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Volume 32, issue 4, 2010

Historical trademarks - A resource for business research pp. 275-276

David Newton

Editor's comments and article introductions pp. 277-278

Michael Blackman

Quality assurance in the EPO Patent Information Resource pp. 279-286

Miguel A. Albrecht, Rex Bosma, Trudy van Dinter, Jean-Luc Ernst, Koen van Ginkel and Fenny Versloot-Spoelstra

The backlog issue in patents: A look at the European case pp. 287-290

Victor Rodriguez

Patinformatics as a business process: A guideline through patent research tasks and tools pp. 291-299

Martin G. Moehrle, Lothar Walter, Isumo Bergmann, Sebastian Bobe and Svenja Skrzipale

Wallace Carothers: More than the inventor of Nylon and Neoprene pp. 300-305

Arvind Viswanathan

An A to X of patent citations for searching pp. 306-312

Jane List

EPC 2000 - State of play nearly two years on pp. 313-316

Luise Zimmermann

WIPO eUDRP Initiative pp. 317-319

Zinatul A. Zainol

The centenary patent - Single-sleeve valve engines pp. 320-325

S.R. Adams

The 50th anniversary of the laser pp. 326-330

Matthew Trainer

Patent information of the former USSR countries pp. 331-334

Oleksandr Bragarnyk

The patents of Nikola Tesla pp. 335-339

Snezana Sarboh

Other short communications pp. 340-341

Michael Blackman

Recent article by Brian Spear on 'Saint-Exupéry: Dare-Devil Aviator, Literary Icon and Inventor!' pp. 345-346

Brian

Volume 32, issue 3, 2010

Editorial pp. 185-187

Michael Blackman

Helping others acquire, license or invest in patents with confidence - A guide for patent searchers to patent due diligence pp. 188-197

Susanne Hantos

Patent due diligence: Process and priorities - A Canadian patent attorney's perspective pp. 198-202

Euan Taylor

Enhancing patent landscape analysis with visualization output pp. 203-220

Yun Yun Yang, Lucy Akers, Cynthia Barcelon Yang, Thomas Klose and Shelley Pavlek

WIPO's new strategies on global intellectual property infrastructure pp. 221-228

Yo Takagi

Documentation and quality - Quo vadis patent system? A patent attorney's view pp. 229-232

Werner Kovac

Does the EPO really care about the quality of patent information? pp. 233-236

Jeremy Scott

Elements of good practice for providers of publicly funded patent information services for SMEs - Selected and amended results of a benchmarking exercise pp. 237-245

Alfred Radauer and Lothar Walter

Other short communications pp. 246-249

Michael Blackman

Volume 32, issue 2, 2010

Editorial pp. 91-93

Michael Blackman

Towards content-based patent image retrieval: A framework perspective pp. 94-106

Stefanos Vrochidis, Symeon Papadopoulos, Anastasia Moumtzidou, Panagiotis Sidiropoulos, Emanuelle Pianta and Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Mirror, mirror on the wall, squishy and soggy, 2 nanos tall: Strategies, methods and tools for searching homogeneous catalysts - An EPO perspective (Part 2. Non-patent literature and conclusions) pp. 107-119

Matthias W.E. Goebel

The text, the full text and nothing but the text: Part 2 - The main specification, searching challenges and survey of availability pp. 120-128

Stephen Adams

Conjoint analysis for intellectual property education pp. 129-134

Min Seok Mok, So Young Sohn and Yong Han Ju

Analysis of patenting trends of antifungal drugs in the product patent regime in India pp. 135-140

Rupsa Gupta and Padmavati Manchikanti

The Patent Information Users Group - Collaborating via the PIUG wiki and discussion forums pp. 141-144

Thomas E. Wolff

CFIB, the French Speaking Patent Information User Group pp. 145-146

Anne-Gaëlle Darmont and Colette Hedon

Towards a definitive catalogue of the patents of Nikola Tesla pp. 147-149

Vladimir Jelenkovic

Other short communications pp. 150-153

Michael Blackman

Volume 32, issue 1, 2010

Properties of the USPTO patent citation network: 1963-2002 pp. 3-21

Bernard Gress

The text, the full text and nothing but the text: Part 1 - Standards for creating textual information in patent documents and general search implications pp. 22-29

Stephen Adams

Review of the state-of-the-art in patent information and forthcoming evolutions in intelligent patent informatics pp. 30-38

Dario Bonino, Alberto Ciaramella and Fulvio Corno

Mirror, mirror on the wall, squishy and soggy, 2 Nanos Tall: Strategies, methods and tools for searching homogeneous catalysts - An EPO perspective (Part 1. Introduction and patents) pp. 39-52

Matthias W.E. Goebel

Technology and industrialization at the take-off of the Spanish economy: New evidence based on patents pp. 53-61

Antonio Hidalgo, José Molero and Gerardo Penas

Volume 31, issue 4, 2009

SME tailor-designed patent portfolio analysis pp. 273-277

Gudrun Littmann-Hilmer and Michael Kuckartz

Full-text prior art and chemical structure searching in e-journals and on the internet - A patent information professional's perspective pp. 278-284

Maik Annies

Numbers and sizes of applicants at the European Patent Office pp. 285-298

Peter Hingley and Serpil Bas

Patent analyses in the changed legal regime of the US Patent Law since 2001 pp. 299-303

Ulrich Schmoch

Cyrillic databases of former Soviet Union countries pp. 304-307

K. Milushev

Determinants of patent withdrawals: Evidence from a sample of Italian applications with the EPO pp. 308-314

Francesco Schettino and Alessandro Sterlacchini

Supporting patent retrieval in the context of innovation-processes by means of information dialogue pp. 315-322

Paul Landwich, Tobias Vogel, Claus-Peter Klas and Matthias Hemmje

Volume 31, issue 3, 2009

Searching Markush formulae directed to medical applications pp. 178-183

E. Cielen

The future of PATLIB centres in a globalized patent world pp. 184-189

Georg Artelsmair, Heidrun Krestel and Lubos Knoth

When is a search not a search? Part 3 - The worst of the worst: When complex applications also lack unity pp. 190-192

Jeremy R.M. Scott and Sytse de Jonge

A practical approach to the reformed IPC pp. 193-198

Susan E. Cullen

Technology and growth in Spain (1950-1960): An evidence of Schumpeterian pattern of innovation based on patents pp. 199-206

Antonio Hidalgo and José Molero

Patents as technological information in Latin America pp. 207-215

Wanise Barroso, Luc Quoniam and Eduardo Pacheco

Patent Information User Groups in Europe join together: Foundation of the Confederacy of European Patent Information User Groups (CEPIUG) pp. 216-218

Anne-Gaëlle Darmont, Michele Fattori, Gerben Gieling and Aalt van de Kuilen

Changing landscape in biotechnology patenting pp. 219-225

Angad Singh, Sharanabasava Hallihosur and Latha Rangan

The influences of the structure and activity of biologically active compounds on the assessment of inventive step pp. 226-234

Joachim A. Stellmach

Volume 31, issue 2, 2009

Semantic enrichment and added metadata - Examples of efficient usage in an industrial environment pp. 89-96

Peter Atzmüller and Gerald Landl

Towards in-house searching of Markush structures from patents pp. 97-103

John M. Barnard and P. Matthew Wright

A patent based evaluation of technological innovation capability in eight economic regions in PR China pp. 104-110

Yunwei Chen, Zhiping Yang, Fang Shu, Zhengyin Hu, Martin Meyer and Sujit Bhattacharya

The IP game, a playful way to amuse and train young people pp. 111-116

Lara Ferguson Vázquez de Parga

Comparing first level patent data with value-added patent information: A case study in the pharmaceutical field pp. 117-122

Christiane Emmerich

Patenting activities in Turkey: The case of the textile industry pp. 123-130

Türkay Dereli and Alptekin Durmusoglu

Volume 31, issue 1, 2009

A graphical representation of the problem-solution approach (PSA) to the assessment of inventive step pp. 4-10

Joachim A. Stellmach

"Black sheep" in the patent family pp. 11-18

Edlyn S. Simmons

Patent information in Italy pp. 19-31

Guido Moradei

The Iranian patent reform pp. 32-35

Seyed Kamran Bagheri, Hamid Azizi Moradpour and Morteza Rezapour

Searching biotechnology information: A case study pp. 36-47

Luca Falciola

Reducing uncertainty in the patent application procedure - Insights from invalidating prior art in European patent applications pp. 48-53

Christian Sternitzke