ORGANIC COMPOUNDS -- PART OF THE CLASS 532 - 570 SERIES

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U. S. PATENT RESOURCES

As general guidance, a complete search of U. S. patents in this art area will include the following:

1. A classified search of the original classification class and subclass for the subject matter and the other highly relevant art areas in the US patent documents
2. A text search of the US patent documents; patents, PG PUB, and OCR databases:
• Broad text search for the general inventive concept(s), not limited by classification
• Narrow text search for the specific claimed invention
• Boolean text search employing the relevant inventive terms

The resources listed below are internal USPTO search tools. However, the information that they cover is available either commercially, on the USPTO web site, or in the Public Search Facility on the USPTO Headquarters campus and the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries.

EAST/WEST

EAST Coverage: 1971 - present, Full Text: 1971 - present

WEST Coverage: 1971 - present, Full Text: 1971 - present

Full text patent and inventor searching.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on patents. Used for locating patents and for inventor searching.

BRS Search/USOCR Database

EAST Coverage: 1920 - 1970, Full Text: 1920 - 1970

WEST Coverage: 1920 - 1970, Full Text: 1920 - 1970

Full text of U.S. patent grants.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on patents. Used for locating patents and for inventor searching.

PALM (Patent Application Locating and Monitoring)

USPTO Coverage: - Current, Full Text: - Current

Pending patent applications, recent patents, and abandoned files.

The Patent Application Locating and Monitoring (PALM) system is a large database system that maintains records for each patent application. PALM is designed to provide on-line access to information on all pending applications, as well as most recently patented and abandoned files. Useful for searching related applications by inventor name.

PGPUBS

EAST Coverage: 2001 - present, Full Text: 2001 - present

WEST Coverage: 2001 - present, Full Text: 2001 - present

U.S. published applications.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on patents. Used for locating patents, inventor searching, and interference searching.

USPATFULL

STN Coverage: 1971 - present, Full Text: 1971 - present

U.S. Patents Original Publications.

This database is used when searching by chemical Registry number. Complete Chemical Abstracts indexing for one equivalent US patent may be available, which facilitates cross-file searching with CAplus, REGISTRY, and USPATFULL.

FOREIGN PATENT RESOURCES

Searched separately from the U.S. Patent Search. These databases consist of abstract documents. Text searching abstracts requires the use of different search logic e.g. the use of broad Boolean and/or operators instead of narrow proximity operators.

Derwent World Patents Index and the contents of the EPO Abstracts and JPO Abstracts are available commercially.

Derwent World Patents Index, IPC Classified and Text Search

EAST Coverage: 1970 - present, Full Text: 1970 - present

WEST Coverage: 1970 - present, Full Text: 1970 - present

English abstracts database of patent documents from more than 40 patent-issuing authorities.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on world patents.

EPO Abstracts, Text and Classified Search

EAST Coverage: 1978 - present, Full Text: 1978 - present

WEST Coverage: 1978 - present, Full Text: 1978 - present

English abstracts database of published unexamined applications from EPO, WO/PCT, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Switzerland.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on WO, EP and other foreign patent documents, provides search reports and other related patents.

EPO esp@cenet

esp@cenet Coverage: 1920 - present, Full Text: 1920 - present

National patent information from all member states of the EPO as well as bibliographic data from patents worldwide.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on WO, EP and other foreign patent documents, provides search reports and other related patents.

FPAS3

Coverage: - , Full Text: -

USPTO foreign patent document retrieval system.

JPO Abstracts, Text and Classified Search

EAST Coverage: 1976 - present, Full Text: 1976 - present

WEST Coverage: 1976 - present, Full Text: 1976 - present

English abstracts database of published unexamined applications.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on Japanese patents.

JPO Industrial Property Digital Library

NCIPI Coverage: 1976 - present, Full Text: 1976 - present

Japanese patent information.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant machine translations of Japanese patents.

NON-PATENT LITERATURE RESOURCES

The resources listed are those that USPTO staff have found consistently yield the most relevant search results. Commercial databases available through a single vendor can generally be searched simultaneously, although it is preferable to search full text and bibliographic databases in separate groupings. In addition to the use of subscription databases and public Internet sites, it is recommended that books, manuals, standards and specifications be considered in the search for prior art.

BIOSIS Previews

Dialog Coverage: 1969 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1969 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Comprehensive worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.

This resource provides relevant information on compounds with pharmaceutical uses.

CA SEARCH: Chemical Abstracts

Dialog Coverage: 1967 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Questel Orbit Coverage: 1967 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1907 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Database of the worldwide literature of chemistry and its applications. Abstracts available via STN.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information when used for structure searches and registry number searches.

CAOLD (Pre-1967 Chemical Abstracts File)

STN Coverage: 1907 - 1966, Full Text: - N/A

Chemical Abstracts (CA) references from 1907 through 1966.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information when used for structure searches and registry number searches.

CAplus

STN Coverage: 1907 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Chemistry bibliographic database.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information when used for structure searches and registry number searches.

CASREACT (R) (Chemical Abstracts Reaction Search Service)

STN Coverage: 1840 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Chemical reaction database.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on chemical processes.

Dissertation Abstracts Online

Dialog Coverage: 1861 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1861 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution.

This resource may provide relevant information when searching for inventor publications and dissertations.

Dissertations and Theses - Full Text

ProQuest Coverage: 1861 - present, Full Text: Dates - vary

Doctoral dissertations and Master's theses.

This resource may provide relevant information when searching for inventor publications and dissertations.

MEDLINE (Medical Literature, Analysis, and Retrieval System Online)

Dialog Coverage: 1951 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1950 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Bibliographic database containing references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

This resource provides relevant information from biomedical literature worldwide.

REGISTRY

STN Coverage: - Current, Full Text: - Current

Substance database containing records for substances identified by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry System.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on compounds, chemical structures, and alternate names.

SciSearch: A Cited Reference Science Database

Dialog Coverage: 1990 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1974 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Cited reference index.

This resource provides relevant information from scientific, technical, and medical literature.

ACS Publications

American Chemical Society Coverage: - , Full Text: Dates - vary

Provides members and the worldwide scientific community a comprehensive collection of information products and services that advance the practice of the chemical and related sciences.

AminoScience

AminoScience Coverage: - N/A, Full Text: - N/A

Bailey's industrial oil and fat products

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: 5th ed. - 2005

Bailey, Alton Edward, Y.H. Hui

Reference on the food chemistry and processing technology related to edible oils and the nonedible byproducts derived from oils. Older editions may also be useful.

Beilstein Facts

Dialog Coverage: 1771 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1779 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Structures and properties for about 9 million heterocyclic, acyclic and isocyclic compounds.

This resource provides relevant information on compounds.

Catalysis Today

ScienceDirect Coverage: 1987 - present, Full Text: 1995 - present

Publication dealing with topical themes in catalysis and related subjects.

CHEMCATS (Chemical Catalogs Online)

STN Coverage: 1995 - present, Full Text: 1995 - present

Chemical catalogs.

This resource provides relevant information on compounds.

CONFSCI (Conference Papers Index)

STN Coverage: 1973 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Bibliographic database that provides access to international research papers and findings presented at scientific and technical conferences and meetings throughout the world.

This resource may provide relevant information on the latest technology.

CRC handbook of chemistry and physics

CRC Press Coverage: - , Full Text: Latest - edition

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: Dates - vary

Ready-reference book of chemical and physical data.

This resource provides relevant information on properties of compounds.

CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds

STN Coverage: - N/A, Full Text: - 1989

This resource provides highly relevant information on physical and chemical data of organic compounds.

Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA)

Dialog Coverage: 1969 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Questel Orbit Coverage: 1969 - present, Full Text: - N/A

STN Coverage: 1969 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Collection of food science, food technology and food-related human nutrition abstracts.

This resource provides relevant information in the food science, fats, and oils areas.

Hydrocarbon Processing

EBSCO Coverage: 1995 - present, Full Text: 1995 - present

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: 1967 - 2004

Inside Conferences

Dialog Coverage: 1993 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Contains details of all papers given at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at the British Library Document Supply Centre.

This resource may provide relevant information.

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Coverage: - N/A, Full Text: - N/A

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) serves to advance the worldwide aspects of the chemical sciences and to contribute to the application of chemistry in the service of mankind.

MARPAT (CAS Patent Markush)

STN Coverage: 1988 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Markush search service.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on Markush structure records for patents.

Merck Index OnlineSM

CambridgeSoft Coverage: - , Full Text: 13th ed. - 2001

Dialog Coverage: 2001 - 2001, Full Text: 2001 - 2001

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: -

STN Coverage: 2001 - 2001, Full Text: 2001 - 2001

13th edition of The Merck Index.

This resource frequently provides highly relevant information on compounds.

NAPRALERT (NAtural PRoducts ALERT)

STN Coverage: 1650 - present, Full Text: - N/A

Contains bibliographic and factual data on natural products.

This resource may provide relevant information on the chemistry and pharmacology of natural products.

Nature

Nature Coverage: - , Full Text: 1997 - present

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: -

Weekly, international, interdisciplinary journal of science.

Used to obtain the full text of cited articles.

Oil & Gas Journal

ProQuest Coverage: 1991 - present, Full Text: 1991 - present

STIC online catalog Coverage: - , Full Text: -

Petroleum industry publication.

Science

AAAS Coverage: 1995 - present, Full Text: 1995 - present

Dialog Coverage: 1996 - present, Full Text: 1996 - present

EBSCO Coverage: 1984 - present, Full Text: 1997 - present

JSTOR Coverage: 1880 - 1999, Full Text: 1880 - 1999

ProQuest Coverage: 1986 - present, Full Text: 1988 - present

Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Used to obtain the full text of cited articles.

ScienceDirect®

Elsevier B.V. Coverage: Dates - vary, Full Text: Dates - vary

Full text collection and abstracts database.

This resource provides relevant information from scientific, technical, and medical literature. Useful titles in this collection include Catalysis Today, Tetrahedron, and Tetrahedron Letters.

INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS

An Internet search should be considered when a search of the resources listed above fails to locate relevant prior art. A preliminary Internet search may be performed to obtain an overview of the technology, and to identify additional search terms and related product information.

Google TM

Google Coverage: - N/A, Full Text: - N/A

Internet search engine.

This resource provides relevant background information.

Public Comments on the Search Templates

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