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Database News for July 2009

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CA/CAplus EPFULL GBFULL

INPADOCDB, INPAFAMDB PATDPAFULL USGENE

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CA/CAplus enhanced with new citing references features

The CA/CAplus family of databases has been enhanced with new, more convenient access to citing references information on STN. Citing references information can be used to track records that cite a specific record in CA/CAplus.

New search, display, select, and sort fields:

• OS Citing References Count (OSC.G or alias CITING.CNT) - number of citing references
• Date Last Cited (UPOS.G or alias CITING.UP) - date last citing reference entered STN
• OS Citing References (OS.G or alias OS.CITING.AN) citing reference accession numbers (not sortable)

New display formats:

• OSG displays OSC.G, UPOS.G, and OS.G (up to 50 accession numbers)
• OS.GMAX displays OS.G (up to 1020 accession numbers)
• OSG.MAX displays OSC.G, UPOS.G, and OS.G (up to 1020 accession numbers)

Example:

=> DISPLAY L1 OSG
 
L1   ANSWER 1 OF 1  CAPLUS  COPYRIGHT 2009 ACS on STN 
OSC.G   21    THERE ARE 21 CAPLUS RECORDS THAT CITE THIS 
              RECORD (21 CITINGS)
UPOS.G  Date last citing reference entered STN:  16 Feb 2009
OS.G   CAPLUS 2008:1449140; 2008:744804; 2008:570161; 2008:345053;
  	      2008:263531; 2008:169106; 2008:131505; 2008:24308;
	      2007:1479092; 2007:1021644; 2007:762607; 2007:749332; 
	      2007:653358; 2007:632608; 2007:210739; 2007:25799; 
	      2006:1182006; 2006:1018090; 2006:866607; 2006:725338;
	      2006:607821

Accession numbers in the new OS.G display format link to the ALL display format for the citing reference record in CAplus.

Several existing display formats have been updated to include the new citing references fields:

• ALL, DALL, IALL (OSG)
• MAX, DMAX, IMAX (OSG.MAX)
• BIB, IBIB, FBIB, STD, ISTD (OSC.G)

These updates may impact the import of records into database management software. For questions, contact CAS Customer Care.

A new Update Date, Citing References (UPOG) option for current-awareness alerts (SDIs) is also available in CA/CAplus. This new option provides alerts to CAplus documents that cite a document of interest.

For additional information about CA/CAplus, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.

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EPFULL adds first-page images and applicant-cited references

European Patents Fulltext (EPFULL) has added first-page images from European patent applications and references cited by applicants in European patent applications and granted patents.

First-page images and applicant citations are present for documents entered or updated after January 2006. Almost all of these documents (>99%) have been published after 2000.

First-page images from European patent applications are provided in tagged image format (TIFF) and displayed in the GI field. Display formats containing these images include ALLG, MAXG, and STDG.

Applicant-cited references include both patent and nonpatent literature. Along with citations (from INID 56) already present in EPFULL, applicant-cited references are indexed in these fields:

• Referenced Non-Patent (REN)
• Referenced Patent Country (RPC)
• Referenced Patent Number (RPN)

The following display fields include applicant-cited reference information:

• Applicant Non-Patent Citation (RENA); also custom display
• Applicant Patent Citation (REPA); also custom display

RENA and REPA are included in the MAX and IMAX display formats, and together with the INID 56 citations in the RE display format.

For more information about EPFULL, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.

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GBFULL adds patent backfile data to 1855

United Kingdom (GB) Patents Full Text (GBFULL) has added backfile data to 1855. The full text for the complete national patent family is now available.

Before this update, GBFULL covered the complete collection of U.K. patent applications back to 1979, when the U.K. office started publishing applications. Since November 27, 2008, GBFULL updates have included granted patents in addition to patent applications. Now the complete backfile data for granted patents, starting with 1855, has been loaded into the database.

GBFULL records cover:

• Patent applications and corresponding granted patents
• Bibliographic data and full text (incomplete for 1855-1858) for description and claims
• Abstract data for over 95% of applications
• Clipped images (mostly front-page images), when available

The GBFULL full-text data has been created by optical character recognition (OCR) software and may therefore contain misinterpreted characters or incomplete text.

For more information about GBFULL, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.

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INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB add Russian legal status data

Beginning with week 2009/29, International Patent Documentation Database (INPADOCDB) and International Patent Family Database (INPAFAMDB) will include legal status data for Russian patents and utility models.

Only front-file data is available, starting with notifications of the Russian Patent Bulletin of April 10, 2009.

Patent and utility models from the former Soviet Union that are still valid in Russia will also be included.

Three updates per month are expected.

For a list of available status codes, use the EXPAND command in the Legal Status Code (LSC) field:

=> E RU?/LSC

For more information about INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.

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PATDPAFULL adds Simultaneous Left and Right Truncation (SLART) to AB, CLM, MCLM, and TI fields

In the German Patents Full Text (PATDPAFULL) database, simultaneous left and right truncation (SLART) has been added to the Abstract (AB), Claims (CLM), Main Claim (MCLM), and Title (TI) fields.

In PATDPAFULL, SLART is already available in the Basic Index (BI).

For information about SLART, enter HELP TRUNCATION or HELP SFIELDS at an arrow prompt (=>) in the database. See also the list of fields with SLART.

For more information about PATDPAFULL, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.

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USGENE adds bibliographic and sequence information

USPTO Genetic Sequence Database (USGENE) now has more options for U.S. patent sequence searching.

USGENE sequence records now include:

• Backfile patent sequence location (PSL) information, going back to June 2007
  
• Priority application information (PRAI), including priority application numbers (PRN) and dates (PRD)
  
• Information related to the U.S. application (RLI), including application numbers (RLN) and dates (RLD)
  
• Calculated patent expiration date (XPD) and patent term adjustment information (NTE, PTA) for issued patents
  
• A concise one-line sequence description (DESC), for improved efficiency when reviewing search results

The PSL field provides you with sequence identity numbers. If these numbers are described in the claims, then the corresponding claim numbers are provided, improving your access to this information.

All the new data fields are fully searchable and incorporated into the standard display formats BIB, BRIEF, and ALL. In addition, the sequence description (DESC) field is now part of the free TRIAL display format, for even faster relevance checking of USGENE search results.

USGENE covers all available peptide and nucleic acid sequences from published applications and issued patents of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). U.S. patent and published application sequence data are available within three days of publication by the USPTO.

For more information about USGENE, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.

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