Patents BIB Subscriber Notice

2001 February Issue

We are pleased to provide you with the third production disc of Patents BIB using the new Cassis2 user interface on DVD-ROM. You must have a DVD-ROM drive to access this disc.

• We have continued to enhance the new Patents BIB product:
  
  
  • A new "Document Type" field has been added. Using this field, you will be able to limit your search to one specific type of patent, for example, utility or design. Leave this field blank if you want your search to include all types of patents.
  • An updated version of the online Help system has been included on this issue.
  • An index for the "AllFields" field is now added. Occasionally, this index is slow - remember it is displaying every term in close to 3 million records.
  • We are anticipating that patent application publication information will be included on the next issue of Patents BIB - 2001 April. This will mean a few new fields specific to applications, for example, publication number and publication date. Kind codes will also be provided in a separate searchable field. Additionally, the USAApp volume ID will be displayed as part of the record. USAApp is the new document delivery product that provides facsimile "images" of patent application publications.

• Installation Instructions:

1. Insert the disc into the DVD-ROM drive. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer and locate your DVD-ROM drive. Click on the setup.exe file to begin the installation process.


2. It is recommended that you accept all defaults by clicking the Next button.
   • If you change the default directory during the first stage of the installation process, you must also change it during the second stage. If the directory location is not synchronized, you will receive a "file not found" error and the application will not run.
   • When you are asked about leaving repository files on the setup disc, accept the default. If you do not accept this default, you will copy more than 6GB to your hard drive.
   
   
3. The installation process will begin. The process is in two stages, DO NOT press any buttons until the process is complete! When the installation is complete, you will receive a message that the install is complete. Once Cassis2 is installed, you will open the program from Start/Programs/Cassis/Cassis (unless you changed the directory).

If you have an earlier version of the software on your computer, you will be prompted to uninstall that version prior to installing the new version. Confirm that you want to uninstall, but answer NO when asked about uninstalling shared files, such as files with .dll or .ocx extensions.

Please contact us if you have any questions or problems with this new disc.