access to and availability of patent data |
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R&E |
Textual and technical content of patents (including bibliographic data) |
by intended usage of patent data
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A&V |
To handle huge amounts of patent data and to give a message about patent analyses in a visual format to the various stakeholders within the company |
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CC |
To improve collaboration with attorneys, inventors, R&D, executive management etc., and to improve the standing and perception of the search department within the different companies |
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Dig.IP |
Elevating patent data utilization through innovative approaches such as live dashboards, machine learning, large language models |
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IMPACT |
To be aware of pending and upcoming legal or patent data related developments at patent offices and in their databases |
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PDV |
To be aware of pending and future developments in the information market and among the database vendors |
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R&E |
To improve retrieving and evaluating patent information, learning from others and sharing experiences of using different searching tools |