Using update codes in alerts

Modified on Tue, 5 Aug at 11:57 AM

Introduction & commons


Update codes are useful to find results that have been added to our databases. They can be used to trigger alerts and/or combined with search strings via the command line. 


Here is a list of the update codes and their description that are currently available in Orbit Intelligence.


Nota: Monthly codes do not correspond exactly to 4 calendar weeks - There are 12 monthly updates per year. This number "4" (UMT4 etc...) is only a convenient alias to refer to monthly codes. Usually, these alerts are sent between the 3rd and 12th of the current month, in order to include all publications the past month.


Update codes on our different databases


FAMPAT


Title

Description

Update Codes

New invention with English content

Identify a patent family once it has received an English abstract for the first time, translated or not.

Weekly : UMTA 
Monthly : UMT4

Adding new publication into an existing patent family

Existing patent family receiving a new publication stage (e.g. granted), or new extension like national phase


/UECC field may be added into your script to narrow down countries, triggering the UE code, like :

(Questel or ITIP or Yoomap or Multiling)/PA
1 and (US or FR or DE or CN or JP)/UECC
Weekly : UE
Monthly : UE4

Addition of cited documents - search report

Identify a patent family for each addition of cited patents or cited non-patent literature

Weekly : UCT

Addition of any legal status information

Identify a patent family each time an application receives or updates an event (publication or legal event)

Weekly : LGUP

Questel week

Identify a new family or existing family, by the 1st addition of one of the following fields: ETI, EAB, PA, CPC, FI, FTM. Excluding new documents published before 2006 (coverage improvements) and new applications without content like GB-D0

Weekly : QW 
Monthly : QM

New invention once receiving an original English content

Identify a patent family when it receives a human produced English abstract for the 1st time

Weekly : UAB 
Monthly : UAB4

New invention with any original language content

Identify a patent family when it receives any human language abstract for the 1st time

English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese

Weekly : UABA 
Monthly : UAA4

Adding CPC, IPC or USPCL codes for 1st time

Adding CPC, IPC or USPCL codes for 1st time

Weekly : UEC

New invention with or without content at this time

Identify a new patent family in the database regardless of the content - sometimes scarce. Including the new documents published before 2006 (coverage improvements) and new applications without content like GB-D0

Weekly : UP 
Monthly : UP4


FULLPAT


Title

Description

 Update Code

New published application with an English content

Identify a new published applications once they have received an English abstract, translated or not

Weekly: UMTA
Monthly : UMT4

Adding a new publication stage into an existing application

Identify an existing application receiving a new publication stage (e.g. granted)

Weekly : UE
Monthly : UE4

Addition of cited documents - search report

Identify a published application for each addition of cited patents or cited non-patent literature

Weekly : UCT

Adding any legal status information

Identify an application each time it receives or updates an event (publication or legal event)

Weekly : LGUP

Addition of fulltext

Identify a new published application once a publication stage receiving a fulltext

Weekly : UPFT 
Monthly : UPF4

Questel week

Identify a new published application or existing, by the 1st addition of one of the following fields: ETI, EAB, PA, CPC, FI, FTM. Excluding new documents published before 2006 (coverage improvements) and new applications without content like GB-D0

Weekly : QW 
Monthly : QM

New published application with an original English content

Identify a new published application when it receives a human produced English abstract for the 1st time

English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese

Weekly : UAB 
Monthly : UAB4

Adding CPC or IPC or USPCL codes for the 1st time

Identify a published application by the addition of one of the following classification codes for the 1st time: CPC, IPC, USPCL

Weekly : UCL

New application with or without content at this time

Identify a new application in the database regardless of the content. Including new documents published before 2006 (coverage improvements) and new applications without content like GB-D0

Weekly : UP 
Monthly : UP4


FULLTEXT


Title

Description

Update Code

New publication stage with fulltext

Identify a new publication in the database by the addition of a fulltext record - new publications or improvement of the prior coverage

Weekly : UP
Monthly : UP4



Pease note that for legal status information LGUP is the only code available for standard alerts - it will only notify you about any change in the legal status of the document without providing specific information on the event. 


Should you need to closely monitor some patent applications, a dedicated additional module is available ? =>  "Legal Status Monitor".

> See article "Legal status alerts"

 

To add update codes in alerts, first make sure to fill out the fields Name and Title .


With the NEW Update Code Selectorchoose a collection or frequency for your alert and the list of specific codes updates that apply to the current configuration will appear. 

Notice that each update code is now explained in details.


Select the checkbox of in the update code of your choice:


Weekly:


Monthly:


You can watch this video for a quick demonstration of the new update code selector :



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