Secure competitive advantage in China - STN now offers comprehensive Chinese patent information

Secure competitive advantage in China - STN now offers comprehensive Chinese patent information 18. April 2012

18. April 2012 07:33 Age: 4 yrs

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New: FIZ Karlsruhe implements Chinese full-text patent file CNFULL on STN / full-texts of Chinese patent applications, granted patents and utility models available in machine-translated English / unique numeric property search feature enables users to search for chemical and physical properties Karlsruhe, April 2012 - With China having grown into one of the world's major patent-ing countries, it becomes extremely important for all companies involved in R&D to keep an eye on the developments in Asia and at the same time to protect their prod-ucts and inventions in this region accordingly. The new full-text patent file CNFULL offered by FIZ Karlsruhe, the European Service Center of STN International, enables researchers and patent specialists to broaden their complex patent searches to Chi-nese patent full-texts in order to determine patentability, state of the art, infringement, and licensing possibilities.

With CNFULL we offer our customers a valuable resource of patent information from one of the world's most dynamic economic areas, says Rainer Stuike-Prill, Vice President Marketing & Sales at FIZ Karlsruhe. The excellent search, retrieval and analysis tools of STN allow for precise searching and retrieval of business-critical information. The new database provides our customers with an overall picture of the Asian patent landscape, thus helping them to secure their competitive advantage.

At present, the file comprises over 4.5 million records and more than 3.8 million images from 1985 onwards. More than 10,000 new documents are added to the file each week. Each database record contains all documents published for one application. Online thesauri for the International Patent Classification (/IPC) and the European Patent Classification (/EPC) are searchable. Abstracts are initially machine translated and replaced three months later by human translated text; descriptions and claims are machine translated.

The unique Numeric Property Search feature, developed by FIZ Karlsruhe and already used in other full-text patent files on STN, is also available in CNFULL. It enables users to search the numeric values of over 30 physical and chemical properties in almost 400 unit variants within the full text of all documents and thus significantly enhances the search precision in many cases. Searchable properties and their respective base units comprise for example /SAR (Surface Area, m ), /CMOL (Molar Concentration, mol/L), /DEN (Mass Density, kg/m ), or /VOL (Volume, m ).

CNFULL is a valuable addition to STN's wide range of full-text patent databases from all over the world. It shows once more that FIZ Karlsruhe provides excellent services to science and business, as confirmed recently by an international auditing group.

35 years after its foundation, FIZ Karlsruhe is dedicated to its motto Advancing Sci-ence , against which its products and services are measured.

About STN International

STN International (www.stn-international.de), the premium online service in science and patent infor-mation, provides access to nearly 200 databases from renowned producers. Only STN offers DWPISM, CAplusSM/CAS REGISTRYSM and INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB on a single platform. STN's powerful, transparent retrieval system allows for text, factual, chemical structure and biosequence searches. Also available are excellent analysis, visualization and post-processing tools. With precise and comprehensive information, STN supports information professionals in answering business-critical questions by offering them complete and topical information that meets the highest quality standards. Top priority is given to data privacy protection, data security, and confidentiality. STN is jointly operated by FIZ Karlsruhe (Europe) and Chemical Abstracts Service (USA), and is represented in Japan by JAICI.

Additional Information:

FIZ Karlsruhe

Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1

76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 7247 808-555

Fax: +49 (0) 7247 808-259

E-mail: helpdesk(at)fiz-karlsruhe(dot)de

Press Contact:

FIZ Karlsruhe

R diger Mack

Phone: +49 (0) 7247 808-513

E-mail: ruediger.mack(at)fiz-karlsruhe(dot)de

About FIZ Karlsruhe

FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure is a not-for-profit organization with the public mission to make sci-tech information from all over the world publicly available and to provide related services in order to support the national and international transfer of knowledge and the promotion of innovation.

Our business areas:

STN International - the world's leading online service for research and patent information in

science and technology

KnowEsis - innovative e-Science solutions to support the process of research in all its stages, and throughout all scientific disciplines

Databases and Information Services - Databases and science portals in mathematics, computer science, crystallography, chemistry, and energy technology

FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of the Leibniz Association (WGL) which consists of 86 German research and infrastructure institutions.

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