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New on STN

July 2010

CAS coverage of global patent authorities has expanded to 61 with the addition of Costa Rica

July 2010

INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB - Enhanced coverage of citation information

June 2010

Introducing “CAS Chemistry Research Report”: 40 Years of Biofuel Research Reveal China Now Atop U.S. in Patenting and Commercialization of Bioethanol

Meet us at

EPO Patent Information Conference 2010 (EPOPIC), Lausanne, Oct 19 - 21

STN User Meetings

München, 20.09.2010
Frankfurt, 06.10.2010
Essen, 02.11.2010

Patents

A class on classification (PIUG NE 2009)(10/2009) 
 
Basic Patent Search Techniques (10/2003) 
 
CAS coverage of patents (CAplus) 
Coverage of CAplus Basic Patents by Authority and Year 
Details of patents covered in current DWPI and WPIFV updates 
DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR) Reference Manual (06/2007) 
 
DWPI Chemistry Resource (DCR) Workshop (02/2008) 
 
DWPI Classification (2006) 
 
DWPI First View Index (03/2004) 
 
DWPI on STN Tools of the Trade (08/2006) 
 
DWPI on STN User Guide (04/2009) 
 
DWPI on STN Workshop Manual (01/2009) 
 
DWPI Reload: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) (10/2006) 
 
DWPI Reloaded & Enhanced (PIUG NE 2006 Workshop, 10/2006) 
 
DWPI: Summary Table of Original Publication Data Coverage at the Member Level (12/2009) 
 
Effective Multifile Searching for Patent Prior Art (10/2006) 
 
EPFULL Legal Status Codes (11/2006) 
 
Exploring DWPI in STN AnaVist, Version 2.0 (revised 06/2008) 
 
F-Term – Classification for Japanese patents (JAICI, 01/2009) 
 
Finding Patents with STNEasy (rev. 10/2002) 
 
Full List of Abbreviations for Set Abbreviations (03/2004) 
 
Global Patent Sources (for DWPI) (01/2007) 
 
Guide to Patent Full-text databases, Workshop Manual (04/2003) 
 
Guide to STN Patent Databases (01/2010) - basic version 
 
Guide to STN Patent Databases (01/2010) - full version 
 
INPADOC News 2007/11: New and improved post grant EP legal status 
 
INPADOC News 2007/12: Learning File LINPADOCDB is now available 
 
INPADOC News 2008/02: Legal Status changes for EP (revised) 
 
INPADOC News 2008/04: Amendment of the Swiss Patent Law 
 
INPADOC News 2008/06: Legal Status news for Ireland (IE), UK (GB) and Eurasia (EA) 
 
INPADOC News 2008/08: Extended Legal Status Events 
 
INPADOC News 2009/03: New display formats in INPAFAMDB and INPADOCDB 
 
INPADOC News 2009/07: New Russian legal status data 
 
INPADOC News 2009/09: Country Coverage for South and Latin America 
 
INPADOC News 2009/10: New display fields and formats in INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB 
 
INPADOC News 2009/10_2: Announcement on Polish legal status data 
 
INPADOC News 2010/01: Enhancements for INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB (revised) 
 
INPADOC News 2010/02: Further Enhancements for INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB 
 
INPADOC News 2010/07: Enhanced Coverage of Citation Information in INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB 
 
INPADOCDB & INPAFAMDB (STN User Meeting, 05/2008) 
 
INPADOCDB on STN: New Features and Enhanced Content (07/2007) 
 
INPADOCDB patent kind code list 
 
INPADOCDB priority application kind code list 
 
INPADOCDB Workshop Manual (04/2008) 
 
INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB Handbook (02/2010) 
 
INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB Handbuch (02/2010) (in German) 
 
Introduction to Patent Terminology (08/2001) 
 
Leitfaden für Patentrecherchen mit STN EASY (in German) (12/2005) 
 
Leitfaden zu STN-Patentdatenbanken (01/2010) - Basisversion (in German) 
 
Leitfaden zu STN-Patentdatenbanken (01/2010) - Vollversion (in German) 
 
Make a Search on the Safe Side - A Case Study in the Pharma Field (IPI-Conf Ex, 03/2008) 
 
Making the Difference – Enhancing the Quality of First Level Patent Data (03/2007) 
 
Manual Code Look-Up Tool 
Navigating INPAFAMDB - Easy Recipes to Get Relevant Results (09/2008) 
 
Patent families and where to find them (PIUG Annual Conference) (05/2004) 
 
Patent family information in CAplus (STN Note 19, 12/1998) 
 
Patentfamilieninformation auf STN (in German) (2009) 
 
PCI Reference Manual (02/2008) 
 
Performing Effective Freedom to Operate Searches on STN (07/2005) 
 
Publication Kind Codes (PK) covered in CAplus 
Publication Kind Codes in CA, INPADOC, DWPI (07/2010) - English - A4-format 
 
Publication Kind Codes in CA, INPADOC, DWPI (07/2010) - English - US letter-format 
 
Publication Kind Codes in CA, INPADOC, DWPI (09/2009) - compl. list in 1 file 
 
Quer der Dinge - ERFAPAT 2009 (in German) 
 
Searching full-text patent files on STN (04/2006) 
 
STN Patent Forum archives (US) 
Structure searching DWPI using STN Express (PIUG NE 2008 Workshop, 10/2008) 
 
Summary of INPADOCDB features & content (05/2007) 
 
Summary of INPAFAMDB features & content (05/2008) 
 
The Art of ECLA (09/2008) 
 
The Facts on Legal Status - Who, What, Where, When and Why (PIUG NE, 10/2008) 
 
The History of Derwent & STN (12/2001) 
 
Tipps & Tricks vom Helpdesk (in German) (2009) 
 
Tips for Running Current Awareness Searches in Patent Files (2001) 
 
User Guides: Chemical Indexing 
User Guides: Engineering Indexing 
User Guides: Polymer Indexing 
Using FSEARCH and FSORT (12/1994) 
 
What's new on STN (2009) 
 
Workshop Manual for Patent Files (10/1999) 
 
WPIFV Annotated Sample Records (02/2004) 
 
WPIFV Help Sheet (02/2004) 
 
WPIFV Search Fields & Examples (02/2004) 
 
WPIFV User Guide (09/2004)