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Enhanced capabilities for refining BLAST and FASTA (GETSIM) sequence search answer sets by percent (%) have been implemented in DGENE, USGENE and PCTGEN on STN. A new option of specifying a minimum percentage value is now available as a user-defined cut-off point in gathering a BLAST or GETSIM sequence search results set on STN. The improved command line user interaction provides greater flexibility in handling answer sets, and is available for all BLAST and GETSIM search options, including BATCH and ALERT searches, in all three patent sequence databases. For more details on this highly requested enhancement, please see HELP CHANGE in DGENE, USGENE or PCTGEN on STN. In addition, a fully revised USGENE Workshop Manual is now available incorporating the new search interaction. USGENE Workshop Manual (PIUG Annual Conference, 05/2008): http://www.sequencebase.com/images/pdf/usgene_ws_0508.pdf The latest version of the USGENE Workshop Manual also features a full "best-practice" m

According to the USPTO website , there are new series codes for utility/plant and provisional application serial numbers. The new codes are "12" for utility/plant applications and "61" for provisional applications. The first applications of 2008 were 12/5,841 and 61/9,389, so the new series must have been implemented in December 2007.

Esp@cenet plans to major improvement planned for 2008. They are: 1. Increase in the number of documents that can be stored in the "My Patents" list. 2. Relaxation in the page limit for PDF documents downloaded from esp@cenet. 3. Full-text searches for patent documents in English, French, and German. 4. Single search field accepting multiple search criteria. 5. Highlighting of search terms. 6. Exportable hit lists. 7. Date range searches. All of these will be appreciated by patent searchers, but especially the ability to create sophisticated searches in a single search field, export lists and conduct date range searches. For US and WO patents, searchers can use alternate sites such as Patent Lens, pat2pdf and PatentScope to download lengthy patents.

From 14.00 hrs on Wednesday, 7 May 2008, patent information searchers are able to access four weeks of EP-A and EP-B full-text documents with MIMOSA software, free of charge. This service is now open to the public for testing. Simply register your e-mail address and you will receive instructions on how to access the free MIMOSA search engine. The ground-breaking opportunity to test the MIMOSA search engine is in line with the EPO's new "barrier-free" patent information policy. The policy was put in place in 2007 and aims at providing more complete public access to the information contained in patent documents, as well as ensuring that people are able to use that information effectively. Better access to patent data is essential for the growth of industry in Europe, especially for scientists, engineers, universities and research centres. So take advantage of this barrier-free offer today! With MIMOSA retrieval software, users have access to all the benefits of a powerful

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Rediff FareSearch combine search of fares, availability, etc, for the Trains, Domestic Flights, International Flights and Hotels. Its easy to use. Try!

VisualText is the premier integrated development environment for building information extraction systems, natural language processing systems, and text analyzers. The Professional version is now FREE for personal, internal, academic, development, and non-commercial use. Some text analyzers you can build with Visual Text : * Information Extraction * Shallow Extraction * Indexing * Categorization * Text Mining * Summarization * Automatic Coding * Natural Language Query * Text from Speech * Text to XML, SQL

As a scientific researcher or a patent professional, you may need massive and important information frequently from patents. However, very few countries's patent offices could provide the service of full-text downloading to the public, which will bring inconvenience to you. PatDL is a software of Patent Searcher and Downloader which is custom-made for general scientific researcher and patent staff. If you want the best speed of getting patent documents, PatDL is the best choice for you. What PatDL can do: * Automatically Download patent’s full text, abstract, legal state in batches; and merge all of the pages to one file in PDF, including the abstract and legal status. You can also merge the pages you select to one file by yourself. * Search patents from the most important databases about patents, such as EPO V3 database, SIPO Chinese, SIPO English, TIPO Chinese, USPTO PatFT, USPTO AppFT, JPO English * Download patents from several databases, EPO V2 database, EPO V3 database, SIPO

Powerful visual research tools for IP professionals, researchers, inventors...anyone interested in innovation You are given a choice to view your results through our SparkCluster™ maps by selecting the Show Clusters button or in a traditional list format by selecting the Show Patents button. Alternatively, you can select "Browse Listings" from the top of any page to view all available technology listings. SparkIP today contains over 4 million US patents and patent applications and hopes to soon be adding dozens of new licensable technologies each day from universities, research labs, corporations and individual inventors. We have plans to add international patents and other useful data sets to position SparkIP.com as the critical destination for anyone researching IP and innovation. We hope you find SparkIP to be a valuable tool as you research new innovation! Try yourself