Wednesday, November 19, 2008

IP Australia Patent Searching Update

Change to operation of Patsearch

From 22 November 2008 the data in Patsearch, IP Australia’s legacy patent search system, will be updated weekly with new data available each Monday. Previously this data was refreshed daily.

IP Australia introduced AusPat, the new search system for Australian patents, on 28 April, 2008. At that time users were advised to discontinue using Patsearch and to conduct their searches in AusPat.

Patsearch is expected to be decommissioned by the end of February 2009. The first step in that process is a move to a weekly refresh cycle of the data contained in Patsearch.

AusPat may be accessed online at this location: http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/auspat

1 comments:

Michael Bates said...

AusPat is great but I will miss PatSearch since ... unfortunately, we built an IPWatcher system that relies on the integrity of Patsearch - see www.ipwatcher.com.au

Time to tweak and expand IPWatcher's capabilities!

Out of interest, are there any other similar services available to IPWatcher?

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