WIPO-OECD Workshop on Statistics in the Patent Field: Program

Thursday, September 18, 2003
8.30	Registration
9.00	Opening session - Welcome address
	Dr. Francis Gurry Assistant Director General World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
	Mr. Andrew Wyckoff Head Economic Analysis and Statistics Division Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
9.20	State of the art in patent statistics Chair: Mr. Andrew Wyckoff, OECD
	Inventiveness by numbers: Towards patent inventor statistics [PDF] Dr. Robert Tijssen Associate Professor Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) Leiden University Netherlands
	Measuring and estimating patent value [PDF] Mr. Dietmar Harhoff Director Institute for Innovation Research and Technology Management University of Munich Germany
	Patents and other IPRs as seen from licensing contracts [PDF] Mr. Sadao Nagaoka Professor Hitotsubashi University Japan
	OECD patent statistics [PDF] Mr. Mosahid Khan Administrator Economic Analysis and Statistics Division Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
11.00	Coffee break
11.30	State of the art in patent statistics
	Patent indicators within the European statistical system [PDF] Mr. Guido Strack Administrator Eurostat Luxembourg
	Discussion
12.30	Patent families Chair: Mr. Vladimir Yossifov, WIPO OECD triadic patent families [PDF] Mrs. Hélène Dernis Statistician Economic Analysis and Statistics Division Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
13.00	Lunch
15.00	Patent families
	Patent family data and statistics at the European Patent Office [PDF] Mr. Peter Hingley Administrator European Patent Office (EPO)
	The Derwent patent family and its application in patent statistical analysis [PDF] Mrs. Doina Nanu Data Acquisition Manager Thomson Derwent United Kingdom
	Discussion
16.00	Coffee break
16.30	Patents by field of technology Chair: Mr. Dominique Guellec, OECD
	From science papers to technology patents to company financial performance: The essential role of quality in R&D [PDF] Dr. Francis Narin President CHI Research United States of America
	Patent search strategies for strategic statistical analysis [PDF] Dr. Ulrich Schmoch Deputy Head Technology Analysis and Innovation Strategies Department Institute for Systems and Innovation Research Germany
	Discussion
18.00	End of session
Friday, September 19, 2003
9.00	Patents by industr Chair: Mr. Marc Nicolas, EPO
	Basic facts about IPC reform [PDF] Mr. Mikhail Makarov Deputy Director and Head Technology Retrieval Systems Service Office of the PCT World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
	Defining (and divining) industries: The construction and use of patent concordances [PDF] Mr. Daniel Johnson Professor Department of Economics Wellesley College United States of America
	Linking technology areas to industrial sectors: Development of a concordance between patent classes and sector codes [PDF] Mr. Pari Patel Senior Research Fellow Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU) University of Sussex United Kingdom
	Revisiting the USPTO concordance between the U.S. patent classification and the standard industrial classification systems PDF] Mr. Jim Hirabayashi Manager Patent Technology Monitoring Division United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) United States of America
	Discussion
10.30	Coffee break
11.00	Forecasting patent filings Chair: Mr. José Blanch, WIPO
	Methods for forecasting numbers of patent applications at the European Patent Office [PDF] Mr. Marc Nicolas Administrator European Patent Office (EPO)
	Forecasting USPTO patent application filings [PDF] Mr. Fred Joutz Professor George Washington University United States of America
	Implementing a forecasting methodology for PCT applications at WIPO [PDF] Mrs. Catherine Dehon Assistant Professor Université Libre de Bruxelles Belgium
	Discussion
12.30	Concluding session: Future development of patent statistics
13.00	End of session