Andy Berks, Wyeth Ayerst
>>> Steve vanDulken <Steve.vanDulken@mail.bl.uk> - 11/19/97 4:01 AM
>>>
Judith, the patent offices themselves supply the data, with all
its
gaps, problems and delays.
I'd agree with the comment that the IPCs can be strange -- and
with
someone else's comment that the PCT sometimes doesn't classify
abstracts, putting them at the beginning of each week's
sequence. I
don't know of another authority that does that. Presumably the
PCTs on
disc are the same and it's only when they enter a national stage
that
anyone else thinks of giving them an IPC (e.g. when an EP number
is
assigned).
Steve van Dulken
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Subject: Comments and questions on information from INPADOC and PCT
Author: "Johnson; Judith" <JOHNS04@wolf.research.aa.wl.com> at
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Date: 18/11/97 16:35
In response to Stu's letter on Japanese B2 documents - I understand
that EDOC (Questel) also tracks Japanese patent status but I do not
know if it depends on the same information that is sent to INAPDOC -
does anyone know?
INPADOC seems to get sporadic information. I wanted to know
how many patents were assigned to a certain company in INDIA and
found only a few listed in INPADOC. A patent agent found in India
found many more. Who is responsible for supplying the patent
information from each country to INPADOC?
I am dismayed as everyone else about the removal of the
drawings and abstracts from the PCT Gazette and having it online
would be a good substitute only if the structures were provided.
Also, sometimes I find relevant patents in the oddest sections in
the Gazette - with an assigned IC that I would not have expected. So
that means I might miss something when I run a search on the CD by IC
codes.
Judy Johnson Philipsen
Warner Lambert