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

20.7.4 USPATFULL, USPAT2, USPATOLD
130
Guide to STN Patent Databases
In USPATFULL the /PA field is often not filled for patent applications (see above). The full text of the granted patent
including the name of the patent assignee is usually entered in USPAT2. The name of the patent assignee is not
added in USPATFULL.
Information on the inventor and assignee addresses is available in specific SEARCH fields:
/IN.CNY, /PA.CNY Country
/IN.CTY, /PA.CTY City
/IN.STA, /PA.STA State
/IN.ZIP, /PA.ZIP ZIP Code
In USPATOLD a mixed index with interpretation is used in the inventor and patent assignee fields. Documents with an
equivalent in CA also have the inventor and patent assignee names (and title) from CAS. The CAS data are searched,
together with the original data, in the respective search fields (/IN, /PA), but separate display fields must be used
(IN.CA, PA.CA).
20.7.5 IFIPAT
In the /PA field, in addition to the name the assignee number is searchable.
In addition to the name, the location and country can be searched in the /INF (inventor) and /PAF (assignee) fields.
The search is carried out using single words (word index), and (W) is implied proximity:
=> S (MOTOROLA AND CA)/PAF
18526 MOTOROLA/PAF
269293 CA/PAF
L28 38 (MOTOROLA AND CA)/PAF
20.7.6 JAPIO
Particularly the names of inventors are affected by the afore-mentioned problem of name conversion. A search for
the inventor is virtually only possible if all Kanji, or Katakana writings respectively, of the searched name are known.
In JAPIO names of inventors are available in the IN field. The /IN search field contains the name including surname
and first name indexed as phrase. Japanese names begin with the surname followed by the first name. This order of
sequence is also observed in JAPIO. Names in a sequence order used for most European names, i.e. first name
surname, will be sorted according to the first name and the writing, which results from the two-fold transcription.
Searching for inventor names in JAPIO, therefore, involves considerable difficulties.
20.8 PATDPAFULL
Records for utility models do not contain the inventor names.
The country of the inventor is searchable in the /INA field (two letter code and partly the text). The country of the
patent assignee is searchable in the /PAA field (two letter code and text).
The agent can be searched in the /AG field (see also PATDPA).
20.9 RDISCLOSURE
There is no inventor field available. In the patent assignee field a mixed index with interpretation is used. In