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USPTO Resdesigns Website
The USPTO has updated its homepage, the first major redesign in more than five years. The new design is modern and eye-catching. Unfortunately, the search interface of the USPTO patent database looks like it did in 1999.
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Strong Growth in Patent Applications Worldwide
Applications for patents and other forms of IP rebounded strongly in 2010, so says a new report from WIPO. Inventors and companies filed 1.98 million patent applications worldwide in 2010, a new record. China and the U.S. accounted for about … Continue reading
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PatentScope Adds Russian/Soviet Patents
PatentScope now includes records for Russian and Soviet patent documents from 1919 to 2010, about 1.4 million patent documents. Full-text is not include, but abstracts are available from 1960 forward.
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Cooperative Patent Classification Project
The USPTO and EPO have launched a website for information about the Cooperative Patent Classification Project, which aims to create a shared patent classification system based on ECLA.
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New Bio: Inventor Hedy Lamarr
Inventor/actress Hedy Lamarr is the subject of a new bio by Richard Rhodes: Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. New York: Doubleday, 2011. In 1942 Lamarr and composer George … Continue reading
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Ed Pauls, Inventor of the NordicTrack
Ed Pauls, inventor of the NordicTrack cross-country ski exerciser, died last month at the age of 80. He patented his ski machine in 1977 (US 4,023,795). Pauls was not the first inventor to conceive of an exercise machine that simulated … Continue reading
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Statistical Country Profiles from WIPO
Statistical country profiles for more than one hundred countries are now available on the WIPO website. Each profile provides information on patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs from 1995 to the present. Patent applications by the top fields of … Continue reading
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PatentScope Adds Kenyan Patents
The national patent collection of Kenya (KE) is now available in PatentScope. Bibliographic records for about 323 patent documents published from May 1996 to Jan. 2011 are included. Full-text documents are not available at this time.
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USPTO Rebrands Library Network
The USPTO’s national network of libraries that provide patent and trademark information to the public has a new name. The libraries formerly called Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries will know be known as Patent and Trademark Resource Centers. There are … Continue reading
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Patentscope 1.0 Retires on Oct. 13
WIPO will phase out its PatentScope “Classic” search system on Oct. 13, 2011. All searches will be directed to the new PatentScope, which was introduced in 2009. WIPO launched the original PatentScope in 2003.
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Patent Librarian's Notebook 