Dear Colleague
As a result of your suggestions, we have combined the current Patents News and Trademark News into this one newsletter entitled Dialog Intellectual Property News. This new, broader focus will allow you to keep up to date with all Dialog intellectual property resources through one, comprehensive publication. For example, in this issue we continue to bring you updates about the International Patent Classification Reform and the Mexican trademark database, as well as a case study about using the Dialog Intranet Toolkit for patent searching and other industry news that you should find of interest.

Ron Kaminecki
Intellectual Property Applications

EPO and WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext Databases Reloaded with New IPCR/8 Data

European Patents Fulltext (File 348) and WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext(File 349) have been updated with 2006 data. Patents issued since January now include classification codes based on the new version (8th) of International Patent Classification (IPCR/8). New IPCR/8 codes are included in the IC= index of these databases along with any prior version 7 IPC codes.

To accommodate search and display of the IPCR/8 classification codes, new fields have been added to both EPO and WIPO patents. ICA= includes only IPCR/8 "Advanced" codes assigned to a patent; ICC=, if present, includes only "Core" codes (see the Dialog IPC Web page for definitions of Advanced and Core). In addition, a new prefix, IA= (for "Attributes" of a classification) has been added, allowing searches on patents assigned codes with specific Attributes using the (S) operator with the IC=, ICA= and ICC= terms. For a complete list of Attribute codes, consult the table online.

Look for more articles about changes to other patent files on Dialog in future newsletters.

Manual Coding Now Applied to Transportation Patents in DWPI

Patent searchers will be interested to know that a new manual code hierarchy has been developed for Transportation (Class Q) in Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI®). Manual codes are the hierarchical classification and indexing system used as an online retrieval tool for patents included in Derwent World Patents Index (File 350, 351, 352).

The new codes cover all areas of transportation, including automotive, aerospace, railway, and shipping technologies, and are consistently applied to relevant patents from all of the countries currently covered in DWPI. The addition of Q Class manual coding will improve recall and precision, and should also enhance any subsequent data analysis.

Examples of the new codes are:

• Q14-C02 — Inflatable occupant restraints (e.g. airbags, knee bolsters, side/curtain airbags)
• Q18-B01A — Hand wheels; steering wheels
• Q24-A01N — Ballasting; Self-bailing equipment; Scuppers
• Q25-C05H — Influencing air flow over aircraft surfaces

Alerts Available for TRADEMARKSCAN®–Mexico

You can now set up Alerts in TRADEMARKSCAN®—Mexico (File 668). New records added to the database are the most recent available from the Mexican Trademarks Office.

Added to Dialog in May 2005, File 668 contains more than 500,000 trademark registrations from 1976 to the present, with additional information available on published registrations from 1993 forward. The database is similar in design to other trademark files and can be searched individually or using OneSearch® categories.

For help in establishing an Alert, contact the Dialog Alerts Bureau online or at 1 800 334 2564 (North America); 00 800 3 334 2564 (Outside North America).

2006 Patent Focus Report

“A Prolific Year in Patenting — 2006 Patent Focus Report" takes a look at challenges in patenting in China, changes at the European Patent Office, revisions in the patent process in India, increased concentration on patenting reform in Japan and crucial developments at the administrative, judicial and political levels in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Read this article for a detailed look at patenting in 2005.

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