Autumn 2004
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What News?

Introducing PatReader: New productivity tool for full-text scanning

What's New in Patents?

PatentExaminer Update
PatentExaminer RoadShow : THE Patent portfolio and project management system
Anacubis VLX Export Enhancement

What's New in Trademarks?

Our Trademark collection is growing to Eastern Europe

 

 

Introducing PatReader:
New productivity tool for full-text scanning

Questel•Orbit (www.questel.com) and Lingway (www.lingway.com), provider of high level linguistic technologies, announce the release of PatReader. This new product is the first commercial project released under the new joint venture announced earlier this month by Questel•Orbit and Lingway, and joins PatentExaminer as one of the new range of productivity tools released by Questel•Orbit this year.

PatReader is a new visualization tool for quick and accurate scanning of full-text patents. It extracts and synthesizes all relevant information, and lays out the document in a convenient two-column format with elements on the left linked to the full-text on the right.

Features include:

Assisted Reading

With a two column layout, the left column identifies key elements such as inventors, assignees, patent objectives, advantages and independent claims with right hand column view of the corresponding text.

Text Highlighting

Color coding quickly distinguishes between text that describes the patent objective, advantages or independent claims.

Synthetic Views

Browse easily from the items tagged by the synthetic view to the retrieved results. Independent claims are identified and linked. Links from phrases found to the precise location of the phrases in the full-text of the patent. Links hard-to-find information, such as patent numbers, buried in the full-text of the patents.


English language results from a search in one of the full-text files, EPAPAT, EPBPAT, PCTFULL, USPAT and USAPPS can be easily exported into PatReader. After an online search in one of the full-text files, the EXPORT feature is used to export the results, as well as the corresponding full-text records into PatReader. An email will be sent to you when the results are available in PatReader. SDI results can also be exported into PatReader.

Please contact your Questel•Orbit Sales Representative for information regarding annual and monthly subscriptions to PatReader.

For additional information and examples on PatReader please click here.

Questel•Orbit export to PatReader instructions can be found here.

   

PatentExaminer Update

PatentExaminer was launched only a couple of months ago and the customer response have been very positive. Not only do they appreciate its visualization and examination aspects showing full-text patents and original facsimile patents side-by-side, but it is also seen as a fantastic scanning tool. Using PatentExaminer’s display flexibility, patent text as well as the drawing pages can be simultaneously displayed, and a large set of patent records can be quickly scanned.

Because customers see this as a very unique and useful way of using PatentExaminer, they have requested to have this at a fixed cost. So as a result, we are now offering fixed annual PatentExaminer subscriptions to our customer using PlusPat in our Fixed Fee plans. If you are interested in either our Fixed Fee or PatentExaminer subscription plans, please contact your Questel•Orbit Sales Representative.


 

 
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PatentExaminer RoadShow :
THE Patent portfolio and project management system


Join us in one of the following sessions to discover the numerous possibilities offered by our new exclusive PatentExaminer tool: scanning, selecting, examining, organizing, annotating, sharing, sorting, filtering, etc.

USA RoadShow:
--- New York City - (date and location to be announced soon)
--- McLean - October, 28th - Questel•Orbit offices
--- San Francisco - November, 18th - (location to be announced soon)

UK RoadShow:
--- Manchester - November, 3rd - Conference Center
--- London - November, 10th - Paddington Hilton

To register, please fill out the REGISTRATION FORM or contact us at:
- USA: laymonin@questel.com
- United Kingdom : uk@questel.com

 

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Anacubis VLX Export Enhancement

While exporting PlusPat results to anacubis is not new, exporting enhancements in the anacubis VLX format is. Now Questel•Orbit customers using PlusPat via Qweb, Imagination, and QPAT can now export their results in the anacubis VLX format, greatly simplifying importing the results directly into the anacubis desktop software.

Not only has the export/import process been simplified, but all PlusPat record information is included in the export allowing comprehensive analysis possibilities in the anacubis desktop software.

With the anacubis desktop, the complex relationships in patents - from cited references, connections between assignees and inventors, and even patent families, can instantly be understood. Contact anacubis (www.anacubis.com) directly for more information on their desktop solutions.

Customers with Fixed Fee which include PlusPat, and QPAT subscribers can export PlusPat results to anacubis at no additional cost. If you are not yet a Fixed Fee customer but are interested in exporting results to anacubis, the per-record price of 30 USD/Euros, is a substantial reduction in the standard PlusPat display.

Exporting from QPAT can be done by selecting the records and choosing the anacubis option from the Export service. For online customers, the new EXPORT feature and easy-to-use menu can be used. In the EXPORT menu on the Page Setting menu – simply choose option 8, “ 8 – Anacubis”, and the results will be emailed to you in a few minutes.

   
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Our Trademark collection is growing to Eastern Europe

The databases covering the Czech Republic, Hungaria, Lituania and Poland are now available on our TrademarkExplorer service (www.trademarkexplorer.com).
Very soon, the file covering Slovakia will be added.

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