Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to Third Edition
- Part I: Patent processes and documentation
- Part II – Databases and search techniques
- 8 Patent guides and libraries
- 9 National and international patent information sources
- 10 The non-patent literature for the patent searcher
- 11 Common search types (I) – Alerting searches
- 12 Common search types (II) – Patentability and freedom-to-operate searches
- 13 Common search types (III) – Portfolio and legal proceedings searching
- 14 Sources for legal status searching
- 15 Commercial intelligence search and analysis
- 16 Specialist techniques
- 17 Future developments
- Annex A: USPTO classification (current at 2011.02)
- Annex B: Historical JPO classification
- Annex C: Classes of the IPC (Edition dated 2011.01)
- Annex D: The theme groups of the Japanese F-term system
- Appendix 1: Glossary of patenting terms
- Appendix 2: Contact list for major database producers, hosts and libraries
- Appendix 3: Index of abbreviations
- Index
14 Sources for legal status searching
Citation Information
Information Sources in Patents
DE GRUYTER SAUR
2011
Pages: 250-269
eBook ISBN: 9783110235128
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