patent information system

Office of the Patent Information System
Objectives
	Government of India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion established Patent Information System (PIS), in the year 1980 with the following objectives. a. To obtain and maintain a comprehensive collection of patent specification and patent related literature on a world wide basis to meet the needs for technological information, of various users in R&D establishments, Government Organisations, Private Industries, Business, Investors and other users. b. To provide technological information contained in patents or patent related literature through publication services, search services and patent copy supply service; and c. To meet statutory obligation regarding novelty search under the patent Act, 1970 and amended in 1999. Intellectual Property Training Institute at Patent Information System, Nagpur Intellectual Property Training Institute has been established in PIS, Nagpur under the modernization project of Patent Offices in India. Main Coordinator Dr. W.M. Dhumane Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs Mobile - 09969488989 Local Coordinator Smt. C.S. Satpute Senior Documentation Officer Tel- EPBX: 0712-2510088 Direct : 0712-2511380 Fax: 0712-25120404
Structure	Presently the office is headed by Shri R.S. Rathor, Senior Documentation Officer (SDO) (Tel. 0712-2510535, Fax: 0712-25120404). For all matters relating to PIS, Head of Office may be contacted at the following address: Computer in-charge : Shri. V.L. Ramanathan, Senior Programmer Documentation in-charge : Shri R.S. Rathor, Junior Documentation Officer Reprography in-charge : Shri. C.V.N. Girish, Reprography Officer Patent Information System CGO Complex, Block 'C, 3rd Floor, Seminary Hills, Nagpur - 400006, (India) Phone No. 91-0712-510670/511380/510088/511241 Fax No. 91-0712-510186 E-mail pisnag@mah.nic.in : pisnagpur@satyam.net.in
Functions	The PIS caters to user needs on the basis of patent documentation and computerised system for retrieval and dissemination of patent information. The system has been modelled in response to the user requirements ascertained from results of the user survey conducted by PIS.
	Information of Patent Documentation at PIS
	Full text of patent Documentation available in-house
	Name of the Country	Country Code	Name of Information Carrier	Range
	United States of America	US	Microfilm CD-ROM	1951-1992 1993 onwards
	United Kingdom	GB	Microfilm CD-ROM	1951-1992 1979 onwards
	European Patent Office (16 European Countries as members)	EP	Microfilm CD-ROM	1978-1984 1985 onwards
	Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)	WO	CD-ROM	1978 onwards
	Australia	AU	Microfiche CD-ROM	1975 onwards
	India	IN	Paper	1912 onwards
	Japan	JP	CD-ROM	1994 onwards
Search Tools	Name of the Search Tool	Nature of Carrier	Contents	Range
	EPIDOS-INPADOC	Microfiche	Bibliographic data including title of patents from more than 80 countries	1968-1998
	ESPACE/ACCESS	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of EPO patents and PCT applications for patents	1978 onwards
	CASSIS-BIB	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data of US patents	1969 onwards
	GLOBAL PAT	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstract of CH,DE,EP, FR, GB,WO, US patents	1971 onwards
	US-CAPS/APS	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstracts of US patents	1975 onwards
	Patent abstracts of Japan	CD-ROM	Bibliographic data and abstract of Japanese patents	1976 onwards
	Gazette of India part III section (2)	Paper	Notifications issued by the patent office regarding Indian patents	1963 onwards

	Patent Information Services of PIS
	The PIS offers patent information services on payment of appropriate charges including postal charges for services provided by post. The payment may be made against a proforma invoice. Alternately the user may open an account with PIS under the subscribe advance payment (SAP) scheme of PIS.
	SAP Scheme \|\| Search Services \|\| Patent Copy Supply Service
	Subscriber Advance Payment Scheme (SAP) of PIS
	In order to provide Patent Information Service to any interested person/organisation, PIS operates subscriber advance payment scheme. Under this scheme, users interested in availing regular service by way of procurement of Patent Information, may remit an amount of not less than Rs. 1,000/- or in multiples thereof and open an account in their names. On receipt of this payment, the user will be allotted a subscriber account number by office of the Patent Information System (PIS) Nagpur. The amount towards the cost of services rendered by PIS will be adjusted against the advance payment made by the subscriber against his/her account number. The service will be rendered by PIS, on receipt of written request from the subscriber either by letter, telefax or e-mail (paper copy in confirmation of e-mail duly signed is required). On providing the service, PIS will intimate to the subscriber, the cost of service rendered and the balance available in his/her account. If, at any time, the balance amount in the account of the subscriber falls short of Rs. 200/-, the subscriber will be informed of the same with a request to remit further amount immediately. The subscriber on receipt of such intimation has to remit the amount which shall not be less than Rs. 1,000/- at any time. If at any time the subscriber wants to deposit further amount in their account, such payment also should not be less than Rs. 1,000/-. At the end of each financial year i.e. after 31st march of each year, PIS will issue a statement of account containing details of the amount received, cost of service rendered and the balance available subscriber will scrutinise the account and return a copy of the statement duly certifying the correctness of the account. No special form is needed to open the above mentioned account. A request on plain paper clearly specifying that the user wishes to open an account under Subscriber Advance Payment Scheme alongwith payment as mentioned above is all that is needed. All payments may be made in favour of the Office of the Patent Information System, Nagpur, by way of Money Order, or Demand Draft drawn on a scheduled Bank at Nagpur.
	Information on Patent Search Services
Patent Search Services	The search service may be availed by sending the search request in the standard format for search request.
	List of Services
State of Art Search Bibliographic Search English Equivalent Patent Search Equivalent Family Patent Search Assisted Search Standard form for sending search request
State of Art Search Provides overview of the State of Art Provides bibliographic data and abstracts of patent documents retrieved One or more suitable search terms including keyword, inventor name, Applicant name, Classification symbols are used Country coverage is restricted to EP, GB, US, PCT, AU, IN, CH,DE,FR,JP Charges : Rs. 1000+Rs. 20 per abstract of patent reported Bibliographic Search Provides bibliographic data on patent documents retrieved for the period 1978-1998 One or more suitable search terms including Inventor name, applicant name, classification symbols are used Country coverage extends to more than 80 countries reporting data to EPIDOS-INPADOC data base Charges: Rs. 500+Rs. 5 /- per document reported English Equivalent patent Search English language equivalent patent for patents in Non-English language are located The country coverage extends to more than 80 countries reporting data to EPIDOS-INPADOC data base Charges: Rs. 50 /- for locating one English language equivalent patent Equivalent Family Patent Search Bibliographic details of the family member of a patent are reported The country coverage extends to more than 80 countries reporting data to EPIDOS-INPADOC data base Charges: Rs. 50/- per family member Assisted Search users will be allowed to use CD-ROM and Microfilm/fiche data of PIS, nagpur to conduct search General assistance in performing the search will be provided Charges ; Rs. 250/- per hour of the facilities used Patent Copy Supply Service Indian Patents Printed copy of Indian Patent Charges Rs. 30/- per patent Xerox copy of Indian Patent Charges: Rs. 30 + 10 per page Foreign Patents Copy of Foreign Patent available-in-house Charge Rs. 300/- per Patent Foreign Patents not available in-house are procured from WIPO Charges Rs. 30/- per Patent Copy of Abstract/Claim Copy of abstract/main claim of Patent Charges Rs. 25/- per abstract/main claim