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CA/CAplus, CASREACT, and IFI and USPAT databases enhanced for more flexible patent number searching
United States (US) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WO) patent number searching has been enhanced in the following databases:
- CA/CAplus
- CASREACT
- IFICDB
- IFIPAT
- IFIUDB
- USPATFULL
- USPAT2
- USPATOLD
US patent numbers can now be searched with or without commas and/or spaces. WO patent numbers can now be searched with or without slashes, commas, and/or spaces and with two- or four-digit years.
The enhancement has also been applied to HCA/HCAplus, LCA, LCASREACT, and ZCA/ZCAplus.
CA/CAplus enhanced with printed Chemical Abstracts page images from 1967-1998
Page images from the 1967-1998 issues of printed Chemical Abstracts (CA) have been added to the corresponding records in CA/CAplus. With this enhancement, CA page images are now available for all CA/CAplus records from 1907-1998. To view CA page images in CA/CAplus, include PAGE in your display command:
=> D L1 BIB PAGE
CAplus currency for Korean patents enhanced
CAplus currency has been enhanced for patents from the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). Bibliographic information and abstracts are now available 14 days from the date of publication or date of availability. When the publication date on the patent document is significantly earlier than the date the patent is made publicly available by the patent office, the date of availability may be used as a date of disclosure.
For additional information about these databases, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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CAOLD to be discontinued on December 31, 2008
CAOLD (and HCAOLD) will be discontinued and removed from associated database clusters.
- November 22, 2008 - removed from database clusters
- December 31, 2008 - removed from STN
Content previously available only in CAOLD and HCAOLD is now available in CA/CAplus and HCA/HCAplus, respectively. To learn more about the options available for transferring saved search queries and answer sets to CA/CAplus and HCA/HCAplus, contact CAS Customer Care.
For additional information about CAOLD and CA/CAplus, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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CAS definition of basic patents expanded to ensure comprehensive access to substance and sequence information
Beginning July 1, 2008, both the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) application and its original national equivalent(s) with oldest priority, from the U.S., Germany, Great Britain, France, Canada, and/or the EPO, are being covered as basic patents in CA/CAplus.
If the first national application with oldest priority was filed in a country other than those listed above, then CAS traditional rule, that the basic is the first patent to arrive at CAS, will apply.
Extensive subject and substance indexing is added to chemistry-related basic patent records in CA/CAplus. With the new expanded definition of a basic patent, the number of patents eligible for basic patent analysis will increase, enhancing overall coverage of chemical substance information in CAS databases, including CAS REGISTRY. Approximately 7,500 additional chemistry-related patent records will be added to CA/CAplus in 2008.
For additional information about CAS databases, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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CASREACT enhanced for more flexible patent number searching
See Database News for CA/CAplus.
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EPFULL enhanced with full implementation of EPC2000
See article from FIZ Karlsruhe.
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IFI databases enhanced for more flexible patent number searching
See Database News for CA/CAplus.
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INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB coverage enhanced
The International Patent Documentation Database (INPADOCDB) and the International Patent Family Database (INPAFAMDB) now cover all patent publication events in the legal status display for 81 patent authorities.
For details, visit:
www.stn-international.de/stndatabases/details/INPADOC_news_0808.pdf
For additional information about INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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INSPEC now has more than 10 million records
See article from FIZ Karlsruhe.
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USPAT databases enhanced for more flexible patent number searching
See Database News for CA/CAplus.
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Updated 8/29/2008 10:36:52 AM
