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Dialog—The One-Stop Solution for Intellectual Property Research

Whether you need a preliminary trademark screening, a European patent in fulltext, legal status or patent family information, or data to help in a patent litigation case, Dialog provides an unrivaled solution for your intellectual property research needs. Dialog is the online service of choice for the largest intellectual property firms in the world. The reasons are many:

Unrivaled content
The Dialog intellectual property collection includes more than 50 million patents covering 70 patenting countries and authorities and 19 million trademarks from 26 trademarking countries around the world. Data comes from the most authoritative providers, such as the World Intellectual Property Organisation, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Derwent, Thomson CompuMark and IFI/Plenum.

Unrivaled convenience
Dialog gathers patent and trademark information from around the world into a single collection, consistently indexed and formatted. With a choice of interfaces, including off-the-shelf or customized to your exact requirements, intellectual property information is provided the way you need it. Services include automatic notification (Alerts), delivery in XML and other formats for easy integration into other applications, trademark design images, fulltext patents in PDF, patent families with equivalents in English and other languages, legal status, and much more—all from a single service!

Unrivaled search tools
For more than 30 years, Dialog has been the premier online service for professional researchers. It provides thorough indexing of intellectual property data joined to precision tools for fast, accurate and comprehensive retrieval of intellectual property and prior art, with additional tools for analysis, and a choice of output formats.

Unrivaled support
Academic credentials, professional experience, and daily research challenges from our customers have honed the expertise of our intellectual property experts to world-class standing. That expertise is available to Dialog customers at no charge. Training is also available at no charge.

Content Highlights

• Worldwide patents. Fulltext patents are available globally in European Patents Fulltext (File 348), U.S. Patents Fulltext (Files 654, 652) and WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext (File 349). Moreover, translations of German patents from German Patents Fulltext (File 324) are provided. The collection also includes patents from different countries including Japan (File 347), France (File 371), and China (File 344). In addition, the Thomson Patent Store lets you order the fulltext of patents and receive them quickly via e-mail.
  
  
• Specialty patent files. Comprehensive coverage of patents related to the petroleum and energy industries in Ei EnCompassPat™ (File 353) and IMS Patent Focus (File 447), focusing on over 1,000 commercially significant drugs, provide complementary patent data in specialized fields.
  
  
• Special applications. Finding a patent family is easy in INPADOC®/Patent Family and Legal Status (File 345) and Derwent World Patents Index (Files 350, 351, 352). Moreover, U.S. legal status information is available in CLAIMS®/Current Patent Legal Status (File 123) and U.S. Patents Fulltext (File 654) and worldwide in INPADOC/Family and Legal Status (File 345).
  
  
• Preliminary trademark screening. TRADEMARKSCAN databases for the United States, Canada, Japan and 22 European countries, such as Austria, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and the new addition—Mexico—serve as preliminary trademark screening tools for checking the availability of new product and service names.
  
  
• U.S. Patent Litigation. Files like LitAlert® (File 670) for patent and trademark infringement lawsuits and Domain Names (File 225), which contains current and historic ownership records of Internet domain names, add to the versatility of the Dialog collection.

Intellectual Property Searching

Dialog has thorough indexing, special features and a new easy-to-use interface in DialogLink 5 to make patent searching fast and affordable.

Similar file structure and indexing for easy searching
Trademark and patent files are structured similarly for easy cross-file searching. Search trademarks using words in the mark or the powerful Rotated Trademark index (TR=). Locate trademark owners (OW), view images of the mark and see what trademarks are in the same class (IC). Search a patent or application number consistent across all available issuing authorities. Dialog indexing enables you to pinpoint your search to find meaningful results quickly.

Convenient groupings using DIALINDEX®/OneSearch®
Dialog DIALINDEX/OneSearch categories group trademarks according to geographic region. You can search all trademarks in Europe (EUROTMKS), North America (NATMKS) or the entire collection (TMKS). Patent categories also include PATSTAT for post-issuance legal status, OILPAT for petroleum and energy patents and PATWORLD for worldwide patents.

DialogLink 5 seamless linking
DialogLink 5 contains record and set links making it possible to link to fulltext patents, order documents from the Thomson Patent Store, compile a patent family and link to U.S. or international legal status. For example, using the publication number, you can link to U.S. current legal status in CLAIMS® (File 123) as in Figure 1.

Or, in the Set Links pane on the right side of the Retrieve buffer, click the set number for your Alert, click "Tasks" to save the Alert as in Figure 2.

Use DialogLink 5 report features for post-processing
Download pre-made templates for patent and trademark reports using the new Get Templates feature in DialogLink 5 to create Microsoft® Excel and Word reports. You can create a Word report for a patent family, a country summary or community trademarks or create your own custom template. (See Figure 3.)

Training

A new patent series, including five patent classes, is designed to help you improve your patent searching skills. Topics include: Introduction to Patent Searching, Patent Families, Legal Status, Prior Art and Competitive Intelligence. See U.S. Web-Based Training. Check the Web site at www.dialog.com/training for the latest classroom training sessions or online courses covering trademarks and patent databases.

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