InfoBlog - Mar-Apr 2019

Jane List • 30 May 2019

Welcome to the second edition of the InfoBlog for 2019 covering ‘information industry’ news published in press releases, on company websites, and in blogs, during March and April and found using a deepSEARCH9 newstracker.
The newstracker follows 72 organizations. Read on to discover what each organization has published from patent information industry news, life sciences information, to company and IP office news. Highlights this time include the acquisition of Linguamatics by IQVIA, the growth of combined search / IP management software – see Trademark.com from Clarivate. This month we reintroduce the section on upcoming IP and commercial information related conferences, trainings and events. Extract Information also maintains a listing of events from around the world relevant to information and IP https://www.extractinfo.info/events.

On with the news……

Section I: Commercial information:

apps, databases, UI, patent, scientific, life sciences, technical, standards and legal information, translation tools, content.

Patents

  • DWPI now contains patent publications from eight former Soviet republics, now known as the CIS(Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO).
  • The specific patent authorities now available are: Armenia (AM), Belarus (BY), Eurasian Patent Organization (EA), Georgia (GE), Kazakhstan (KZ), Kyrgyzstan (KG), Moldova (MD), Uzbekistan (UZ), and Tajikistan (TJ).
  • IFI Claims has made a static patent data set available for research purposes in conjunction with World Patent Information (WPI Journal).
  • The data is hosted on Zenodo, the CERN Open Science platform. We are hopeful that by making this collection available we can stimulate research once again specific to patent information retrieval, and patent informatics.
  • Link to the collection: https://zenodo.org/record/1489994#.XO5BbKR7ljU
  • STN announced new generic legal status codes available for US patents within the EPO’s INPADOC database.

Standards, and Regulatory information

  • ReedTech has launched ‘SingleSource TM’, an online publication platform for Medical Devices regulatory and commercial product information.
  • Techstreet and IPC have partnered to allow IPC members access to its electronics manufacturing standards through Techstreet enterprise.

Life Sciences, R&D

Search and Discovery

  • Ambercite has published an example workflow process showing how to work a search on Ambercite for similar patents into a broader strategy using more than one patent search database.
  • Linguamatics regularly improve I2E – with new releases.

Analytics and Forecasting

  • IGI, the IP search provider of the Swiss patent office, has published ten search definitions which can be used to build patent data sets in new technology areas.

Document delivery

  • Patent information analysts are used to being able to obtain the full text electronic or PDF version of patent documents with the click of a button. Now EBSCO has partnered with Reprints Desk Inc., so that its customers can use the ‘Article Galaxy Scholar Collection’ to link to PDFs of articles outside of their in-house journal subscriptions.

Section II IP Management, and IP services

  • Trademarks must be monitored to ensure timely opposition to any similar marks. Clarivate have launched a trademark registration and watching service, trademark.com aimed at small US based companies.
  • Minesoft introduced IPShare – a secure, project-based tool for analysis of patents, and other documents for team-decision making.

IP Offices

  • The EPO and Jordan entered into talks regarding validation of European Patents in Jordan.

Section III: Company news, M&A, People news

  • Elsevier is under pressure to reduce subscription charges and to publish more Open Access articles.

Section IV: Training Conferences, and Events

  • QPIP is the Certificate for Patent Information Professionals (ISBQPIP) finally arrived in March as the first candidates (over 200 applied) were registered through a Prior Experience Recognition scheme. Patent search and analysis examinations are planned for 2020.

Upcoming events:

  • The 41st PATINFO takes place in June in Ilmenau, Germany.
  • AI: decoding IP takes place in London and is co-organised by UK IPO and WIPO.

Analysis by Extract Information.
News tracking provided by Deep SEARCH 9.
To find out more contact: jane@extractinfo.info