Learn about the new citation viewing features for INPADOC families on Espacenet, and find out the coverage of PATENTSCOPE’s new US collection!

Here is a quick summary of all the coverage updates and interface improvements on both the PatBase and PatBase Express platforms for Spring 2013!

Here is a brief guide on how to use the “Statistical Mapping from USPC to CPC” concordance tool that's now available on the USPTO website.

Learn about all the new coverage, search, display, and download options recently added on two major sequence search platforms,GenomeQuest and the USGENE BLAST Search Portal!

The PIUG 2013 Annual Conference will be held from April 27 to May 2, 2013 in Alexandria, Virginia at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, and the organization is again offering new patent information professionals the chance to attend the conference for free by entering to win the 2013 Brian Stockdale Memorial Award. 

Users can search directly through the Italian Patent and Trademark Office National Data Search for bibliographic data on Italian patent records, or you can utilize the FILPAT database, provided by FILDATA srl, which hosts bibliographic data on Italian utility models.

Get an overview of new free content accessible through the JSTOR Register and Read program, and also learn about the scholarly books now available on the JSTOR platform.

The Spring 2013 Advanced Courses Program, held April 7-13, 2013 in Orlando, Florida and hosted by Patent Resources Group, will cover highly relevant patent law topics, including the monumental changes to patent law caused by the America Invents Act, what patent professionals need to know about the future European…

The Hungarian Intellectual Property Office IP Search platform provides an intuitive central interface where users can search through all imaginable types of Hungarian intellectual property: patents, SPCs, plant patents, utility models, trademarks, geographical indications, designs, topography, and even copyright records.

Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a publisher of seven peer-reviewed and open-access journals.  Here is an overview of recent changes implemented to enhance the usability, access to key information, and navigation on the PLOS network.

Major scientific publisher Springer has created a network of fully open-access search portals, and  all content on these platforms are completely free to access.  These open-access Springer portals can provide valuable non-patent literature (NPL) prior art for patent searchers.

If you’re a person who feels that boiling a pot of water is about as far as you’re willing to travel into the culinary world, then you have many inventors to whom you should silently thank for letting us live in a culture of convenient food products.

Learn how to access the patent search service on the Syrian Patent Office website and the KACST Patent Search for Saudi Arabia.

The Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) provides a free patent search tool called  the Patent Search and Service System (PSS), which includes family, citation, and legal status search options for CN patent documents.

Learn about six of the most recent major updates to the coverage and features on the STN platform, and read about the release of the new version of STN!

Here is a visual guide to the new Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) search tool on Espacenet.

We look back at five of the most popular Intellogist Blog posts from 2012, ranging in topic from the CPC to intellectual property issues on Pinterest.

The WIPO website now includes a central portal to access IP country profiles, and each profile links to contact information, legal information, statistics, and cooperation activities for a country.

Here are a few highlights of the best patent search system updates and releases from the past year, including updates from Orbit.com, Google Patents, and Espacenet and new tools like the CCD and WIPS Global ADVANCED.

The following inventions provide the edible decorations, Christmas tree protection, and cat-appropriate snow boots that will make Mittens and Fido look forward to the arrival of Santa Paws for years to come!