Cassis Subscriber Notice

Some changes were recently made to the Cassis2 user interface due to the growth of two Cassis products, Patents BIB and Trademarks BIB. Both of these products exceeded the space on a dual-layer DVD-ROM disc. In order to continue to provide all of the available data and indexes, each of the products was converted to a two-disc set.

Installation procedures were distributed to subscribers to explain how to install the product as a single database using two DVD drives or as two separate databases using one DVD drive. These installation choices will be reflected on all Cassis products that are published after January 2005. If you do not have a copy of the new installation procedures, they are provided in a readme.txt file in the root directory of both the Patents BIB and Trademarks BIB discs.

Please note that if you subscribe to multiple products you will encounter incorrect search results if you install earlier (pre-2005) products after installing newer versions of a Cassis product. For example, if you have both Patents BIB and Patents ASSIST products installed on your computer, reinstalling an older version of Patents ASSIST would overwrite the new user interface with an older version and cause Patents BIB to not function properly. To correct the problem, you would need to reinstall the newer Patents BIB product.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please contact us if you have further questions or comments.

February 14, 2005

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