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

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Guide to STN Patent Databases
15 USPATFULL / USPAT2 84
15.1 Typical queries ....................................................................................................................................... 84
15.2 Brief description .................................................................................................................................... 84
15.3 Contents ................................................................................................................................................. 84
15.4 Dynamics ................................................................................................................................................ 85
15.5 Updating ................................................................................................................................................ 85
15.6 Document from USPATFULL ................................................................................................................ 85
15.7 Document from USPAT2 ....................................................................................................................... 87
Types of search 89
16 Search by subject 90
16.1 Notes on subject searches in DWPI ...................................................................................................... 90
17 Search by text 91
17.1 Search fields ........................................................................................................................................... 91
17.2 Contents of the Basic Index .................................................................................................................. 92
17.3 Notes on all databases .......................................................................................................................... 92
17.4 Using proximity operators with searches in text fields ..................................................................... 96
17.5 Notes on individual databases ............................................................................................................. 99
18 Search by patent classification 103
18.1 Classification fields ............................................................................................................................. 103
18.2 Principles underlying a patent classification system ...................................................................... 104
18.3 Searching the International Patent Classification (IPC) .................................................................. 105
18.4 Searching classifications of the European Patent Office ................................................................. 111
18.5 Searching the Derwent Classifikation (/DC) and Manual Codes ..................................................... 114
19 Search by numeric properties 115
19.1 Numeric properties in patents ........................................................................................................... 115
19.2 Problem ................................................................................................................................................ 115
19.3 Numeric Property Search (NPS) ......................................................................................................... 115
20 Search by name 119
20.1 Important fields for a name search .................................................................................................... 119
20.2 Index types in name fields .................................................................................................................. 119
20.3 Notes for all databases ....................................................................................................................... 120
20.4 Notes on individual countries ............................................................................................................ 120
20.5 Derwent databases: DWPI, DPCI, DGENE .......................................................................................... 122
20.6 INPADOCDB, INPAFAMDB, PATDPA, EPFULL, RUSSIAPAT, KOREAPAT, LITALERT ....................... 124
20.7 Chemical Abstracts, IFIPAT, USPATFULL, USPAT2, JAPIO, ENCOMPPAT ....................................... 127
20.8 PATDPAFULL ........................................................................................................................................ 130
20.9 RDISCLOSURE ...................................................................................................................................... 130
21 Search by formal data (Publication and application data) 131
21.1 Search fields ......................................................................................................................................... 131
21.2 Search by country ................................................................................................................................ 132
21.3 Search by date ..................................................................................................................................... 133
21.4 Search by priority and application numbers .................................................................................... 133
21.5 Search by document number ............................................................................................................. 136
21.6 Search by patent kind code ................................................................................................................ 140
22 Family search 142
22.1 Typical family searches ....................................................................................................................... 142