Information sources in patents
By: Stephen Adams
Edition: 3rd completely rev. ed.
Series: Guides to information sources
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9783110235111
Subjects: Patents; Information services
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Principles of patenting; title: The European patent system; title: The United States patent system; title: The Japanese patent system; title: The Patent Co-operation Treaty; title: National patent systems of the G7 countries; title: The BRIC nations, Asia, and regional patent systems; title: Patent guides and libraries; title: National and international patent information sources; title: The non-patent literature for the patent searcher; title: Common search types (I) : alerting searches; title: Common search types (II) : patentability and freedom-to-operate searches; title: Common search types (III) : portfolio and legal proceedings searching; title: Sources for legal status searching; title: Commercial intelligence search and analysis; title: Specialist techniques; title: Future developments; title: Annex A. USPTO classification (current at 2011.02); title: Annex B. Historical JPO classification; title: Annex C. Classes of the IPC (edition dated 2011.01); title: Annex D. The theme groups of the Japanese f-term system; title: Appendix 1. Glossary of patenting terms; title: Appendix 2. Contact list for major database producers, hosts, and libraries; title: Appendix 3. Index of abbreviations.