USGENE enhanced with patent family and legal status display data from INPADOCDB
23. February 2009
The predefined patent family display formats FAM and CFAM and also the legal status display formats LS and LS2 of INPADOCDB have been added to the USGENE database.
The INPADOC information is useful to identify those sequence records from a USGENE sequence search which come from different US-publications (e.g. continuation in parts) but refer to the same INPADOC family.
CFAM provides a simple table of all publication numbers and dates of the INPADOC family. The FAM format is more detailed and comprises all publication, application and priority numbers and dates in a tabular format. The display format LS is the standard legal status display format for INPADOCDB, LS2 provides basically the same information with field headers displayed.
Additional fees are charged for displaying FAM, CFAM, LS and LS2 in USGENE. For details on pricing, enter HELP COST at an arrow prompt (=>).
Refer to the STN database summary sheet for additional information: http://www.stn-international.de/sum_sheets.html.