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Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives
: June 2001
Analyzing Patent Data from Different Technological Viewpoints
The Derwent World Patents Index (Files 350,351,352) on Dialog opens up patents to end-users and information specialists alike, by providing clear and concise English-language abstracts for patent documents worldwide. These value-added abstracts contain enhanced technical content within a logical structure, thus making them very informative and easy to search.
One of these abstracts—the Technology Focus field—is written using separate titled paragraphs, which are used to summarize the practical content of the invention from different technological viewpoints. This is designed to enable end-user scientists and engineers, from various sectors, to quickly identify if a patent document is of real
interest to them.
The different titled paragraphs of the Technology Focus are fully searchable
as free text within the appropriate fields.
A sampling of the descriptions of some of the paragraph headings is shown below.
Technology Focus — Titled paragraphs:
| Paragraph Heading |
Description |
| AGRICULTURE |
Covers pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, fertilisers, etc,
but not their preparation — see Organic Chemistry.
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| BIOLOGY | Covers naturally occurring biological materials (i.e. not
engineered), immunoassays, etc. |
| BIOTECHNOLOGY | Covers genetic engineering (recombinant DNA
technology), etc. |
| CERAMICS AND GLASS | Covers glass, refractories, ceramics, cement, etc. |
| CHEMICAL ENGINEERING | Covers large scale, industrial processing of chemicals. |
| COMPUTING AND CONTROL | Covers automotive, environmental, manufacturing
processes, etc. |
| ELECTRICAL POWER AND ENERGY | Covers power generation, nuclear power, radioactivity. |
| ELECTRONICS | Covers electronic circuits and devices. |
| ENVIRONMENT | Covers pollution control, water treatment, sewage
treatment, etc. |
| FOOD | Covers human foodstuffs, brewing, animal feed, etc. |
| IMAGING AND COMMUNICATION | Covers imaging technologies, inks, printing,
electrophotography, recording media, broadcasting and telecommunications. |
| INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS | Used when comparison to industrial standards are made. |
| INORGANIC CHEMISTRY | Covers all inorganic materials, except Ceramics and
Glass. |
| INSTRUMENTATION AND TESTING | Covers chemical analysis, testing, medical equipment. |
| MECHANICAL ENGINEERING | Covers polymer processing machinery, mechanical
equipment, etc. |
| METALLURGY | Covers metal treatment, production, refining, working,
finishing, alloys, solders, etc. |
| ORGANIC CHEMISTRY | Covers the preparation of all organic chemicals, including
pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, but not polymers —
see Polymers. |
| PHARMACEUTICALS | Covers pharmaceutically active compounds and
compositions, including veterinary drugs, but not their
preparation - see Organic Chemistry. |
| POLYMERS | Covers all polymer types, preparation of polymers, etc. |
| TEXTILES AND PAPER | Covers paper/cardboard, natural/synthetic textiles, and
their processing. |
Figure 1 is a sample record with the Technology Focus abstract highlighted.
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