Dear Colleague
Welcome to the first issue of Dialog Patent News. We are very pleased to offer this new resource designed especially for information professionals and knowledge workers who rely on patents and patent-related information. In addition to bringing you product and content news, search tips and other information specific to the Dialog and Dialog DataStar products, we will bring you other items of interest from industry experts and colleagues. Please take special note of the “call for contributors” section. Our goal is to make this newsletter relevant and valuable for you, so please send us your ideas and feedback. We look forward to hearing from you.

Ron Kaminecki, Director
Intellectual Property Applications

India Patents Added to Derwent World Patents Index®
Indian patent data, including pre-grant applications and granted patents, has been added to Derwent World Patents Index® (File 351) and Derwent World Patents Index First View^SM (File 331). Indian patent coverage in File 351 begins with data published December 4, 2004. Indian patent data will be available within two weeks from publication in File 331 and within 4-6 weeks in File 351.

CLAIMS® Reload on Dialog
CLAIMS (Files 340, 341) has been updated and enhanced with in-depth controlled indexing of chemically significant patents. CLAIMS contains the largest collection of U.S. patent references available in an online database. When published applications and granted patents share the same U.S. application number and date, Dialog provides the only service that combines the information of the two publications into a single, merged record.

WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext
Two new display labels have been added to the Designated States fields in WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext (File 349). These fields contain information about the protection type(s) in effect for specified countries. The new labels reflect how designated states are assigned to applications filed before and after 2004. This change was required by the PCT to accommodate the rule changes that are effective for international applications filed in 2004 and thereafter.

German Patents Fulltext
Published by Univentio, German Patents Fulltext (File 324) contains approximately 2 million records, including applications, granted patents and utility models from 1967 to the present. Fulltext records from 1980 are available in German with an integrated English machine translation. This file also contains nearly 700,000 images. See the “Search Tip” article on German patents in the April/May Chronolog.

Patent Delivery Enhanced and Now
on Dialog Web Products
Dialog SourceOne Patent Delivery is now available on all Dialog platforms and lets you order patents through an online form. Other new enhancements include bulk e-mail delivery of multiple patents and the ability to order up to 100 patents at once (previously 50). Additionally, the price per patent is reduced from US$4.95 to US$3.00.

Call for Contributors

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