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ISSN 1460-7239 10th January 2002 No.103
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IN THIS ISSUE
EDITORIAL
MY FAVOURITE TIPPLES
from Sam Vaknin
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TIPS ARTICLE
"Searching Patents on Government Databases on the Web"
By Ron Kaminecki
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EDITORIAL
I'm not a great lover of shopping. I don't enjoy it through the year,
and enjoy it even less in the run up to Christmas. Then there are the
January sales, which this year seemed to start way back in December.
However, I don't mind shopping for things for Free Pint though, and
now that we have much larger offices it's very easy to spend spend
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If January sales are renowned for bringing together a mixed bag of
offers, then we've packed a particularly mixed bag of tips, articles
and reviews into today's Free Pint. As well as looking at a mix of Web
resources ranging from patents to livestock, I review a new eBusiness
title and there's a competition to win one of three copies of a
popular book on the Invisible Web.
Happy New Year to all Free Pinters, and here's hoping that 2002 isn't
quite as eventful as 2001.
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MY FAVOURITE TIPPLES
from Sam Vaknin
* <http://www.brightplanet.com/> - In their own words: "... the first
and only search technology capable of identifying, retrieving,
qualifying, classifying and organizing 'deep' and 'surface' content
from the World Wide Web."
* <http://www.enfish.com/> - A personalized portal; instead of
juggling dozens of windows, a single interface provides the user
with access to all their applications: e-mail, contacts, documents,
intranet or network, the Web, etc.
* <http://www.everymail.com/> - A multi-lingual e-mail application. It
converts text typed on a virtual keyboard to images (of characters)
in any language.
* <http://www.ebookmap.net/maps.htm> - E-Book Industry Maps to
"reflect the evolving business models" among publishers, conversion
houses, digital distribution companies, eBook vendors, online
retailers, libraries, library vendors, authors, and many others.
* <http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html> - "An atlas of maps
and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic
territories of the Internet, the World Wide Web and other emerging
Cyberspaces."
Sam Vaknin is the author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism
Revisited" and a published and awarded author and columnist
<http://samvak.tripod.com>.
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Happy New Year to all our Bar customers! It's sad to start the year
with the demise of the free version of a useful tool, Mind-it, which
allowed you to track changes made to selected Web sites. It sounds as
if a lot of Free Pinters used it. But it's nice to know that there
are other similar resources available (14788). And don't forget,
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Resources and tools do come and go on the Web. Some disappear
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online courseware and resources (14868), so do get in touch if you
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In the last few weeks I reviewed a recently updated online
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TIPS ARTICLE
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"Searching Patents on Government Databases on the Web"
By Ron Kaminecki
You have an idea that you wish to patent but are uncertain of how to
conduct a proper search of the literature (a.k.a. a search of the
prior art) so that you can determine if your idea is novel.
You may have heard that searching patents is difficult, but it is
possible to do a reasonable search inexpensively on the Internet if
you spend sufficient time at the appropriate websites and you know of
some of the nuances of the patent system.
The Patent System
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Patents protect you by preventing others from making, using, selling
or importing your invention for a set period of time, usually twenty
years. In order to obtain a patent, you do not necessarily need to
conduct a literature search, but you do have to state all that you
know about the invention and in doing so must distinguish it from
similar known products and processes. This is called 'novelty' and
along with 'obviousness' and 'usefulness', is one of the three
criteria that must be satisfied in order to obtain a patent in the
United States.
Major Treaties as a Source of International Information
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International agreement compels a patent applicant to file a patent
application in as many countries as desired within a one-year period
starting at the date of the first application. To make this easier,
there are several international treaties that allow an applicant to
file one application and designate countries (called states) in which
the applicant wants to reserve the right to file an application.
Thus, filing through one of these treaties allows the applicant to
reserve the date of the original filing as a priority date for all
subsequent applications for that same invention.
Two major treaties, the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Patent
Cooperation Treaty (PCT) allow members to file such applications that
then preserve the priority date. However, these organizations, like
many others, including (as of 2001 for certain applications) the
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), will publish the
applications after eighteen months, although they have not yet been
examined and thus are not yet patents. However, because the applicant
filed eighteen months earlier, all others are precluded from filing
for the same invention and only the original applicant can move
forward to obtain patent protection in the countries that were
designated.
Searching Patents
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Searching the published applications from the EPO or the PCT is an
excellent way of finding leading edge research that may develop into a
patent. However, because these are international treaties, a searcher
must be aware of the use of languages other than English in these
documents, though English is the predominant language in documents
from both of these treaties, followed by the German and French
languages.
Searching for novelty can be difficult, because patents and patent
applications are legal documents and are not necessarily written for
ease of searching; they are drafted to be defended in court. In the
US, the words chosen are based upon over two hundred years of case law
that has defined what words mean in a court of law. For example, the
words "comprising" and "consisting of" seem to be nearly identical in
normal English, but in patent law the former means having at least
certain properties and the latter means having only these properties.
As long as you are aware that what you are searching is not normal
language, you may be able to get around these hurdles.
The Classification Code Systems
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One way around the legalese language problem is to use either
International or National Classification Codes which are used to group
similar patents together under a common Classification Code. The
search room at the US Patent Office in Crystal City, VA near
Washington has for years placed paper copies of patents based upon
these US Codes so that manual searchers could flip through similarly-
indexed patents quickly. A similar search can be done online. US
Classification Codes can be found at <http://www.uspto.gov/go/classification/>
which allows searching by the Classification Code itself or words
found in the definition. Be careful, though, as the definitions of
the Codes do contain general terminology and some legalese. As an
alternative, you can conduct a narrow search in a patent file and then
use one of the Codes found on one of the retrieved patents that is on
target.
US examiners prefer the US Codes to the International Codes, but other
countries are the opposite. Thus, it is best to use the US Codes over
the International Codes when searching the US files. International
codes are available at <http://classifications.wipo.int/fulltext/new_ipc/index.htm>.
Reading a Patent
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Don't be upset with the use of the word "said" as in "said lever
attached to said spring". The word "said" is equivalent to the word
"the" and is used after an element of the invention has been mentioned
already by the word "a" as in "a spring attached to a pivoting arm,
said spring urgingly holding said pivoting arm ...". It is best to
mentally insert the word "the" whenever you see "said" and of course,
never search the word "said."
Patent Nuances
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Claims are the metes and bounds of the invention and are written in a
very stylized manner. Each claim is one sentence long, which means
that each can be a very long run on sentence. One claim in a recent
pharmaceutical patent ran six pages long (about 3,500 words). To
protect the invention from illegal copies, the claim drafter will
broaden the terminology as much as allowable. In addition, the claims
are written with the noun first, then the modifiers. So, instead of
claiming "a red car," the claim drafter would claim a "vehicle painted
the color red."
Thus, when searching patents, note that word order is typically turned
around from conventional English, with the subject of the sentence
first, followed by the modifiers. Most patent websites do not allow
for searching words in a non-specific order, but further investigation
as to the search engine may allow the searching of order-specific
phrases. For example, if phrase searching is allowed by the use of
quotes, make sure to put the search terms in both the noun-first order
and the modifier-first order.
A patent drafter can be their own lexicographer, meaning that they may
use industry-specific terms that are not in the common vernacular.
For example, what is known as a "submersible pump" in general, can be
a "submergible pump" or even a "submercible pump" in the industry.
When searching, one has to allow for these spelling variations.
Finally, care should be taken when searching patent assignees or
inventors as even the simplest names can be spelled several ways.
Abbreviations such as "mfg" or "corp" are found interspersed with the
longer spelled out versions of these words. Very few governmental
websites apply additional indexing to clean up these spelling
variations.
Armed with the above nuances, you can still perform a useful search of
the patent collections of many countries, so that you can be aware of
what the prior art contains.
Patent Issuing Authorities' Websites
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Most patenting authorities have their own websites with various levels
of sophistication and most offer searching and retrieval of full-text
documents.
Many government and treaty websites, such as the EPO, acknowledge that
their sites are designed as an "information awareness programme and
not as a professional search engine" and some will actually conduct a
search for you if you need more in-depth information, though such work
is not free.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office <http://www.uspto.gov>
maintains a website that has more robust features than most other
patenting authorities. It allows exact phrase and field searching
(e.g., searching by assignee name, application number, etc.) and also
utilizes nested Boolean logic (e.g., pet and (food or feed)), in
addition to truncation (e.g., ignoring characters after a stem to pick
up normal plurals and similar variants).
The Trilateral Website <http://www.european-patent-office.org/tws/twsindex.htm>,
incorporating the USPTO, the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) and the EPO,
features the First Page Data Base, which, appropriately enough,
contains the bibliographic information normally found on the first
page of a patent or application.
In order to harmonize websites, many countries under the PCT use one
major website for searching called Espacenet. The site at
<http://www.espacenet.com> allows field searching, nested Boolean logic
and truncation of the EPO and PCT (so-called WO patent documents) and
of many of the member countries, but you will have to drill down to
find the advanced features. Each country's patent collection is found
at http://CC.espacenet.com where CC stands for the two letter
abbreviation for the country. To see a list of all countries that are
available, head to <http://www.european-patent-office.org/espacenet.info/access.htm>.
This site will also list the websites that are in English, which
include the patent offices of Cyprus, Ireland, Liechtenstein and the
United Kingdom. Access to English machine aided translations of
Japanese documents can also be found at <http://www.espacenet.com>,
but while they give insight to the device described by the published
application, the translations are not written in the best English.
PCT patent information is also available at <http://ipdl.wipo.int>,
but searchable access is limited to only the contents of the first
page data from 1997 to date, though it is possible to view the rest of
the document. The search engine at this location is somewhat similar
in its capabilities to the one found at the USPTO.
Seventy-five years of Canadian patents can be found at
<http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html> and features basic and
advanced searching in both English and French.
Other Useful Sources
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Nolo Publishing <http://www.nolo.com> is a publisher of legal
information and it sells a very readable and useful text entitled,
"Patent It Yourself," by Michael Pressman which details the patent
process, including the major international treaties.
The Patent Information User's Group <http://www.piug.org> is a body of
patent searchers around the world who can answer questions about
finding obscure documents or how to find and interpret patent
information. This site also contains links to many patent and related
websites.
A great source of information can be found at the Intellectual
Property Mall section of the Franklin Pierce Law Center website
<http://www.fplc.edu> where access to most patent websites can be
found.
Overall, access to much of the world's patent information can be found
on the Internet, and a reasonable search may be possible, as long as
consideration is made for each authorities' collection of documents,
search engine, and also for the nuances of international patent laws
and treaties.
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Ron Kaminecki, <ron_kaminecki@dialog.com>, BS (Chemistry), MS
(Computer Science), JD (with Certificate in Patent Law) is a patent
agent and has been searching patents for over twenty-five years. He
has instructed thousands of searchers, patent attorneys and examiners
around the world in the art of searching intellectual property.
Dialog, a Thomson Company, <http://www.dialog.com> offers access to
over six hundred scientific, intellectual property, technical,
pharmaceutical, news, and business information databases for the last
thirty years. Dialog is used by professional patent searchers for
access to over thirty databases that cover fulltext and abstract US
and international patents, trademarks and US copyrights.
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"Internet Prophets: Enlightened E-Business
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Reviewed by William Hann
The last couple of years could be dubbed the "eBusiness book years".
Everyone seemed to be publishing books about eBusiness and we've
reviewed a lot of them here in Free Pint. In fact, we got so tired of
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"Livestock"
By Jane Inman
This may seem an unusual topic for Free Pint after articles on WAP and
business and hi-tech issues. Indeed it was a new area for me when I
was asked to work on a literature review of the livestock sector
earlier last year. In the process of conducting the review I learned
some interesting things about the subject and about the information
sources.
The time scale for the job was quite short and we recognised that the
subject area was huge so we began the task by commissioning searches
from the main databases covering agriculture, namely CAB Abstracts,
Agricola, Agris, BIOSIS and planned to cover the grey literature by
using SIGLE, the database of the European Association of Grey
Literature in Europe.
The results from these searches were surprisingly disappointing and
sent us scurrying to the web to see what more could be found. The web
searches were conducted in two ways. Preliminary searches were made of
the sites of organisations, government departments and research
institutes previously identified. The second sweep of the web was done
by simply using Google. The results of these searches were much more
exciting and unearthed some very useful sites and documents.
The scope of the job on which this article is based was European, both
east and west, and so the sites are mainly for that area but there are
also some included which are of international interest. We were
looking for literature on completed, current and planned research into
production, environmental impact and policy so the sites listed are
biased towards those areas. However there are sites with information
on many aspects of the sector including practical and management
issues and the economics and policy issues of the business.
Studies of the effectiveness of agri-environmental schemes and of
economic policies such as CAP, the Common Agricultural Policy of the
European Union, were included and organic farming was well covered
both by specific sites and in the more general sites. Another
limitation of our searching was that it was all done in English so
that the sites identified are either in English or offer an English
version.
UK
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A first port of call for the UK will be the former Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) whose responsibilities since
June 2001 have been transferred to the Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Their web site
<http://www.defra.gov.uk> contains details of on-going research as well
as information on animal health and welfare. So it covers foot and
mouth and BSE (although the BSE enquiry has its own web site
<http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/>), Scrapie, Tuberculosis, animal
identification and tracing, international trade, disease surveillance
and control and animal by-products. Here too you will find information
on projects and programmes.
You will also find information on foot and mouth, but from a different
perspective, on the Countryside Agency web site
<http://www.countryside.gov.uk>, for Wales, the Countryside Council for
Wales <http://www.ccw.gov.uk> and for Scotland, visit
<http://www.snh.org.uk>, the site for Scottish Natural Heritage.
The Environment Agency at <http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk> is
worth a visit as they commission research into the environmental
effects of livestock and issue guidance to farmers on the use of sheep
dip and similar pollutants. The environmental effects of livestock
farming are extensive, impacting soil, water, the atmosphere, wildlife
and the landscape itself, so environmental bodies are concerned to
monitor and study these effects. The Environment Agency covers England
and Wales while in Scotland the Scottish Environment Protection Agency
at <http://www.sepa.org.uk> has this responsibility.
English Nature is the government agency which "Champions the
conservation of wildlife and natural features throughout England"
<http://www.english-nature.gov.uk>, so they too will be concerned with
the impact of livestock on the environment and undertake or commission
research.
There are six research councils in the UK and of these the
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
<http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk> and the Natural Environment Research Council
<http://www.nerc.ac.uk> are the ones where research into livestock
farming and its environmental effects would be of interest. The
economic issues around livestock farming would be the concern of the
Economic and Social Research Council <http://www.esrc.ac.uk>.
Much of the research is commissioned by the bodies listed above but is
carried out by private consultants or by academic departments.
Consultants and research units in the UK include the Countryside and
Community Research Unit of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher
Education <http://www.chelt.ac.uk/el/ccru/>, the University
of Reading's Centre for Agricultural Strategy
<http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AgriStrat/>, and the University of Newcastle,
whose Centre of the Rural Economy is undertaking research on the
aftermath of foot and mouth in Cumbria at present. There are private
consultants with a web presence. But, as much of their work will have
been commissioned and paid for, they may not be at liberty to publish
it on their web sites. Examples are the sites of Asken
<http://www.asken.co.uk> and ADAS <http://www.adas.co.uk>.
In Scotland, the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
<http://www.mluri.sari.ac.uk> was established in 1987 and is concerned
about livestock because of its concern about land use and how it has
and will change over time. It ran a project called LSIRD (Online
European Network for Livestock Systems and Integrated Rural
Development) which, although finished, has developed a network of
researchers across Europe. The web site contains useful conference
proceedings and papers, as well as an excellent list of related sites.
Another Scottish site is the Arkelton Centre for Rural Development
Research <http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/>, which may be worth a
visit. Also see the Scottish Agricultural College
<http://www.sac.ac.uk> and the Scottish Executive
<http://www.scotland.gov.uk>, which includes SEERAD, the Scottish
Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department.
AGRIFOR <http://www.agrifor.ac.uk/> describes itself as the "UK's
gateway to High Quality Internet Resources in Agriculture, Food and
Forestry". It is part of the Resource Discovery Network
<http://www.rdn.ac.uk/> which is a co- operative network which grew out
of the eLib Programme, funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems
Committee). The entries and thus the search results have useful
abstracts. RDN have recently launched a Virtual Training Suite which
provides free tutorials on the web pointing you to key Internet
resources, developing your search skills and providing practical ideas
for using the web for study, teaching and research within subject
areas. The AGRIFOR site links you to the training in Agriculture, Food
and Forestry.
For milk, look at the Milk Development Council <http://www.mdc.org.uk>
and for llamas try <http://www.webcom.com/~degraham>! For the sheep
and goats dairy sector there is a French site with an English version
called CIRVAL, which describes itself as the "International Resource
Centre on utilisation of information in milk production of small
ruminants".
Europe
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The European Union's agricultural policy is the Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP). The main place to look for information on this is the
CAP Working Notes in the section of the Europa site which covers
Agriculture and the Environment at <http://www.europa.eu.int>.
The European Union is set to enlarge in the next few years and will
take in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Slovenia, Estonia
followed by Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, and Slovakia around
2010 and possibly Turkey, Romania, Albania and the remaining countries
that formed Yugoslavia. The Europa site contains the reports produced
by the EU on the current situation in these countries as far as
agriculture is concerned and the plans for the rural economy under the
Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development
(SAPARD) <http://www.sapard.cz/>.
The European Livestock Policy Evaluation Network, ELPEN,
<http://www.mluri.sari.ac.uk/elpen> is hosted by MLURI, the Macaulay
Land Use Research Institute and contains the organisation's
publications and a list of links. Its aim is to support the appraisal
and evaluation of European livestock policy.
Slightly more specialised is the European Fine Fibre Network site,
<http://www.mluri.sari.ac.uk/europeanfibre/> hosted by MLURI, with
information about fibre production. The European Forum on Nature
Conservation and Pastoralism <http://www.efncp.org> is for ecologists,
nature conservationists, farmers and policy makers. Again, it contains
publications and a newsletter as well as a forum for discussion
available in French and English.
France has INRA, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
<http://www.inra.fr>, Germany the German Agricultural Information
Network DAINet <http://www.dainet.de>, and Denmark has "Danish
Agriculture on the Net" at <http://www.agriculture.dk> which seeks to
bring together agriculture resources on the net.
International
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The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
<http://www.cgiar.org> aims to use agricultural research to improve
productivity in developing countries, thus reducing hunger, but also
protecting the environment. The International Livestock Research
Institute <http://www.cgiar.org/ilri> is concerned with livestock in
developing countries and is funded by CGIAR.
The World Health Organisation <http://www.who.int> has an interest in
livestock and will cover issues related to health such as BSE.
Similarly, there may be items on the UNESCO (United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) site
<http://www.unesco.org>, on the UNEP, the United Nations Environment
Programme site <http://www.unep.org>, and on the FAO, Food and
Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations site
<http://www.fao.org>. The World Bank <http://www.worldbank.org> has
published some useful material on the economic aspects of the sector.
The International Agricultural Centre <http://www.iac-agro.nl> is
based at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. "It provides
training, advisory and information management services directed
towards developing countries and countries in transition." It has
links which are useful. Also concerned with agriculture in developing
countries is the Forum on Agricultural Research
<http://www.egfar.org>.
Organic and Sustainable Agriculture
-----------------------------------
There is plenty of information on organic farming on the web but the
International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movement
<http://www.ifoam.org> acts as an "umbrella" organisation with
members in 97 countries. Organic Europe
<http://www.organic-europe.net> has some useful documents attached to
it. The University of New England in Australia had a very useful site
of links on sustainable agriculture in Europe, Scandinavia and the
United Kingdom but it seems to have gone, as can happen with web
information.
This tour around the world of livestock has been rapid but, like all
web based information, the material that I have listed is only the tip
of the iceberg. I'm sure there are many sites which I have missed as
no description of the web can be comprehensive or, for that
matter, totally current. I hope however that what has been covered may
be of help to those faced with a similar task to mine.
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specialist with particular experience of environmental, planning,
government and local government information and may be contacted
through her web site <http://www.inmaninfo.co.uk>. She worked on this
project with Ken Taylor of Asken Ltd. More information on the work of
Asken may be found at <http://www.asken.co.uk>.
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