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CAplus enhanced with French and German abstracts
French- and German-language abstracts in basic patents from the European Patent Office (EPO) are now included in CAplus. These abstracts are only included when an English-language abstract is not available.
In patents that are indexed by CAS, French- and German-language abstracts are replaced by English versions shortly after the record is added to CAplus. French- and German-language abstracts are searchable in Basic Index (BI) in their respective languages until replaced by the English versions. Records are added to CA only after indexing and the addition of English-language abstracts is complete.
Patents with selectively covered International Patent Classification (IPC) codes that are not indexed by CAS retain the original French- and German-language abstracts in CAplus. These records are not included in CA.
CA/CAplus patent coverage enhanced
Patent coverage in CA/CAplus has been enhanced to now include:
- Complete International Patent Classification (IPC) reclassification data for the first half of 2007
- Patents from the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KR) through late-January 2007
In addition, bibliographic data and abstracts in patent applications from the Indian Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks (IN) are now available in CAplus within 14 days of publication.
For additional information, visit Patent Coverage in Chemical Abstracts or refer to the CA/CAplus Database Summary Sheets.
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USGENE now available on STN
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Genetic Sequence Database (USGENE), produced by SequenceBase Corporation, is now available on STN. USGENE brings together USPTO sequence data with key elements of bibliographic and full-text data to provide a unified platform in which patent searchers can combine sequence data, date, and patent claims text searching.
Coverage includes all available peptide and nucleic acid sequences from published applications and issued patents of the USPTO from 1982 to the present. Each USGENE record represents a specific sequence found in a USPTO patent. USGENE currently includes more than 6 million sequence records, with updates occurring weekly and records typically available within 7 days of publication by the USPTO.
USGENE records include:
- Original patent title, abstract, and claims
- Patent assignee and full inventor names
- Publication, application, and parent case WIPO/PCT numbers and dates
- Organism name, sequence length, and SEQ ID number
- Feature tables for modifications and other features
USGENE provides three sequence searching methods:
- BLAST for advanced similarity searching based on the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) BLAST algorithm
- GETSIM for advanced similarity searching based on the FASTA algorithm
- GETSEQ for simple fragment or motif sequence queries
Sequence data can be obtained with STN command line searching or the Sequence Search Assistant in STN on the Web. For more precise answer sets, sequence search results can be combined with text searching of the Title (TI), Abstract (AB), and Exemplary Claims (ECLM) fields. Current-awareness alerts (SDIs), including sequence similarity alerts, are available weekly.
For a limited time, explore USGENE with $100 credit toward connect time, display, print, and sequence search charges. The credit will be automatically applied to your invoiced charges beginning August 1, 2007, and carried over until the $100 is used or until September 30, 2007.
USGENE has been added to the ALLBIB, AUTHORS, BIOSCIENCE, CORPSOURCE, HPATENTS, MEDICINE, PATENTS, and PHARMACOLOGY database clusters on STN. For additional information, refer to the USGENE Database Summary Sheet.
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USPATFULL/USPAT2 enhanced with IPC reclassification
USPATFULL/USPAT2 now includes complete International Patent Classification (IPC) reclassification data for the first half of 2007. More than four million patents in USPATFULL and 480,000 patents in USPAT2 include reclassifications.
For additional information, refer to the USPATFULL/USPAT2 Database Summary Sheets.
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Updated 7/28/2008 11:18:26 AM
