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| Series Editor's Foreword |
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| Preface |
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Part I: Patent processes and documentation |
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1 | (112) |
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3 | (27) |
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3 | (9) |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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The historical examination process for patents |
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6 | (3) |
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The development of deferred examination and early publication |
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9 | (1) |
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A typical sequence in modern patent examination |
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10 | (2) |
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Patents as information tools |
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12 | (6) |
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12 | (1) |
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Patents as accessible documents |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (3) |
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Bibliographic standards and the form of a patent document |
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18 | (4) |
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22 | (8) |
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Alternative forms of intellectual property (IP) rights |
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22 | (1) |
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Patent amendments and corrections |
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23 | (1) |
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Bibliographical amendments |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (1) |
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Patent-related protection mechanisms |
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25 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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Supplementary Protection Certificates |
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26 | (4) |
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The European Patent system |
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30 | (13) |
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30 | (3) |
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Member states and extension states |
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32 | (1) |
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EP patent documents - centralised and nationalised procedures |
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33 | (5) |
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Formal examination and search report |
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33 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (1) |
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36 | (2) |
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38 | (1) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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38 | (2) |
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Relationships with the European Union |
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40 | (3) |
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The effect of European Regulations and Directives |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (2) |
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The United States patent system |
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43 | (16) |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (7) |
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46 | (2) |
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Examination, early publication and grant |
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48 | (4) |
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52 | (1) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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53 | (4) |
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The US patent classification |
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57 | (2) |
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The Japanese patent system |
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59 | (12) |
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History of Japanese patents |
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59 | (2) |
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Japanese patent documentation and recent law changes |
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61 | (4) |
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61 | (2) |
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63 | (1) |
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The importance of utility models |
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64 | (1) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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65 | (4) |
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The Japanese patent classification and indexing systems |
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69 | (2) |
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Major national and regional patent systems |
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71 | (42) |
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71 | (25) |
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71 | (1) |
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Historical aspects and current law |
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71 | (1) |
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National patent documentation |
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72 | (2) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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74 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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Historical aspects and current law |
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74 | (1) |
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National patent documentation |
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75 | (1) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (1) |
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Historical aspects and current law |
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77 | (2) |
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National patent documentation |
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79 | (2) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (1) |
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Historical aspects and current law |
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83 | (2) |
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National patent documentation |
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85 | (1) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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85 | (2) |
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87 | (1) |
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Historical aspects and current law |
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87 | (3) |
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National patent documentation |
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90 | (2) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (1) |
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Historical aspects and current law |
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93 | (1) |
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National patent documentation |
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94 | (1) |
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Databases and database-specific aspects |
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95 | (1) |
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The Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT) |
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96 | (10) |
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97 | (4) |
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Databases covering the PCT system |
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101 | (5) |
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106 | (7) |
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The Eurasian Patent Office |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (2) |
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The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) |
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110 | (1) |
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Future developments in regional patent systems |
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110 | (3) |
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Part II - databases and search techniques |
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113 | (93) |
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Patent guides and libraries |
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115 | (6) |
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General directories and reference works |
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115 | (1) |
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United Kingdom patent libraries |
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116 | (1) |
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United States patent libraries |
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117 | (1) |
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117 | (1) |
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The European Patlib network |
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118 | (1) |
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Japanese patent libraries |
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118 | (3) |
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National and international patent information sources |
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121 | (43) |
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121 | (1) |
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Optical disk (CD-ROM, DVD) |
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122 | (4) |
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Integrated disk-internet products via Mimosa |
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126 | (1) |
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Proprietary electronic databases |
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127 | (24) |
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World Patent Index (WPI) (Thomson) |
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127 | (11) |
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Patent Citation Index (PCI) (Thomson) |
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138 | (1) |
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Plus Pat and Fam Pat (Questel-Orbit) |
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139 | (1) |
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API Encompass and WPAM (Questel-Orbit) |
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140 | (1) |
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Inpadoc PFS and Open Patent Services |
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141 | (2) |
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143 | (2) |
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Other Thomson bibliographic products |
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145 | (1) |
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Drug Patents International (DPI) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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Chemical Abstracts/Marpat |
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146 | (3) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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151 | (4) |
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National patent office websites |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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Patent Office portal sites |
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153 | (1) |
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Surf-IP (Singapore Patent Office) |
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153 | (1) |
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esp@cenet® (European Patent Office) |
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153 | (1) |
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Depatisnet (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) |
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154 | (1) |
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Controlled-Access internet |
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155 | (9) |
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Password- or account-based systems |
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155 | (1) |
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Patent Warehouse/Total Patent (Lexis-Nexis Univentio) |
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155 | (2) |
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157 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (2) |
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Micro Patent Patent Index (MPI) (MicroPatent) |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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161 | (3) |
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Common search types (I) - Alerting searches |
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164 | (5) |
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164 | (3) |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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Common search types (II) - Patentability and freedom-to-operate searches |
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169 | (8) |
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169 | (4) |
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173 | (4) |
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Common search types (III) - Portfolio and legal status searches |
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177 | (13) |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (8) |
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Services from patent offices |
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179 | (1) |
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Pair and Image File Wrapper |
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180 | (1) |
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epoline ® - Web register and file inspection |
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181 | (1) |
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Multi-country coverage (Inpadoc-Prs) |
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182 | (3) |
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Commercial sources for United States legal status |
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185 | (2) |
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Japanese legal status - Patolis |
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187 | (1) |
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Validity and opposition searching |
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187 | (3) |
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190 | (4) |
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State-of-the-art searches |
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190 | (2) |
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Patent analysis tools and techniques |
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192 | (2) |
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194 | (9) |
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194 | (1) |
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195 | (5) |
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The International Patent Classification and its derivatives |
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196 | (4) |
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The US Patent Classification |
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200 | (1) |
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Additional non-word elements |
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200 | (3) |
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203 | (3) |
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The impact of the World Trade Organisation and WIPO |
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203 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) |
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204 | (1) |
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The Future of patent searching? |
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204 | (2) |
| Annex A: USPTO classification |
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206 | (8) |
| Annex B: Historical JPO classification |
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214 | (3) |
| Annex C: Classes of the IPC (Seventh edition) |
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217 | (3) |
| Appendix 1: Glossary of patenting terms |
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220 | (4) |
| Appendix 2: Contact list for major database producers, hosts and libraries |
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224 | (2) |
| Appendix 3: Index of abbreviations |
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226 | (5) |
| Index |
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