Using update codes in alerts

Modified on Thu, 19 Jun at 4:16 PM

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.



FAMPAT


Title

Description

Frequency & Update Code

New invention with English content

Identify a patent family once it has received an English abstract, 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

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

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. Including the new documents published before 2006 (coverage improvements) and new applications without content like GB-D0

Weekly : UP 
Monthly : UP4


FULLPAT


Title

Description

Frequency & Update Code

New published application with an English content

Identify a new published application 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

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

Frequency & Update Code

New publication stage with fulltext

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

Weekly : UP
Monthly : UP4




Monitoring

Update code

First addition of a record with an abstract:



Machine or human produced English abstract 



Only human produced English Abstract

  

 

Any* Human abstract 1st time.

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




Weekly: UMTA

Monthly: UMT4

 

 

Weekly: UAB

Monthly:  UAB4

 


Weekly: UABA

Monthly: UAA4


 

Addition of equivalents or new publication stage

 

 

Weekly:   UE

Monthly:  UE4 

 

 

New equivalent in specific country:

 

Include in your search query: “and (CC or CC or CC)/UECC”

e.g. (Questel or ITIP or Yoomap or Multiling)/PA

1 and (US or FR or DE or CN or JP)/UECC

 

  • UECC is not an alert code and must be used with the update code UE. When a family is modified for any reason but without a new publication, the field UECC is erased, so there is no UECC in the backlog. It is a field that can only be monitored weekly. 
  • UECC script combined with UE launching code will retrieve only the first equivalent published in Fullpat database (such as USA1, FRA1), therefore missing granted patents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly:   UE

 

 

Entry week or update week of any legal status information

 

Legal status is a field that can only be monitored weekly.

 

 

 

Weekly:  LGUP

 

 

Addition of Citations (aka cited patents)

 

 

Weekly:   UCT

 

 

Addition of CPC codes for the 1st time

Nota : except on GB D0 documents

 

 

Weekly:  UCL

 

Entry of new records in the database + Changes to records already in the database: 

 

Records modified only by the addition for the first time of one or more of the following six fields:  ETI, Machine English Abstract, Human English Abstract, PA, CPC, FI, FTM


New records entered into the database except the documents published before 2006 and D0 reference documents. 


 

Weekly:  QW

Monthly: QM



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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