IP Resources - Questel enhancements

In the recent months Questel has further updated and enhanced their database system. One of the key enhancements is the addition of further full-text documents. The US backfile full-text now covers 1920-1973 and in the next few weeks there will also be full-text documents for Switzerland, Belgium and Austria.

In addition, there are now machine translated titles and abstracts for Germany, France, Japan, Korean and China. Other new features listed on the Questel news page include the following:

• "Natural and Multi-lingual search via our partnership with Lingway for PatentXL
• Comprehensive JP legal status via our partnership with PATOLIS Corp.
• More stats in the analysis module via our partnership with Intellixir"

Questel has also added new cited patents and non-patent documents in PatPlus and FamPat for the following countries: BE, CH, NL, TR, AU, JP, BS, ES, SG, DK, LU, FI, CY, and IT. This is in addition their existing literature for EP, WO, US, DE, FR, GB and JP. Moreover, "the Citation search field now includes standardized citation numbers and displays hit-term highlighting."

The final new enhancement is the Questel Analysis module. Questel states that "with this new powerful and interactive web-based analysis module, you can analyse patents from within your PatentExaminer workfiles by:

• Date, country, priority country
• Inventors and Assignees
• IPC - by IPC including IPC definitions
• Cross analysis by Assignees and IPCs"

Questel is available for a fee from www.questrel.com

Source and for further information

Questel - Website home page [includes release update details]