Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : January/February 2005

Dialog Expands Worldwide Patent and Trademark Coverage

Dialog's extensive patent and trademark coverage includes more than 50 million patent records covering 80 patenting countries and authorities and 19 million trademarks from 27 trademarking countries and authorities around the world. With recent additions further expanding that coverage, Dialog remains the most comprehensive online resource for intellectual property information.

Dialog and Univentio Launch German Fulltext Patents File

German Fulltext Patents (File 324) is unique in the world today and only available on Dialog. Currently, no other online resource offers patent searchers a German fulltext file of this size and coverage. Other sources have data back to 1987 only and do not include the utility model.

The German Fulltext Patents file on Dialog contains over 2 million records starting from January 1, 1980 to the present. The file is updated weekly and contains all German applications (A), granted patents (both B and C) and utility models (U) for the entire period. The fulltext covers all parts of the document, including the claims section, with individually tagged claims.

A unique feature of the file is the addition of machine translations, which let you perform keyword searches in English throughout the document, including the claims and description, to find relevant records. You can then easily identify the documents important enough to have the patent translated by an official translator.

Because the period of opposition is limited to only a few months, timeliness is critical with German patents. Updates for File 324, including the machine translations, are available within four to five working days after publication.

Completeness is also essential. Univentio has identified scans missing from the German patent office and has collected and scanned paper versions of the patents. For the period 1980 to the present, Univentio is adding 10,060 records missing from the official sources.

Slovak Republic Trademark File Now on Dialog

The Dialog collection of European trademark files will expand in February to includeTRADEMARKSCAN®—Slovak Republic (File 676). The new file, provided by Thomson & Thomson and produced by Compu-Mark, is designed to be similar in structure to the Central European databases launched earlier this year and brings the TRADEMARKSCAN collection one step closer to complete European Union coverage.

Trademarks can be searched using the words in the mark, the Rotated Trademark field using TR= and the International Class field (IC=). File 676 is also enhanced with trademark images and translated Goods and Services description information. File 676 can be searched individually or using OneSearch® with the EUROTMKS category. This file is also included in the global TMKS and TRADEMKS OneSearch® categories.

File 676 contains approximately 47,181 records and is updated monthly. Rates are $5.50 per DialUnit or $1.08 per minute and $2.90 for full record typed, displayed or printed with or without the image. Alerts are $40.00 per monthly or quarterly update. A sample trademark from File 676 is shown in Figure 1.

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