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World Patent Information 33 (2011) 89
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News on patent, trademark and design databases on the Internet Australia is the latest office to create a step-by-step online selfassessment tool for businesses to explore their IP holdings. Their tool is known as Intellectual Property Explorer and has been developed in collaboration with the IP authorities of Hong Kong and Singapore. It can be found online at http://intellectualpropertyexplorer.com/. Additionally, it has been announced that from early next year the Auspat patent database at http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/auspat/index.htm will offer file wrappers for all applications since 2006 via an ‘‘eDossier” function. The Canadian IP office has announced that their trade mark database at http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/ bscSrch.do?lang=eng now offers more detailed information on the status of opposition proceedings. It now includes details of extensions of time, unsuccessful requests for extensions of time, and dispatch dates of correspondence. The office has also announced that the old national trade mark image classification, known as the ‘‘figurative headings”, will be abandoned from the end of 2010 and entirely replaced with the Vienna Classification, expanded with certain nationally specific extensions. A new website has been created by the Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe collecting legislation and legal decisions on copyright from many Latin American countries. The decision database also includes decisions from significant countries outside the region. The site can be found at http://www.cerlalc.org/derechoenlinea/dar/ and is entirely in Spanish. The European Patent Office’s web browser-based ESPACE EP database, offering sophisticated Mimosa-style searching of the most recent four week’s EP publications, is now available for beta testing. People interested should register at http://www.epo.org/ patents/patent-information/free.html. India has a new trade mark status database at https://www.ipindiaonline.gov.in/eregister/eregister.aspx. It is possible to search by number, or by a combination of mark text with proprietor and either Nice class or stated goods and service. Unfortunately, the wider trade mark database still requires pay access. Examination reports, prosecution histories, and registration certificates are claimed to be available, but have not been added in all cases. It is also now possible to view file wrapper material, including e-register, examination reports, and controller decisions from the entry for a patent application on the status database at http://ipindia.nic.in/ipirs1/patentsearch.html, when these are available. It has been reported that OHIM trade mark registration certificates can now be downloaded in their official format
doi:10.1016/j.wpi.2010.08.006
from the mark’s entry on the official RCD-Online database at #http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/pages/QPLUS/databases/searchCTM. en.do. This shows the mark registration after any corrections to the original published version have been made. They are available for most marks registered in 2010 but will probably not be added to the backfile. From 16th August, Spanish trade marks have been added to the gradually-developing unified European Union trade mark search database TMView, at http://www.tmview.europa.eu. The Taiwan IP Office have revamped their English-language search interface at http://twpat.tipo.gov.tw/tipotwoc/tipotwekm. It now offers four different search interfaces: ‘‘Quick Search” with numbers and keywords only, ‘‘Boolean Search” with the option to use multiple search boxes with pull-down menus to select fields, ‘‘Field Search” with separate search boxes for pre-selected fields, and ‘‘Advanced Search” which allows the creation of complex search statements. It is now also possible to download gazette entries as well as application and grant specifications as pdf files. It is also now possible to see backward citations to earlier Taiwanese documents. The USA Smithsonian Institution has published a new catalogue of their nineteenth-century patent models, containing indexes by patent number, title, inventor name, and inventor town or city of residence. The pdf version is available via WorldCat (warning: large files) at http://www.worldcat.org/title/patent-modelsindex-guide-to-the-collections-of-the-national-museum-of-american-history-smithsonian-institution/oclc/502304100. The introductory text describes a database of these models, but it does not appear to have been made available online. WIPO has launched an interactive map showing the locations of Applications of Origin protected under the Lisbon Agreement. It is available at http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/lisbon/lisbon-map.jsp. Currently only the countries that are signatories to that agreement are covered. The page allows searching on the map, or browsing in a directory tree by country, followed by status, followed by type of product. However the map currently only allows the user to select specific countries, rather than showing the actual geographic areas of the appellations. Philip Eagle The British Library, Business and Intellectual Property Centre, 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 Australia is the latest office to create a step-by-step online selfassessment tool for businesses to explore their IP holdings. Their tool is known as Intellectual Property Explorer and has been developed in collaboration with the IP authorities of Hong Kong and Singapore. It can be found online at http://intellectualpropertyexplorer.com/. Additionally, it has been announced that from early next year the Auspat patent database at http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/auspat/index.htm will offer file wrappers for all applications since 2006 via an ‘‘eDossier” function. The Canadian IP office has announced that their trade mark database at http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/ bscSrch.do?lang=eng now offers more detailed information on the status of opposition proceedings. It now includes details of extensions of time, unsuccessful requests for extensions of time, and dispatch dates of correspondence. The office has also announced that the old national trade mark image classification, known as the ‘‘figurative headings”, will be abandoned from the end of 2010 and entirely replaced with the Vienna Classification, expanded with certain nationally specific extensions. A new website has been created by the Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe collecting legislation and legal decisions on copyright from many Latin American countries. The decision database also includes decisions from significant countries outside the region. The site can be found at http://www.cerlalc.org/derechoenlinea/dar/ and is entirely in Spanish. The European Patent Office’s web browser-based ESPACE EP database, offering sophisticated Mimosa-style searching of the most recent four week’s EP publications, is now available for beta testing. People interested should register at http://www.epo.org/ patents/patent-information/free.html. India has a new trade mark status database at https://www.ipindiaonline.gov.in/eregister/eregister.aspx. It is possible to search by number, or by a combination of mark text with proprietor and either Nice class or stated goods and service. Unfortunately, the wider trade mark database still requires pay access. Examination reports, prosecution histories, and registration certificates are claimed to be available, but have not been added in all cases. It is also now possible to view file wrapper material, including e-register, examination reports, and controller decisions from the entry for a patent application on the status database at http://ipindia.nic.in/ipirs1/patentsearch.html, when these are available. It has been reported that OHIM trade mark registration certificates can now be downloaded in their official format
doi:10.1016/j.wpi.2010.08.006
from the mark’s entry on the official RCD-Online database at #http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/pages/QPLUS/databases/searchCTM. en.do. This shows the mark registration after any corrections to the original published version have been made. They are available for most marks registered in 2010 but will probably not be added to the backfile. From 16th August, Spanish trade marks have been added to the gradually-developing unified European Union trade mark search database TMView, at http://www.tmview.europa.eu. The Taiwan IP Office have revamped their English-language search interface at http://twpat.tipo.gov.tw/tipotwoc/tipotwekm. It now offers four different search interfaces: ‘‘Quick Search” with numbers and keywords only, ‘‘Boolean Search” with the option to use multiple search boxes with pull-down menus to select fields, ‘‘Field Search” with separate search boxes for pre-selected fields, and ‘‘Advanced Search” which allows the creation of complex search statements. It is now also possible to download gazette entries as well as application and grant specifications as pdf files. It is also now possible to see backward citations to earlier Taiwanese documents. The USA Smithsonian Institution has published a new catalogue of their nineteenth-century patent models, containing indexes by patent number, title, inventor name, and inventor town or city of residence. The pdf version is available via WorldCat (warning: large files) at http://www.worldcat.org/title/patent-modelsindex-guide-to-the-collections-of-the-national-museum-of-american-history-smithsonian-institution/oclc/502304100. The introductory text describes a database of these models, but it does not appear to have been made available online. WIPO has launched an interactive map showing the locations of Applications of Origin protected under the Lisbon Agreement. It is available at http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/lisbon/lisbon-map.jsp. Currently only the countries that are signatories to that agreement are covered. The page allows searching on the map, or browsing in a directory tree by country, followed by status, followed by type of product. However the map currently only allows the user to select specific countries, rather than showing the actual geographic areas of the appellations. Philip Eagle The British Library, Business and Intellectual Property Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK E-mail address: [email protected]