Find Information on Patent Litigation in the Business Files?

TOPIC: While File 670, LitAlert®, is a great resource for Intellectual Property litigation information, it only covers U.S. District Court level activity and gives little detail concerning the issues involved. In addition to licensing information, Business & Industry (File 9) also provided details about patent, trademark and copyright litigation, as well as news of litigation at the U.S. Federal Circuit/Supreme Court level (e.g., CT=(ALL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND LITIGATION). You can also narrow retrieval by ANDing in key words, such as TRADEMARK?/TI,LP, specifying that the added terms must appear in the Title OR the Lead Paragraph (/TI,LP).

Additional business databases covering company and industry news daily include Gale Group PROMT® (File 16), Gale Group Trade & Industry Database (File 148), Dialog Global Reporter (File 20) and Dialog NewsRoom (File 990). Each database has its own specialized descriptors and fields, such as the Concept Term (CT=) field in File 9, and the Event Name (EN=) field in Files 16, 20, 148, 990. All of these databases provide Descriptor fields (/DE) that allow you to run keyword searches using proximity connectors.

A good strategy is to search terms on the Descriptor OR the Title (/TI) OR the Lead Paragraph (LP) fields (/TI,DE,LP). For example, SELECT (INTELLECTUAL(W)PROPERTY OR PATENT?)/TI,DE AND LITIGAT?/TI,DE,LP,2007. (See below for how to search across several databases at once.) For scholarly, current in-depth background articles on intellectual property litigation, try the same keyword search in ABI/INFORM® (File 15).

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 9
VISUAL EXPAND CT=ALL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Check the term(s) of interest and click the Select button
VISUAL EXPAND CT=LITIGATION
Check the term(s) of interest and click the Select button
SELECT S1 AND S2
SELECT S3/2007
TYPE S4/8/1-3
Click Links > Display > Full Record

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN File 9 to search the Business & Industry database. 2. VISUAL EXPAND on the Concept Term (CT=) field to browse indexed terms. 3. Check the box(es) for your search term(s) and click Select.
4. VISUAL EXPAND on the Concept Term (CT=) field to browse indexed terms. 5. Check the box(es) for your search term(s) and click Select.
6. Combine the two sets using the AND operator. 7. SELECT Set 3 and limit the retrieval to articles published in a particular year. You can limit to a range of years by entering /yyyy:yyyy (e.g., /2007:2007). The colon acts as OR.
8. TYPE a few records in Format 8 to see title, descriptors and publication years. 9. To see more of a specific record, click Links at the top of the record. Click Display > Type Full Record. If you want to see specific fields of the record, click Type by Specific Fields and you can select what parts of the record you want to view.
10. The record displays in FULL format.
Note: The indexing displays at the bottom of the record.

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Stock #: 53156; Last modified: 14 Sep 2011

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