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Europe:
Ms. Kamsa HABOUCHI
Phone: +33 (0) 1 55 04 52 51
Email: khabouchi [at] questel.com
U.S.:
Ms. Sophie Ames
Phone: +1 (703) 519-1820
Email: sames [at] questel.com
 
2009  
October Questel advanced Portal:

This new state-of-the-art online portal applies the most advanced Web technologies to IP information services – all in one place: Search patents and designs; Manage your portfolio; Watch patents and legal status; Order and Download copies
more >> 
Create Sub-Directories in the Workfiles (PatentExaminer)

Please follow the guide and contact our Sales Administration to validate the functionality at adv@questel.com.

 New full text and biblio patent databases

  • FamPat: Questel’s invention-based patent family database – now enriched with full text
  • Full text from Brazil, Russia, and Scandinavia
  • Bibliographic data from India

Read more >>

June

New service: Watching Owner names

  • Many European countries: BX CH CY DE DK EE EU FI FR IE LT LV PL SE SI UK WO
  • 50€/ year for one register (including EU and WO, with a maximum of 250€)
  • 10/ additional register

 Please contact our customer service for further information: service.clients@edital.com

Questel Summer e-communiqué

  • Chinese Full Text (Beta): Machine Aided Translation
  • Japanese Full Text: From 2006, Machine Aided Translation
  • Korean Biblio (coming end of June): Human Translation
  • Indian Biblio: From 2005 (Pre-2005 available in FamPat)
  • and more...

Edital.com emailing on last updates

  • New database: Austria
  • Online Statistics
  • Worldwide Domain Names
  • Legal Opinion Assistant

New module in the Questel IP Portal: "Order Chemical Structures" Service from DecrIPt

Enter a patent number in the "Order Molecule" module of the Questel IP Portal and download/receive by email:

- The exemplified compounds (click to see a sample) mentioned in the patent; and
- Enumerated structures from the Markush structures (click to see a sample) of the patent.

In addition, DecrIPt also provides you with a similarity ranking in the enumerated structures file to enable comparison with the exemplified compounds.

May

Technology helps users get more from patent information
Siân Harris from Research Information, February-March 2009

What do patent information users need?
A patent is the link between R&D and the legal processes. This defines the players: researchers, IP professionals or patent information professionals, and the pure legal people who need patent information to use in court. We started by serving the IP experts but we have now broadened in both directions....
>> Read more

March

Edital.com: The last version

Searching:
- Search by OWNER has been improved. If you enter several words, the
system will look for both the words together and separately.
For example, for BGB COM it will look for (BGB AND COM) OR BGBCOM
- For a search by OWNER in the French register, the system will no longer look at the address.
 
Ergonomics of the portal:
- Registers are grouped in tabs by IP Rights and geographical regions.
If you click on "Registers" during a session, you will directly return to the tab of the category you were using.
- The different Views are available in a drop-down menu.
- It is now possible to select the print languages, the export and report formats directly in the toolbar without having to change the preferences.

Views:
- The Essential View contains the content of the Short View + the status and the description of the goods and services (with translations). The price of this new view is 2€.
- The Dual View. List View can now be combined with one of the 3 other Views. The combination has to be set up in the Preferences (Display tab).

 

You can display the details of a selected name (in the format you set up in your Preferences) simply by clicking the hyperlink on “Appl. N°” or “Reg. N°”.

You can easily resize the left pane (List View) or the right pane (2nd selected View) by clicking on the icons available at the bottom of the screen left of "Items".
 
Search Report:
- The Search Report is now available in the Standard Mode and includes the list and the details of the selected names. Contrary to the report in the Advanced Mode, it doesn’t contain the last chapter with the full list of names.
- The report is now available in .doc and .pdf in addition to .rtf. The default format is
the one selected for the export. If  you selected .xls or .xml for the Export, the default format for the Report will be .rtf.
- The definition of the asked questions in the Advanced Mode is included in the Search Report.

February

New patent e-communiqué

 

orbit.com (Qpat) updates - Launch of version 6.8

  • Receive Full-text alerts in Workfiles (PatentExaminer) workfiles
  • Translate 30 languages «on the fly» for all records
  • Type in any format of number for an easy retrieval
  • Analyze and graph (provided by Intellixir):
    • Member citation with a family grouping
    • Family enhanced with the FamPat family
    • Improvement of the analysis module from Workfiles (PatentExaminer) and orbit.com (Qpat))
  • Order file histories directly from orbit.com (Qpat). Require a DigiPat login, subscribe here for free)
  • Export in XLS one member per line with the details (optional, available from FamPat only)
January Questel adds searching from the Patent People to integrated IP services
Questel announced january 21th the addition of The Patent People to our family of companies. The Patent People will enable Questel to offer our customers comprehensive search services in technology areas such as electrical, chemical, petroleum, mechanical, and biotech, including:
· *Patentability and Novelty Searches
· *Collection Searches
· *Infringement Searches
· *Validity Searches
· *State-of-the-Art Searches

The Patent People will also strengthen Questel DigiPat’s IP document delivery business in providing:
· *Expanded File-History services and inventory (worldwide)
· *Patent Copies
· *Assignment and Title Searches
· *Copyright Searches
· *Legalizations and Authentications
· *Certifications (Patent and Trademark)

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