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From the Editor New Innovate Web page
Patents unwrapped: file histories delivered to your desktop File history defined You can order file histories directly from all patent databases and three trademark files by clicking a link in a single record to obtain the file history for that particular patent, or through Dialog SourceOne after your search. Because file histories can be very long, DigiPat provides a searchable file history option you can bookmark, which is very useful when trying to find a precise piece of information in a file history containing hundreds of pages. File histories for recent U.S. patents are available immediately from DigiPat where they are held electronically. For older patents, the file history may first need digitizing to make an image or machine-readable PDF. So, if you’ve ordered a searchable copy, this will take longer to supply. Benefits of file histories
Chinese Patents Fulltext one-of-a-kind Utility models are very popular with Chinese companies, particularly in fields such as consumer products, mechanics and electronics, where products need to reach the market quickly in a fast- changing environment. Chinese companies who need protection quickly for their invention will file a utility model. Ninety-nine percent of utility models filed to 2008 were filed by Chinese companies. A utility model cannot be filed to protect a method and is only valid for 10 years from date of filing (compared to 20 years for patents). Utility models must still be considered in a prior art search anywhere in the world for novelty. Set up weekly Alerts to coincide with the file updating, or choose your own frequency and timing for Alerts. There are over 100 types of legal status events for Chinese patents and utility models, and these are all translated into English in File 325. EXPAND LS= to get a complete list. Legal events can also be tracked in an Alert by patent number. File 325 provides remote links to the PDF of the original Chinese patent documents, so you can quickly view all the drawings while reviewing the translated English text of your documents to gain a more complete understanding of the invention(s). Images or PDFs can be displayed when searches are conducted using DialogLink® 5, DialogClassic Web™ or DialogWeb. Images are provided in Formats 12, 13, 15, 17 and 19, and can also be included in other formats by specifying the display tag IM. Remote links to PDFs of the original Chinese patent document display with Formats 3, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17 and 19. To learn more about Chinese Patents, join our workshop at the PIUG Annual Conference on Thursday May 6 in Baltimore, Maryland.
RefWorks: Post-processing made easy You can now export records directly from a Dialog search in DialogClassic Web or DialogLink 5 to RefWorks and receive your output in HTML format either inline or as an attachment. Just begin a RefWorks-enabled database and execute your search. The RefWorks command works in much the same way as the Dialog TYPE command. The command will automatically open a new window and import the records.
You can also use the RefWorks command to export Alerts to RefWorks by adding RefWorks to your PRINT statement: PRINT Sn/Fmt/items REFWORKS ADDR USERADD. Output is delivered in HTML format either inline or as an attachment
Note: You will need to install or upgrade to the latest version of DialogLink 5 to access the RefWorks command.
SPECIAL LIMITED TIME OFFER! 50% off all Alert profiles for key pharmaceutical industry and drug pipeline news sources During this period, all Alerts profiles in the pharmaceutical news sources listed below will be half the published price. Take advantage of this great opportunity to assess needs, set up new Alerts and refine or expand existing profiles!
If you need assistance in setting up Alert profiles, contact our Global Customer Support team at . You won’t want to miss the chance to take advantage of this special offer through June!
A new Dialog To learn more about the next-generation product, visit dialog.com/feature.
Dialog Forums — European Tour and D.C. In North America, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will host a Dialog Forum on May 27 for customers in the greater Washington, D.C. area. The half-day agenda is full of great content, including an introduction to Release 1 of the new Dialog product, the latest DWPI updates, search tips and tricks, an open discussion about the future of copyrights, and coming attractions for complementary ProQuest products. Register for the morning or afternoon sessions today. Additional North America forums are being planned for the Fall — stay tuned for more information in an upcoming issue of the Chronolog.
Free File of the Month — GeoRef GeoRef uses specialized indexing including a thesaurus and subject categories. A key feature of the file is geographic coordinates that let you search for records relating to an area within a quadrangle, bounded by latitude and longitude. Learn more about the database in the Overview of GeoRef. Throughout May, explore this file up to $100 for free (either DialUnits or Connect Time). Output and Alerts charges are not included. Attend overview webinar sessions on GeoRef scheduled on May 4 and 13.
Stories from the front lines Logic and Dialog go hand-in-hand — (R. Wengert, Eagan, Minn.) Send us your stories about using Dialog.
MEDLINE records added to Embase on Dialog A new file segment (FS=) is effective for data added to the Embase files from January 22, 2010 onward (UD=20100122); this is FS=MEDLINE. MEDLINE records can also be explicitly excluded from future Alerts by adding NOT FS=MEDLINE to an Alert search strategy. When the archive is added, the FS=MEDLINE index will occur in MEDLINE records throughout the Embase files.
Inspec backfile on DataStar now contains IPC codes
ToxFile reloaded with 2010 MeSH
Files closed to transactional access
Chinese Utility Model coverage extended in Derwent World Patents Index Chinese Utility Models are an important source of prior art with many records being filed only in China. Once complete, this extension to the backfile in DWPI will provide access to an additional 55,000 records, the majority of which are basics. The extended coverage will start with the records published in May 2007, and over the next quarter the records from April 2007 back to January 2007 will be processed and made available in the file.
Expand your trademark search
Some jurisdictions, including the United States and the United Kingdom, provide certain trademark protections based on use of the mark in commerce, even without a trademark registration. These rights are sometimes called “common law” rights and can preclude the later adoption and registration of the same or a similar mark. Dialog’s vast collection of company directories, news and product-focused files across a wide range of industries allows you to deepen the scope of your search and obtain a clearer idea of the availability of a mark prior to spending fees for a full trademark clearance search and legal opinion.
Since a significant number of organizations provide products and services under their company name, it’s a good idea to check company directory files, such as D&B – Dun’s Electronic Business Directory® (File 515), American Business Directory (File 531), the multi-country KOMPASS directories or TecTrends (File 256) when looking for non-registered designations. Product-focused files such as the Thomas Register Online® (File 535) and Cengage/Gale New Product Announcements/Plus® (NPA/Plus) (File 621) are rich sources of brand names as well. With Dialog’s unparalleled content collection you can go broad and search general news articles in Dialog NewsRoom or take advantage of Dialog’s industry-specific files such as World Textiles (File 67), Cengage/Gale Aerospace/Defense Technology and Markets (File 80), Cengage/Gale Computer Database (File 275) or IMS New Pharmaceutical Product Focus (File 446) to really focus your efforts on specific industries. For more information on these files as well as files supporting other industries, see the Database Catalog, Dialog® /DataStar® 2010. Dialog tools: precise and cost-effective
Short Dialog At A Glance on-demand training modules give concise step-by-step examples of how to use the Dialog Finder Files. Take advantage of Dialog’s broad content and unique search tools that give you resources you need to successfully navigate the interesting and often complex preliminary trademark screening process.
A Proximal and a Distal Tip
A search strategy that can be decomposed into different concepts is fairly typical, and assembling the concepts is a tried-and-true way of searching (the Building Block approach). But, what do you do when you don’t have all of the facts (do we ever?), or worse, what do you do when the facts you have are suspect? Tossing the facts out one at a time is one approach. A better approach is to prioritize the facts and start with the highest priority first (you can see where I’m going with my argument). In pointing this out to the bright student, I stated you cannot forget the human factor and our invariable propensity to get things done as fast and especially as easily and cheaply as possible. Instead of putting together three concepts, why not just two first and then see if you need the third one? Why not just use one concept? So if I had to do a prior art search on, say, a rare disease like the treatment of histiocytosis X in humans, (a three concept search — treatment, the disease name, the target), I might want to start with the synonyms for the disease first (searching histiocytosis X and also including related terms like Langerhans cell granulomatosis or eosinophilic granuloma; these taken by EXPANDing histiocytosis x in MEDLNE® (File 155) and then EXPANDing the related terms). If I receive only a handful of hits, type them out. End of search. If I used the least-frequent term first, I can save myself all the time involved with looking for fairly common terms that may not add substantially to the search. And, in prior art searching, we want to ensure we do not eliminate any essential references because we are more concerned with narrowing the search to a reasonable number; it is better to work your way up until the number gets out of hand. If I get more than a few hits, I simply add in the next term. Very few searches can be done with just one concept, let alone one term! Take that, Internet! In this case, a little bit of thought will soon show you that the word treatment is less common than human. Indeed, the term human is a specialized indexing term in most medical databases, but may not even be used in patents! Thus, adding words for the concept of treatment and combining the results with the disease may generate enough hits to satisfy your personal preference as to how many hits you will actually look at. And, now you know that mathematically, you get the same number no matter what terms you enter first, but you can save a lot of time by putting in the concepts one at a time in order from least to most, and then stopping short of putting in the unnecessary ones. Touché, bright student! Duck logic |
Patents unwrapped: file histories delivered to your desktop Chinese Patents Fulltext one-of-a-kind RefWorks: Post-processing made easy Dialog Forums — European Tour and D.C. Free File of the Month — GeoRef Discover: Scientific, Technical and Medical Validate: Intellectual Property Content Updates
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Free File for June Search up to $100 for free in the file (Connect Time or DialUnits) in June. Output and Alerts costs are not included. See an Overview of File 325 to learn more about this patent database. And the winner is... ALAIN BORSI of the Canadian Space Agency in Saint Hubert, Quebec, Canada.
New issue of Eye on Innovation
May events
Trade Shows—Dialog is exhibiting at the following trade shows during May:
Check the complete list of 2010 events, and be sure to stop by the Dialog booth.
Training schedule
New Documentation
Qualities of an InfoStar
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Dialog Search Tip: How can I find the ultimate parent of ARAMARK in File 517? A search for the ultimate parent of ARAMARK using EXPAND and SELECTing companies with names like CO=ARAMARK CORP or ARAMARK CORPORATION yielded 0 hits when qualifying the set to /ULTIMATE. A solution was to SELECT S1 AND SF=LINKED, then TYPE a record in Format 3, which provided the name of a corporate family member, and more importantly, names and DUNS numbers of its headquarters and of its ultimate parent. SELECT DN=79-107-2197, and voilà, there is the record for ARAMARK Holdings Corporation, the ultimate parent, located in Philadelphia, PA. Bonus tip: If you find that CO=<company name> does not lead to the ultimate parent with the /ULTIMATE limiter, try searching <company name>/CO, e.g. SELECT ARAMARK/CO. Because the ultimate parent location has the word ARAMARK in its name, using /ULTIMATE on that set yielded two records. TYPE out the two records in Format 6 and try to determine which one is the parent of the company you seek.
DataStar Search Tip: Clinical trials searching in MEDLINE® in DataStarWeb In Advanced search, browse Publication Types by clicking the arrow To really get down to business and see a full list of MeSH® terms for clinical trial, go to “MeSH — enter a term” and enter clinical trial in the search box. This opens up the full list of preferred descriptor terms for clinical trial. Check off the term(s) you want, but remember to also OR in the Publication type clinical trial term as well. |
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At every step of the innovative process, Dialog’s depth and breadth of content, combined with precision searching, provides critical information to support continuous advances. If you haven’t yet checked the new 
Sometimes you need to dig deeper to complete your patent analyses after a search, and obtaining file histories can be an important part of this process. Now you can order File Histories for patents and trademarks from DigiPat. Choose to receive the original application as filed, as well as all references to patents and non-patent literature (NPL) filed with the patent and referred to during the examination process. 
Last month Dialog brought you 20 years of searchable machine-translated full-text Chinese patents and utility models (covering the years 1985 to 2005) in Chinese Patents Fulltext (
RefWorks-enabled files include: 
You still have until June 30 to enjoy a 50% discount on all daily, weekly or monthly Alerts profiles for pharmaceutical and related industry news sources on Dialog® and DataStar®. 
Looking for comprehensive, authoritative geology and geophysics information? Then try GeoRef (
“I learned to search Dialog in library school. It’s not difficult, and if you like logic, Dialog makes perfect sense. Other search engines do not have the same capabilities, such as proximity operators. Whenever possible, I sit with engineers and scientists to review results. When the research librarian is inserted into the search process at the beginning, it’s possible to view and respond to the changes in focus—it’s a dynamic process.”
Data from mid-January 2010 to the present has been loaded into Embase® on Dialog. This represents sources previously only available in MEDLINE®. Initially, the change only affects new additions to the database, but later in 2010 an archive of more than seven million records will also be loaded. 
Inspec® on DataStar has now applied International Patent Classification (IPC) codes across the backfiles including INSP, IN86, IN79, INYY and INZZ. IPC codes were added to new documents starting January 1, 2010. Inspec is mapping its own indexing schemes to the WIPO IPC scheme enabling them to assign IPC codes to relevant records. Initial testing indicates about 75% of new Inspec records will contain IPC codes, and the average record will have two assigned IPC codes. The Inspec implementation of IPC codes will be a valuable tool for the prior art searcher, allowing clustering of relevant non-patent literature within the same familiar code structure used for patents. 
From the United States to Finland, to China and Australia and beyond, Dialog’s extensive collection of 
Now through July 31, 2010, Dialog customers will receive a 25% discount on new subscriptions to ABI/INFORM Complete on ProQuest. Whether you’re developing strategies, forecasting international economic conditions, assessing risk, starting a new project or simply managing day-to-day operations, ABI/INFORM Complete offers top-notch business insights and expertise for making sound decisions. Searching and finding relevant data is easy, even for novice searchers, using ProQuest’s award-winning search technology and interface, with robust indexing, Smart Search®, Browse Tab, Content Alerts, RSS Feeds and more. 
If you entered the User Profile Update drawing to win an Amazon Kindle™, take a look. The drawing took place on April 30, and we’re happy to announce the winner is: 
Issue 4 of Eye on Innovation explores cleantech, the latest boom in innovation worldwide. Using Dialog science and technology files, patents and business and market research databases, Dialog analyzes an important cleantech sector—water. 
This month we highlight Paula Juckes, whose strategic relationship-building and involvement in providing solutions for her clients’ needs makes her an 
to “page down” to see additional terms. 
to the left of Publication types. When the display opens, scroll down and you will find not only clinical trials terms, but also “randomized controlled trials.” 