STNewsline (sm) 6/2005
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European Edition
02 June 2005
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Images of Patent Drawings now available in GBFULL (2)
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THIS ISSUE

FILE UPDATES

1. BIOSIS - DISPLAY OF DATES IN THE PATENT INFORMATION (PI) FIELD CHANGED
2. GBFULL - IMAGES OF PATENT DRAWINGS NOW AVAILABLE
3. REGISTRY/ZREGISTRY - NEW ELEMENT ADDED; CHEMCATS SUPPLIER DATA DISPLAYED; POLYMER STRUCTURAL REPEATING UNIT (SRU) NAMES ENHANCED
4. WPIDS/WPINDEX/WPIX ENHANCED
5. WPIFV/WPIDS/WPINDEX/WPIX - INDIAN PATENT DATA AVAILABLE

FYI

6. DERWENT WPI MANUAL CODE REVISION PROJECT
7. STN-BENUTZERTREFFEN IN FRANKFURT/MAIN, MUENCHEN UND ESSEN
8. STN PATENT FORUM IN UTRECHT AND BOLOGNA
9. FIZ E-SEMINARS SCHEDULE

FILE UPDATES

1. BIOSIS - DISPLAY OF DATES IN THE PATENT INFORMATION (PI) FIELD CHANGED

Dates displayed in the Patent Information (PI) field have been changed to the following format: YYYYMMDD. The revised BIOSIS Database Summary Sheet is available in STNGUIDE and at:

2. GBFULL - IMAGES OF PATENT DRAWINGS NOW AVAILABLE

GBFULL (United Kingdom (GB) Patents FULL Text) covering the full text of all patent applications published in the United Kingdom has been enhanced. Clipped images, mostly front page images, are now offered, when available. The enhanced file contains about 400,000 records and more than 230,000 images since 1979.

3. REGISTRY/ZREGISTRY - NEW ELEMENT ADDED; CHEMCATS SUPPLIER DATA DISPLAYED; POLYMER STRUCTURAL REPEATING UNIT (SRU) NAMES ENHANCED

A new element has been added to REGISTRY/ZREGISTRY to support element count searching for the newly approved element symbol, Rg. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially approved the name Roentgenium and the symbol Rg for element 111, and the ACS Committee on Nomenclature, Terminology and Symbols endorsed IUPAC's approval. The new symbol, Rg, is valid in the Alternate Molecular Formula (/AF) display field.

Specific CHEMCATS source information will be available in the Source of Registration (SR) search and display field in REGISTRY/ZREGISTRY on STN, when applicable.

CHEMCATS is a chemical catalog database that contains information about commercially available chemicals and their worldwide suppliers. If a substance in any of CHEMCATS "Chemical Catalogs" or "Chemical Libraries" has not been entered in REGISTRY and it meets CAS' substance registration criteria, then CAS registers it and lists either "Chemical Catalog" or "Chemical Library" in the SR display field. Sometimes chemical suppliers delete their entire catalog or remove substances from their catalog. Therefore, it is possible for a customer to find a substance in REGISTRY that has a source of "Chemical Catalog" or "Chemical Library," yet when the customer searches for it in CHEMCATS, the substance is not found. Now when CAS registers a substance and lists the source of the registration as either "Chemical Catalog" or "Chemical Library," the SR field in REGISTRY/ZREGISTRY is enhanced with additional information about the supplier. Where possible, the backfile has also been enhanced with the supplier information. Approximately 5,200 9th Collective Index Names have been added to polymer structural repeating units (SRUs) that were registered during the 8th Collective time period, when SRUs were first registered in this form. All SRUs in REGISTRY/ZREGISTRY now have up-to-date nomenclature, including stereo information, if present in the registration.

4. WPIDS/WPINDEX/WPIX ENHANCED

NEW PATENT FAMILY DISPLAY FORMAT

You can now display the patent family in Derwent World Patents Index® (file WPIDS, WPINDEX, WPIX) with ('D PI') and without ('D PN') the designated states of PCT and EP documents. The compressed display format ('D PN') is useful now that all possible designated states are included on PCT and EP documents at the time of publication.

ADDITIONAL GERMAN PATENT COVERAGE

In early June there will be some changes to the Kind Codes of German Patents in Derwent World Patents Index, including expanded coverage to include the German Kind Codes T2, T0, T5, C5, C8 and C9 from update 2005/34.

5. WPIFV/WPIDS/WPINDEX/WPIX - INDIAN PATENT DATA AVAILABLE

Derwent WPI First View SM (WPIFV) now includes Indian patents, both pre-grant applications and granted patents. These will also be available in Derwent WPI® from the end of May.

FYI

6. DERWENT WPI MANUAL CODE REVISION PROJECT

7. STN-BENUTZERTREFFEN IN FRANKFURT/MAIN, MUENCHEN UND ESSEN

8. STN PATENT FORUM IN UTRECHT AND BOLOGNA

9. FIZ E-SEMINARS SCHEDULE

FIZ e-seminars are live and interactive. You may participate in the e-seminar training individually at your desktop computer or with colleagues in a meeting room. The following e-seminars are scheduled for June, July, and August 2005:

- Searching Patent Fulltext Files on STN (English)
- Überwachungsrecherchen in Patentdatenbanken (Deutsch/German)
- Reaktionsrecherchen in BEILSTEIN auf STN (Deutsch/German)
- Pharmaceutical Substances (English)
- Reaction Searching in BEILSTEIN on STN (English)

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