STN - your connection to patent and sci-tech information
STN is an online database service that provides global access to published research, journal literature, patents, structures, sequences, properties, and other data.
With STN, find precisely the patent and sci-tech information needed to make business-critical decisions:
- Assess risk for future research endeavors
- Defend corporate/organizational intellectual property
- Track competitive intelligence for existing products and those under development
- Access patent expiration and extension information
- Support strategic business planning
STN is operated jointly by CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe worldwide and is represented in Japan by JAICI.
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Featured Highlights
New STN® for Professional Searchers
A completely new STN will be phased into the market beginning this year.
The new platform offers improved efficiency and usability at the expert level and is particularly useful for patent search professionals.
Powerful new elements will include:
- Project-oriented workflow,
- Combined text and structure queries,
- Simultaneous query and results interaction,
- Real-time analysis of results, and
- Virtually no system limits.
While New STN will offer a wide range of advancements, it will also retain the unique values of STN that are trusted by patent search professionals today, including the STN command line, search precision, and high-quality content.
Teams of information technology professionals at FIZ Karlsruhe and CAS have designed and developed the new system with active guidance and insights from a global customer advisory council. The new system will greatly improve the efficiency when searching STN, resulting from improved workflow support for patent experts.
An alpha release was made available to the STN Advisory Council at the end of 2011. A release to global STN fixed fee customers will follow this year. The initial customer
release will comprise the core databases of CAS and Thomson Reuters, a number of full-text patent files, and a suite of critical features and functions. Subsequent releases will be enhanced with additional databases and functionality.
The current STN system, including STN Express and STN on the Web, will continue to be available and fully supported throughout the development of the new platform.