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.

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

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.

The MEETING and LESECHOS databases will be no longer available as from January 1st, 2006.

Information from CCI Paris
The DELPHES database will be unloaded on 1/1/2006.

IPC Reform (IPC V8) and Questel
The new Reformed IPC, also know as IPC 8, will be the standard for classifying patent documents starting January 1st 2006. This new standard was designed to be a living classification index to improve search and retrieval precision and overall a more efficient search tool.
The EPO, along with the USPTO, JPO, DPMA, and other offices, are also reclassifying the back-file patents using concordance tables based on ECLA, IPC v 1-7, so that approximately 95% of the back-file patents will be classified by mid-2006.