World Patent Information

Volume 1 - 33

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Open patent services pp. 296-304: Peter Kallas
Academic response to the European Commission's Questionnaire on the patent system in Europe: An economic approach pp. 305-311: François Lévêque and Yann Ménière
Analysis and visualisation with host-based software - The features of STNÂ®AnaVist(TM) pp. 312-318: Gerhard Fischer and Nicolas Lalyre
TSUG, the Thomson Scientific User Group in the UK pp. 319-322: Bob Appleton, John Bullen, Neil Walden and Jeanette Eldridge
Japan's intellectual property strategy pp. 323-326: Hisamitsu Arai
A window on the Israeli patent scene pp. 327-329: Shoshana Kessel
J.J. Thomson, the electron and the birth of electronics pp. 330-335: Brian Spear
From papermaking to aircraft navigation: Significant patent and inventor anniversaries in 2006 pp. 336-343: Michael Blackman

Mapping nanotechnology patents: The EPO approach pp. 204-211: M. Scheu, V. Veefkind, Y. Verbandt, E. Molina Galan, R. Absalom and W. Förster
"Patentless" center for Patent Information retrieval at ARIPO pp. 212-214: Ferdinand De Laet
Patent portfolio analysis as a useful tool for identifying R&D and business opportunities--an empirical application in the nutrition and health industry pp. 215-225: Bernd Fabry, Holger Ernst, Jens Langholz and Martin Köster
Study of landscape of global leather patents and analysis of technology linkages to trade pp. 226-234: Subhendu Chakrabarti, S. Amba and T. Ramasami
Patent network analysis of inter-industrial knowledge flows: The case of Korea between traditional and emerging industries pp. 235-247: Yoo-Jin Han and Yongtae Park
Oliver Heaviside--An inventor who failed to file crucial patents pp. 248-250: Brian Spear
US patents in 1856 pp. 251-257: Michael Blackman

Patent information from the EPO in 2005--Recent developments and future plans pp. 112-116: Curt Edfjäll
Patent filing and searching: Is deflation in quality the inevitable consequence of hyperinflation in quantity? pp. 117-121: Minoo Philipp
The eighth edition of the IPC pp. 122-126: Mikhail Makarov
Plant variety protection: Which system of protection in the member states of OAPI? pp. 127-131: Wéré Régine Gazaro
Considerations, challenges and methodologies for implementing best practices in patent office and like patent information departments pp. 132-135: Jacques Michel
THINK kitÂ®: Educating tomorrow's innovators pp. 136-139: David Morgan
GB innovation since 1950 and the role of the independent inventor: An analysis of completed term patents pp. 140-146: Brian Spear
Cross-sectional analysis of patents in Indian fisheries sector pp. 147-158: Sunitha Ninan and Arpita Sharma
Albert Einstein's patents pp. 159-165: Matthew Trainer

Automatic classification of patent documents for TRIZ users pp. 6-13: Han Tong Loh, Cong He and Lixiang Shen
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) patent office pp. 14-19: Mohammed F. Al-Hajeri
Sir Barnes Wallis, a radical engineer and his patents pp. 20-33: Brian Spear
Pharmaceutical patents on plant derived materials in Brazil: Policy, law and statistics pp. 34-42: Adriana Campos Moreira, Ana Cristina Almeida Müller, Nei Pereira and Adelaide Maria DE Souza Antunes
Data visualisation tools--a perspective from the pharmaceutical industry pp. 43-49: Jeanette Eldridge
Protection of plant-related innovations: Evolution and current discussion pp. 50-62: Bernard Le Buanec
Distance learning from the European Patent Office pp. 63-74: Roland Feinäugle
Czech Industrial Property Office and its information services pp. 75-80: Dobroslav Picman

Patent information in a changing world: Perspectives from a major patent office pp. 287-291: Wolfgang Pilch and Daniel Shalloe
Trends disrupted--patent information in an era of change pp. 292-301: Edlyn S. Simmons
Route to profitable European PATLIB centres with a process orientated business model in intellectual property services pp. 302-308: Alexander J. Wurzer and Stephan Hundertmark
Patents: A unique source for scientific technical information in chemistry related industry? pp. 309-315: Mervyn Bregonje
AIDB, the Italian Patent Information Users Group pp. 316-318: Michele Fattori
Plant variety protection in the European Community pp. 319-327: Bart Kiewiet
Patent information from the Polish Patent Office pp. 328-333: Marianna Zaremba

Intellectual property management of biosequence information from a patent searching perspective pp. 203-211: Heahyun Yoo, Chandra Ramanathan and Cynthia Barcelon-Yang
The challenge of sustaining the research and innovation process pp. 212-226: Mike Tansey and Bob Stembridge
The reform of the IPC--consequences for the users pp. 227-231: Heiko Wongel
Progress of plant variety protection based on the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV Convention) pp. 232-243: Rolf Jördens
Technological information in the patent offices of the MERCOSUR countries and Mexico pp. 244-250: Edwin Urquidi
epolineÂ®: Register Plus service and Online Filing update pp. 251-256: Véronique Rogier

INPADOC: 30 years of endeavours yet unmapped territories remain! pp. 105-111: Davide G. Lingua
Independent inventors and public support measures: insights from 33 case studies in Finland pp. 113-123: Martin Meyer
Cross comparison of US, EU, JP and Korean companies patenting activity in Japan and in the Peoples Republic of China pp. 125-134: Michael O'Keeffe
Searching trademark databases for verbal similarities pp. 135-143: C.J. Fall and C. Giraud-Carrier
Dissemination of information activities of the Austrian Patent Office (APO) pp. 145-151: Ingrid Weidinger
25 years in the International application of information technology (IT) and standards to process and disseminate patent information, from 1980 to 2004 pp. 153-161: Don McMaster

Why pay for value-added information? pp. 7-11: Minoo Philipp
The impact of metadata on the accuracy of automated patent classification pp. 13-26: Georg Richter and Andrew MacFarlane
Patent archives--the silent threat pp. 27-29: Willem Geert Lagemaat
Recent developments in Japan's intellectual property industry pp. 31-35: Yutaka Wada
Empowering innovation: extending services regionally pp. 37-41: Chris Brown
New epolineÂ® products and services pp. 43-47: Véronique Rogier
Using intellectual property data to analyse China's growing technological capabilities pp. 49-61: Felicia M. Fai