Dear all,
This my first post here, in relat ip community. I would like to introduce you a little tool for a patent and any other information searchers.
IPEstonia Toolbar - searching tool for patents, intellectual property and any other information!
IPEstonia Toolbar should help you in conducting intellectual property searches to get intellectual property information and keep in touch with intellectual property information. Or, at least, I hope so.
IP Information comprises technical information, legal information and economic (marketing, competitors, etc) information. The purpose of IPE Toolbar is to be helping tool for IP attorneys, agents, assistants; for inventors, scientists, product developers; in technology, competitor, market analysis; etc.
To show you more detailed the content of
Posted by: Ophir Tal in USPTO, United States, prosecution, Patents Opposition, Patents, Patently-O, Patent search, Patent Prosecution, patent opposition, patent, oppositions, intellectual property, consultation, blogging on
Jul 08, 2008
A possibility for opposing pending patent applications in the US is presented by Dennis Crouch in his blog Patently-O under the title "poor-man's opposition proceedings ".
The US law does not allow opposing a patent application (in contrary e.g. to israeli procedures which are partly based on receiving third party's oppositions), however they do commit applicants to submit to the patent office any relevant subject matter.
So, the procedure comprises sending such subject matter to the applicant, thus making him obligated to disclose it to the patent office!
I like this
I would like to share my fascination with the patent clustering agent SparkIp (at www.sparkip.com , easily available via PatentPal I reported earlier). It visualises clusters of patent relating to keyword in a way that makes wandering through patent landscape enjoyable. I did not understand how it works, as it does not seem to follow the classification system (it includes only US patenets and some of the applciations currently), and am not fully convinced it is reliable, but it is surely intriguing and potentially add a qualitative factor to patent search.
I would be happy to learn more about it and gain from your experience with it.
An update - On June 16 SparkIP will launch a new and improved version with many additional features including international patent coverage, exports,
Continuing on Zeev Fisher’s post from January 12, 2008, I’d like to share my pleasure of using Patent Pal. This toolbar holds approximately 25 search engines, 30 blogs, most PTO’s of the world and local information from many countries, as well as writing guides and exam tools. Using it as a standard tool simplifies much of the web related work of patent drafting (e.g. a direct connection to Public PAIR), and encourages getting to know new resources. The supporting team is friendly and ready to add sites and blogs to the toolbar (e.g. Relatip).
So – enjoy!
http://www.thepatentpal.com/
Posted by: Ophir Tal in US, Patent search on
Mar 03, 2008
Google patent search has started to include patent applications in its database. Although this search engine isn't as "serious" as espacenet, it is very user friendly, enables exact searches (even if only in the US) using different categories, and downloads the patents rapidly as a pdf (they seem to have all patents in their own database). The search engine also allows tracking citing and cited patents and applications, and relate them to the classification. Overall I find it very useful for orientation and recommend using it.
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