The patent full text databases CANPATFULL (reporting Canadian patents), DEFULL (German patents) and GBFULL (United Kingdom patents) have recently been reloaded. The key content enhancement in each is the addition of Ultimate Owner data, which is also available in other CAS STNext databases such as CAplus. In combination with other content enhancements and new search options, the reloads promise additional relevant hits and a better search experience.
The new Ultimate Owner (/UO) and Ultimate Owner Standardized (/UOS) fields provide the current owner of the IP. Include these new fields in your searching when you need to know the entirety of an organization’s current IP portfolio. To learn more about Ultimate Owner, review our recent video: https://www.cas.org/resources/webinar/cas-stnextr-coffee-lecture-who-owns-what-ultimate-patent-owner
Ultimate owner data is licensed from LexisNexis® (Patentsight). Look for Ultimate Owner data to be included in additional CAS STNext databases in the future, including INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB.
Other content enhancements include:
- New search and display fields:
- Independent Claims and Claim Groups (/CLM.IC, /CLM.CG) (see HELP CLAIMS)
- Detailed Description in English (/DETDEN)
- Standardized and Normalized Patent Assignees (/PAS, /PAN) (see HELP PAN)
- Related Publication Information (/RLPN, /RLPC, /RLPD, /RLPY)
- Latest version of the Numeric Property Search: now including 59 physical and chemical properties in about 20,000 variants of the base and additional units; see HELP NPS for details.
- Design Patents with kind code CA S are now included in CANPATFULL.
The Database Summary Sheets for CANPATFULL, DEFULL and GBFULL have been revised to reflect the new features:
https://web.cas.org/marketing/solutions/stn-ip/stn-database/canpatfull.pdf
https://web.cas.org/marketing/solutions/stn-ip/stn-database/defull.pdf
https://web.cas.org/marketing/solutions/stn-ip/stn-database/gbfull.pdf
See also HELP CHANGE in each database for database-specific information.