Information Sources in Patents

✍ Scribed by Stephen Adams

• Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 688
• Edition: 4th completely rev. ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This completely revised and expanded edition recognises the growing importance of patent systems and documentation from Asia, South America and Africa. The most prominent patent systems from these regions are treated individually, together with revisions to existing country coverage and an overview of IP developments in general. This is an essential reference tool for librarians, information specialists, data analysts and others seeking to use patent information either at the document level or in bulk.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to fourth edition
Preface to third edition
Preface to second edition
Contents
Index of figures
Index of tables
Part I: Patent processes and documentation
Chapter 1. Principles of patenting
Chapter 2. The European Patent system
Chapter 3. The United States Patent system
Chapter 4. The Japanese patent system
Chapter 5. The Patent Co-operation Treaty
Chapter 6. National patent systems of the G8 countries
Chapter 7. Asia and Australasia
Chapter 8. South America and Mexico
Chapter 9. Africa and the Middle East
Part II: Databases and search techniques
Chapter 10. Patent guides and libraries
Chapter 11. National and multi-national patent information sources
Chapter 12. The non-patent literature for the patent searcher
Chapter 13. Common search types (I) – alerting searches
Chapter 14. Common search types (II) – patentability and freedom-to-operate searches
Chapter 15. Common search types (III) – portfolio and legal proceedings searching
Chapter 16. Sources for legal status searching
Chapter 17. Commercial intelligence search and analysis
Chapter 18. Specialist techniques
Chapter 19. Future developments
Annex A: Member states of the PCT as of 2nd January 2020
Annex B: Numerical tables for reformatting national application numbers
Annex C: Website addresses of national and regional patenting authorities
Annex D: Comparison of the class-level structure of the CPC (2018.05 edition) and IPC (2018.01 edition)
Annex E: Selective comparison of Japanese FI classification schedules with the corresponding IPC
Annex F: The theme groups of the Japanese F-term system (2016 revision)
Appendix 1: Glossary of patent terminology
Appendix 2: Index of abbreviations
Index