Re: Comments and questions on information from INPADOC and P

Steve vanDulken (Steve.vanDulken@mail.bl.uk)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:01:17 +0000

Judith, the patent offices themselves supply the data, with all its
gaps, problems and delays.

I'd agree with the comment that the IPCs can be strange -- and with
someone else's comment that the PCT sometimes doesn't classify
abstracts, putting them at the beginning of each week's sequence. I
don't know of another authority that does that. Presumably the PCTs on
disc are the same and it's only when they enter a national stage that
anyone else thinks of giving them an IPC (e.g. when an EP number is
assigned).

Steve van Dulken

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Subject: Comments and questions on information from INPADOC and PCT
Author: "Johnson; Judith" <JOHNS04@wolf.research.aa.wl.com> at Internet
Date: 18/11/97 16:35

In response to Stu's letter on Japanese B2 documents - I understand that
EDOC (Questel) also tracks Japanese patent status but I do not know if
it depends on the same information that is sent to INAPDOC - does anyone
know?

INPADOC seems to get sporadic information. I wanted to know how many
patents were assigned to a certain company in INDIA and found only a
few listed in INPADOC. A patent agent found in India found many more.
Who is responsible for supplying the patent information from each
country to INPADOC?

I am dismayed as everyone else about the removal of the drawings and
abstracts from the PCT Gazette and having it online would be a good
substitute only if the structures were provided. Also, sometimes I find
relevant patents in the oddest sections in the Gazette - with an
assigned IC that I would not have expected. So that means I might miss
something when I run a search on the CD by IC codes.

Judy Johnson Philipsen
Warner Lambert