Spring 2003

What's New Patents

1. Electronic Offline Display
2. PDF Report Format Now Available in Additional Databases and the New PlusPat Family Report
3. A New Patent Evalutation Tool
4. A New Patent Citation Analysis and Visualization Tool
5. Patent Delivery Service (PDS)—Faster and More Extensive Than Ever
6. SDI and SDI in QPAT


New Feature: Electronic Offline Display

This new feature lets you:

  • Email search results to as many as six email addresses
  • Choose from any one of the following delivery formats: text, PDF, XML, RTF
  • Display records in a variety of Page Styles

Electronic Offline records are delivered within two hours of your request.

The following Page Styles are available with Electronic Offline delivery:

  • Fields Tags and without Page Breaks (pset 1)
  • Fields Tags and with Page Breaks (pset 2)
  • Full Field Names, Indented Text and without Page Breaks (pset 3)
  • Full Field Names, Indented Text and with Page Breaks (pset 4)
  • Report Format - a PDF report with document navigation (pset 5)

Here is the command syntax for using this new feature:

pr (format / fields) (records) <img> email <ascii / pdf/ rtf / xml>
pset #; ti (title) ;email (invokes prompting for addresses)

Examples:

pr max 1-15 img email pdf pset 4; ti catalyst project

Offline print in MAX format for records 1-15 with images, email in PDF format, display in page style 4 (Full Field Names, Indented Text and with Page Breaks), with the title “catalyst project”. Will default to sending to stored email address.

pr ti pn pa pr set email rtf pset 2; ti library; email

Offline print of the fields: Title, Patent Number, Patent Assignee, Priority Details, for the complete set of records, email in RTF format, display in page style 2 (Fields Tags and with Page Breaks), with the title “library”. The trailing email option will generate prompting for entering multiple email addresses.

PDF Report Record Page Style Now Available in Additional Databases and the New PlusPat Family Report

The user-friendly PDF Report formatting is now available in PlusPat, EPAPAT, EPBPAT, PCTFULL, USPAT, USAPPS, FRPAT and APPALERT.

This Report format includes a table of contents with Patent Number, Title, and Assignee information for each record, that offers hypertext link navigation to a “front-page” document display.

This record format is available with SDI Alerts and the newly released Electronic Offline Delivery feature.

To request delivery of this Report format:

  • In QWEB: on the Create SDI screen, choose the Report (available on selected databases) option from the Page Style
    drop-down menu.
  • From command-line entry: include the PSET 5 option in your SDI request or Offline delivery request (PR command).

A new PlusPat Family Report PDF display is now available with the SDI Alerts. This display is perfect for customers who run family alerts in PlusPat and want a display of the extended patent family along with bibliographic details and abstracts.

To request Pluspat Family Report format in SDI Alerts:

  • When using QWEB, on the Create SDI screen, choose the Report-  Merged Family (PlusPat only) option from the Page Style drop-down menu.
  • When using command-line entry, include the command PSET 6 in your SDI request.
IPscore—A New Patent Evalution Tool

Together with the Danish Patent Office, we now distribute IPscore, a patent valuing product. IPscore was developed by the Danish Patent Office in tandem with the Copenhagen Business School, and serves as a corporate tool for evaluating patent and development projects.

IPscore bases results on 40 assessment factors drawn from a company’s strategy, legal, technology market and finance standing, and yields qualitative and financial estimates of that company’s patent portfolio. IPscore provides a common framework for managing a company’s patent portfolios across departments and serves as a reliable, systematic means to prioritize projects that enhance the value of patent portfolios and allocate corporate resources in order to meet corporate goals.

New Patent Citation Analysis and Visualization Tool

Anacubis a powerful information visualization tool has been integrated into QPAT to provide patent citation analysis. Using the anacubis Viewer to analyze Pluspat records it will be possible to create extensive visualizations of patent citation trees with data from US, EP, PCT and French patents.

The anacubis Viewer lets you conduct analyses and visualization that are a cut above patent citation charts. It creates links that allow you to navigate through complex citation relationships. It automatically links forward and backward citation charts so you can discover hidden relationships between citing assignees, inventors and classifications.

All QPAT subscribers will have access to this capability free of charge when it is released in June 2003.

About anacubis:
Anacubis delivers visual research and analysis tools for use by information portals, corporations and research institutions that enable users to easily view complex relationships among constantly changing data. A division of the i2 Group, an international, award-winning company specializing in data analysis solutions.

A Faster, More Extensive Patent Delivery Service (PDS)

Check out our new PDS service, a low cost alternative for ordering patent copies. PDS now offers:

• Same day availability of US patent copies and Design patents
• E-mail delivery within in just two minutes using QPAT and QWEB’s new PDF icons
• Extended country coverage on QPAT and QWEB: AP, AT, BG, DD, DK, EE, ES, FI, GR, IE, IT, NL,   OA, RO, RU, SE, SU – joining the existing coverage of US, EP, PCT, GB, FR, DE, and CH

Coming soon: enhanced shopping basket, ordering multiple stage patent copies, and more.

SDI Alerts Now Available in QPAT

QPAT, our subscription-based patent searching product, now has the SDI Alert Service.

• Run alerts on all QPAT's databases, including PlusPat and the fulltext of patents and applications   from the US, EP, and PCT.
• Alerts are run weekly on all databases.
• Alerts are delivered in and easily-readable PDF files.

QPAT SDI Alerts are available as an add-on to the regular subscription.