Category Archives: PatentScope

PatentScope Adds Patents of Brazil

Posted on November 6, 2010 by mjwhitekingston

PatentScope now includes the national patent collection of Brazil. Data coverage begins in 1972 for bibliographic data and 1989 for abstracts. The total number of records is about 147,000.

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PCT Coverage in Public Patent Databases

Posted on January 26, 2010 by mjwhitekingston

How the data in a database or search engine is structured is as important (or more so) as the data itself. I was reminded of this old rule-of-thumb a couple of weeks ago when I decided to compare coverage of … Continue reading →

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New Kind Codes for Republished PCT Documents

Posted on December 30, 2008 by mjwhitekingston

WIPO is introducing three new kind codes for republished international applications that will be implemented on Jan. 1, 2009. The codes are: A4 = Later publication of amended claims and/or statement (PCT Article 19) with revised front page A8 = … Continue reading →

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PatentScope Suppresses Inventor Address Data

Posted on December 29, 2008 by mjwhitekingston

WIPO has announced that due to privacy concerns it will remove address data for inventors and individual applicants from its PatentScope database. The data will not be indexed or displayed in Internet search engines. This will not affect PatentScope searches … Continue reading →

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