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present article gives a more complete description of this service and the use thereof in Czechoslovakia, stressing the partly centralised, partly decentralised character of the service. Also, some expected future developments of the ASBA service are indicated.
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Coaracy G. R. Guidelines for the planning and organization of a patent documentation and information center. World Patent Information 5 (I), 4 - 9. Knoll H. Observations on concordances. 5 (l), 19 - 34.
Some basic principles are established for the planning and organization of patent information centers in developing countries, based on the Brazilian experience.
The limitations and by examples derived the Classification, International Patent Classification. Also processing methods
Huther B. R. Automating the United States Patent and Trademark Office: a plan for the 1990s. World Patent Information 5 (I), IO- 14. To carry out its mission, the United States Patent and Trademark Office processes and examines over 100 000 patent and 60 000 trademark applications annually. The already large body of information against which those applications must be compared is growing rapidly. Since the files are paper and loosely assembled to facilitate searching, their integrity is degrading steadily because of lost or misfiled documents. These factors threaten to compromise the quality, even the viability, of the patent grant and the trademark registration. A cost-effective and technologically oriented system is clearly needed. LISPTO has undertaken a major develop a more efficient process technology. This article highlights strateg) to achieve the goal of trademark operation by the year
reliable During research through the major a fully 1990.
This article gives a report of a stud) of the extraction of information from patent literature, that was undertaken at the Netherlands Patent Office.
alternative to this paperthe past two years, the and planning effort to the use of computer aspects of a long-range automated patent and
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pitfalls of using concordances are illustrated from concordances between the German Patem United States Patent Classification, the Classification and the Universal Decimal the author speculates about the impact of data on patent classification concordances.
van Bommel L. The extraction of technical trend information from patent literature. World Patent Information 5 (l), 35 - 40.
A description is given of the method that was followed for the identification, selection and collecting of abstracts of patent documents in a certain technical field and for the carrying out of a trend analysis on the basis of these abstracts. The technical field selected of capillary membranes’.
MatPjka L. The ASBA service and the use thereof in Czechoslovakia. World Patent Information 5 (I), 15 - 18. The ASBA service was already referred ,l’^_,_l “^<^._. InJ”rN’U”“N I__‘-_..____,;^__ -I I,\ n “rl” r”,twl L I-‘,. ILIL 10-
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