This is a requirement imposed on all persons involved with the patenting process to disclosure information (patents, articles, laboratory data etc.) to the patent examiner that may affect the granting of a patent.

An Online Public Access Catalog searchable catalog of a library's collection, available on the Internet and accessible to the public.

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STN field label for Derwent World Patents Index Extension Abstracts. For Dialog the corresponding field label is XA, and for Questel.Orbit this is EX. See Extension Abstract and DWPIX.

The explicit or implicit relinquishment of a potential patent right. Simple inaction may render a patent right abandoned

A statement summarizing the important points of a text. Brief summary or description of the essential content of an article, chapter or other complete work. Abstracts are frequently written by the author of the complete work.

Derwent subject experts review patent specifications and write a concise description of the of the claims and disclosures of an invention, in English.

ISI indexes all English-language author abstracts in their entirety (where supplied by the publisher). Abstracts are made available in several product formats.