The PLUSPAT file on Questel/Orbit is planning to be launched on August 1,
2000, as announced at the PIUG annual meeting by David Dickens, General
Manager, North America. The file will contain approximately 30 million
records, with ECLA codes, IPCs, US Classifications, and abstracts when
available. As Andy and Mike mentioned, it will merge EDOC with Inpadoc
records, along with JAPIO and USPAT and some other sources. At present, all
of the records have been loaded and it is in the final testing stages.
ECLA codes will regularly be reclassified as they are done in the EDOC file.
More details on this exciting new file will become available later this
month.
Joe Terlizzi
Questel/Orbit
Senior Account Executive
718-246-1740
jterlizzi@questel.orbit.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Berks, Andrew <andrew_berks@merck.com>
To: 'piug list' <piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk>
Date: Friday, June 30, 2000 10:42 AM
Subject: RE: ECLA for patent-applications
EDOC is the usual method I use for searching ECLA codes. Note however that
updates for EDOC were suspended last November in preperation for the
"Inpadoc Plus" file, which as I understand it is a synthetic file on Q-O
that will merge Inpadoc, EDOC, and some other stuff. At this point, the
Inpadoc Plus file is not yet available. Maybe someone from Questel-Orbit can
comment on the status of this new file, which we were expecting a few months
ago.
What other methods are available to search ECLA codes? Are they on
Esp@cenet?
Andy Berks
> ----------
> From: Michael O'Hara[SMTP:mpo22@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 10:22 AM
> To: pk@graffinity.com; PIUG List
> Subject: Re: ECLA for patent-applications
>
> Peter,
>
> Check the EDOC file on Questel-Orbit. As the EPO defines new ECLA
> classes,
> they also re-classify the existing documents in their database with the
> new
> ECLA code. These documents with the updated ECLA code are listed in the
> EDOC file. Many times this will give the newer code by the time the A
> document is listed. This is an on-going process. The ECLATX file also on
> Questel-Orbit gives the ECLA code and notes if there is a reclassification
> currently being done with a code. In this case, you need to search both
> old
> and new code.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mike
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Koenig <pk@graffinity.com>
> To: <piug-l@derwent.tecc.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 4:30 AM
> Subject: ECLA for patent-applications
>
>
> > Dear searchers,
> > when I browsed the European patent CLAssification I found that
> > it includes some very interesting class-definitions for our
> > purposes which could simplify our search-profiles. Unfortunally
> > I have had to realize, that this classification of new disclo-
> > sures takes a long, long time. So the usage of this classifi-
> > cation is very limited because you would not find the latest
> > applications. Does anyone know, if there are any plans to get
> > this patent-classification up to date?
> >
> > Yours,
> > Peter
> >
> >
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> >
> > Dr. Peter Koenig
> > Graffinity Pharmaceutical Design GmbH Tel. 06221/64933-17
> > Im Neuenheimer Feld 515 Fax. 06221/64933-11
> > D-69120 Heidelberg e-mail pk@graffinity.com
> >
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> >
> >
>
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