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Guide to STN Patent Databases
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In a family based SDI use one of the UP fields and answer NO to the eliminate duplicates question.
Some countries publish the fact that an application was made without actually publishing a document. In
INPADOCDB these pseudo-documents receive the code D0 (e.g. GB-D0, IL-D0, NO-D0, SE-D0). However, the
records do not contain all the data, in particular the IPC is often missing. If such a D0 record is the first
record of a patent family the whole patent family, including later publications in other countries, will be lost
in a SDI using a combination of IPC and the /EDF or /EDPR field. If /EDP is used any later national
publications would be lost.
When monitoring individual documents the /ED field should be used (rather than /EDP).
In a family based SDI in the INPADOCDB database or in the INPAFAMDB database one of the /UP fields
should be used rather than /EDF, too.
However, usually these D0 records contain the Patent assignee name. So it is possible to perform a name
search on this base:
AN 53423387 INPADOCDB ED 20070705 EW 200727 UP 20070705 UW 200727
TI Method for selecting a set of remote user terminals in a data
communications network.
TL English
PA KNOTT, ANDREW M
PAS KNOTT ANDREW M
DT Patent
PI GB 2007008500 D0 20070606
PIT GBD0 PATENT APPLICATION FILED
DAV 20070606 gazette reference
STA PRE-GRANT PUBLICATION
AI GB 2007-8500 A 20070502
AIT GBA Patent application
PRAI GB 2007-8500 A 20070502 (GBA, 20070705)
PRAIT GBA Patent application
FA AI; AN; DAV; DT; ED; EW; PA; PAS; PI; PIT; PRAI; TI
In the publications of US applications often no patent assignee is given or the inventor is entered into the
PA field. So if only the patent assignee name is used in an SDI the applications will not be retrieved. This can
only be solved by including in the SDI profile the names of known inventors or possibly USCL or IPC codes
in addition to the patent assignee name.
On which update fields to use please refer to the paragraph on D0 publications above.
AN 53467533 INPADOCDB ED 20070712 EW 200728 UP 20070712 UW 200728
TI Methods, communication networks, and computer program products for
mirroring traffic associated with a network element based on whether the
network element can be trusted.
TL English
IN AARON JEFFREY; SHRUM EDGAR JR.
INS AARON JEFFREY, US; SHRUM EDGAR JR, US
PAS AARON JEFFREY; SHRUM EDGAR JR
DT Patent
PI US 20070150950 A1 20070628 English
PIT USA1 FIRST PUBLISHED PATENT APPLICATION [FROM 2001 ONWARDS]
DAV 20070628 unexamined-printed-without-grant
STA PRE-GRANT PUBLICATION
AI US 2005-315674 A 20051222
AIT USA Patent application
PRAI US 2005-315674 A 20051222 (USA, 20070712)
PRAIT USA Patent application
In Japanese publications there is often no patent assignee, no inventor, or no title. Sometimes the data are
added later, sometimes they are not. Concerning the update fields the same applies as in the cases
described above (D0 publications, patent assignee). Always include the IPC to monitor Japanese
publications.