STN Patent Workshop Manual (October 1999)

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 Published by
STN International
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Copyright 1999
     

I. PREFACE (HTML)

II. INTRODUCTION (HTML)

A. Patent Information - a Vital Source of Business Planning
B. What is a Patent?
 1. The Patenting Process
2. Filing and publishing of patent documents
3. Multinational Patent Documents
C. Online-Databases
D. Why Search Patent Information?

III. OVERVIEW OF PATENT FILES ON STN (PDF)

A. Why searching more than one patent database ?
B. Patent Files on STN
C. Files with International Coverage
 1. Derwent World Patents Index (WPIDS/WPINDEX)
2. INPADOC
3. Derwent Patents Citation Index
D. Files with International, but Specific Subject Coverage
1. CAplus, CA
2. CAOLD
3. APIPAT / APIPAT2
4. MARPAT
5. DRUGPAT
6. DGENE
E. Files with National/Regional Coverage:
1. PATOSEP
2. PATOSWO
3. EUROPATFULL
4. IFI-Claims
5. USPATFULL
6. PATDPA
7. PATDD
8. PATOSDE
9. JAPIO
F. Files with Patent Information in Specific Subjects
1. BIOTECHABS
2. paperchem
3. RAPRA

IV. SEARCHING PATENT DOCUMENTS (PDF)

A. STNINDEX and Multifile Searching
 1. STNindex
2. Multifile Searching
B. Subject Searching
1. Searching by Words (Basic Index)
2. Seaching a Fulltext File: USPATFULL
3. Classification Codes
4. Derwent Classification Codes
5. Indexing Fields
6. Gene and Protein Sequence Searching in DGENE
C. Searching Patent Assignees and Inventors
1. Patent Assignees
2. Inventors
D. Patent Information on STN
1. Display of Patent Information on STN
E. Patent Documents and Patent Family
1. The Patent Family
2. Family Information in the Patent Files
F. Legal Status
1. Legal Status for a Publication in INPADOC
2. Legal Status for a Publication in PATDPA
3. Legal Status for a Publication in PATOSEP
G. Searching for Citations
1. Overview
2. Derwent Patents Citation Index (DPCI)

V. CROSSFILE SEARCHING (PDF)

A. CROSSFILE Searching Strategies
1. Using L-number Crossover
2. Using the SELECT command
3. TRANSFER Crossover Feature
4. SET AUDIT Feature
B. Further Examples
1. Crossover from the CA file to INPADOC
2. Crossover from PATDPA to WPIDS/WPINDEX
3. Searching for chemical patents in the CAplus file
4. Chemistry searching in the IFI Files

VI. SDI SERVICE (HTML)

VII. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS (PDF)

VIII. APPENDICES (PDF)

A. Glossary
B. Display of Different Formats for a Patent Family in INPADOC
C. Country Coverage of International Patent Files
D. Patent Documents Abstracted by Chemical Abstracts Service
E. Patent Kind Codes in the INPADOC and the DWPI file
F. Searching Patent Document Numbers on STN
G. Application/Priority Number Formats in the WPI file
H. Patent Information in Bibliographic Files
I. Additional Sources of Information and Further Helps