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QUESTELQUESTEL

ORBIT.COM

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QUESTELQUESTEL• French company

• Producer and provider of online and internet services

• Collection of patents, trademarks, designs, scientific-technical information

• 30 years worldwide experience

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Paris Sophia-Antipolis Alexandria, USA BrusselsHeadquarters R&D Patents Headquarters R&D, Trademarks

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ORBIT.COMORBIT.COM

• Six modules

• Search patents

• Search Xpress patents

• Workfiles

• Download pdf

• Watch

• Search designs

• Legal services

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• Fampat / Pluspat: 90+ databases

• Full text coverage: 20+ databases

• US, EP, PCT, Austria, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

http://www.questel.com/customersupport/Coverage_and_Updates_FamPat.htm

http://www.questel.com/customersupport/Coverage_and_Updates_FullText.htm

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COVERAGE• More than 90 patent authorities• 60 million documents grouped in 40 million inventions• 18 million images• Coverage from the early 1800 • Original and English titles and abstracts• English Machine translated titles and abstracts (AR, BR, CA, CL,

CN, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IN, KR, JP, MX, RU, SE)• Key content (object of invention, advantages of the new invention

and prior art drawbacks, independent claims)• Legal Status integrated• Updated weekly; Fast updating of CN, JP, KR, TW

CLASSIFICATION• Updated and revised: IPC 8, ECLA, ICO, USPCL, FI/FTerms

CITED REFERENCES• AU, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, EP, ES, FI, JPA, JPB, NL, PCT, TR, US• Relevancy indicators for FR, WO, EP and JP

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Online in FampatEnglish Titles, Abstracts,

Biblio ImagesPDFFull Text

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Coverage:http://www.questel.com/Prodsandservices/coverage.htm

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Patent Family Database

New invention-based family concept

Closer to the heart of the invention

Fampat

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Architecture of searching in Fampat:

• Patents grouped into invention-specific families• Search across all equivalents

All family information searched as one:

• all abstracts as one• all titles as one• all key content as one• all classification codes can be combined

Fampat

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Two patent family models: Espacenet and Inpadoc

FamPat family / Guidelines• Modification EPO family • Rules:

- Links between EP and PCT application- US Provisionals / PGPs / Continuations / CIPs- Families in constant flux

User benefits• No duplicates of patent numbers• Display of Inpadoc family, legal status data, patent

numbers and filing details• Consistency, precision and retrieval

Fampat

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Searches

Search Xpress

Workfiles

Download (PDF)

Watch

Watch Legal Status

Search Designs

Searches

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Searches

General search

Number search

Citation search

My Session

Search history

Search results

My Searches

My saved searches

My alerts

My Listes

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Searches

General search

Number search

Citation search

My session

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Search results

My Serches

My saved searches

My alerts

My Lists

Number search

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Searches

General search

Number search

Citation search

My Session

Search history

Search results

My Searches

My saved searches

My alerts

My Lists

Citation search

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Search history

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My saved searches

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My saved searches

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My alerts

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My Lists

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Workfiles

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Download patents copies

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Download patents copiesMy portfolio

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Results - Display

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Results – Add to

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Results – Export

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Results – Analyse

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Citation graph

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Other actions

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User settings

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• Simple and intuitive way for searching patents in

FamPat

• Search by subject, company or personal name, or

number

• Ideal tool for engineers, R&D and Legal

departments

Search Xpress

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Searching the following:

COLLAPSIBLE KEYBOARD

will translate into the following query

COLLAPSIBLE??  P KEYBOARD??

Search field: title + abstract + key-contentNote

P: paragraph

? : zero or one character truncation

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Searches

Search Xpress

Workfiles

Download (PDF)

Watch

Watch Legal Status

Search Designs

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Searches

Search Xpress

Workfiles

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Watch

Watch Legal Status

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Workfiles

Download (PDF)

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Searches

Search Xpress

Workfiles

Download (PDF)

Watch

Watch Legal Status

Search Designs

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Thank you!Grazie!Merci!

rosella@questel.com