Steve van Dulken's Patent blog: Improvements to the Espacenet database
The Espacenet database, the largest database of patent data, has been improved in a couple of ways..............................
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Manchester Business Event
Manchester PATLIB have announced the following event which will be held in the Central Library - the event is FREE .
To book your place visit: www.ipo.gov.uk/events-manc2601
To book your place visit: www.ipo.gov.uk/events-manc2601
Friday, January 8, 2010
Business Essentials on the Web
Business Essentials wiki: a listings site of invaluable website for entrepreneurs and SMEs
Business Essentials on the Web The wiki is run and supported by the British Library Business & IP Centre and its wide community of entrepreneurs and partner organisations.
http://bl-business-essentials.wikispaces.com/
Friday, December 11, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
New Secretary
Last weeks PATLIB UK AGM saw Duncan Jones from Birmingham PATLIB take over the role of Secretary for the next two years - congratulations to Duncan and thanks to Chris Brown of Manchester PATLIB for her work on behalf of PATLIB UK.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Young inventors challenge
A group of young inventors from Leeds will have the chance to meet one of the world’s best at a special event this week.*http://newsfeed.leedsvirtualnewsroom.co.uk/2009/12/bright-sparks-given-chance-to-meet.html*Staff from Leeds PATLIB have been working with a group of local school children with the idea of giving them an insight into what patenting is all about. Over the course of a school term twelve year nine children from Horsforth Secondary School have been finding out about IP and taken through the process that many inventors go through.
Working in pairs the children came up with some ideas of their own which they felt would be useful inventions. Through five interactive (and very lively!) workshops they then learned about the World of Inventions (an intro to IP); Patent Searching; Applying for (or how to write) a Patent; Choosing a Name (trade marks); and Market Research.
Most of the sessions were delivered by Leeds PatLib staff although in one session we also enlisted the help of a “real” inventor to try to give a flavour of what it’s really like.
Trying to come up with something which doesn’t add to existing schoolwork for the kids is a bit tricky but the result has been a file produced by each of them on what they have done in each session. We are also about to file patent applications on the six inventions.
In a few weeks time we will be having the final session at which each pair have been asked to do a short presentation on their inventions and what they have done. Their work will be on show and there will be a small invited audience of parents, teachers and library staff. Also there will be our star guest – multiple award-winning local inventor Emily Cummins who will also be handing out prizes to the best team of junior inventors.
They’ll be judged on their contribution to the sessions, their files and their presentations as well as the inventions themselves. They will all actually get something - the challenge has been supported through Europe Direct Leeds.
Working in pairs the children came up with some ideas of their own which they felt would be useful inventions. Through five interactive (and very lively!) workshops they then learned about the World of Inventions (an intro to IP); Patent Searching; Applying for (or how to write) a Patent; Choosing a Name (trade marks); and Market Research.
Most of the sessions were delivered by Leeds PatLib staff although in one session we also enlisted the help of a “real” inventor to try to give a flavour of what it’s really like.
Trying to come up with something which doesn’t add to existing schoolwork for the kids is a bit tricky but the result has been a file produced by each of them on what they have done in each session. We are also about to file patent applications on the six inventions.
In a few weeks time we will be having the final session at which each pair have been asked to do a short presentation on their inventions and what they have done. Their work will be on show and there will be a small invited audience of parents, teachers and library staff. Also there will be our star guest – multiple award-winning local inventor Emily Cummins who will also be handing out prizes to the best team of junior inventors.
They’ll be judged on their contribution to the sessions, their files and their presentations as well as the inventions themselves. They will all actually get something - the challenge has been supported through Europe Direct Leeds.
They’re a great bunch of kids – very quick and enthusiastic. It’s certainly been an experience and an awful lot of work – but well-worth doing.
Ged Doonan
Leeds PATLIB
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Historical US on PTDLA website
Dear All,
For information - my colleague Steve Van Dulken brought the following website to my attention today.
Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association
http://www.ptdla.org/history
They have added the following historical data to their website;
Historical Patent and Trademark Databases
• Design Patents to 1873
• Disclaimer Patents 1837-1873
• Extension Patents to 1865
• Improvement Patents to 1861
• Reissue Patents 1838-1873
• Trademarks 1870-1873
• Utility Patents 1-65000
• Utility Patents 65000-100000
• Utility Patents 100001-146119
• X-Patents (names, dates, PNs only)
• X-Patents (with added fields)
See you all at the AGM!
Maria
Maria Lampert
PATLIB London
For information - my colleague Steve Van Dulken brought the following website to my attention today.
Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association
http://www.ptdla.org/history
They have added the following historical data to their website;
Historical Patent and Trademark Databases
• Design Patents to 1873
• Disclaimer Patents 1837-1873
• Extension Patents to 1865
• Improvement Patents to 1861
• Reissue Patents 1838-1873
• Trademarks 1870-1873
• Utility Patents 1-65000
• Utility Patents 65000-100000
• Utility Patents 100001-146119
• X-Patents (names, dates, PNs only)
• X-Patents (with added fields)
See you all at the AGM!
Maria
Maria Lampert
PATLIB London
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