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New on STN

October 2013

Impacts of U.S. Government Shutdown on STN Databases

September 2013

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

September 2013

Emtree Thesaurus Updated in Embase

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

Importing full-text patent records into STN Viewer

To import a set of full-text patent records into STN Viewer:

  1. Use STN Express, Version 8.2, to conduct a search in one or more patent-containing STN databases.
  2. Select the Evaluate with STN Viewer option in one of the following ways:
  • Click on the L-number answer set containing patent records.
  • Click the Discover! button and highlight the L-number containing patent records.
  • Select from the Select Discover! Wizard window and select the L-number containing patent records.

To import a single patent record into STN Viewer:

Click on its patent number, application number, or priority application number in a displayed record.
Select the Evaluate with STN Viewer option.

STN software automatically performs the following:

  • Extracts all patent numbers from the patent records and searches them in the STN full-text patent files.
  • Launches STN Viewer.
  • Sends the full-text patent records to STN Viewer.
  • Populates the Patent Queue with the full-text patent records.