Competitive and Technical Intelligence ToolBox

WIPO's Patentscope database has added some more countries in its coverage recently. The following countries patents are currently covered and in future, I think this list can grow more... PCT Africa ARIPO     Egypt      Kenya      Morocco      South Africa Americas United States of America Canada LATIPAT Argentina     Brazil      Chile      Colombia     Costa Rica      Cuba      Dominican Rep.      Ecuador El Salvador      Guatemala      Honduras      Mexico      Nicaragua      Panama     Peru      Uruguay Asia-Europe Bahrain       China      Eurasian Patent Office      Estonia       European Patent Office      Israel Japan     Jordan      Portugal      Russian Federation      Russian Federation(USSR data)      Singapore Spain      Republic of Korea      Viet Nam      United Arab Emirates

The new Chinese IP database ( http://epub.sipo.gov.cn /) is launched, though its available only in Chinese. Its look similar in terms of old system.

All Chilean expired patents and registered designs from 1840 onwards are now freely available at http://www.inapi.cl/dominiopublico . This can be a good source of find prior arts.

ASEAN TMview is an international trademark database and is common online trademark information platform of the ASEAN Member States, making ASEAN trademark data widely available and easily accessible to all interested stakeholders. ASEAN TMview offers free of charge online access to information on trademark registrations and trademark applications having effects in the participating ASEAN countries.    ASEAN TMview has been developed by the Intellectual Property Offices of the ASEAN Member States with the support of the EU-ASEAN Project on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (ECAP III Phase II) administered by the EU Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)

German Patent Office has started new service " DPMAkurier ", an individual supply service sending out automated messages via e-mail. This service is provided free of charge and available upon first-time registration and submission of a valid e-mail address. The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) has established this service for individual inventors and small and medium enterprises, in particular, to help them get started with regular IPR watches and easy monitoring of selected IPtitles. The "Overview supply services" page, opened after a successful login toDPMAkurier, provides access to the following options:   For patents, utility models, supplementary protection certificates and topographies:         Legal status monitoring by file number or publication number         Monitoring by International Patent Classification (IPC)         Monitoring by applicant/owner/inventor         Subscription to Patentblatt PDF (patent gazette) For trade marks: