Program Manager Mr. Y. Takagi
OVERVIEW OF PROGRESS IN 2014
-
The PATENTSCOPE system was further strengthened in 2014, with a significant focus on improving access to the system in regions experiencing poor latency. Two additional languages were developed for inclusion in the Cross Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) multilingual searching system, to be added to the existing 12 languages by the end of the biennium, pending the finalization of the interface. The Translation Assistant for Patent Titles and Abstracts (TAPTA)39, a statistical machine translation system developed in-house, was extended to include one additional and difficult language pair, English and Chinese, bringing the total number to five. Research into additional machine translation functions also progressed in 2014, and the system continued to find application in other UN Organizations.
-
Use of PATENTSCOPE increased by 3.5 per cent from 237,446 unique users per quarter in 2013 to 245,769 unique users per quarter in 2014 from 169 countries. The number of collections held in PATENTSCOPE also saw a 12 per cent increase over 2014, bringing the total number of national and regional collections (indicated as “non-PCT” in the graph below) to 41 and the total number of records contained to 43 million, a 26 per cent increase over 2013.
PATENTSCOPE Records 2014
-
With the introduction of a powerful image similarity search function, use of the Global Brand Database exceeded expectations in 2014, more than doubling the number of users per quarter from 23,000 in 2013 to 49,977 in 2014. The number of national collections (indicated as “non-Madrid” in the graph below) increased significantly (50 per cent), bringing the total number to 18 in 2014. Likewise, the total number of records contained in the system increased 28 per cent, from 12 million in 2013 to 15.4 million in 2014.
Global Brand Database Records 2014
-
Program 13 continued to contribute to DA Recommendations 24 and 31, bridging the digital divide and facilitating better access to publicly available intellectual property information by continuing to increase the amount of IP records available for searching and extending search and multilingual support functionalities.
PERFORMANCE DATA
Expected Result: IV.2 Enhanced access to, and use of, IP information by IP institutions and the public to promote innovation and creativity
|
Performance Indicators
|
Baselines
|
Targets
|
Performance Data
|
TLS
|
No. of different users per quarter in all systems (PATENTSCOPE/Global Brand Database)40
|
Updated Baseline
end 2013: PATENTSCOPE 237,446 Global Brand Database 23,000
Original Baseline
P&B 2014/15: PATENTSCOPE 566,782 Global Brand Database 13,339 unique visitors (4th quarter 2012)
|
PATENTSCOPE 650,000
Global Brand Database 20,000 unique visitors per quarter41
|
PATENTSCOPE 245,769
Global Brand Database 49,977
|
On track
On track
|
No. of languages in which cross-lingual search is available
|
Updated Baseline
end 2013: 12
Original Baseline
P&B 2014/15: 12 (Feb 2013)
|
13
|
In 2014, two additional languages were developed and will be made available by end 2015, pending finalization of the interface.
|
On track
|
No. of language pairs available for machine translation of titles and abstracts
|
Updated Baseline
end 2013: 4 (cumulative)
Original Baseline
P&B 2014/15: 2 (Feb 2013)
|
5
|
One additional language pair (English-Chinese) in 2014
(5 cumulative)
|
On track
|
Expected Result: IV.3 Broad geographical coverage of the content and use of WIPO Global IP Databases
|
Performance Indicators
|
Baselines
|
Targets
|
Performance Data
|
TLS
|
No. of records contained in PATENTSCOPE
|
Updated Baseline
end 2013: 34,000,000
Original Baseline
P&B 20124/15: 18,733,406 (Feb 2013)
|
40,000,000
|
43,000,000
|
On track
|
No. of records contained in Global Brand Databases
|
Updated Baseline
end 2013: 12,000,000
Original Baseline
P&B 20124/15: 10,928,326 (Feb 2013)
|
20,000,000
|
15,400,000
|
On track
|
No. of national collections in PATENTSCOPE
|
Updated Baseline
end 2013: 36 (cumulative)
Original Baseline
P&B 20124/15: 27 (Feb 2013)
|
35
|
41 national and regional collections (cumulative)
|
On track
|
No. of national collections in Global Brand Database
|
Updated Baseline
end 2013: 12
Original Baseline
P&B 20124/15: 9 (Feb 2013)
|
18
|
18
|
On track
|
RESOURCE UTILIZATION
Budget and Actual Expenditure (by result)
(in thousands of Swiss francs)
Budget and Actual Expenditure (personnel and non-personnel)
(in thousands of Swiss francs)
NOTE: The 2014/15 Budget after Transfers reflects transfers as of March 31, 2015 to address needs during the 2014/15 biennium in line with Financial Regulation 5.5.
A. Budget after Transfers 2014/15
-
The slight increase in the 2014/15 Budget after Transfers reflects the reclassification of a post and the redeployment of additional personnel resources into the Program for the promotion of the global databases. This is reflected in the increase under Expected Result IV.2. The increase in resources under Expected Result IV.2 is furthermore due to the redistribution of personnel resources within the Program for the development of the database search engine.
-
The slight reduction under non-personnel resources reflects cost efficiency savings.
B. Budget utilization 2014
-
Budget utilization is within the expected range of 40-60 per cent for the first year of the biennium and is on track.
Share with your friends: |
