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News on patent, trademark and design databases on the Internet The Canadian patent office has added document images for pre1920 patents to its patent database at http://brevets-patents.ic.gc. ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html. Note that to find these it is necessary to search the date range as “issue date” rather than any other of the date range search options. The document images are the manuscript ones previously available online from Library and Archives Canada, and can be difficult to read. Chile now has a number of IP search databases available. The most recent 22 copies of the official patent journal are available for download at http://ion.inapi.cl:8080/Patente/NotificacionesDiarias.aspx. The main patent, utility model, and design database is at http://ion. inapi.cl:8080/Patente/ConsultaAvanzadaPatentes.aspx, and allows searching by title, abstract, applicant, inventor, registration or priority number, and application or priority date. It appears to cover the period back to 1990, although some older items are available. Bibliographic and brief status details are available, and for certain patents specifications are available as zipped TIFF files. Another database, at http://barion.inapi.cl/, offers information on patents over the period 1840-2008. It can be searched by a simple keyword search box which searches the full text of the documents, or by a search page offering title/abstract, applicant, application or grant number, and grant date. Documents are available as pdf scans of the typewritten originals. A trade mark search is available at http://ion.inapi.cl:8080/Marca/ BuscarMarca.aspx, and offers searches by application or registration number, applicant, mark text, Nice class, type of mark, status, and application, publication and registration dates. The OHIM international design database DesignView, at https:// www.tmdn.org/tmdsview-web/welcome, now includes registered designs from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Sweden. Coverage of Spanish designs has also been improved. The EPO has launched some significant new functionality to its European Patent Register, at https://register.epo.org/regviewer. Among the most important is that it is now possible to create RSS alerts of either new results for a search strategy, or events on a specific patent or application. This can be achieved by simply clicking on an RSS symbol at the head of the information in question. It is also now possible to perform a spreadsheet export of search results as .xls or .csv (although this is limited to twenty records, and only the title, application number, patent number and applicant are available), and to download all the file wrapper documents available for a specific item as a .zip archive folder of .pdf files. In more minor changes, EP application numbers can now be searched including the check digit, links to application and grant specifications from the European Publication Server are included in case pages, announcements of consolidation include direct links to the register entry for the other consolidated patent, alert emails for lapses in specific contracting states give more detail on which specific patent has lapsed, and more detailed information on the nature and meaning of specific events is included in the help section. Additionally, there are now deep links to the national patent status databases of Italy and Turkey. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2014.03.004 0172-2190
On 17th December 2013, the EPO announced that Patent Translate functionality on Espacenet had now been completed, with all 28 official languages used by member states available for translation to and from English, and 27 to and from French and German. From the first issue of 2014, the Official Journal of the EPO was published only online at http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legaltexts/official-journal.html, and all articles were published as individual HTML pages, as well as each complete journal issue being published as PDF. It is intended that articles from all earlier issues of the Journal since its commencement in 1978 will be converted into HTML format in the future. It is intended that an improved search functionality will be provided for the Journal, with fulltext searching, date range functionality, and the option to select specific types of article or announcement. From 7th January 2014, file wrapper material has been available from the German DPMARegister status database at https://register. dpma.de/DPMAregister/pat/einsteiger. Initially documents are available for all patents and utility models granted from 21st January 2013, and all published patent and utility model applications filed after the same date. The documents are available from the individual entries on DPMARegister, and earlier cases for which documents have not been digitised have a button to anonymously request digitisation. The DPMA is unable to promise any time period for digitisation to be carried out. The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at Strathmore University in Kenya has launched a site hosting information on Kenyan and ARIPO patents, at http://cipit.org/ index.php/resources/granted-patents. Page 1 of the site has a list of AP documents, while later pages list Kenyan granted patents. All the Kenyan documents and the most recent ARIPO documents have bibliographic information and many Kenyan patent specifications are available for download as pdf documents. There is a simple search box to find numbers or keywords in the bibliographic information. The section of records on South Korea’s KIPRIS database, at http://www.kipris.or.kr, covering legal decisions now includes English translations of all field labels. The WIPO Patentscope database, at http://patentscope.wipo. int, has added patents from Canada to its National Collections section. Bibliographic data is available from 1869 to date, and abstracts since 1875. No original specifications are included, but OCR searchable full text is available for later documents. It is planned to add Eurasian Patent Office, German, and UK material in the near future. The Philippines has launched a national trade mark database hosted by WIPO at http://www.wipo.int/branddb/ph/en/, and using the same interface as the WIPO Global Brand Database. There is no explicit statement of coverage, but it contains all current trade marks, plus a large number of lapsed or cancelled ones. This is the first such national database to be hosted by WIPO as a stand-
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alone system. The marks are also included on the Global Brand Database. The TMView international trade mark database at https://www. tmdn.org/tmview added current trade mark data from the USA and Russia on 18th December 2013, and South Korea on 12th February 2014.
Philip Eagle The British Library, Business and IP Collections, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK E-mail address: [email protected].
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
World Patent Information journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/worpatin
News on patent, trademark and design databases on the Internet The Canadian patent office has added document images for pre1920 patents to its patent database at http://brevets-patents.ic.gc. ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html. Note that to find these it is necessary to search the date range as “issue date” rather than any other of the date range search options. The document images are the manuscript ones previously available online from Library and Archives Canada, and can be difficult to read. Chile now has a number of IP search databases available. The most recent 22 copies of the official patent journal are available for download at http://ion.inapi.cl:8080/Patente/NotificacionesDiarias.aspx. The main patent, utility model, and design database is at http://ion. inapi.cl:8080/Patente/ConsultaAvanzadaPatentes.aspx, and allows searching by title, abstract, applicant, inventor, registration or priority number, and application or priority date. It appears to cover the period back to 1990, although some older items are available. Bibliographic and brief status details are available, and for certain patents specifications are available as zipped TIFF files. Another database, at http://barion.inapi.cl/, offers information on patents over the period 1840-2008. It can be searched by a simple keyword search box which searches the full text of the documents, or by a search page offering title/abstract, applicant, application or grant number, and grant date. Documents are available as pdf scans of the typewritten originals. A trade mark search is available at http://ion.inapi.cl:8080/Marca/ BuscarMarca.aspx, and offers searches by application or registration number, applicant, mark text, Nice class, type of mark, status, and application, publication and registration dates. The OHIM international design database DesignView, at https:// www.tmdn.org/tmdsview-web/welcome, now includes registered designs from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Sweden. Coverage of Spanish designs has also been improved. The EPO has launched some significant new functionality to its European Patent Register, at https://register.epo.org/regviewer. Among the most important is that it is now possible to create RSS alerts of either new results for a search strategy, or events on a specific patent or application. This can be achieved by simply clicking on an RSS symbol at the head of the information in question. It is also now possible to perform a spreadsheet export of search results as .xls or .csv (although this is limited to twenty records, and only the title, application number, patent number and applicant are available), and to download all the file wrapper documents available for a specific item as a .zip archive folder of .pdf files. In more minor changes, EP application numbers can now be searched including the check digit, links to application and grant specifications from the European Publication Server are included in case pages, announcements of consolidation include direct links to the register entry for the other consolidated patent, alert emails for lapses in specific contracting states give more detail on which specific patent has lapsed, and more detailed information on the nature and meaning of specific events is included in the help section. Additionally, there are now deep links to the national patent status databases of Italy and Turkey. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2014.03.004 0172-2190
On 17th December 2013, the EPO announced that Patent Translate functionality on Espacenet had now been completed, with all 28 official languages used by member states available for translation to and from English, and 27 to and from French and German. From the first issue of 2014, the Official Journal of the EPO was published only online at http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legaltexts/official-journal.html, and all articles were published as individual HTML pages, as well as each complete journal issue being published as PDF. It is intended that articles from all earlier issues of the Journal since its commencement in 1978 will be converted into HTML format in the future. It is intended that an improved search functionality will be provided for the Journal, with fulltext searching, date range functionality, and the option to select specific types of article or announcement. From 7th January 2014, file wrapper material has been available from the German DPMARegister status database at https://register. dpma.de/DPMAregister/pat/einsteiger. Initially documents are available for all patents and utility models granted from 21st January 2013, and all published patent and utility model applications filed after the same date. The documents are available from the individual entries on DPMARegister, and earlier cases for which documents have not been digitised have a button to anonymously request digitisation. The DPMA is unable to promise any time period for digitisation to be carried out. The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at Strathmore University in Kenya has launched a site hosting information on Kenyan and ARIPO patents, at http://cipit.org/ index.php/resources/granted-patents. Page 1 of the site has a list of AP documents, while later pages list Kenyan granted patents. All the Kenyan documents and the most recent ARIPO documents have bibliographic information and many Kenyan patent specifications are available for download as pdf documents. There is a simple search box to find numbers or keywords in the bibliographic information. The section of records on South Korea’s KIPRIS database, at http://www.kipris.or.kr, covering legal decisions now includes English translations of all field labels. The WIPO Patentscope database, at http://patentscope.wipo. int, has added patents from Canada to its National Collections section. Bibliographic data is available from 1869 to date, and abstracts since 1875. No original specifications are included, but OCR searchable full text is available for later documents. It is planned to add Eurasian Patent Office, German, and UK material in the near future. The Philippines has launched a national trade mark database hosted by WIPO at http://www.wipo.int/branddb/ph/en/, and using the same interface as the WIPO Global Brand Database. There is no explicit statement of coverage, but it contains all current trade marks, plus a large number of lapsed or cancelled ones. This is the first such national database to be hosted by WIPO as a stand-
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alone system. The marks are also included on the Global Brand Database. The TMView international trade mark database at https://www. tmdn.org/tmview added current trade mark data from the USA and Russia on 18th December 2013, and South Korea on 12th February 2014.
Philip Eagle The British Library, Business and IP Collections, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK E-mail address: [email protected].