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Updates on our Services, Interfaces, Databases, and Company in 2008

November Questel IP portal for Patent
Questel has the pleasure to announce the release, on November 27th, of a new alerting service featuring additional flexibility and options.
Alerts portfolio
:
  • Accessible to all Questel users for retrieving, searching and managing alert results
  • All alerts and results are all available at www.questel.com/qip  and stored for a year at no cost (starting in September 2008)
QPAT 6.7 :
The above alerts portfolio is fully integrated into QPAT and makes alerts very easy to set up, consult, modify and manage. Thus, users can now choose :
  • to run alerts weekly or monthly (or even choose a different update code)
  • to receive results when an abstract  is available only
  • to refine or expand the strategy of existing alerts
  • to designate very easily the Workfiles (PatentExaminer) workfile module to store, analyse, rate, annotate alert results, attach documents and share everything or selected workfiles with your colleagues
  • to not receive email notification when an alert run shows no result
  • to not receive emails at all and consult results through the portfolio only
All alert results now also contain, at no additional cost:
  • a link to the patent copy in pdf (or to each family member's if a family is available)
  • a link to the mosaic of all drawings in pdf
  • a link to the available registers when available (CA, CN, EP, GB, KR, US, WO...)
  • a link to the dynamic citation graph (showing cited and citing references)

Finally, all alerts on patent legal status, family information or register modifications can be accessed from the same portfolio, in the designated section (PatLegal Monitor).




October

QPAT V6.6
Additional content
- Legal Status: More detailed information and much clearer organization of information
- Asian data: Faster updating
       Chinese, Korean records now available just 1 week after publication
       Japanese records available 2 weeks after publication
     Taiwanese records from 2003
- US full-text records back to 1920
- Searchable PDFs for recent EP, JP & US
- New drawings mosaics for US & JP

 New features¨
- Statistical analysis: Optional Intellixir 3D graphical plug-in accessible directly from QPAT hit list (as well as from workfiles)
- Citation report now includes relevancy categories (X,Y, A, etc) assigned by EPO Examiners
- PDF copies for all stages and/or equivalents with a single click
more>>

September

DesignFinder: Major Released Improvements
Improved Functionalities
- Reports:
       More formats: RTF, XML (HTML, PDF, XLS already present)
       Images available in all formats (even XLS reports)
       All fields can be included
- Alerts: receive only the latest release
- Session history to export in XLS

Comprehensive Searches
- Locarno Class can be searched without a ? at the end
       Ex.: LC= 19-01 Results= 19-01, 19-03, 19-04
- Possibility to search the previous owner, and designated countries
more >>

Additional Trademark databases in edital.com
New Zealand, Croatia, and Russia
more>>
August edital.com - Your new portal for trademark and design services
In our efforts to maintain a product evolution based on client feedback and market expectations, we are proud to announce on Monday, August 25th the launch of edital.com. This gateway allows you to manage all aspects of your Trade Mark and Design Services from a single, online interface: Search Reports and Watch Notices while linking straight to the Online Searching (former CaTaMaran service)
more >>
E-communique: edital.com: your new portal for trademark and design services 
Watch the Legal Status with PatLegal monitor
          - Easily place an order for registered users (every Questel ID except QPAT ones)
          - Register for new users
          - Receive just one email per alert
more >>
Our Legal Status Database (LGST) Reloaded
From now on, display and search actions affecting the legal status of a patent:
          - Follow name changes (owner, inventor, requestor, opposition, agent)
          - Search by event groups combining similar actions
          - Improve efficiency in validity searches with patent dead/alive indicators
more >>
Release of 3 databases: CA, KR, and JP
Cover now 10 countries in one search that goes back to the mid-19th century
more >>
July Designfinder: Release of 3 databases: CA, KR, and JP
Search now 10 countries in one click, and go back to the mid-19th century
more >> 
Summer 2008 e-communiqué
Article: Searching and monitoring trademarks
Trademark World – September 2008
March US backfile full-text: covering 1920 to 1973
QPAT Enhancements

1. Database content:

  • US backfile full-text:  covering 1920 to 1973,
  • CH, BE and AT full-text (coming in the next few weeks)

2. Features:

  • Machine translated titles and abstracts for:
    • DE and FR patents (from 2007)
    • JP, KR, and CN patents: Fast-track updating within 2-3 weeks after publication (from 2008
  • Natural and Multi-lingual search via our partnership with Lingway for PatentXL

  • Comprehensive JP legal status via our partnership with PATOLIS Corp.

  • More stats in the analysis module via our partnership with Intellixir

Network Graph for Assignee/IPC Enlarge View

February

Additional Cited References in PlusPat and FamPat
There are additional cited patents and non-patent literature for the following countries: BE, CH, NL, TR, AU, JP, BS, ES, SG, DK, LU, FI, CY, and IT.
With the existing cited references already offered (EP, WO, US, DE, FR, GB and JP A), we provide one of the most comprehensive cited reference coverage available.
Also, the Citation search field now includes standardized citation numbers and displays hit-term highlighting.

Edital.com: Update Japanese database

Edital.com: Update Russian Trademarks

January

New Module in Workfiles (PatentExaminer): Analyze, map, and create stats

Developed by Intellixir, Questel new module in Workfiles (PatentExaminer) is an IP management and analysis platform to map and create stats by date, country, priority country, inventor, assignee, IPC, etc. 
It also enables you to stat the evolution by appearance/disappearance/growing speed, inventors, assignee, and IPC class.
Find out more...

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