International/Foreign/Comparative Intellectual Property

International/Foreign/Comparative Intellectual Property Electronic Resource
by
Chih-Yang Lin

The purpose of this product evaluation is to provide users interested in information relating to the international, foreign and comparative intellectual property a general guide for the electronic sources. Generally, the electronic sources comprises on-line database, CD-ROM database and cassette database. Based on the nature of these database, all of the databases are categorized into three parts in the following list, that is, on-line database, CD-ROM (Diskette), and Batch access. Some of the on-line databases are provided directly by its producer while some by certain major database vendors. Selection of databases is done under some criteria: 1. Subject Coverage, 2. Content, 3. Language and 4. Geographic Coverage. Only databases expressed in English are chosen herein. The subject coverage may include patent and/or trademark and/or copyright. Those databases contain only U.S. Intellectual Property Information are also knocked out of the list. It is somehow disappointing that after a lot of efforts on searching, the database focusing on international comparative intellectual property is not found.

The following are the lists of the selected databases:

I. On-line Database

A. International Patent

1. APIPAT

Type: Bibliographic
Content: Contains more than 230,000 citations, with abstracts (from 1980), to patents related to the petroleum refining and petrochemical industries issued in all industrial countries, as well as European patents issued under the European Patent Procedure (December 1978), and world patents issued under the patent Cooperation Treaty. Beginning in January 1981, also covers patents related to oil field chemicals.
Subject Coverage: Petroleum and energy industries worldwide, including chemistry, engineering, and economics relevant to the refining of crude oils to make fuels, lubricants, and other products; transportation and storage of petroleum products; environmental matters bearing on petroleum; processes and material that could replace conventional petroleum products; petrochemicals; chemicals used in the oilfields in drilling, producing, stimulating, and enhanced recovery.
Time Span: 1964 to date.
Updating: 825 records a month.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

2. BNA Daily News from Washington

Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains the complete text of 24 BNA electronic-only publications that provide coverage of news of news on national and international government and private sector activities. The file contains the following publications, many of which are described in a separate entry: BNA Antitrust & Trade Regulatiohn Daily (ATD); BNA Banking Daily (BBD); BNA Bankruptcy Law Daily (BLD); BNA california Environment Daily (CED); BNA Chemical Regulation Daily (CRD); BNA corporate Counsel Daily (CCD); BNA Employment Policy & Law Daily; BNA Federal Contracts Daily (FCD); BNA Health Care Daily (HCD); BNA International Business and Finance Daily (IBF); BNA International Environment Daily (IED); BNA International Trade Daily (ITD); BNA Labor Daily (BLD); BNA Management Briefing (MBD); BNA National Environment Daily; BNA Occupational Safety & Health Daily (OSD); BNA Patent, Trademark & Copyright Daily (PTD); BNA Pensions & Benefits Daily (PBD); BNA Product Liability Daily (PLD); BNA Securities Law Daily (SLD); BNA State Environment Daily (SED); BNA Tax Updates (BTU); BNA Toxics Law Daily (TLD); and BNA Washington Insider (BWI).
Subject Coverage: U.S. governmental and regulatory developments policymaking, legislative activities, and legal issues in the following areas: accounting, antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, benefits, chemical regulation, commodities, competition, congressional floor action, congressional hearings, copyrights, environment, ergonomics, ERISA, fair employment practices federal contracts, Federal Register contents foreign investment, government actions government procurementchemistry , hazardous materials, import restrictions, intellectual property, international trade, labor management, legal developments, occupational safety, patents, pensions, pollutions control, product liability, recycling, right-to-know, securities, solid waste, superfund, Supreme Court actions, tax, toxics litigation, trade regulation, trademarks, and activies.
Time Span: Varies by file.
Updating: Daily.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

3. BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal

Type: Full-text.
Content: contains the complete text pf BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal, covering legislation, committee reports, International developments (e.g., treaties, conventions), and court and federal agency rulings on patents, trademarks, copyright, and unfair competition. Primary source of information is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Subject Coverage: Patent, trademark, and copyright law.
Time Span: 1982 to date, LEXIS; 1986 to date, WESTLAW.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: LEXIS (PTCJNL: Transaction pricing, per-search pricing, and connect hour charging options available; contact vendor for details).

4. British Library Catalogue; Science Reference and Information Service

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains approximately 290,000 citations to books, periodicals, monographs, conference proceedings, and directories held by the British Library Science Reference and Information Service. Covers scientific and technical literature, literature on patents, trademarks, and registered designs, and some business publications. Includes title, brief notes (e.g., name of sponsoring body for conference proceedings, date of meeting), physical description (e.g., number of pages), publisher and/or distributor, and SRIS classification.
Subject Coverage: International.
Time Span: 1974 to date, with some earlier materials.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: BLAISE-LINE.

5. CAS Registry File

Type: Numeric; full-text.
Content: Contains structure, name, and formula information for nearly 13 million substances identified by Chemical Abstracts Service in journals and patents Covers more than 16,000,000 substance names. Typical data elements include CAS Registry Number locator, and stereochemistry. Enables the user to retrieve full information on a particular substance covered in the various Chemical Abstracts Service databases. Data are derived from more than 12,000 journals, patents from 27 countries and two international organizations; and books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and technical reports.
Subject Coverage: Substance information and identification, including organic compounds, coordination compounds, polymers, alloys, mixtures, and minerals.
Time Span: 1957 to date.
Updating: Weekly, with 8000 to 14,000 new records.
Online Availability: Data-Star

6. Current Patens Fast-Alert

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains citations, with abstracts, to U.S., British, European, and international pharmaceutical patents and applications. Covers antiinflammatory, antiallerge and gastrointestinal patents; antimicrobial patents, including antivirals, vaccines antifungals, antibacterials, and antiparasitics; cardiovascular patents, including cardovascular chemotherapy and blood products; and central nervous system (CNS) patents, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, analgesics, antiepilerics, antimigraines, and treatments for Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and stroke. Abstracts include therapeutic classification and examples of preferred compounds, inventor name, and International Patent Classification (IPC).
Subject Coverage: Phamaceutical patents.
Time Span: July 1989 to date.
Updating: Weekly, within 10 days of patent publication.
Online Availability: Data-Star.

7. ECLATX

Type: Directory.
Content: contains all codes, with explanations, that comprise the European patent Office (EPO) classification scheme. This hierarchical scheme is represented by two types of records in the database. Each classification heading record covers a subclass, providing subclass code and title, class code and title, and explanatory notes., Each classification text record covers a first-level subgroup, providing the main group code and title, one subgroup, and all subdivisions of that subgroup. Approximately 100,000 subdivision codes correspond to the International Patent Classification (IPC); another 40,000 codes were added by the EPO. Classification codes can be used as search terms in EDOC (described in a separate entry).
Subject Coverage: the International Patent classification scheme.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: QUESTEL ORBIT.

8. GENESEQ

Type: Bibliographic; full-text; numeric.
Content: Contains descriptions of nucleic acid and protein sequences from patent applications and granted patents. Covers all nucleotide sequences greater than 9 bases, all protein sequences greater than 3 amino acids, and probes of any length. Includes type of molecule (e.g., DNA, RNA, protein), length of molecule, accession number, description of the sequence, genus and species of the organism from which the sequence was obtained, table of sequence-specific features, patent number, publication date, priority details for the patent, patent assignee, patent inventors, patent title, and patent sequence. Nucleotide sequences are in IUPAC format, and protein sequences are in one-letter format. Data are derived from patent applications and granted patents published by 14 major patent issuing authorities, including the European Patent Office (EPO), Japan Patent Information Organization (JAPIO), and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Subject Coverage: Nucleic sequence data.
Time Span: Patents issued since 1989, with some earlier coverage.
Updating: Biweekly.
Online Availability: BIONET On-line Service.

9. Genetic Technology News (GTN)union

Type: Directory; full-text.
Content: contains the complete text of Genetic Technology News, a monthly newsletter covering commercial applications in the chemical, energy, food, and pharmaceutical industries of products resulting from genetic engineering. Includes market forecasts, business news from leading biotechnology firms, announcements of investment opportunities, reports on research activities at universities and research institutions, and reports of new porducts. Also provides information on recently granted biotechnology patents, including number, title, assignee, and issue date. Many items include names, addresses, and telephone numbers of people who may be contacted for further information.
Subject Coverage: Molecular biology and genetic engineering.
Time Span: Mead Data Central, 1982 to April 1, 1993.
Updating: Not Updated.

10. IMSWorld Patents International

Type: Directory.
Content: Contains product patent information on more than 1000 pharmaceutical compounds, either marketed or in active research and development. Provides pharmaceutical product family profiles. For each patent, provides drug name, synonyms, trade names, therapeutic class, compound name, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number, description, patent number, assignee, priority numbers and dates, publication date, patent country, estimated patent expiration dates, published application number by country, extensions to patent terms for the United States and japan where granted, and U.S. marketing exclusivity information, if applicable. Corresponds to Patents International.
Subject Coverage: Drug patents.
Time Span: 1987 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: ORBIT QUESTEL (DPIN).

11. INPADOC Data Base (IDB)

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains citations to more than 20 million patent documents issued in 56 countries, accounting for 96 percent of the world's currently published patent documents. Includes published patents, inventors' certificates, utility certificates, and published applications. For each patent, provides country of publication, document type, document publication date, country of priority, number of application, priority date, International patent Classification (IPC) symbol, inventor name, owner name, applicant name, invention title, national classification symbol, and legally related domestic patent application.
Additionally provides legal status information for patents granted in Austria, Denmark, France, Hungary, Luxemburg, Monaco, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under the Patent Cooperation Treaty of 1970. Each record contains standard bibliographic data. Includes patent family information.
NOTE: On ORBIT QUESTEL, new patent records are maintained additionally in the INPANEW file for 6 to 10 weeks. Information on patent legal status is available in the separate Legal Status file.
On STN, new patent records and legal status records are maintained additionally in the INPAMONITOR file for 4 weeks.
Subject Coverage: Patents issued worldwide, including patent families and legal status.
Time Span: 1968 to date.
Updating: weekly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

12. MARPAT

Type: Image; bibliographic.
Content: Contains more than 250,000 graphic representations of generic (Markush) structures from more than 72,000 patents published since 1988 and cited in CA File (described in a separate entry). All chemical subject areas are represented, with the exception of alloys, metal oxides, inorganic salts, intermetallics, and polymers. Records also contain wazzu bibliographic citation, abstract, and CAS Registry Numbers.
Subject Coverage: Markush structures from patents.
Time Span: 1988 to date.
Updating: Biweekly.
Online Availability: STN International (MARPAT).

13. MARPATpreviews

Type: Image; properties; numeric; bibliographic.
Content: Contains more than 3500 graphic representations of generic (Markush) structures from more than 1000 patents cited in the Capreviews database (described in a separate entry). All chemical subject areas are represented, with the exception of alloys, metal oxides, inorganic salts, intermetallics, and polymers. Records also contain bibliographic citation, abstract, and CAS Registry Numbers.
Subject Coverage: Markush structures.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Daily.
Online Availability: STN International.

14. PAPERCHEM

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: contains more than 300,000 citations, most with abstracts, to the worldwide scientific and technical literature and patents on theories, resources, products, and processes of the pulp, paper, and board industries. Both manufacturing and use aspects are covered. Also provides author and inventor affiliation information, including organization name and location. Corresponds to the Abstract Bulletin of The Institute of Paper Science and Technology (ABIPST).
Subject Coverage: Scientific and technical aspects of the pulp and paper industries, including raw materials; principles; processes; patents; technology; machinery and equipment; products; packaging; graphic arts; forestry and silviculture; and the chemistry of carbohydrates, cellulose, hemicelluloses, lignin, and wood extractives.
Time Span: 1967 to date.
Updating: 1100 records a month.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

15. PATDATA

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains citations, with abstracts, to approximately 700,000 U.S. utility patents issued since 1971 and all reissue patents and defense publications issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office since 1975. Each record includes patent number, date, title, inventor, inventor address, patent assignee, application data, foreign priority information, and codes of the United States and International Patent Classification Systems. Also includes cited references to U.S. and non-U.S. patents.
Subject Coverage: U.S. patents in all fields of medicine, science, and engineering technology, including utility patents and reissue patents.
Time Span: 1975 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: CDP Online.

16. Patent Legal Status

Type: Directory.
Content: Contains more than seven million records on the legal status of patents and patent applications filed with Austrian, Belgian, Swiss, German, French, British, American and other patent authorities, the European Patent Office (EPO), or the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Covers withdrawals, cancellations, annulments, and changes occurring because of failure to pay annuities. Sources are patent office gazettes. Corresponds to the microfiche publication PRS.
Subject Coverage: Patents and patent applications filed with various patent authorities worldwide.
Time Span: 1959 to date.
Updating: Weekly. Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

17. PATOSWO (Patent Online System World)

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: contains more than 130,000 citations, with abstracts, to international patent applications published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Includes international patent classification, title, names and addresses of assignee and legal representative, designated countries, international priority date and country, and filing and publication dates. Typical data elements include patent number, document type, international patent classification; title; name and address of inventor, assignee and legal representative, dates of filing, publication and grant, examination information, and priority information.
Subject Coverage: International patent applications.
Time Span: 1983 to date.
Updating: 1000 records every 2 weeks.
Online Availability: STN International (PATOSOW).

18. PCTPAT

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains more than 142,000 citations to Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and European PCT applications published in the PCT Gazette since 1978. For PCT records from 1978 to 1982, contains application number and date, priority number and date, and classification data. For European PCT records, contains application, inventor and repesentative, title, abstract, designated, states, application number and date, priority number and date, and classification data. For all records from 1983 to daate, contains application, inventor and representative, title, abstract, designated states, application number and date, priority number and date, and classification data.
Subject Coverage: The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications.
Time Span: 1978 to date.
Updating: Biweekly.
Online Availability: QUESTEL ORBIT.

19. Sensor Review

Type: Directory; full-text.
Content: Contains the complete text of Sensor Review, a monthly newsletter covering patent applications related to sensors and sensor technologies. Includes analyses of patent activity and patent application data, including title, class, name of applicant, and country of application.
Subject Coverage: Sensor technology.
Time Span: 1988 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Availability Online As Part Of: Newsletter Database (described in a separate entry).

20. Space Patents

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains approximately 2080 citations, with abstracts, to patents in all areas of space technology. Covers launch vehicles, space vehicles, spacecraft communications, command and tracking systems, spacecraft design and testing, spacecraft and payload instrumentation, spacecraft propulsion and power, ground support systems and facilities, chemistry and materials, and spacecraft subsystem engineering.
Subject Coverage: Space technology patents.
Time Span: 1904 to 1984.
Updating: Not updated.
Online Availability: ESA-IRS (67: SPACEPA).

21. TRANSIN

Type: Directory.
Content: Contains more than 3000 descriptions of offers and requests for transferable technologies, including new products, processes, and techniques. Each item is described by the country of patent or country in which a license is available or sought; title; name, position, and address of patent holder or item announcer; abstract describing the technology and its advantages; country of frigin; international patent classification codes that identify industrial and scientific areas of interest; developmental stage of the technology offered or sought; and technical skills required or developed. Information is obtained from such sources as research centers, public laboratories, private industry, and independent inventors.
Subject Coverage: Technology transfer; patnets; new products and inventions; industrial know-how.
Time Span: 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: QUESTEL ORBIT.

22. WPI/APIPAT

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains patents covering petroleum refining, the petrochemical industry, and synthenic fuels. Features the indexing capabilities of the American Petroleum Institute's APIPAT file (described in a separate entry) combined with the classification and coding system of Derwent's World Patents Index (described in a separate entry). Typical data elements include document number, patent title, patnet assignee, company code, inventor, patent codes, priority codes, patent family codes, patent country, designated states, abstract, and International Patent Classification (IPC) codes.
Subject Coverage: Petroleum and energy industries worldwide, including chemistry, engineering, and economics relevant to the refining of crude oils to make fuels, lubricants and other procucts; transportation and storage of petroleum products; environmental matters bearing on petroleum; processes and materials that could replace conventional petroleum products; petrochemicals; popelines; tankers; C1 and other technologies; chemicals used in the oilfields in drilling , producing, stimulating, and enhanced recovery.
Time Span: 1963 to date.
Updating: WPIA, monthly; WPILA, weekly.
Online Availability: ORBIT QUESTEL.

23. WPIM (World Patents Index Markush)

Type: Full-text; numeric.
Content: Contains graphic representation of generic (Markush) structures commonly used in patents for pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, and general chemical compounds, to represent compounds that are wholly or partially variable. Covers Markush structures from patents included in Derwent's Chemical Patents Index Sections B (farmdoc), C (Agdoc), and E (Chemdoc) (WPI (World Patents Index), described in a separate entry). Includes compounds that are removed, or used to effect removal, when this is an important feature of the patent; all compounds described as new; new catalysts; all products of new processes, including materials purified in new ways; compounds in novel methods of analysis or detection; and key ingredients of compositions. Structures are grouped under 21 concepts, called "superatoms," shich specify a particular attribute. Users can transfer search results to WPI to facilitate retrieval of complete patent information.
Subject Coverage: Markush structures used in pharmaceutical, agricultural chemicals, and general chemical compounds used in patents.
Time Span: 1987 to date.
Online Availability: QUESTEL ORBIT.

B. TRADEMARK

1. Brands and Their Companies (BTC)

Contact: Customer Service. Toll-free: 800-877-GALE.
Former Database Name: Trade Names Database.
Type: Directory
Content: Contains listings of more than 355,000 trade names, trademarks, and brand names of consumer goods available from more than 63,000 owners and distributors. For each trade name, provides name, brief product description, company name, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) trademark code, source of information, and, as available, address and telephone, toll-ftee, and fax numbers of the manufacturer, distributor, importer, or information source. Information is obtained from some 150 published sources and by annual questionaire mailings and telephone calls to listed companies. Corresponds to Brands and Their Companies, Companies and Their Brands, International Brands and Their Companies, and International Companies and Their Brands.
Subject Coverage: Trade names, trademarks, and brand names of consumer-oriented products and their manufacturers; product coverage includes apparel, appliances, automobiles, beverages, candy, computer software, cosmetics, decorative accessories, drugs, fabrics, food, furniture, games, glass products, hardware, jewelry, paper products, pet supplies, tobacco products, and toys.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Semiannual.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

2. British Library Catalogue; Science Reference and Information Service

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains approximately 290,000 citations to books, periodicals, monographs, conference proceedings, and directories held by the British Library Science Reference and Information Service. Covers scientific and technical literature, literature on patents, trademarks, and registered designs, and some business publications. Includes title, brief notes (e.g., name of sponsoring body for conference proceedings, date of meeting), physical description (e.g., number of pages), publisher and/or distributor, and SRIS classification.
Subject Coverage: International.
Time Span: 1974 to date, with some earlier materials.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: BLAISE-LINE.

3. IMARK

Type: Full-text.
Contains: contains information on approximately 386,000 trademarks valid in Italy. Covers unpublished pending applications filed at Provincial Offices of commerce, published and unpublished registrations, and Italo-French and France-Italian trademarks.
Subject Coverage: Valid Italian trademarks.
Time Span: 1969 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: QUESTEL ORBIT.

4. IMSMARQ

Type: Full-text.
Content: Covers registered trademarks and pending applications. Comprises the following two files:
Registry File - contains more than 1 million records of registered trademarks and pending applications from the registry files of Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Common Law File - contains information on registered and unregistered trademarks currently in use in pharmaceuticals and consumer goods classes.
Subject Coverage: Trademarks currently in force or applied for, covering all classes of goods and services.
Time Span: Varies by country, with earliest data from 1876.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: Imsmarq AG (Rates vary, depending on the type of search).

5. Imsmarq International Trademarks

Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on more than 280,000 valid international trademark registrations from the register maintained at the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Covers trademarks from more than 30 countries, mainly in Europe and the Far East. Includes trademark status, description of trademark, current and previous owner, filing details in original country, and any refusals or limitations on its use.
Subject Coverage: All valid international trademark registrations.
Time Span: 1893 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: Data-Star (TMWO).

6. Imsmarq Pharmaceutical Trademarks In-Use

Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on more than 300,000 pharmaceutical trademarks in use, whether registered or not, in more than 50 countries worldwide. For each trademark includes the trademark as recorded in-use, the owner or the local distributor, recorded sales, the product launch date, and the anatomical therapeutic class.
Subject Coverage: Pharmaceutical trademarks currently in use worldwide.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: Data-Star (TMPI).

7. Rapra Trade Names (RAPTN)

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains information on more than 40,000 trade names and trademarks of rubber and plastics products and materials. Covers rubber, thermoplastics, thermoplastic elastomers, and thermosets; additives and processing aids; finished and semi-finished products; and manufacturing and processing equipment. For each trade name or trademark, includes product category and description, company name, address and other contact information, and a citation to the registration document. Corresponds to RAPRA New Tradenames.
Subject Coverage: Trade names and related product and company information for rubber, thermoplastics, thermosets, thermoplastic elastomers, additives, processing aids, machinery, and finished and semi-finished products.
Time Span: 1976 to date.
Updating: Biweekly.
Online Availability: ORBIT QUESTEL.

8. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -INTERNATIONAL REGISTER

Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on 335,000 trademarks registered with the World Intellectual Property Organization (Bureau International de I'Organisation Mondiale de la Propriete Intellectuelle).
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Time Span: Active records, current information; inactive records, 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (671).

C. COPYRIGHT

1. Copyrules

Type: Full-text.
Content: contains information about the database producer's copyright regulations in general and the possibility and conditions of downloading. The copyright rules and download urles are excerpts from contracts between DIMDI and the database producers.
Subject Coverage: Copyright regulations and producers.
Updating: Irregular.
Online Availability: DIMDI.

II. FOREIGN

A. PATENT

1. BREV

Geographic Coverage: Belgium.
Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains citations, with abstracts (since 1982), to more than 255,000 Beigian patents and other European patens valid in Belgium. Each record includes date, number, and language of application; patent type; invention title; inventor name; priorities by date and country; and International Patent Classification code. Corresponds to Recueil des Brevets Brevets belges d'Invention and The European Patent Bulletin. Sources include the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs and European Patent Office.
Subject Coverage: All sectors of patentable activities in Belgium.
Time Span: 1973 to date.
Updating: monthly.
Online Availability: BELINDIS

2. Canadian Patent Index

Geographic Coverage: Canada.
Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains more than 200,000 citations to Canadian patents. Enables the user to search by patent or application number, classification, and keywords. Corresponds to the Patent Office Record.
Subject Coverage: Canadian patents.
Time Span: 1981 to date.
Updating: 500 records a month.
Online Availability: University of British Columbia Library.

3. Canadian Patent Reporter (CPR)

Geographic Coverage: Canada.
Type: Bibliographic; full-text.
Content: Contains the complete text and headnotes of approximately 5900 decisions covered in Canadian Patent Reporter. Covers significant cases on patents, industrial design, copyrights, and trademarks from the Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trade Marks, and various Canadian courts. Also includes cases tried under the combines Investigation Act and the Competition Act Provides cross-references to other Canada Law Book databases.
Subject Coverage: Canadian patent and copyright legal decisions.
Time Span: 1977 to date.
Updating: Biweekly.
Online Availability: Infomart Online.

4. Caribbean Patent Information Network (CARPAT)

Geographic Coverage: The Caribbean.
Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains more than 2300 citations, with abstracts, to patents issued primarily in English-speaking Caribbean countries. Data are obtained from Industrial Property Offices of Registrar Offices in each country. Corresponds to Caribbean Patents Index.
Subject Coverage: Patents issued in antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Christopher/Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, and Haiti.
Time Span: Varies by country, with earliest data from 1966.
Updating: Periodically, as new data become available.
Online Availability: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean.

5. Chinese Patent Abstracts in English Data Base

Geographic Coverage: The People's Republic of China.
Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains citations, with English-Language abstracts, to nearly 50,000 patents issued by the Patent Office of the People's Republic of China. Includes patent numbers from equivalent patents published in other countries. Record items include standard bibliographic data and patent family information.
Subject Coverage: All technologies patentable in the People's Republic of China.
Time Span: April 1985 to date.
Updating: 400 records every 2 weeks.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

6. EPAT

Geographic Coverage: Europe.
Type: Full-text; bibliographic.
Content: Lists patents applied for and published in the European Patent Office's printed European patent Bulletin. Contains more than 560,000 citations, with abstracts in the original patent language, to claims in English and French, and all bibliographic and legal information.
Subject Coverage: European patnets.
Time Span: June 1978 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: UQESTEL ORBIT.

7. JAPIO

Geographic Coverage: Japan.
Type: Bibliographic.
Content: contains citations, with abstracts, to approximately 4 million unexamined Japanese patents. Each record includes title, inventor, patent holder, application date and number, patent number, publication date, Japanese Classification Number, and International Patent Classification System code.
Subject Coverage: Japanese patent, utility model, design, trademark, PCT application, Japanese trial, and Japanese registration documents, as well as some foreign patent documents, covering all mechanical, electrical, chemical, and physical technologies.
Time Span: October 1976 to date.
Updating: 22,000 records a month.
Online Availability: ORBIT QUESTEL.

8. JUREP (Database on the Jurisprudence of European Patents)

Geographic Coverage: Europe.
Type: Bibliographic; full-text.
Content: Contains more than 6200 citations, with abstracts, to European legal decisions relating to patents. Covers judgments from the Technical and Legal Boards of appeal and the enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO), the National Courts of the member states of the European Patent convention, and the European communities Commission and Court of Justice; legal advices of the EPO Examination Divisions; citations to the Official Journal of the European Patent Office; nonpatent publications concerning the European Patent Convention; the Complete text of the European Patent Convention and guidelines; and the complete text of the Community Patent Convention.
Subject Coverage: European legal decisions relating to patents.
Time Span: 1973 to date (laws and regulations); 1978 to date (patent decisions).
Updating: Bimonthly.
Online Availability: QUESTEL ORBIT.

9. LEXIS(r) United Kingdom & Commonwealth Legal Libraries

Geographic Coverage: United Kingdom and Ireland.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Consists of several libraries of United Kingdom, European, and Commonwealth statutes, statutory instruments, case decisions, and legal journals.
Subject Coverage: United Kingdom and Commonwealth case law.
Time Span: Varies by source.
Updating: Varies by source.
Online Availability: LEXIS.

10. PATOLIS (Patent Online Information Service)

Geographic Coverage: Japan, with some international coverage.
Type: Bibliographic; directory.
Content: Contains several files on patents and trademarks issued by the Japanese Patent Office.
Subject Coverage: Patents and trademarks issued by the Japanese Patent Office.
Time Span: Varies.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: Japan Patent Information Organization (JAPIO).

B. TRADEMARK

1. Canadian Trade Marks

Geographic Coverage: Canada.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains descriptions of approximately 300,000 Canadian trademarks covering all current registrations and applications. For each trademark, include owner, agent, and type of trademark (e.g., word, design, certification); description of the trademark and the goods or services to which it applies; whether it's licensed to be used by others and associated claims (e.g., used in Canada since 1950); previous owner; registration and application dates; and other trademarks that are registered by the same owner. Data are gathered by the Register of Trade Marks, Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada.
Subject Coverage: Registered and pending trademarks in Canada.
Time Span: 1880 to date.
Updating: 400 records a week.
Online Availability: Infomart Online.

2. Canadian Trade Marks Opposition Board

Geographic Coverage: Canada.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains trademark-related decisions from the Registrar of Trade Marks from hearing officers designated by the Registrar, and from the Canada Trade Marks Opposition Board. Includes type of opposition, style of cause, application number, ruling officer, date of decision, and text of decision.
Subject Coverage: Canadian Trade Marks Opposition Board decisions and rulings.
Time Span: 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: Infomart Online.

3. Compu-Mark Online

Geographic Coverage: United States and Canada.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains information on more than 1 million U.S. federal trademark registrations and applications filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, over 700,000 trademarks and servicemarks registered in individual U.S. states and Puertto Rico and over 450,000 trademark applications and registrations filed with consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada. For each trademark, includes description of mark, description of goods or services, international classification owner history, registration and or application date and number, type of trademark (e.g., work or design), current status, disclaimers, limitations, priority claims, and related U.S. and foreign registrations.
Subject Coverage: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Consumer and Corporate Affairs canada registrations and pending applications, marks registered, cancelled, expired, or abandoned; registrations in the 50 states and Puerto Rico.
Time Span: All active registrations and applications to date; U.S. Federal contains inactive records from 1975 to date; U.S. State inactive registrations by state; Canadian inactive records urn form 1978 to date.
Updating: Twice weekly (U.S. Federal), weekly (U.S. State and Canada).
Online Availability: Thomson & Thomson.

4. compu-Mark U.K. On-Line

Geographic Coverage: United Kingdom.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains all trademark registrations, applications, and pending applications filed with the British Patent Office. Sources include the Official Trade Marks Journal of the UK, pending applications, and offical publications of new trademark applications.
Subject Coverage: British trademark registrations and applications.
Time Span: 1876 to date (pending applications and registered trademarks); 1981 to date (trademarks no longer valid in the U.K.).
Updating: continuous; monthly, Questel.
Online Availability: Compu-Mark (UK) Ltd.

5. DKMARK

Geographic Coverage: Denmark.
Type: bibliographic.
Content: Contains the complete text of all danish trademarks valid since 1960. Includes unpublished pending applications, valid applications since 1960, valid registrations since 1880, and trademarks invalid since the beginning of the current year. Provides trademark name, registration number, international class, and legal status.
Subject Coverage: danish trademarks.
Time Span: 1880 to date.
Online Availability: QUESTEL ORBIT.

6. DMARK

Geographic Coverage: Germany.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Contain information on more than 526,000 textual trademarks and the textual components of combined textual and device trademarks valid or pending in Germany, including both national and international registrations. Sources include the German Patent Office Warenzeichenblatt Teil l-lll, Warenzeichen und Musterblatt, and Les Marques Internationales. Corresponds to COMPU-MARK Rechtsstands-Lexikon.
Subject Coverage: Former West Germany trademarks, former East German trademarks, (Unified) German trademarks, and international trademarks requesting protection in Germany.
Time Span: 1950 to date.
Updating: 3000 records a month.
Online Availability: QUESTEL ORBIT.

7. DYNIS

Geographic Coverage: Canada.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains the complete text of registered and pending trademark applications in Canada.
Subject Coverage: Canadian trademarks.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: Control Data Canada, Ltd., Information Services Group.

8. Imsmarq Canadian Trademarks

Geographic Coverage: Canada.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on all trademark applications and registrations in Canada. For exah trademark includes status, description, current and previous owners, priorities, filing details, agents and representatives, international classification, index headings, and wares and services description.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations in Canada.
Time Span: 1867 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: Data-Star (TMCA).

9. Imsmarq Danish Trademarks

Geographic Coverage: Denmark.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains all registrations and applications in force since the start of Danish trademarks registration in 1880. For each trademark includes the international class, the registration or application number, and the type of trademark, when known.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations in Denmark.
Time Span: 1880 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: Data-Star (TMKD).

10. INPAMAR

Geographic Coverage: Spain.
Type: Directory.
Content: contains information on more than 1.4 million trademarks, trade names, business signs, and international trademarks registered in Spain. Provides name, registration number, date of registration, and classification.
Subject Coverage: Trademarks registered in Spain.
Time Span: 1876 to date.
Updating: Fortnightly.
Online Availability: Oficina Espanola de Patentes y Marcas, Departamento de Information tecnologica (2200 pesetas/search up to three minutes in length, 150 pesetas/connect minute beyond the third minute).

11. PATOLIS (Patent Online Information Service)

Geographic Coverage: Japan, with some international coverage.
Type: Bibliographic; directory.
Content: Contains several files on patents and trademarks issued by the Japanese Patent Office.
Subject Coverage: Patents and trademarks issued by the Japanese Patent Office.
Time Span: Varies.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: Japan Patent Information Organization (JAPIO).

12. LEXIS(r) United Kingdom & Commonwealth Legal Libraries

Geographic Coverage: United Kingdom and Ireland, with some international coverage.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Consists of several libraries of United Kingdom, European, and Commonwealth statutes, statutory instruments, case decisions, and legal journals.
Subject Coverage: United Kingdom and Commonwealth case law.
Time Span: Varies by source.
Updating: Varies by source.
Online Availability: LEXIS.

13. Swedish Trademarks

Geographic Coverage: Sweden.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains all registrations and applications in force since the start of swedish trademarks registration in 1885. For each trademark includes the propriate international classes and the registration or application number of that mark.
Subject Coverage: Trademark registrations and applications in Sweden.
Time Span: 1885 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: Data-Star (TMSE).

14. Trade Marks Opposition Board (TMOB)

Geographic Coverage: Canada.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains trademark-related decisions from the Registrar of Trademarks and the Canada Trade Marks Opposition Board.
Subject Coverage: Decisions on trademarks from the Register of Trademarks and the Canada Trade Marks Opposition Board.
Time Span: 1986 to date.
Updating: As needed, within 2 weeks of release.
Online Availability: QL Systems Limited (TMOB).

15. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -AUSTRIA

Geographic Coverage: Austria.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on 320,000 trademark registrations filed with Oesterreichisches Patentamt. More than 225,000 of these records are International Register trademark registrations requesting protection in Austria.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Austria.
Time Span: Active record, current information; inactive records, 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (662).

16. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -BENELUX

Geographic Coverage: Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg).
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on nearly 500,000 trademark registrations filed with Benelux-Merkenbureau, of which 220,000 are International Register trademark registrations requesting protection in Benelux.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Benelux.
Time Span: Active records current information; inactive records, 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (658).

17. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -CANADA

Geographic Coverage: Canada.
Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains information on more than 450,000 trademark registrations and applications filed with Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada. Includes trademark, serial number, International Classification number, current status, date of first use, filing, advertisement, registration and renewal, goods/services description, mark type, owner history, registration number, and application number.
Subject Coverage: Trademarks of products and services marketed commercially in Canada.
Time Span: Currently active applications and registrations, 1867 to date; inactive applications and registrations, 1978 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc.

18. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -DENMARK

Geographic Coverage: Denmark.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on more than 140,000 trademark applications and registrations filed with Patentdirektoratet.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Denmark.
Time Span: Active records, current information; inactive records, 1992 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (659).

19. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -FRANCE

Geographic Coverage: France.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on 700,000 trademark applications and registrations filed with Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle. Of these records, 220,000 are International Register trademark registrations requesting protection in France.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of France.
Time Span: Active records, current information; inactive records, 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (657).

20. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -GERMANY

Geographic Coverage: Germany.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on nearly 700,000 trademark applications and registrations filed with Deutsches Patentamt. More than 250,000 of these records are International Register trademark registrations requesting protection in Germany.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Germany.
Time Span: Active records, current information; inactive records, 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (672).

21. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -IRELAND

Geographic Coverage: Ireland.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on trademarks filed with Roinn Tioriscail, agus Trachtala Oifig na bPaitinni.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Ireland.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (676).

22. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -ITALY

Geographic Coverage: Italy.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on more than 440,000 trademark applications and registrations filed with Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e marchi. Of these records, 225,000 are International Register trademark registrations requesting protection in Italy.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Italy.
Time Span: Active records, current information, inactive records, 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (673).

23. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -LIECHTENSTEIN

Geographic Coverage: Liechtenstein.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on trademarks filed with Amt fur Volkswirtschaft Geistiges Eigentum. Includes International Register trademark registrations requesting protection in Liechtenstein.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Liechtenstein.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (677).

24. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -MONACO

Geographic Coverage: Monaco.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on trademarks filed with Propriete Industrielle Litteraire et Artistique. Includes International Register trademark registrations requesting protection in Monaco.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Monaco.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (663).

25. TRADEMARKSCAN(r) -SWITZERLAND

Geographic Coverage: Switzerland.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on more than 375,000 trademark registrations filed with Bundesamt fur geistiges Eigentum. Nearly 220,000 of these records are International Register trademark registrations requesting protection in Switzerland.
Subject Coverage: Trademark applications and registrations filed with the trademark registry of Switzerland.
Time Span: Active records, current information; inactive records, 1989 to date.
Updating: Monthly.
Online Availability: DIALOG Information Services, Inc. (661).

26. UK Trademarks (UKTM)

Geographic Coverage: United Kingdom.
Type: Directory.
Content: Contains information on more than 600,000 U.K. active, pending, and lapsed service marks and trademarks. For each, provides mark, trade mark number, application date, status, owner and/or agent, address, description and class of product, usage limitations, proprietary country code, and registered users. Includes information on any mark which has lapsed since January 1, 1976.
Subject Coverage: British trademarks.
Time Span: 1876 to date.
Updating: 1600 new and 1500 revised records a week.
Online Availability: Waterlow Signature.

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III. CD-ROM

A. INTERNATIONAL PATENT

1. JOPAL-ROM

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains more than 100,000 citations to non-patent literature covering patents. Includes IPC classification symbols. Corresponds to the Journal of Patent Associated Literature. Produced in cooperation with 13 intellectual property offices worldwide.
Subject Coverage: Patents.
Time Span: 1980 to date.
Updating: Annual.
Vendor: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

2. ROMARIN

Type: Full-text; image.
Content: Contains the complete text and images (where available) of more than 290,000 patents registered in WIPO's International Trademarks Register.
Subject Coverage: Patents.
Time Span: Current 20 years.
Updating: Monthly.
Vendor: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

3. Search Master(r) Intellectual Property Library

Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains 15 Matthew Bender publications that deal with intellectual property law:
Computer Law, Intellectual Property Counseling and Litigation, International Computer Law, Nimmer on Copyright, Milgrim on Trade Secrets, Patent Licensing Transactions, Patent Litigation, Patents, Trademark Protection and Practice, World Trademark Law and practice, world Patent Law and Practice, New York Intellectual Property handbook, Patent Office Rules and Practice, California Handbok of Intellectual Property.
Subject Coverage: U.S. intellectual property law.
Time Span: Current edition.
Updating: Quarterly.
Vendor: Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.

4. Investigational Drugs Database (Iddb)

Type: Bibliographic; full-text; image.
Content: Provides access to information on the research and development activities within the pharmaceutical industry, especially pharmaceutical compounds, patents, and applications. Comprises 4 modules: Commercial-provides information on sales forecasts, licensing opportunities, financial data and corporate strategies. Sources include newsletters, financial reports, business databases, and company communications. Literature-provides citations to articles appearing in key biomedical and chemical journals. Meetings-provides information from scientific conferences. Patents-covers patents filed through the World, European, U.S. and Japanese patent systems; provides coverage of novel compounds, new indications, processes, formulations, diagnostic tests, and biotechnology discoveries.
Searchable by company name, identification name, patent name, developmental status, indications and actions, Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number, chemical name, synonyms, class, licensing, sales potential, patents, bibliography, pharmcast, biology, pharmaceutics, clinical data, evaluation, and current opinion. Weekly updates are available on diskette or via the Internet on day of release.
Subject Coverage: Pharmaceutical research and development relating to drugs and resulting patents.
Year First Available: 1993.
Updating: Weekly.
Vendor: current Drugs Ltd.

5. GENESEQ

Type: Bibliographic; full-text; numeric.
Content: Contains descriptions of nucleic acid and protein sequences from patent applications and granted patents covers all nucleotide sequences greater than 9 bases, all protein sequences greater than 3 amino acids, and probes of any length. Includes type of molecule (e.g., DNA, RNA, protein), length of molecule, accession number, description of the sequence, genus and species of the organism from which the sequence was obtained, tqble of sequence-specific features, patent number, publication date, priority details for the patent, patent assignee, patent inventors, patent title, and patent sequence. Nucleotide sequences are in IUPAC format, and protein sequences are in one-letter format. Data are derived from patent applications and granted patents published by 14 major patent issuing authorities, including the European Patent Office (EPO), Japan Patent Information Organization (JAPIO), and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Corresponds to the GENNESEQ online database.
Subject Coverage: Nucleic sequence data.
Time Span: 1981 to date.
Updating: Quarterly.
Vendor: Derwent Information Ltd.

IV. MAGNETIC TAPE

A. PATENT

1. MDDR-2D

Type: Bibliographic; image; directory.
Content: Contains more than 50,000 models of bioactive chemical compounds covered by recent patent applications from 11 countries worldwide. For each compound, includes two-dimensional (2D) structure, bioactivity data, patent and company information, and bibliographic references. Enables the user to identify pharmacophores and explore hypotheses about new pharmacophores by using MACCS-ll software from MDL Information Systems, Inc. Corresponds to Drug Data Report.
Subject Coverage: Bioactive chemical compounds.
Time Span: July 1988 to date.
Updating: Semiannual with monthly "previews".
Vendor: MDL Information Systems, Inc.

2. MDDR-3D

Type: Bibliographic; image; directory.
Content: Contains more than 50,000 three-dimensional (3D) models of bioactive chemical compounds covered by recent patent applications from 11 countries worldwide. For each compound, includes two-dimensional (2D) structure, 3D model, bioactivity data, patent and company information, and bibliographic references. Enables the user to identify pharmacophores and explore hypotheses about new pharmacophores by using MDDR-3D software from MDL Information Systems, Inc. Information corresponds to Drug Data Report.
Subject Coverage: Bioactive chemical compounds.
Time Span: July 1988 to date.
Updating: Semiannual with monthly "previews.".
Vendor: MDL Information Systems, Inc.

B. TRADEMARK

1. BNA Daily News

Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains BNA Patent, Trademark & Copyright Daily
Subject Coverage: International trade, labor management, legal development, occupational safety, patents, pensions, pollutions control, product liability, recycling, trade regulation, and trademarks.
Time Span: Varies by file.
Updating: daily.

2. European Patent and Trademark Decisions and Conventions

Type: Full-text; directory.
Content: contains more than 600 patent and trademark decisions of the European Boards of Appeals published in the ABIEPA, GRUR Int., and BIPMZ. Also includes more than 3000 unpublished decisions, information on more than 1000 legal recommendatons and conventions, and the complete text of all Blue Book conventions of the European Patent Office.
Subject Coverage: European court decisions relating to patents and trademarks.
Time Span: 1978 to date.
Updating: Quarterly.
Vendor: IUK Information Service GmbH.

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1. BNA Daily News

Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains BNA Patent, Trademark & Copyright Daily
Subject Coverage: International trade, labor management, legal development, occupational safety, patents, pensions, pollutions control, product liability, recycling, trade regulation, and trademarks.
Time Span: Varies by file.
Updating: daily.

V. BATCH ACCESS

A. PATENT

1. BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal

Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains the complete text of BNA's Patent, Trademark &Copyright Journal, covering legislation, committee reports, international developments (e.g., treaties, conventions), and court and federal agency rulings on patents, trademarks, copyright, and unfair competition.
Subject Coverage: Patent, trademark, and copyright law.
Time Span: 1982 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Vendor: The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

2. PAPERCHEM

Type: Bibliographic.
Content: Contains more than 300,000 citations, most with abstracts, to the worldwide scientific and technical literature and patents on theories, resources, products and processes of the pulp, paper, and board industries.
Subject Coverage: Scientific and technical aspects of the pulp and paper industries.
Time Span: 1967 to date.
Updating: 1100 records a month.
Vendor: Institude of Paper Science and Technology.

3. World Patent Index (WPI)

Type: Bibliographic; image.
Content: Contains more than 6 million citations, with abstracts, to chemical, electrical, mechanical, and general patents issued by 31 major patent-issuing authorities. Dataelements include titles; patent assignee and inventor name; patent nembers; World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) member countries; priority and publication dates; and various classification and subject codes.
Subject Coverage: Worldwide published and unpublished patent specifications in general, mechanical, electrical, and chemical subject areas.
Time Span: 1963 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Vendor: Derwent information Ltd.

B. TRADEMARK

1. Compu-Mark U.K. On- Line

Type: Full-Text.
Content: Contains all trademark registrations, applications, and pending applications filed with the British Patent Office.Sources include the Official Trade Marks Journal of the UK, pending applications, and official publications of new trademark applications.
Subject Coverage: British trademark registrations and applications.
Time Span: Current information.
Updating: Continuous.
Vendor: Compu-Mark (UK) Ltd.

2. BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal

Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains the complete text of BNA's Patent, Trademark &Copyright Journal, covering legislation, committee reports, international developments (e.g., treaties, conventions), and court and federal agency rulings on patents, trademarks, copyright, and unfair competition.
Subject Coverage: Patent, trademark, and copyright law.
Time Span: 1982 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Vendor: The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

C. COPYRIGHT

1. BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal

Type: Full-text.
Content: Contains the complete text of BNA's Patent, Trademark &Copyright Journal, covering legislation, committee reports, international developments (e.g., treaties, conventions), and court and federal agency rulings on patents, trademarks, copyright, and unfair competition.
Subject Coverage: Patent, trademark, and copyright law.
Time Span: 1982 to date.
Updating: Weekly.
Vendor: The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

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