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Questel•Orbit
Acquires Edital
And
Consolidates its World Presence in Trademarks
Questel•Orbit and Edital have announced that they have
signed a merger agreement under which Questel•Orbit
will acquire Edital. This agreement allows two complementary
companies to join forces and confirm their global presence
in both the trademark and patent markets.
For more than 20 years, Edital's sole purpose has been to
create smart solutions for the Intellectual Property professional.
Edital's extensive offering includes:
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CaTaMaran®
Plus - online tool enabling consultation and research
of information on trademarks, currently covering most
Registers of the European Community, the US and International
(Madrid Agreement & Protocol).
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Trademark
Searching & Watching Service – by our expert
team covering most Registers of the European Community,
International, US and INN Marks.
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CTM
Decision Finder - unique tool developed to allow users
to efficiently search among "inter-parties"
decisions rendered by the Office for Harmonization in
the Internal Market (OHIM) in proceedings against Community
Trademarks.
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WorldSuite®
- market leading IP Portfolio Management System. It is
a client-server based application with Internet capabilities,
which facilitates the management of trademarks, patents,
domain names, industrial designs and all related matters.
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E-Mark
and E-Pat – worldwide trademark and patent law
online.
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out more about Edital |
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SCREENING
Compact Similarity and Phonetically Identical
Trademark Search
On CaTaMaran Plus
CaTaMaran®
Plus, a revolutionary
Internet tool for applied-for and registered trademark searching,
now offers new features to trademark professionals:
• True Phonetically identical
Trademark Search
• Tailor-made Similarity
Trademark Search
Using
the power of our Searching
& Watching technology and by applying
the same algorithms, our clients will have now the possibility
to do their own broad phonetic search or even their compact
similarity search that normally would be outsourced.
Registers
included in CaTaMaran® Plus:
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International Trademarks (Madrid)
• Community Trademarks
• Benelux
• Canada
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia |
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Finland
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France
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Germany
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Hungary
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Mexico
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Norway
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Poland
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Slovak Republic
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Slovenia
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United Kingdom
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US Federal
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US States |
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WATCHING
Get
Your New Registered Trademark Watched For FREE
For One Whole Year
Starting
now until March 2006, benefit from our Promotional
Offer!
For any similarity search on a Trademark ordered through
EDITAL
that leads to a registration,
the watch on such Trademark is offered during a full year.
Start
your searches now!
Contact
your Questel•Orbit
or Edital
representative
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What's
New in Databases? |
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DE
Citations in FAMPAT and PLUSPAT
Over
1 million German Citations have been added to the PlusPat
and FamPat Databases, which already include Cited References
from EP, WO, US, DE, FR and GB files.
Soon, our two databases will also include JP Cited References,
Japanese FI/F-terms, and the new Reformed IPC, aslo known
as IPC 8, a standard for classifying patent documents.
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Reproduction
images of International Designs
The reproduction
images for the International designs, published since May
28, 2004, are now available in Questel•Orbit database
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
WODESIGN
Database Fact Sheet |
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What's
New in Services? |
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QPAT
v4 Available!
The
latest version of QPAT (www.qpat.com)
has been released. QPAT v4 is not simply an enhanced version,
but a significantly redesigned version, incorporating design
aspects and features based on our extensive two-year-long
customer and market survey.
The
new QPAT design enhances user-friendliness and navigation
while providing additional searching power and features,
as well as displays and exports.
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Search
Screen
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The
patent search screen has been redesigned to
meet the needs of both end-user and expert searchers, and
includes user-friendly entry boxes as well as a command-line
entry. Also new to QPAT v4 is the addition of an assignee
and inventor index look-up.
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Enhanced
Hitlist
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The
hit list has been enhanced to include a tabular
display which can be expanded to include abstracts and front-page
images, allowing it to be an excellent format to quickly
scan search results.
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Enhanced
Displays |
The
record displays have been designed allowing
you to quickly change the record view (format) as well as
incorporating quick links to the corresponding full text,
legal status, and both FamPat and extended (Inpadoc) families.
Electronic facsimile patents (PDFs) from our extensive collection
can be easily and quickly displayed from any of the record
views.
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We have also included a highlighting feature,
similar to that in PatentExaminer, which allows you to color-code
selected words so you can quickly see how they appear in
the full-text records.
Record
exports have been redesigned allowing you to
export either from the many record views or from the hitlist.
The exports include a number of useful record formats and
can be delivered in PDF, RTF, XLS, TXT, or XML.
These
are just some of the features of the new QPAT.
The
QPAT patent service includes access to our exclusive international
FamPat and PlusPat databases as well as our extensive collection
of full-text databases including: US, EP, PCT, France, Germany,
and British (coming soon).
To
assist migrating you and your users to QPAT v4.0, please click
here
to open the user manual (pdf). Also to smooth the transition,
we will be maintaining the previous version QPAT v3.5 until
the end of January 2006, and the link to it can be found on
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Upcoming Events |
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JANUARY 2006 |
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4
- 6 |
Washington,
DC - USA |
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19
- 20 |
Stockholm,
Sweden |
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19
- 22 |
Williamsburg,
VA - USA |
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Find out more on our events |
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Our
Upcoming Trainings
Web-based
Trainings - DWPI on Questel•Orbit
In
partnership with Thomson, Questel•Orbit is pleased to
offer web-based training programs.
In our one hour interactive sessions, you'll learn tricks
and tips for searching Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI)
on Questel•Orbit from experts, aimed at helping you
get the most out of DWPI for your business.
You'll also hear first-hand how new DWPI enhancements can
impact on your searches and results.
The
training is provided using the online conferencing tool WebEx.
WebEx lets class attendees view a live presentation over the
Internet and interact with the class instructor and attendees.
To attend a class all you need is a computer with Internet
access and a phone.
Find
out more about this training |
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