Just for the record (and with Bob Buntrock's blessing):
API indexers would index a named process such as Oleflex only if it were so
identified in the document at hand. This is almost exclusively done in
indexing published literature, but would be exceptionally unusual in patent
indexing, because API patent indexing is done from Derwent Documentation
abstracts. While a named process would on occasion be referred to in a
patent document, it's very rare for such a mention to migrate to the
Derwent abstract.
Under NO circumstances would an API (or any other professional) indexer
look at a patent document, decide that some commercial process might be
involved, and choose to index that process. Such creative abstracting
would be totally unacceptable. It would certainly be proper for an
information scientist within an organization to inform his or her clients
that a named process seemed likely to be involved in a given
document--that's what information professionals are paid for by their
employers. But such speculation in a commercially produced abstract or
index would be totally out of line.
Stu Kaback
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