| December |
Questel
Releases Redesigned and Enhanced QPAT
The new QPAT
design enhances user-friendliness and navigation while
adding additional searching power and features to search
Questel’s exclusive FamPat and PlusPat databases
as well as its extensive full text patent collection.
Enhancements include:
• Redesigned
search screen
• Enhanced
hit-list display
• Flexible
displays with enhanced links
QPAT v3 will be maintained through the end of January
2006, and a link to it is included on the QPAT
v4 login page. |
Fall
2005 e-communiqué
- Questel Acquires Edital
- SCREENING: Compact similarity and Phonetically
Identical Trademark Search
- WATCHING: Get your New Registered Trademark Watched
for FREE For One Whole Year
- DE Citations in FAMPAT and PLUSPAT WODESIGN: Reproduction Images of International Designs Available
- QPAT v4 available!
|
| The MEETING
and LESECHOS databases will be no longer available as
from January 1st, 2006.
Information from CCI Paris
The DELPHES database will be unloaded on 1/1/2006.
IPC Reform (IPC
V8) and Questel
The new Reformed IPC, also know as IPC 8, will be the
standard for classifying patent documents starting January
1st 2006. This new standard was designed to be a living
classification index to improve search and retrieval
precision and overall a more efficient search tool.
The EPO, along with the USPTO, JPO, DPMA, and other
offices, are also reclassifying the back-file patents
using concordance tables based on ECLA, IPC v 1-7, so
that approximately 95% of the back-file patents will
be classified by mid-2006. |
A
linguistical enriched search tool
From French publication L'Usine Nouvelle
[...] Pour ce spécialiste de la gestion de la propriété
industrielle, Lingway a développé une solution de recherche
adaptée aux brevets, que Questel revend à ses clients.
L'entreprise a d'ailleurs pris une participation de 18
% dans le capital de l'éditeur.[...] |
| Sponsor
of Jacques Emile Dubois Reward, Questel receives the recognition
of the Chemical Structure Association Trust in its Autumn
2005 Newsletter. |
| November |
DWPI
2006 Manual Code Revision
As part of ongoing development of Derwent World Patents
Index® (DWPI®), The Thomson Corporation has revised
its Manual Codes to reflect the latest developments in
technology.
The final revisions, including addition of brand new codes,
expansion or amendment of scope notes, and retirement
of old codes, took effect in the first file update of
this year.
Learn
more about the Manual Code |
| September |
Questel
Acquires Edital, and Consolidates its World Presence in
Trademark
Questel and Edital have announced that they have signed
a merger agreement under which Questel will acquire Edital.
This agreement allows two complementary companies to join
forces and confirm their global presence in both the trademark
and patent markets.
Find
out more about Edital...
In
the press... |
| August |
Late
Summer 2005 e-communiqué |
Reproduction
images of International designs
Questel is pleased to announce the release of the reproduction
images for the International designs published since May
28, 2004.
WODESIGN images can be displayed using:
•
QWEB and QWEB 2 which allow viewing of all the reproductions
available for one design
• Imagination Internet
(version 3.5a and above) which allows viewing of only
the first reproduction of a design |
| July |
Summer
2005 e-communiqué |
Questel
Acquires DigiPat, A Top Patent File History Provider
Questel, a leading worldwide provider of IP (intellectual
property) information solutions, announced that it has
acquired DigiPat, a US company based in Alexandria, Virginia.
DigiPat specializes in the delivery of US and international
patent and trademark documents in several convenient formats,
as well as providing offline research services. Their
close proximity to the USPTO allows them to obtain documents
quickly and provide their clients on site representation
at the Patent Office.
Learn
more about DigiPat... |
| June |
Questel
Releases Derwent World Patents Index® First View
Questel announced the release of Derwent World Patents
Index® First View (DWPI® First View).
DWPI First View (DWPIFV) is the alerting companion file
to Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) — the comprehensive
database of value-added patent information. DWPI users
will receive previews of the latest published patent documents
in advance of their inclusion in Derwent World Patents
Index. Searching DWPI First View in combination with Derwent
World Patents Index will provide users with a comprehensive
overview of global patenting activity. |
| May |
Spring
2005 e-communiqué |
| April |
Reproduction
images of French designs
Questel is pleased to announce the release of the
reproduction images for the French designs published since
February 16, 1996.
FRDESIGN images can be displayed using:
•
Qweb which allows viewing of all the reproductions available
for one design
• Version 3.5a of Imagination
Internet which allows viewing of only the first reproduction
of a design. |
Questel
annouces its 2004 results
We continued to underscore our strategy, which is
centered on the vertical integration of our services in
the field of intellectual property. |
Imagination
Version 3.5a
This new
version includes the new Markush
viewer and allows access but the Internet to the images
recently loaded in the databases:
• FIMARK,
Finnish trademarks
• FRDESIGN,
French designs (1 image per design)
It also allows display in FRTM of images available in
color for French trademarks filed in color and published
from BOPI 2005-06.
To update your version, open Imagination, then from the
Help menu, select "Check for updates” and follow
the instructions. |
| February |
Questel
launches FamPat: The Invention at the Heart of the Family
Questel is pleased to announce the availability of
FamPat, the family design of PlusPat which represents
a significant breakthrough in patent family databases.
It offers greater searching options as well as the added
display convenience of family records, making FamPat easier
to use than PlusPat. |
Imagination
Version 3.5
You can now search our new database FamPat
with Imagination. |
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