Patent Abstracts Bulletin

Another technology utilization publication, the Patent Abstracts Bulletin, deals with NASA-patented inventions available for licensing, which number now more than 3,500. 

Traditional paging through patent office gazettes and printed abstract bulletins stiU serves a usefiil purpose in patent alerting. It can be difficult to frame a query for a computer search on all the subject matter that might be of interest to an organization. The human mind can spot unanticipated material and relate it to interests, something presendy beyond the power of the computer. 

Most new patent cases of interest are pubHshed by at least one of the U.S., European, or Japanese patent offices, and WIPO (PCT). Japan presents problems for those not able to read Japanese, but the U.S. Official Ga tte (with representative claims) and PCT Ga tte (with English-language abstracts) can be in one s hands within a week of patent pubHcation. Similar timing is available for the European Patent Office bulletin which contains trilingual tides and the on-line EPAT file and various CD-ROM products. A highly effective alerting program can be developed from a combination of these methods. 

These procedures serve a number of purposes in addition to maintaining the files. For example, the selections made in Chemical Abstracts are checked for completeness of coverage both at Mellon Institute and at Gulf Research, and a mimeographed bulletin is prepared for each issue it contains all the abstracts considered by the selectors to be of interest to Gulf Research personnel. This bulletin, prepared by the Information Section, is so arranged that individual abstracts can be clipped from it, pasted on file cards, and added to each man s personal file. The patent abstracts are published monthly in a mimeographed bulletin put out by the Patent Section. Thus, the entire technical personnel of the company is kept abreast of current developments in the field, and each man may build a personal file to suit his particular needs. 

Petroleum Abstracts. 1965-. http //www.pa.utulsa.edu/ (accessed July 23, 2010). Provides coverage of oil and gas exploration, production, transportation storage, environment, safety and health, relevant to the upstream sector of the petroleum industry. Entries are created from over 300 journals, 200 conference proceedings, patents, government documents, books, reports, dissertations, maps, and other sources. Over 900,000 entries as of July 2010, with 35,000 added yearly. PA is available in a number of formats, including via vendors, such as Dialog, Ovid, EBSCO/EBSCOhost, Questel/Orbit, and STN, where it is also known as TULSA. It is available via the Internet as the Petroleum Abstracts Discovery Database. The Petroleum Abstracts Bulletin is published 50 times a year, and is sent by e-mail, with 400-600 abstracts per issue. 

Patent specifications are published in a form similar to ours and the abstracts are published in the Bulletin of Inventions, ByuUleten Izobretenii, which is roughly comparable to the Official Gazette, United States Patent Office (2). 

Bulletin de la societe chimique de France 14), This is the official journal of the French Chemical Society and is devoted to the field of pure chemistry. It has been published since 1858 and has gone through a number of variations in publication procedure. The Bulletin used to appear in alternate volumes of papers and abstracts with the Memoirs in odd-numbered volumes and the Documentation in even-numbered ones. Abstracts were started in 1863 and, for some years prior to 1930, abstracts of foreign papers were printed separately then all abstracts were combined in one volume. No abstracts of patents are included. Memoirs and Documentation sections were merged in 1946, and the Documentation section was discontinued in 1949. The Documentation part of this journal, up to 1949, is an important source of French abstracts in pure chemistry after this date, the Bulletin anolytique should be consulted. 

CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE Division of the Ameriean Chemieal Society, 2540 Olentangy River Road, Columbus OH 43210, (614) 447-3731. Established 1907. Over 13 million abstracts of chemical related literature and patents, and over 16 million material records. Publishes numerous abstracts, current awareness bulletins, and registry handbooks. Most literature now also available on CD-ROMs and online through STN International, which has 200 databases available. Connected to international databases. 

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