6.1.12.5.6 Citing patent Documents Retrieved from EPOQUE

Also in this Chapter:

• 6.1.12.5.1 Selection of Documents Considered to be Relevant
• 6.1.12.5.2 Citation Category
• 6.1.12.5.3 Citation of Prior Art Documents
• 6.1.12.5.4 Citation of URLs
• 6.1.12.5.5 Citation Examples​​​​​​​
• 6.1.12.5.7 Relevant Claim Numbers

1. EPODOC Abstracts

A. English Citations of English patent documents:

All English abstracts of the English patent documents (e.g US, AU, CA) viewed in the EPOQUE VIEWER (from EPODOC database) are identical to the publicly available abstracts of the published patents to which they correspond. Therefore, when citing such abstracts viewed in EPOQUE, the current practice of citing an English patent should be maintained.

For example:

The applicant can be supplied with one of the following documents – BNS front page, full patent document printed from BNS, Getthepatent etc or text print out of the abstract from the EPODOC database as discussed in the next section.

B. English Citations of foreign language patent documents:

Japanese Citations:

The Japanese abstracts are viewed in EPOQUE either in the text format or in the image format (e.g. BNS image of the abstract which would be marked as “Patent Abstracts of Japan” when printed out)

The following format is the preferred format for citing English abstracts of the Japanese patent documents viewed in EPOQUE in the text format:

The following format is the preferred format for citing English abstracts of the Japanese patent documents viewed (in printed form) in EPOQUE in the image format  and marked as “Patent Abstracts of Japan”:

German Citations:

The following format is the preferred format for citing English abstracts of the German patent documents viewed in EPOQUE:

Korean Citations:

Note that most (if not all) published Korean documents have the prefix ‘10’ at the beginning of the publication number. When viewing these documents in EPOQUE, the text window of the VIEWER displays the publication number without the ‘10’ prefix (although the BNS abstract displayed in EPOQUE contains the prefix). Also please note that in order to retrieve these documents from Espace, the prefix ‘10’ must be removed from the publication number.

The preferred format is that the prefix ‘10’ be included in the publication number as this is the official publication number given by the KIPO.

When citing English abstracts of the Korean patent documents viewed in EPOQUE, use the following format:

Chinese Citations:

The following format is the preferred format for citing English abstracts of the Chinese patent documents viewed in EPOQUE

Russian Citations:

The following format is the preferred format for citing English abstracts of the Russian patent documents viewed in EPOQUE:

When the name of the applicant is not available:

Soviet Union Citations:

The following format is the preferred format for citing English abstracts of the Soviet Union patent documents viewed in EPOQUE:

When the name of the applicant is not available:

Following is an example of an EPODOC abstract displayed on the EPOQUE VIEWER with recommended fields which will be sent to the Applicant when stored in the relevant application folder in COMPASS.

Recommended Fields for EPODOC and Derwent (WPI) Abstract

For a full list of available fields and what they represent, type in the “ ..field ” command in the INTERNAL module of EPOQUE or look up in the database fact sheets available on the EPOXY website.

Following is a guide on how to set EPOQUE to display required fields in the VIEWER

1. From the menu select Options | Preferences’

2. Select the tab labelled 4 Fields Display

3. Select the database EPODOC in the pull down menu.

   • If a ‘required field’ in the list is below the ‘--- STOP HERE ---’ text then scroll down and select that ‘field’ option, and click the up arrow until that ‘field’ option is above the ‘--- STOP HERE ---’ text.

2. Derwent (WPI) Abstracts

When citing an abstract from the Derwent WPI database viewed in EPOQUE, use the following format:

Please note that the Derwent Accession Number must be included, however, including the Derwent classification symbols is optional.

The Accession Number (AN) field will need to be set to be displayed in EPOQUE when viewing Derwent WPI abstracts.

Following is a guide on how to set EPOQUE to display  required fields in the VIEWER

1. From the menu select Options | Preferences’
2. Select the tab labelled 4 Fields Display
3. Select the database WPI in the pull down menu.

• If a ‘required field, AN, in particular" in the list is below the ‘--- STOP HERE ---’ text then scroll down and select that ‘field’ option, and click the up arrow until that ‘field’ option is above the ‘--- STOP HERE ---’ text.

Following is an example of a WPI abstract displayed on the EPOQUE VIEWER with the recommended fields (see the previous section)  which will be sent to the Applicant when stored in the relevant application folder in COMPASS.

3. BNS Full Documents

When citing a BNS Full Document retrieved from EPOQUE (English or Non-English), the standard (i.e. current) format for citing patent documents should be used.

Examples

The applicant can be supplied with full patent document printed from BNS, Getthepatent etc.