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The UK Intellectual Property Office launches new free online patents journal service
Today sees the launch of a new patents journal service on the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) website.
Welcoming the new service Minister for Intellectual Property Baroness Delyth Morgan said:
"The new free searchable database for published patents data will help a wide range of customers. The new service will make it easier for users by allowing them to search and download published patent information, on-line, free of charge".
Sean Dennehey, Assistant Comptroller and Patents Director of the UK Intellectual Property Office, added:
"This change will affect every user who wishes to access our published patent information on-line. The new database will be faster, provide a wide range of easily accessible information and allow users to search or download information in a variety of formats".
The new service has been developed following an internal review and external consultation exercise. It offers users the ability to search, view or download individual or multiple sections of patents data across a range of publication weeks. It also offers the user automatic links to the patents register and published documents.
Editor Notes:
* The new database can be viewed on the following web page: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-pj
* This new service will be a web based searchable database for published patents data and replaces the current pdf document produced under contract by Xerox: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/patent/p-journal/p-pdj.htm.
* Official patents notices handled in the current pdf journal will be dealt with separately by a series of new web pages: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/patent/p-journal/p-pjn.htm
* Designs data handled in the current pdf journal is being dealt with by a new on-line Designs Service, link to their release: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/d-journal/d-dj
* The Office sought Customer feedback on the Patents & Designs Journal (PDJ) in 2006 and the results were published in a report .
* The technical design requirements were finalised following the customer consultation and include:
1. The ability to download all or individual sections of data for any given publication week.
2. Search within individual or multiple sections of data for any given week or range of publication weeks.
3. Download data in various formats.
4. Links to published documents and the patents register.
