Google Products, IP Organization Sites & more – Updated Intellogist Resources

Last year, 39 categories were added to the Intellogist Community Reports to help users browse these informational articles based on:

• Country and Authority-specific searching (US, EPO, WIPO, India, Germany, Australia, etc)
• Field-specific categories (Chemical Searching, Genetic Sequence Searching, etc)
• Search Types (Brand/Trademark/Design Search, File History Search, Patent Search, Non-Patent Literature Search, etc)
• Price (Free or Subscription)

The collection of Community Reports has grown to over 485, so the Intellogist team decided to add additional categories to organize these reports on various prior art search resources by additional criteria like data producer, website type, and non-patent literature data type.  Do you want to know which Community Reports cover Google products or EPO products?  Or do you want to find all Community Reports on US government websites?  Now you can, using the 16 new categories added to the Intellogist Community Reports.

After the jump, view a full list of new categories used to organize these reports on a wide variety of patent and non-patent literature search and analysis tools!

New Intellogist Report on Orbit.com!

We’ve just released an Intellogist Report on an important patent search system, Orbit.com!  Check out the new Intellogist Report to learn all the coverage details about this major player in the patent search system field:

• Get an in-depth look at Orbit.com’s patent and non-patent-literature coverage, including modules that cover industrial designs and US patent litigation!

Search for industrial designs on the DesignFinder module of the Orbit platform.

• Learn about the unique FamPat file hosted on the Orbit.com platform, which organizes records into invention-based FamPat families and includes additional indexing through Key Content (Object of the invention, Advantages of the new invention and Drawback of prior art, and Independent claims) and Key Concepts.

Continue reading for an overview of more content from the Orbit.com Intellogist Report, plus a quick snippet from the report which outlines some of the strengths and weaknesses of this major patent search tool!

Major Updates to TotalPatent!

TotalPatent (created by LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc) is a large player in the patent search system field, and the it’s undergone a number of major updates in the last year.  The TotalPatent System Report on Intellogist is now fully updated, and you can read in detail about the new coverage and features available on the TotalPatent interface.  Broader coverage has been added to TotalPatent, and the system’s bibliographic collection features 100 patent authorities, including 30 in full text. New analytical tools, such as the option to compare and analyze up to three search result sets, and new organizational options, like the ability to create sub-folders and search within a work folder, have also been added to TotalPatent.

After the jump, get a taste of the latest coverage, search, download, analysis, and organizational features available on TotalPatent that are featured in the updated System Report on Intellogist!

The Latest Updates to STN (and Huge Changes to Come in 2012)

 The STN System Report on Intellogist has been fully updated, and I’d like to highlight a few of the latest changes to the search platform (operated jointly by CAS and FIZ-Karlsruhe).  Changes occurred to both the databases  accessible on the platform and to the platform interfaces available to end users (STN Express, STN on the Web, and STN Easy). New full-text patent databases were added to the system, additional improvements were made to existing patent full-text databases, improvements were made to biosequence and chemical structure search options, and new Assistants and Wizards were added to STN Express and STN on the Web.  Also learn about the major changes coming to the STN platform in 2012, including discontinuations of older versions of the STN Express platform and a new STN platform coming at the end of 2012.

Continue reading to learn about the latest changes to the STN interface and data files, and read about the big plans for a new STN search platform!

The Next Generation of WIPS Global: WIPS Global ADVANCED – Part 2

The WIPS Global Intellogist Report has been fully updated, and the big news is that a new system, WIPS Global ADVANCED, will be replacing WIPS Global version 4 by March 2013.  Last week we looked at the patent coverage and search features on WIPS Global ADVANCED, including the integrated search forms, step search options, and the new family, citation, and company search forms.  Now, let’s explore the result display and analysis features for the system, such as an Easy Viewer option to quickly scroll through search results and the SmartAngle analysis tool for analyzing collections of results.

Read on to learn about the analysis and viewing features of WIPS Global ADVANCED, and I’ll summarize what I felt were the main strengths and weaknesses of the system!

The Next Generation of WIPS Global: WIPS Global ADVANCED – Part 1

Hot on the heels of the updated Inspec Intellogist Report, we now have a fully updated WIPS Global Intellogist Report.  WIPS Global hasn’t seen too many changes since 2009, but some recent updates include:

• The latest version of ThinKlear Beta 0.1.1.0 became available on the WIPS Global website in February 2009.  This version only incorporated minimal changes, however.
• According to an informational pamphlet titled “WIPS Introduction,” WIPS obtained an ISO 27001 security certification in 2010.
• All full document images on WIPS were replaced with PDF files in January 2011.  The PIView program is no longer needed to review patent images on WIPS Global.

The biggest update, however, is that the current version of WIPS Global 4.0 will soon be retired, and a new system called WIPS Global ADVANCED will be taking its place!  The service was launched on February 1, 2012, and WIPS Global ADVANCED will completely replace WIPS 4.0 by March 31, 2013.

After the jump, we’ll look at the patent coverage and search options available on WIPS Global ADVANCED!