IFI is pleased to announce that our Probable Assignee field for U.S.
published applications just got better. To support you in finding most
of those elusive 67%+ "unassigned" pre-grant publications (PGP) through
an assignee search, we have significantly augmented our PGP probable
assignee field so that 87% of the PGP's in IFI files (IFIPAT, IFIUDB,
IFICDB) include a "probable assignee" name.
IFI has combined the data from the USPTO's Assignment File, the assignee
name on the associated granted patent and the company name listed in the
Legal Rep field to increase the "probablity" of you finding PGP's by
assignee name.
Once the assignee data collection has been processed from these sources,
all assignee names will be run through the renowned IFI assignee name
standardization process to further improve your PGP assignee retrieval.
Probable Assignees from all available sources are currently provided
with the annual reload. Our next step will be to include Probable
Assignees from all available sources as part of monthly updates. And
sometime after that we will also be including them in weekly updates.
IFI's enhanced Probable Assignee field will be available on STN later
this week, and on Dialog and Questel Orbit in the next couple of months.
For search tips, please see refer to the host's banners or contact IFI
at:
info_at_ificlaims.com or 800.331.4955.
Darlene Slaughter
General Manager
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services
A Wolters Kluwer business
Dslaughter @ ificlaims.com
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