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 Selector, choose 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 :