Patents USPTO

U.S. Patents FuUtext U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Dialog full-text U.S. patents... 

U.S. Patents. This file, produced by Derwent, Inc., covers U.S. patents from 1971 to the present. The database iacludes all bibliographic and front page information and the text of all claims. (Prom 1971 to 1974 the claims from many patents were not available from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) source tapes, and therefore are not iacluded.) The complete cl aim text can be searched from 1971 but can be ptinted only from 1982. Tides and patentee names are present ia their original form, aeither expanded nor standardized. There is no enhanced iadexiag. Examiner citations are directly searchable, and USPTO classification is updated when the tapes are received from the Patent Office. 

CLAIMS BIBLIO iacludes an abstract and claim ia additioa to basic bibliographic information for chemical and chemically related U.S. patents from 1950 and for all patents from 1963. AH claims are searchable and ptintable from 1971 claims for many patents are not avaHable from 1971 to 1974. Prom 1972, many tides have been enhanced with additional keywords to describe the iavention more clearly and to iadicate the presence of a drawiag chemical stmctures have beea coaverted so that they display ia linear format. Many company names have been standardized, and USPTO classification is updated aimuaHy to reflect reclassification projects. 

CLAIMS CLASS contains the tides of the classes and subclasses of the USPTO Manual of Classification. It can be searched by tide words to locate pertinent classes to use ia the bibliographic files and by class/subclass numbers to identify the classification assigned to a known patent. It is updated aimuaHy. 

APS (Automated Patent Searching) U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) MicroPatent covers U.S. granted patents 1975—present first page and exemplary claim updated monthly within two weeks of final issue date each month cumulated to one disk/three years... 

CASSIS USPTO USPTO Office of Electronic Data Conversion and Dissemination CASSIS, the Classification and Search Support Information System of the USPTO, comprises three subfiles CASSIS/BIB, bibHographic information for utiHty patents from 1969 and for others from 1977 CASSIS/CLASS, USPTO classification by patent number of class/subclass CASSIS/ASSIST, iadex to U.S. Manual of Classification U.S. Manual of Classification, Class Definitions IPC, U.S. Classification Concordance Manual of Patent Examining Procedure Attorneys/ Agents Roster, etc... 

FuUText USPTO MicroPatent covers U.S. granted patents 1991—present full text including examples, tables, but excluding drawiags, stmctures updated monthly, aot cumulated 12 disks /year... 

OG/PLUS USPTO Research PubHcations CD-ROM versioa of the USPTO Official Gazette covers 1990—preseat iacludes searchable subfiles PATENTS ISSUED, images of O.G. pages searchable by bibHographic fields and first page abstract PATENT STATUS Ede, track-iag post-issuance actions, eg, reexaminations, corrections and LITALERT, containing records of patent suits filed by U.S. District Courts with the USPTO updated monthly six disks/year... 

P atent- Image s USPTO MicroPatent covers U.S. granted patents 1990—present backfile to 1975 available uses the same Patsoft software as the ESPACE products... 

PatentView USPTO MicroPatent covers U.S. granted patents from 1986—present backfile to 1974 to be available ia 1994 customized subsets, eg, by company or technology, may be ordered... 

The requirements for regulatory approval and intellectual property management, and in particular the ability to file USPTO patent submissions, do place constraints on what systems can be applied for record keeping, but the good news is that there are no insurmountable barriers to these records being captured and managed electronically. 

However, adoption of ELNs as a standard tool within corporate research was hampered by both the legal and regulatory requirements of the time. The FDA, the federal courts, and the USPTO were not really aligned to adoption of electronic records for NDA submission or for patent purposes. This was to... 

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Web Patent Databases. The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) [72] offers free World Wide Web access, http // www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm, to a bibliographic patent database that uses the most current patent classification system, this may not match the classification data that appears on the printed patent, and to a full-text patent database that uses the classification data that appear on the printed patent, this may not match the current classification data. The databases start with January 1, 1976, patents. The full text of a patent includes all bibliographical data (e.g., inventor s name, the patent s title, the assignee s name, etc.) and the abstract, full description of the invention, and the claims. All the words in the text of the patent are searchable. If the patent number is known, the patent, regardless of year, can be ordered from the PTO. Automated searching of 1971 to date patents is available at some of the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries. Prior to 1971 searching can be done at the PTO facilities or at the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries. Commercial patent search services are also available. 

United States Patent and Trademark Office, [Internet]. URL http //www.uspto.gov/, accessed 1-11-2002. 

Most of the equivalent patents are incorporated in the discussion, to give a sense of the international coverage to the reader. A summary of the main claim is included as a definition of the property subject matter. As could be seen the property subject matter of a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent generally, is identical to one of the corresponding US patent (from the US Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO). However, in some instances a WIPO patent has more than one US equivalent patent. The equivalence between WIPO and US patents will be discussed for each particular case wherever relevant. 

Today, nearly every important reagent or method reported in the literature has a patent or patent application associated with it, especially if it has potential commercial value. A search of the patent databases, such as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (http //www. uspto.gov/) or the European Patent Office (http //ep.espacenet.com/) for key words or the potential names of inventors can provide a list of any existing issued patents or patent applications related to a bioconjugate technique or compound. In addition, a fee-based service such as Delphion is particularly effective at finding patents related to any subject matter (http //www. delphion.com/). 

Server (www.patent.womplex.ibm.com) which gives access to over 26 years of US patent specifications the UK Patent Office (www.patent.gov.nk) the US Patent and Trademark Office (www.uspto.gov) and Biotechnology and US patents (www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Biotech-Patents). 

A word on bibliographic references is in order at this point. The patents that comprise a signihcant proportion of references were often not readily accessible 10 years ago to help the reader, those were usually accompanied by a reference to that patent recorded in Chemical Abstracts. The ready availability of actual images to U.S. patents (www.uspto.gov) and those from abroad (http // ep.espacenet.com) has led to the deletion of the now-superfluous Chemical Abstracts reference. 

The utilization of patent information is, of course, promoted by diverse patent authorities. The European Patent Office (http //www.european-patent-office.org/) provides a service called esp cenet, which is easily accessible via the Internet (http //ep.espacenet.com/). In addition, inventors might conduct online file inspections via a service called epoline, which can be reached at http //www.epoline.org/. The user gains direct access to all published European patent applications and patents stored in electronic form. Patent information services are also offered by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (http //www.uspto.gov/). 

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides a service under the Disclosure Document Program to give evidence as to the date of conception of an invention [5]. An inventor may disclose the conception of his invention in a Disclosure Document to the USPTO for a nominal fee. This document will be held in confidence by the USPTO. After a period of two years it will be destroyed unless a related patent application is filed within these two years. They caution that the Disclosure Document is not a patent application. The date of its receipt in the USPTO will not become the effective filing date of any patent application subsequently filed [6]. 

World Patent Index (WPI) Office (USPTO) Derwent Publications, Ltd. Dialog, Orbit, Questel, STN chemical, electrical, mechanical patents... 

Trademarks are used to protect names, brands, logos, and other marketing devices that are distinctive. Trademarks are somewhat more expensive. They generally can be filed for 750. It is also possible to do a trademark search on your own on the Internet through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Web site (www.uspto.gov). It is also possible to pay attorneys to do the search for you. 

The chemist dutifully brought this prior patent to the attention of her company s patent counsel, who promptly submitted the reference to the USPTO as prior art... 

Patent prosecution requires a duty of candor that includes a duty to provide material information to the USPTO during the prosecution of a patent application. This duty applies to patent counsel, inventors, and anybody else substantively involved in the preparation of the application and who is associated with an inventor, assignee, or one who is obligated to assign the patent application. Failure to comply with this duty can result in a finding of inequitable conduct, which can render the application unenforceable. The subject of inequitable conduct will be discussed in detail in Chapter 2. 

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