Agro Patent fast-alert provides the first indication to research
trends and represents a vital early intelligence tool for R&D groups.
The emphasis lies on advising the R&D community rather than the patent
specialist. The patent abstract is informative and highly structured, including
classification terms (Class, Action and Target Crop/Organism), relevant
bibliographical data, preferred structures and expert commentary where
appropriate. Each issue is appended by Fast-Scan indices of both keywords and
patent assignees used for indexing.
Topics covered
One subscription for ALL patents
Patents are selected for abstracting if they meet one or more of the
following selection criteria:
- novel compounds claimed as pesticides, herbicides or plant growth modulators
or novel applications for known compounds
- novel processes for preparation of agrochemicals or their intermediates
- novel methods for the formulation of pesticides
In addition, plant biotechnology abstracts often cover new molecular cell
biology methods, the production of transgenic plants and organisms of
agrohorticultural importance.
Patent
Coverage
No need to subscribe to more than one product for comprehensive coverage
Providing comprehensive coverage of all commercially significant patents,
patent applications filed through the following major patenting routes are
scanned weekly, both manually and online.
- European patent applications published by the European Patent Office (EPO)
http://www.epo.co.at/epo/
- World (PCT) patent applications published by the World Intellectual Property
Office (WIPO)
- US (granted) patents published by the United States Patent Office (USPTO)
http://www.uspto.gov
- British patents http://ukpats.org.uk
- Japanese patents (* added from January 1994) http://www.jpo-miti.go.jp/
All applications are checked for originality using priority data to avoid
duplication.
Abstracting & Classification - Relevant
information abstracted BY experts FOR experts
Abstractors are chosen from experienced agrochemists and biotechnologists.
These abstractors not only select relevant biological data which support the
claims, but also classify terms for the Fast-Scan index (using a continually
updated list of indexing terms), highlight novel processes, formulations and
preferred structures. Short explanatory comments are added where appropriate.
Patents are classified and grouped into the following three sections
according to the specifically claimed applications, or, if not possible,
according to the applications supported by biological data:
- Herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators
- Rodenticides, Nematicides, Molluscicides and Acaricides, Insecticides and
Fungicides
- Plant Biotechnology
Chemical Structure Selection
Abstractors use three criteria to select structures:
- A specifically claimed compound with due regard to biological potency
- A specifically claimed compound and preferred compound
- A disclosed compound or a compound exemplified by synthesis and with due
regard to the scope of generic claim.
