AUPATFULL, the full text patent database covering patent applications, granted patents, and design patents published in Australia, has been reloaded, effective July 7, 2024. Content enhancements and new search options promise additional relevant hits.
Based on the annotation of the claims in English language, two new search and display fields enable a more precise retrieval of terms in the English claims text. Terms in the independent claims may be searched in the /CLM.IC field and claim groups, i.e., an independent claim and its related dependent claims, in the /CLM.CG field. See HELP CLAIMS for details.
The detailed description in English is now indexed in its own search field /DETDEN which allows a more precise search.
Current owners of a patent application are searchable in the new fields Ultimate Owner (/UO) and Ultimate Owner Standardized (/UOS).
Standardized and normalized patent assignee names are searchable in the fields /PAS and /PAN. For more details, see HELP PAN.
Information about related WO publications are now searchable in the fields /RLPN, /RLPC, /RLPD, and /RLPY.
The Locarno classification (/LCL) is now available for better retrieval of design patents (kind code AUS). See HELP LCL for details.
Numeric property search capabilities have been expanded. You can now search for 59 physical and chemical properties in about 20,000 variants of the base and additional units. See HELP NPS for details.
Key Terms, indexed and displayed in the field /KT, are now available for all records. The Key Terms enhance retrieval of relevant results and make the evaluation of results more efficient. For detailed information, see HELP KEY.
The AUPATFULL Database Summary Sheet at: https://web.cas.org/marketing/solutions/stn-ip/stn-database/aupatfull.pdf has been updated to reflect these enhancements.