Information sources in patents / Stephen R. Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Stephen R.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Guides to information sources (London, England)

Guides to information sources

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patents--Information services.

Patents.

Physical Description:

xx, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second completely new edition.

Place of Publication:

München : K.G. Saur, 2006.

Summary:

The completely new edition of this well respected reference work is aimed at information specialists and librarians as well as anyone needing to know where and how patent information can be found. The author discusses patent information within the context of the current legal framework for patents both from a national and international perspective. It also includes a chapter on future developments and their likely effect on patent information.

In order to make successful use of patent information sources, it is essential that the reader fully understands the three major patent systems. The author therefore provides detailed descriptions of The European Patent System, The Unites States Patent System and The Japanese Patent System. He carefully explains the way patents are documented within these regions and the idiosynchracises and similarities between the systems.

Having explained the different patent regions, the author moves on to provide details of information sources on different media - paper, disk, online and the internet. He includes alerting searches, patentability, portfolio and legal status searches and commercial intelligence which includes a discussion on patent analysis tools.

Patent information needs within different subject fields varies and the author has included detailed information on the specialist techniques required in the engineering, chemical and life sciences sectors.

In addition there is a glossary of patenting terms, a contact list for major databases and an index of abbreviations.

This is an essential reference tool for academic libraries and for anyone requiring information about patents.

Contents:

Part I Patent processes and documentation 1

1 Principles of patenting 3

Legal processes 3

Defining a patent 4

The concept of priority 5

The historical examination process for patents 6

The development of deferred examination and early publication 9

A typical sequence in modern patent examination 10

Patents as information tools 12

Language of publication 12

Patents as accessible documents 13

Patent families 15

Bibliographic standards and the form of a patent document 18

Special document types 22

Alternative forms of intellectual property (IP) rights 22

Patent amendments and corrections 23

Bibliographical amendments 24

Legal amendments 24

Patent-related protection mechanisms 25

Utility models 25

Supplementary Protection Certificates 26

2 The European Patent system 30

History and development 30

Member states and extension states 32

EP patent documents - centralised and nationalised procedures 33

Formal examination and search report 33

Unexamined publication 33

Grant publication 34

Post-grant publications 36

Other post-grants events 36

European classification 38

Databases and database-specific aspects 38

Relationships with the European Union 40

The effect of European Regulations and Directives 40

The Community Patent 41

3 The United States patent system 43

Historical aspects 43

Recent law changes 45

US patent documents 46

Application procedure 46

Examination, early publication and grant 48

Post-grant activities 52

Databases and database-specific aspects 53

The US patent classification 57

4 The Japanese patent system 59

History of Japanese patents 59

Japanese patent documentation and recent law changes 61

Normal progress to grant 61

Japanese B1 publications 63

The importance of utility models 64

Databases and database-specific aspects 65

The Japanese patent classification and indexing systems 69

5 Major national and regional patent systems 71

National systems 71

Canada 71

Historical aspects and current law 71

National patent documentation 72

Databases and database-specific aspects 74

France 74

Historical aspects and current law 74

National patent documentation 75

Databases and database-specific aspects 76

Germany 77

Historical aspects and current law 77

National patent documetnation 79

Databases and database-specific aspects 81

Italy 83

Historical aspects and current law 83

National patent documentation 85

Databases and database-specific aspects 85

United Kingdom 87

Historical aspects and current law 87

National patent documentation 90

Databases and database-specific aspects 92

Russian Federation 93

Historical aspects and current law 93

National patent documentation 94

Databases and database-specific aspects 95

The Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT) 96

PCT documentation 97

Databases covering the PCT system 101

Regional patent systems 106

The Eurasian Patent Office 106

Africa - ARIPO and OAPI 108

The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) 110

Future developments in regional patent systems 110

Part II Databases and search techniques 113

6 Patent guides and libraries 115

General directories and reference works 115

United Kingdom patent libraries 116

United States patent libraries 117

German patent libraries 117

The European Patlib network 118

Japanese patent libraries 118

7 National and international patent information sources 121

Paper sources 121

Optical disk (CD-ROM, DVD) 122

Integrated disk-internet products via MIMOSA 126

Proprietary electronic databases 127

World Patent Index (WPI) (Thomson) 127

Patent Citation Index (PCI) (Thomson) 138

PlusPat and FamPat (Questel-Orbit) 139

API Encompass and WPAM (Questel-Orbit) 140

INPADOC PFS and Open Patent Services 141

Pharm (Questel-Orbit) 143

Other Thomson bibliographic products 145

Drug Patents International (DPI) 145

GeneSeq 146

Chemical Abstracts/Marpat 146

MMS (Questel-Orbit) 149

ChinaPats 150

Korean patents 151

Public internet sources 151

National patent office websites 152

Chinese Patent Office 152

Korean Patent Office 152

Patent Office portal sites 153

Surf-IP (Singapore Patent Office) 153

esp@cenet (European Patent Office) 153

DEPATISnet (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) 154

Controlled-Access internet 155

Password- or account-based systems 155

Patent Warehouse/Total Patent (Lexis-Nexis Univentio) 155

PatBase (Minesoft/RWS) 157

Delphion (Thomson) 157

WIPS Global 158

MicroPatent Patent Index (MPI) (MicroPatent) 160

QPAT (Questel-Orbit) 161

Encrypted systems 161

8 Common search types (I) - Alerting searches 164

Standard bulletins 164

In-house strategies 167

Specialist suppliers 168

9 Common search types (II) - Patentability and freedom-to-operate searches 169

The patentability search 169

The infringement search 173

10 Common search types (III) - Portfolio and legal status searches

The portfolio search 177

Legal status 179

Services from patent offices 179

PAIR and Image File Wrapper 180

epoline - Web register and file inspection 181

Multi-country coverage (INPADOC-PRS) 182

Commercial sources for United States legal status 185

Japanese legal status - Patolis 187

Validity and opposition searching 187

11 Commercial intelligence 190

State-of-the-art searches 190

Patent analysis tools and techniques 192

12 Specialist techniques 194

Searching of citations 194

Patent classification 195

The International Patent Classification and its derivatives 196

The US Patent Classification 200

Additional non-word elements 200

13 Future developments 203

The impact of the World Trade Organisation and WIPO 203

The TRIPS Agreement 203

The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) 204

The Future of patent searching? 204

Annex A USPTO classification 206

Annex B Historical JPO classification 214

Annex C Classes of the IPC (Seventh edition) 217

Appendix 2 Contact list for major database producers, hosts and libraries 224.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

3598244436

OCLC:

62934073