Guide to STN Patent Databases – Basic Version - Paton - TU Ilmenau

Types of search
THOMAS, Howard, 8 The Avenue, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 1EJ, GB
[GB, GB], for US only;
MESSER, Victoria, Kate, 28 West End, Melksham, Wiltshire SN12 64Y, GB
[GB, GB], for US only
PI WO 2004016022 A1 20040219
A change of ownership is registered in INPADOCDB into the legal status (see section INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB), in
CAplus and USPATALL this change is registered in the RAI field (Reassigment Information). By including these fields
into a name search, the name search can be more comple:
=> FIL USPATFULL
=> S INTEL/PA,RAA
10955 INTEL/PA
3013 INTEL/RAA
L17 13905 INTEL/PA,RAA
=> D PA HIT 5
ASSIGNMENT HISTORY FOR US 20090259787
RAI RAD: 20090203
RAUP: 20091015
RAK: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS).
PAO: ELGOUSI, MUHAMMED (DATE EXECUTED: 20090120)
KAR, JAYASHREE (DATE EXECUTED: 20090202)
FIGUEROA, DAVID G. (DATE EXECUTED: 20090122)
VENKATARAMAN, SRIKRISHNAN (DATE EXECUTED: 20090120)
RAC: INTEL CORPORATION, 2200 MISSION COLLEGE BOULEVARD, SANTA CLARA,
CALIFORNIA 95052-5326, UNITED STATES
RAA: INTEL CORPORATION C/O INTELLEVATE LLC, P.O. BOX 52050,
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55402
MRN: 22197 MFN: 676 (7 Page(s))
20.4.2 Germany
In German patent applications the inventor does not have to be named:
L30 ANSWER 1 OF 542 PATDPA COPYRIGHT 2004 DPMA/FIZ KA on STN
TI (A1) Oxidationsfaerbemittel
IN EWSG Erfinder wird spaeter benannt
PA Hans Schwarzkopf GmbH & Co. KG (*DE 22763 Hamburg)
PI DE 19728147 A1 19980618 AO (10) 1.Publ./ DE-Schrift
In such a case the inventor can be found through an equivalent (international or European) application:
L31 ANSWER 1 OF 1 PATDPA COPYRIGHT 2004 DPMA/FIZ KA on STN
TI (A2) OXIDATIONSFAERBEMITTEL
IN BITTNER, Andreas, Joachim (*DE 63071 Offenbach)
KLEEN, Astrid (*DE 40627 Duesseldorf)
PA Hans Schwarzkopf GmbH & Co. KG (*DE 22763 Hamburg)
PI EP 912160 A1 19990506 AOR (87) 1.Publ./ EP-Schrift
Only the applicant is named in utility models.
20.4.3 Japan
An inconvenience of Japanese patent publications is that the names of inventors and assignees need to be
converted from Japanese characters (as shown on the document) to Roman characters (the way they appear in the
database).
Japanese proper names are written in Chinese characters (Kanji). Kanji may have various readings and
hence completely different pronunciations. A conversion into Roman characters yields, therefore, not
always clear results.
Foreign proper names are converted according to their pronunciation into Japanese syllable writing
(Katakana). For integration in the database they are re-converted following specific rules. In particular
accumulations of consonants frequently found in European names cannot be converted adequately into
Katakana. As a result, foreign names are in most cases not recognizable after two consecutive conversions.
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