| December |
DesignFinder
Now Available
Questel is pleased to announce the release
of DesignFinder, our much anticipated system
for searching Registered Industrial Designs.
This product is administered within the new
division of Questel Design, which aims to
provide services to those companies and industries
that make strong use of the Designs system
as well as the law and design firms that support
them.
Key features include:
• Cross-search Designs from 7 authorities;
European Union, France, Germany, Great Britain,
Spain, US and WIPO
• Updated within 24 hours of Designs
Publication according to authority
• Watching/alert functions as well
as reports and exports
• Advanced workflow features such
as annotations and tags
• One record per design rather than
one record per application makes multi-design
applications, both single and multiclass,
easy to search for and review.
• Multilingual interface
• Annual Fixed Fee subscription
Databases coming
soon include : Benelux, Japan, China, Korea
DesignFinder is the perfect complement
to Questel's existing range of products
that cover Trademarks and Patents, all are
available through your local Questel representative
or help@questel.com.
Ask for your free trial of DesignFinder
today. |
New
Merged Markush Service features
•
Subset Searching Cost Reduction
•
PARSE Command!
• Sub-accounting
feature
• MMS Documentation Added
to Questel Home Page |
| September |
QPAT
v4.2 released
QPAT v4.2 includes significant enhancements
requested by our users:
•
Exports: Better formats and Increased Downloading
Speed
• Read/Unread
Hit-list Display Feature
• Star Feature
• Detachable
Tabs
• Improved
Session Management
• Enhanced
support of Back / Forward Browser Buttons |
Enhanced
Derwent World Patents Index® Now Available
on Questel
We are pleased to announce that the DWPI
file has been reloaded on Questel and includes
a number of enhancements and including access
to the new DWPIMV, Members View file. This
reload also includes DWPX and WPAM.
The new DWPI has the same look and feel
as the previous version but includes a number
of enhancements, including users now have
expanded content and improved features,
including:
- Addition of Inventor Abstracts in English,
French, and German
- Documentation Abstracts (DWPX only)
- DCR codes (previously only available in
MMS)
- IPC Reform (IPC 8) - Comprehensive from
2006 with the backfile being added
- US Patent Classification
- Research Disclosure information
- PATVIEW Feature to display the corresponding
Member View information from the DWPIMV
companion file
The DWPIMV Members View file contains the
first level data on which the DWPI file
is based, as well as the value-added DWPI
titles, abstracts, Technology Focus, standardized
assignee codes applied by Derwent The Thomson
Corporation to the identified basic family
member.
Additional DWPIMV content includes:
- First level patent data including titles,
abstracts, main claim (English, French or
German)
- Names and addresses for assignees, inventors
and agents (representatives)
- Classifications: US and historical IPC
data
- DWPI titles, abstracts, Technology Focus,
company codes
- Document type, such as Basic, Equivalent,
or Intellectual family
- Records in publication stage format and
not by family
For additional information please see the
new DWPI,
WPAM
Factsheets as well as the DWPI
Reload presentation. |
| August |
Important
Notice Regarding INPADOC
The INPADOC file as it is will no longer
be available after September 30th and after
this date all INPADOC file requests will
be automatically redirected to PlusPat.
This is necessary step for us to continue
development on the next generation of PlusPat
and FamPat, which will be available the
beginning of 2007.
PlusPat offers exactly the same patent data
and family search features as INPADOC but
contains considerably more information on
both the publication stages and patent families.
The only difference being that some kind
codes may differ slightly from INPADOC;
however in PlusPat the kind code definitions
are included in the displays.
Alerts currently running in INPADOC will
be transferred to PlusPat.
>
More about PlusPat
Users wishing to directly retrieve patent
family records are urged to consider searching
in FamPat. FamPat contains all the same
data as PlusPat but is organized by FamPat
family. Just as in INPADOC and PlusPat,
the FAM command may be used to generate
the INPADOC extended family.
>
More about FamPat |
| June |
The DEPAT
database won't be available after July 1st,
2006.
Research
Disclosures Reinstated in DWPI
The coverage of Research Disclosures has
been reinstated in Derwent World Patents
Index® (DWPISM), starting update 200638. |
Questel
acquires DesignMuster and expands offering
to registered industrial designs
Questel today announced the acquisition of
a majority share in DesignMuster, a start-up
company dedicated to registered industrial
design information. This start-up developed
DesignFinderSM, a very powerful workflow management
system aimed at federating, retrieving and
watching registered industrial design information.
A special focus has been put on rapidly browsing
large numbers of images and pictures. DesignFinderSM
communicates information securely between
right holders and agencies involved in the
policing and enforcement of intellectual property
rights. |
| May |
TransPerfect
Translations and Questel•Orbit, Inc.:
Partner to Provide Customers with Comprehensive
Translation Services and Patent Searches |
Enhanced
DWPI- Available Soon on Questel!
The Thomson Corporation has made important
enhancements to Derwent World Patents Index®
(DWPISM), the world’s leading database
of value-added patent information. These enhancements
give you new value-added and original patent
content -- plus an enhanced record structure
that will make all content easy to access
and use. The enhancements will also help searchers
benefit from all aspects of the new International
Patent Classification Reform (IPCR). |
| March |
Questel
Adds Patent alert Feature to the Merged
Markush Service (MMS)
Questel MMS customers can now set up and
receive Patent alerts (selective disseminations
of information also known as Alerts) for
new chemical structures added to the latest
updates in the Merged Markush Service. These
Patent alerts will extract new compound
number (CN) results from updates of MMS
that match an Patent alert query. Patent
alert results can in particular include
both generic and specific Derwent Compound
Registry (DCR) compound numbers. Customers
then have a choice of recalling these CN
results in either MMS or in the The Thomson
Corporation Derwent World Patents Index
bibliographic databases DWPI and DWPX.
View
the FactSheet
Upcoming
Features and Better Coverage in CaTaMaran®
Plus
View
the User Manual
Contact
Edital |
| Spring
2006 e-communiqué
- Release of FamPat Plus with Full-text
Key Content
- The Patent alert Feature in Merged Markush
Service (MMS)
- Upcoming Features and Better Coverage
in CaTaMaran® Plus
- E-Mark & E-Pat quarterly eNewsletter
|
Questel
Releases FamPat Plus with Full-Text Key Content
Questel announced today the release of FamPat
Plus, a full text key content enhancement
to its international patent database, FamPat,
offering users more focused, searchable and
displayable content.
This new key content in FamPat Plus includes
Patent Object, Advantages and Previous Patent
Drawbacks, as well as Independent Claims,
and offers users a number of advantages over
fulltext patent searching, including less
“noise” and more focused results,
as well as a way forcustomers to quickly find
key information which can sometimes be buried
within a patent’s full text. This strikes
the right balance between limited recall when
searching bibliographic patent files and the
flood of false drops often generated when
searching full text.
View
the FactSheet |
IPIConfex
- Athens, Greece
M. Pierre Buffet received the IPI-Award 2006
• M.
Pierre Buffet Speech
• Speech
in Honour of the IPI-Award Recipient 2006
M. Pierre Buffet, by M. Prof.Dr.-Ing. Georg
F. Schultheiss
• M.
Pierre Buffet Biography |
| February |
The TRIBUNE database won't be available
after March 1st, 2006. |
January
|
Tributes
to Everett Brenner
It is with great sadness that we have learned
of the death last week of Everett Brenner,
a pioneer in the development of electronic
information retrieval. Ev was the Director
of the Central Abstracting and Indexing Service
(CAIS) for the American Petroleum Institute
(API) from the early 1960s until his retirement
in 1988. Under his direction, API’s
renowned APILIT and APIPAT databases were
among the first to be made available online
in the mid-1970s. Ev was also instrumental
in the development of a machine-aided indexing
system that retrieved 70% of the required
controlled vocabulary automatically for these
databases.
Ev worked with many of us who are still involved
in information retrieval today: the API CAIS
employees; the customers involved in one of
the many API database task forces; and students
of the many courses he taught.
Ev taught us to always consider the opportunities
technology offered and not get stuck in old
ways. As CAIS employees under “Mr. Brenner”
(as most of us called him), we have very fond
memories of working with him and the extended
family that we became at CAIS under his guidance.
He was always positive, took bold chances
with our ideas, and had a smile on his face.
He was a great person to learn from and we
will always feel indebted to him.
Joe
Terlizzi - Questel's IP Specialist
Elliott Linder
- Questel's Sales Manager Northern America
A
case study of Questel in IP information
Mechtild Stock and Wolfgang G. Stock - Germany
"This study presents a detailed description
and analysis of an information-industry
company: the online-host Questel. [...]
We are going to outline the company’s
history originating from the two formerly
separate systems Orbit and Télésystèmes
Questel. We describe the company’s
present structure, its clients and content
supply, with a special focus on the retrieval
systems of patent information as well as
trademark information. Furthermore, we are
going to discuss the market situation of
these information products particularly
in regard to aspects such as competitive
position, cooperating partners, pricing
policy and critical success factors. Finally,
we present a SWOT analysis, an analysis
of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats." |
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