Boliven, a New York-based company, has launched a free patent database called Boliven Patents Beta.
The database contains data and images for US patents from 1976 to present, EP documents from 1978 forward, WO applications from 1989 forward and JP abstracts from 1976 forward. Search options include Basic, Advanced, Expert and Patent Number.
Search results can be filtered by source, assignee, date, and document type and sorted by relevance or date. A "QuickFlip" display option allows searchers to flip through displays of front pages very quickly.
Users who register for personal accounts (by invitation only) can take advantage of analytical tools, search histories, alerts and lists. For more information, see the press release.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Patent Filings Slow Amid Economic Slowdown
Sunday, January 11, 2009
New Guide to Using Patent Information from WIPO
The guide explains what a patent is, the information contained in a patent document, where patent information can be found, and how to use basic patent search strategies. Almost half of the guide is devoted to explaining how patent information can be used.
It's a well-written, concise introduction to the benefits of using patent information.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Chinese University Ranks 10 in US Patents
This week Boliven Patents released its first Top 25 Report for 2008.
Some rather unexpected statistics caught my attention. The first was in the university assignees category. Not surprisingly, US schools dominated the list. The top five included the Univ. of California (252), MIT (228), Stanford (137), Caltech (115), and Wisconsin (99). But just breaking into the top ten was Tsinghua University (60), one of China's leading universities. According to the school's website, Tsinghua has 44 research institutes, 9 engineering research centres and 163 laboratories, including 15 national laboratories. And #24 was the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. This seems to confirm a trend noted by the WIPO and other organizations: patent activity in Asia is increasing rapidly. It's nice to see American universities getting some competition.
(The USPTO also produces a statistical report on academic patenting, but it only includes U.S. colleges and universities and was last updated in 2006.)
Some rather unexpected statistics caught my attention. The first was in the university assignees category. Not surprisingly, US schools dominated the list. The top five included the Univ. of California (252), MIT (228), Stanford (137), Caltech (115), and Wisconsin (99). But just breaking into the top ten was Tsinghua University (60), one of China's leading universities. According to the school's website, Tsinghua has 44 research institutes, 9 engineering research centres and 163 laboratories, including 15 national laboratories. And #24 was the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. This seems to confirm a trend noted by the WIPO and other organizations: patent activity in Asia is increasing rapidly. It's nice to see American universities getting some competition.
(The USPTO also produces a statistical report on academic patenting, but it only includes U.S. colleges and universities and was last updated in 2006.)
Top Inventor Receives 577 US Patents in 2008
The other rather surprising statistic in the Boliven Patents Top 25 Report for 2008 was number of patents secured by the top-ranked inventor, Kia Silverbrook, founder of Silverbrook Research, a private R&D firm based in Sydney, Australia that specializes in inkjet printer technology. According to the report, and confirmed by checking the USPTO website, Silverbook received 577 US patents in 2008 (581 according to the USPTO). That's almost two patents a day. This is amazing. Thomas Edison received only 1,093 patents in his 60-year career. As of Feb. 12, Silverbrook is credited as an inventor on 2,430 US patents and 3,435 published applications. According to Silverbrook Research's website, the firm has more than 1,800 patents and 2,000 pending applications and employs over 400 research scientists, engineers and support staff.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Consolidated Glossary of USPC Terms
A new Consolidated Glossary of U.S. Patent Classification Terms is now available on the USPTO patent classification website. The glossary consists of a comprehensive list of terms taken from the classification definitions of the USPC. Terms are listed in alphabetical order and grouped by class number for easy browsing. These definitions are useful to patent searchers in that many terms found in the USPC manual have technology-specific definitions that are different from standard dictionary definitions.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
New USPC Class: 850 - Scanning Probe Techniques or Apparatus
The USPTO has created a new USPC class for inventions related to devices that scan or probe at the nano-scale. The full title is Class 850, Scanning-probe techniques and apparatus; applications of scanning probe techniques, e.g. scanning probe microscopy (SPM). The class was established under Classification Order 1885, released on Feb. 3. At this time, Class 850 consists of 63 subclasses, 1-63. No patents or published applications in the USPTO web-based database have been assigned to Class 850. This is not unusual as the classification data is updated bimonthly.
Monday, August 18, 2008
New USPC Classification Orders: #1881-1884
The USPTO's patent classification office has been busy the past few weeks. Four new classification orders (#s 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884) have been published since January 1, not including the one that I mentioned the other day that established Class 850 (#1885). The new orders outline changes to:
Monday, May 5, 2008
Youngest british patent holder
The BBC website has a story about Sam Houghton, who aged 5 has received a British patent for his invention. He must be one of the youngest inventors ever, and thought of the idea when aged 3.
It is for A sweeping device with two heads. He was inspired by his idea of a broom which has one head for big pieces and a second head for smaller pieces by watching his father sweeping up in the garden. Dad, who luckily is a patent lawyer, says "It was such a simple solution that only a child could have come up with it."
Broom
There are no plans to market the broom, but the fact that the patent has been granted protection (the BBC story has a picture of a smiling Sam holding a copy of the published, granted patent) means no one else can try to monopolise the idea.
As far as I am aware Sam is the youngest inventor to receive a British patent. In the USA, there is Jeanie Low with her Folding step for cabinet doors (built when she was aged 5); Robert Patch, with his Toy truck, who was 6 at the time; and Becky Schroeder, who took out three patents, starting with her Luminescent backing sheet for writing in the dark. Depending on which source you find, she was aged 10, 12 or 14.
Confusion can easily arise, as a child may think of an idea at one age, apply for a patent at a second, and be granted a patent at a third. Other inventions by children are stated by sources on the Web to be collapsible stands for school lockers, edible spoon-shaped crackers for cats, chalk dispensers, nappies with pockets for baby wipes and solar-powered tepees.
It is for A sweeping device with two heads. He was inspired by his idea of a broom which has one head for big pieces and a second head for smaller pieces by watching his father sweeping up in the garden. Dad, who luckily is a patent lawyer, says "It was such a simple solution that only a child could have come up with it."
Broom
There are no plans to market the broom, but the fact that the patent has been granted protection (the BBC story has a picture of a smiling Sam holding a copy of the published, granted patent) means no one else can try to monopolise the idea.
As far as I am aware Sam is the youngest inventor to receive a British patent. In the USA, there is Jeanie Low with her Folding step for cabinet doors (built when she was aged 5); Robert Patch, with his Toy truck, who was 6 at the time; and Becky Schroeder, who took out three patents, starting with her Luminescent backing sheet for writing in the dark. Depending on which source you find, she was aged 10, 12 or 14.
Confusion can easily arise, as a child may think of an idea at one age, apply for a patent at a second, and be granted a patent at a third. Other inventions by children are stated by sources on the Web to be collapsible stands for school lockers, edible spoon-shaped crackers for cats, chalk dispensers, nappies with pockets for baby wipes and solar-powered tepees.
Friday, April 18, 2008
India's Youngest patent
In October 2007, the patent database of the world has found one more addition to the young patent list. This title this time is for a young inventor in the country of India. He is a 17 year old , an engineering student and inventor of a pollution control device.
Inter national Info Classification : B01D46/00,F01N3/02
Application 2129/MUM/2007 published 2007-11-30, filed 2007-10-26
Inter national Info Classification : B01D46/00,F01N3/02
Application 2129/MUM/2007 published 2007-11-30, filed 2007-10-26
Applicant
1)SHARMA BIPLOVE
:A-604, AASHIRWAD II, POONAM SAGAR COMPLEX, MIRA ROAD
Inventor
1)SHARMA BIPLOVE
A pollution control device is a solution for the mankind’s greatest problem ie GLOBAL WARMING. This device fulfills the purpose of the solution of global warming by eliminating the harmful gases like Carbon-di-oxide (CO2) carbon mono-oxide CH4 – methane etc from the polluted air. The device has chamber in which the lime water is used to eliminate CO2 from the air. Limewater is made by mixing Ca(OH)2 in water. Limewater + carbon dioxide --->chalk(Limestone) + water Ca(OH)2(aq) + CO2 (g)--->CaCo3(s) +H2O(I) The curved shaped UV chamber in which the polluted air and water vapor would react to give CO2 and H2 gas. CO(g) + H2O(g) = CO2(g) + H2(g) The second Lime water chamber in which the Co prepared in the UV chamber would be reacted and thus eliminated.
reference :
http://india.bigpatents.org/view/87412/47160546a1f
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1134232
A pollution control device is a solution for the mankind’s greatest problem ie GLOBAL WARMING. This device fulfills the purpose of the solution of global warming by eliminating the harmful gases like Carbon-di-oxide (CO2) carbon mono-oxide CH4 – methane etc from the polluted air. The device has chamber in which the lime water is used to eliminate CO2 from the air. Limewater is made by mixing Ca(OH)2 in water. Limewater + carbon dioxide --->chalk(Limestone) + water Ca(OH)2(aq) + CO2 (g)--->CaCo3(s) +H2O(I) The curved shaped UV chamber in which the polluted air and water vapor would react to give CO2 and H2 gas. CO(g) + H2O(g) = CO2(g) + H2(g) The second Lime water chamber in which the Co prepared in the UV chamber would be reacted and thus eliminated.
reference :
http://india.bigpatents.org/view/87412/47160546a1f
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1134232
Friday, April 11, 2008
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410
2006-02-24
754
2006-03-03
736
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417
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237
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195
2006-03-31
278
2006-04-07
205
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221
2006-04-21
216
2006-04-28
234
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650
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284
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352
2006-05-26
341
2006-06-02
314
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404
2006-06-16
644
2006-06-23
243
2006-06-30
260
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262
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313
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365
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320
2006-08-04
248
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312
2006-08-18
240
2006-08-25
339
2006-09-01
264
2006-09-08
247
2006-09-15
353
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358
2006-09-29
365
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189
2006-10-13
210
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210
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399
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194
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310
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181
2006-11-24
161
2006-12-01
335
2006-12-08
453
2006-12-15
118
2006-12-22
146
2006-12-29
545
2007-01-05
381
2007-01-12
568
2007-01-19
339
2007-01-26
277
2007-02-02
183
2007-02-09
395
2007-02-16
138
2007-02-23
385
2007-03-02
805
2007-03-09
802
2007-03-16
1033
2007-03-23
290
2007-03-30
596
2007-04-06
668
2007-04-13
718
2007-04-20
965
2007-04-27
1730
2007-05-04
359
2007-05-11
488
2007-05-18
365
2007-05-25
634
2007-06-01
540
2007-06-08
1062
2007-06-15
1459
2007-06-22
1686
2007-06-29
1365
2007-07-06
1434
2007-07-11
92
2007-07-13
1160
2007-07-20
881
2007-07-27
1422
2007-08-03
2184
2007-08-10
1582
2007-08-17
3056
2007-08-24
2586
2007-08-31
2955
2007-09-07
1769
2007-09-14
601
2007-09-21
525
2007-09-28
772
2007-10-05
628
2007-10-12
528
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99
2007-10-26
396
2007-11-02
288
2007-11-09
585
2007-11-16
593
2007-11-23
741
2007-11-30
451
2007-12-07
782
2007-12-14
449
2007-12-21
628
2007-12-28
232
2008-01-04
289
2008-01-11
496
2008-01-18
442
2008-01-25
765
2008-02-01
181
2008-02-08
182
2008-02-15
438
2008-02-22
172
2008-02-29
161
2008-03-07
152
2008-03-14
109
2008-03-21
205
2008-03-28
530
2008-04-04
461
2008-04-11
77
2008-04-18
120
2008-04-25
230
2008-05-02
133
2008-05-09
478
2008-05-16
245
2008-05-23
194
2008-05-30
180
2008-06-06
303
2008-06-13
255
2008-06-20
1106
2008-06-27
941
2008-07-04
1125
2008-07-11
827
2008-07-18
407
2008-07-25
991
2008-08-01
869
2008-08-08
1043
2008-08-15
992
2008-08-22
130
2008-08-29
220
2008-09-05
685
2008-09-12
896
2008-09-19
1129
2008-09-26
990
2008-10-03
421
2008-10-10
200
2008-10-17
240
2008-10-24
991
2008-10-31
245
2008-11-07
233
2008-11-14
335
2008-11-21
304
2008-11-28
1588
2008-12-05
304
2008-12-12
239
2008-12-26
1
2009-01-02
491
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649
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