PatBase Enhancements (01 May 2007)
NEW EXPORT FEATURES
Exporting
selected family members
in to a Publication Report
New
fields are available for export in the ‘Publication Report’ format, which lists
data by individual patent publication instead of by family. Publications can be selected by ‘earliest
priority date’ and by ‘members list’ as well. ‘Members list’ lists documents in
the order contained in the patent family. The fields available for ‘Publication
Report’ are shown in the screenshot below.
New filtering options are available before the
final export:
Export
all family members from all countries,
Specify
the country/countries of origin,
Export
one member per family only, from a preferred country.
In addition, users can select family members for the PDF Order Basket
while reviewing hits and then request that only those selected for PDF order
should be exported into a Publication Report.
After clicking on "Export", the file can be saved
in CSV, XML, Excel, and HTML Table-format for further analysis.
When using the ‘other
formats’ export-option:
Family Report: Two new
fields are available for export
Users
can select the Earliest Priority Date and Earliest Publication Date to export in
the family export option:
New Display format options: Plain and Simple
Simple: This display-format contains no tables.
Plain: This display format contains fixed text only.
The new display formats can be used when exporting search results, folders and
session logs.
New Forward and Backward Citation
commands: CTF and CTB
CTF – Forward Citation Searching
The
new CTF command allows the user to find the Forward Citations for families from
a search result set. Please note that citations found in the first 250 results
in the search set will be returned.
CTF
“search#” [e.g. CTF 1] will retrieve forward citations for families found in
that search (up to the limit of 250 results).
CTB - Backward
Citation Searching
The
CTB command locates backward citations from a search result set. CTB “search#”
[e.g. CTB 1] will retrieve all backward citations for families found in that
search (up to the limit of 250 results).
New field in
Custom-display-format: KWIC
Keyword-in-context (kwic) is available now in the
custom-display-format:
The
KWIC feature displays only the particular parts of the record in which search
terms appear. This can be very useful
when scanning full-text for relevance and providing output.
New: Statistical-Analysis
for the Japanese Classification has been added
In addition to analysing IPC, EC or US classifications,
users now have the option to perform statistical analysis on the Japanese
F-Terms. This means for instance that
users can perform keyword and other types of search and then analyse the
Japanese F-Terms to find out which F-Terms were most frequently applied, then
re-search those F-Terms to retrieve other documents of a similar nature:
PatBase
Enhancements (01 March 2007)
Annotations to Folders
Individual descriptions can be added to Folders. Users can
add their Folder-description and share the information via the shared Folders.
A separate folder description can be associated with each
folder.
Add Saved history to
Folders
Saved History can be added to Folders. Together with the Folder-description Users
get a better understanding of the Folder-structure.
The saved history will stored with the folder description
for further follow-up.
Individual notes to Records
Individual notes can be added to each family in a folder.
Each note will be added to the notes-history. If a folder is
shared these notes will also be shared. Any user can add or remove notes from a
folder.
Advanced Highlighting within
the Folder
Users can apply the Advanced Highlighting within the
Folders. The highlighting will be kept for the Folder and can be edited at any
time:
Highlighting Schemes for
Folders
The applied Highlighting can be saved for further usage.
Folder-export with or
without the notes or description
The export of family notes or folder description is
optional, folders can be exported with or without them.
New Export Option: BizInt SmartCharts
PatBase supports the export of the data into Bizint
SmartCharts.
BizInt Smart Charts software products help information
professionals organize, analyze and present drug pipeline and patents
information.
BizInt Smart Charts for Patents creates tabular reports from
the leading patent databases. BizInt Smart Charts for Patents will
automatically process the transcript and create the report. Data from different
databases can be combined into one report with the table, records and images.
For further information about BizInt please go to: http://www.bizcharts.com/
New Search & Display
Options:
PatBase uses auto stemming when highlighting keywords, this means
that derivates of your keyword will be highlighted as well as the words itself.
This feature can now be disabled by individual users.
PatBase enhancements (23 October 2006)
New
Machine Translations – also of Full-text!
More Machine Translation of abstracts is offered in
PatBase, as Spanish language abstracts are being translated into English as
well as German and French. In addition, PatBase now offers on the fly machine translation of Full-text from English into French, German, Portuguese and
Spanish. Data in these languages can be
translated in reverse, too – e.g. American patent documents into French.
Japanese Classification
The Japanese
Classification is fully loaded and available for searching. It
is searchable in the Search Form and Command Line. More information is available in
the Help File/ in the PatBase Manual. A special Look-up facility has been prepared with
many additionally translated keywords, available exclusively in PatBase, giving
English language translated terms. Enable Japanese Classification searching/
viewing in results by clicking this option in “Settings”.
The ECLA Classification Definition Viewer tool has been enhanced, simplified
and tidied up, for PatBase users. This
means that the corresponding point in the ECLA will display with more
precision.
Highlighting
Schemes – Save preferred keyword lists for later use!
Users can save their own
Highlighting Schemes for later usage. The saved Highlighting
Scheme can then be called up and used again on another
search-result. In addition, words highlighted in full-text are now “bounced” into context on the screen.
New
Thesaurus
A
Thesaurus look-up is offered in PatBase to help choose terms to search and to
highlight in search results! The
thesaurus helps users find / choose further synonyms to use in
the Highlighting function. It can be used to discover additional
search terms as well, by checking the Thesaurus function before searching.
A full
Wiktionary Dictionary look-up has been integrated into
PatBase with an enhanced viewer, to allow word definitions to be located
fast. This also offers a translation
across languages.
One
Click PDF save/order in PatBase is now available for PatentOrder
subscribers to the web version, either on Intranets or hosted by Minesoft.
New
Data Export Options
Several
new, convenient export options have
been added to PatBase. Data can be
exported into raw XML data or into
CSV, Excel or HTML Table format as
well, for further manipulation, reporting and analysis.
Patent Number and Kind Code
Look-up
A new possibility to view
all the various Patent Number and Kind Code formats by year for a given country
code in a popup window has been added, making it easy to see what is available for
searching in the underlying PatBase data.
PDCC
Command (Date ranging on a specific country code)
A
new command has been introduced: PDCC, which allows the user to search for
a given date or date range combined with a country code,
Eg:PDEP>1995
“Super
Class” SC Command (Search all classifications at once)
A
new command allows all classification schemes to be searched simultaneously,
called Super Class (SC in the Command Line).
SC=G01B will retrieve
matching results from IPC, US Class, ECLA and the JP Classification schemes.
Citation
Searching - has been enhanced by adding the possibility to
choose to view either Backward or Forward Citations – or both at once. This gives more flexibility to users in
creation of a mini citation report.
Alert Service – Competitive
Intelligence
The
cost-effective alert service is proving popular. Weekly alerts are delivered as active links
to the document results in emails now, rather than as attachments. This circumvents the fact that some
companies only permit small amounts of data as email attachments. The link
remains active for a period of 30 days.
A
Support / Helpdesk Request Facility has been added to PatBase so Users can
send support requests directly to Customer Services while connected to PatBase, such
as questions about the search language, display and
highlighting, exporting data, missing or suspected errors
in data, etc. Please give as much detail as possible, to speed up
the enquiry.
Improved support has been added forFirefox & Safari browsers for PC and Apple OSX.
PatBase enhancements (6 March 2006)
Family Explorer
PatBase Family Explorer enables users to drill down
into PatBase families and explore information which relates to individual
publications. This visualisation tool provides easy navigation through family
members. Print and export as html options are provided and links to relating
INPADOC legal status and to the corresponding Priority Map are also available.
(Please find information about the Priority Map below).
Priority Map
The Priority Map identifies and clearly displays the
connections between priority number and patent number. The information can be
viewed in a map which can be exported to Excel and as breakdowns by both patent
number and priority number. A concise picture of the relationships between
patents belonging to a PatBase family is drawn from all angles.
Further CSV export options
CSV has been developed to include an individual
publications export option. This is called a ‘Publication Report’. This feature
enables users to export and view information relating to individual patent
family members. Choose to export your information, select the CSV option then
choose either ‘Family’ or ‘Publication Report’. Both options provide a field
selection option. Check the fields you would like to appear on your Excel file
and then click ‘Export’. The check boxes of your last export will remain as set
until changed.
Advanced Highlighting
An option to group keywords to be highlighted by colour
has been added to PatBase. Advanced Highlighting can be accessed in either the
‘view’ or ‘browse’ modes. In the ‘view’ mode click on ‘full-text’ and then once
this screen has appeared click on 
Advanced Highlighting.
In the ‘browse’ mode the icon is found at the bottom of the screen. Advanced
highlighting will remain until it is edited or cancelled. If you wish to recall
the last keywords used in Advanced highlighting, click ‘Last used’.
PatBase and IPC 8 (January 2006)
The introduction of IPC 8 to
PatBase will further enhance the valuable classification searching tool, adding
another dimension to the existing International (IPC), European (ECLA) and US
(USPC) Classifications.
The old IPC (editions 1-7) remain as legacy data and
continue to be searchable at all levels.
IPC 8 is searchable at Core and/or Advanced levels,
with further options to restrict to Invention and/or Non-invention
classification(s).
IPC 8 will be propagated across families for the
backfile (prior to 2006), but the frontfile will not, and so each family member
may have different classifications (as is the case with existing IPC
classification). As PatBase is based upon one record = one extended family the
frontfile classification will automatically be propagated across families. IPC 8 in PatBase , will therefore be
searchable across families for the entire search period.
Note: The
backfile is currently being loaded. Loading is scheduled for completion in the
second quarter of 2006.
For
IPC 8 options and commands please refer to the PatBase Help Files (found once logged
in), under Searching / Search form and Searching / Search language.
If
you have any questions or require further information please click here or email: info@patbase.com
New enhancements to PatBase (4 July 2005)
Email
a PatBase record
A PatBase record can now be emailed as an html email
attachment together with any notes you wish to add. Click on the 
icon
found on the top right hand side of each record and a pop-up will appear. The
record can be sent to numerous recipients at one time if required. Email
addresses should be separated with a semi-colon. Add a subject heading and a
message and then click send email.
Add records to different results folders
Users can now conveniently add records to any created,
private folder by clicking on the
icon, which can be found
on the top right hand side of each record. Clicking on this icon will open a
pop-up listing all your existing folders. You can then select which folder you
wish to put the record in by ticking the corresponding box.
The open folder function works as before. If you want
to put a record in the open folder, click in the check box.
Enhancements to export feature
Search results can now be exported directly from the
Display results page by clicking on the 
icon found at the
top of the page, or from the Search history page by selecting the ‘more’ option
and then choosing ‘export search results’.
New export formats are PDF and CSV (Excel). There are
new options to keep highlighting and to include your search history in your
exported records. A sort by option is also now available.
Enhancements to results folders
Users now have the ability to sort documents within a
results folder.
The export function from a folder has also been
enhanced to include PDF and CSV (Excel) format options. However, the options to
keep highlighting and to include your search strategy in your export are not
available once the data has been removed to a folder. If you wish to keep the
highlighting and include your search history in your export, please export your
data directly from the Display results page, or from ‘export search results’
found under ‘more’ on the Search history page.
Date ranging on weekly updates
Date ranging has now been introduced when searching in
the command line for UP (updates for new families) and UE (updates for new
families and equivalents).
e.g.
UE=YYWW:YYWW
UE=0442:0502
UP=YYWW:YYWW
UP=0501:0510
UP>YYWW
UP>0501 (greater than week 01, 2005)
UP and UE searching is available from late 2004.
Stop words
All stop words except for ‘and’ ‘or’ and ‘not’ have
been removed from PatBase. This enables users to search for, for example
‘ therotationof the piston’.
Enhancements to PatBase data
EP Bs are currently being added to PatBase. In the
first instance this will be from 2000 – date, but the back date will be
extended over time. Please refer to the country coverage information, found in
the hyperlinks on the right hand side once logged in, for updates on the EP B
availability, as the implementation of EP Bs is gradual.
