Patents BIB Subscriber Notice

April 2003 Issue

It has recently come to our attention that more than 3,000 patent application publications are missing from the April 2003 issue of Patents BIB. These application publications have a publication date of December 5, 2002, and range from numbers 20020180376 to 20020284004. There are also another scattered 425 application publications missing from the issue.

This problem occurred during a filtering process used to clean up data prior to loading it into the Dataware search software. We are now investigating exactly why it occurred and are working to ensure it does not occur again.

Because of this problem, we will extend your subscription by one issue. We apologize for any inconvenience that this caused. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments.

June 18, 2003 (revised June 24, 2003)