World Patent Information - Volume 31, Issue 4

World Patent Information, Volume 31, Issue 4, October 2009
Tue Oct 13 2009

Abstracting and Indexing 

• Chemical Abstracts
• INSPEC
• Information Science Abstracts • Library and Information Science Abstracts
• Scopus

Volume 31, Number 4, 2009 Forum members may be interested to know that the latest issue of this international, peer-reviewed journal has recently been published, in electronic form, with main contents as below. (Abstracts available to all at www.sciencedirect.com) We are always pleased to receive high quality articles to be considered for publication in the journal. So if you have done research, carried out surveys, etc on patent, design or trademark searching or classification, or on relevant changes in legislation or practice, this is a potential outlet for your efforts. Discussion papers on significant, topical issues are also welcome. We will also be pleased to hear from you if you would like to be included in our list of potential referees in the peer-review process.

Editorial advisory board
Page IFC

Guest editorial
Pages 269-270. John Tait

Editor's comments and article introductions
Pages 271-272

  Patent services for SMEs

SME tailor-designed patent portfolio analysis

Pages 273-277. Gudrun Littmann-Hilmer, Michael Kuckartz

Patent searching in E-journals and on the internet

Full-text prior art and chemical structure searching in e-journals and on the internet - A patent information professional's perspective
Pages 278-284. Maik Annies

  Patent statistics

Numbers and sizes of applicants at the European Patent Office
Pages 285-298. Peter Hingley, Serpil Bas

  Patent analysis

Patent analyses in the changed legal regime of the US Patent Law since 2001
Pages 299-303. Ulrich Schmoch

  Cyrillic databases

Cyrillic databases of former Soviet Union countries
Pages 304-307. K. Milushev

  Patent withdrawals

Determinants of patent withdrawals: Evidence from a sample of Italian applications with the EPO
Pages 308-314. Francesco Schettino, Alessandro Sterlacchini

  Patent retrieval and visualisation

Supporting patent retrieval in the context of innovation-processes by means of information dialogue
Pages 315-322. Paul Landwich, Tobias Vogel, Claus-Peter Klas, Matthias Hemmje

  Short communications

Centenary patent: The catalytic converter, 1909
Pages 323-326. Stephen Adams

Saint-Exupéry: Dare-Devil Aviator, Literary Icon and Inventor!
Pages 327-328. Brian Spear

Other short communications
Pages 329-332. Michael Blackman

  Conference and meeting reports

East meets west forum, Vienna, Austria, April 2009
Pages 333-334. Michael Blackman

Patent Information Users Group annual conference, 2-7 May 2009
Pages 335-336. David Newton

European Patent Office PatLib 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria, 20-22 May 2009
Pages 337-339. Maria Lampert

  News columns

News on patent, trademark and design databases on the Internet
Page 340

News from PR China
Pages 341-344

WIPO News
Pages 345-347

News from Australia and New Zealand
Pages 348-351

  Literature listing and selective diary

Literature listing
Pages 352-357

Selective Diary of Conferences, Exhibitions, and Courses
Pages 358-359

Volume 31 Contents, Subject Index and Author Index
Pages I-X

Announcement
Page XI