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October 2013

Impacts of U.S. Government Shutdown on STN Databases

Application Numbers for U.S. Patents in CA/CAplus and USPATFULL/USPAT2 Enhanced with U.S. Series Code Information

Emtree Thesaurus Updated in Embase

More News Messages

Databases in Focus

Chemical Abstracts Plus
(CAplus^SM) and CAS REGISTRY^SM

Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI)

INPAFAMDB

Meet us at

ICIC - International Conference on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals, Vienna, Oct. 13.-16.

EPOPIC - EPO Patent Information Conference, Bologna, 22.-24.Oct

STN User Meetings

Frankfurt am Main, 08.10.2013
Hamburg, 29.10.2013
Wien, 12.11.2013

STN – the choice of patent experts

STN is an online database service that provides global access to published research, journal literature, patents, structures, sequences, properties, and other data.

With STN, find precisely the patent and sci-tech information needed to make business-critical decisions:

Assess risk for future research endeavors
Defend corporate/organizational intellectual property
Track competitive intelligence for existing products and those under development
Access patent expiration and extension information
Support strategic business planning

STN is operated jointly by CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe worldwide and is represented in Japan by JAICI.

New STN Platform

The new STN platform is being designed and developed to turn the needs and priorities of today's patent experts into a state-of-the-art search and analysis system that works the way users do. Version One of the new STN platform went live on June 15th and is the first step in the development of the next generation of STN . Read more

STN is revolutionizing patent searching for professionals. Catch a glimpse of exciting advancements on the horizon...

Featured Highlights

Derwent World Patents Index ON STN 1993 – 2013

20 years of Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on STN: Milestones 1993-2013

STN joins Thomson Reuters in celebrating a milestone anniversary for the most trusted and comprehensive value-added patent information source: while the Derwent World Patents Index is honoured for its 50th anniversary, STN can look at successful 20 years of DWPI on STN. And with the brand new implementation of DWPI in New STN Version One, STN paves the way for many more successful years of DWPI on STN.

Today, the Derwent World Patents Index provides access to information from more than 50 million patents, giving details of over 24 million inventions. Every week data is added from nearly 50,000 new inventions from 50 sources, including the five most important patent offices (China, Europe, Japan, Korea, US) and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

DWPI on STN meets the requirements and daily challenges of the information professional. Both value-added content and first level data match with a sophisticated retrieval environment to obtain highly relevant search results. DWPI deep indexing is fully integrated and chemical structure searching is supported. STN users have the unique benefit of a powerful numeric search tool for biological, physical and chemical properties developed by FIZ Karlsruhe.

STN is the place to retrieve the best search results for every patent search in DWPI. See 20 good reasons to search DWPI on STN.

50^th Anniversary of DWPI^SM- The World's Most Trusted Source of Patent Information

The Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, announced the 50th anniversary of Derwent World Patents Index^® (DWPI^SM), its flagship, proprietary database that is the world's most trusted source of patent information. This announcement marks the start of a yearlong celebration in honor of DWPI, as well as the inclusion of the 50th data source in DWPI: Indonesia. On this milestone anniversary, DWPI continues to provide professionals with authoritative, editorially enhanced patent data from 48 worldwide patent authorities and two literature sources.