SEMANTiCS 2019 in Karlsruhe
09.-12.09.2019:
SEMANTiCS is the leading European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI and is held for the first time in Karlsruhe, Germany. One of the organizers is FIZ Karlsruhe whose Vice President Information Service Engineering, Prof. Sack, is Conference Chair and a member of the conference’s Permanent Advisory Board.
New on STN
April 2019
New legal status codes for US patent applications and granted patents in INPADOC
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EPOPIC 2019 - EPO Patent Information Conference, 29.-30.Oct, Bukarest
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INPAFAMDB – add the missing piece to your patent prior-art search on STN
INPAFAMDB – the International Patent Family Database – is a bibliographic patent family database, covering the full spectrum of patent technologies for 95 issuing authorities, dating from the early 1800s. The database features a one-record-per-patent-family file design to provide maximum multi-file prior-art synergy with CAplusSM and the Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM) on STN®.
Easy access to accurate patent families
- Quickly find a comprehensive patent family, from just a single patent number
- Benefit from more accurate Patent Families, via FIZ Karlsruhe’s Quality Control and editorial corrections
Simplified Legal Status searching
- Determine whether a patent is still active around the world, via FIZ Karlsruhe’s convenient Legal Status Categories (LSC2)
Comprehensive citation searching
- Enhance your prior-art patent search with the definitive INPAFAMDB collection of global cited patents and cited references
Streamlined Alerts (SDIs)
- Set up straightforward family and legal status Alerts using a single patent number
- Obtain only what you need via extensive and readily customizable update and display options
INPAFAMDB for prior-art technology searching
- Access the full spectrum of global technologies from patents including chemistry, life-science and engineering
- Comprehensive text searching of applicant titles and abstracts for 95 patent authorities, dating back to the 1800s
- The complete and up-to-date archive of all European ECLA and International IPC patent classifications, providing for optimum recall and precision
- One-record-per-patent-family file design provides maximum multi-file prior-art search synergy with DWPI and CAplus
INPAFAMDB for inventor and assignee searching
- Standardized inventor and patent assignee searching for 95 patent authorities, dating back to the early 1800s
- Seamless search options which incorporate vital corrections and reassignments from the latest INPADOC Legal Status data
A sample record explained
INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB User Guide
User Documentation on the International Patent Family Database
Lists of the patent kind codes and priority kind codes available in INPADOC
Priority application information type
INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB News:
- New legal status codes for US patent applications and granted patents in INPADOC
- New Legal Status Codes for South Korea in INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB
- INPADOC Legal Status Data - New Legal Status Codes
- Non-conventional Patent Families for Chinese Dual Filings in INPADOC on STN
- CPC Combination Data Set Data
- Adding Value to INPADOC on STN, Quality Assurance by FIZ Karlsruhe Editorial
- INPADOC News 2013/01: INPADOC Databases enhanced with Calculated Expiration Dates
- INPADOC News 2012/02: Enhancements to Classification Searching and Coverage in INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB
- INPADOC News 2011/06: Enhancements to Classification Searching and Coverage in INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB
- INPADOC News 2010/10: Enhancements to the US National Patent Classification in INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB
- INPADOC News 2010/07: Enhanced Coverage of Citation Information in INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB