Just a quick note to announce what our Testimonials page was updated today. As I got to know, visitors at Patents from RU site do pay attention to testimonials, so I’ve been keeping it alive.
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Just a quick update on what’s going on at Patents from RU.
Our customer was interested in getting one Russian patent and two articles from Russian scientific journals, and he wanted these possibly translated into English. He came to the right place! Not only we found the articles for him (as mentioned in previous post, it was delivered super fast), but we also translated all three documents within a week (take a look at our updated portfolio of Russian to English translations).
Another customer sought to obtain an old Soviet patent ( USSR Inventor’s Certificate), and we encountered an interesting problem – full text of the document was not available through RUPTO paid database, the entry was blanc. We turned to our CD-ROM collection, but again this document was not available in full – entry contained only Abstract. So we had to request the document from archives. Luckily, it took RUPTO arhievists merely a week to locate a paper copy.
And another interesting task we embarked on last week was delivery of an article written in Russian language but published not in Russia – it was an Ukrainian reference. To much of our satisfaction, we managed to track it down – it took us slightly more time than usual, 5 business
days instead of our regular 2-3 days. We added it to our portfolio of Russian scientific journals search.
This request came from our US patron who began to order through Patents from RU articles not only in Russian, but in other languages as well – this Ukrainian reference (supposedly it must have been published in Ukrainian, at least title suggested so) became 2nd inquiry, first was request to find 2 Polish referencies. I enjoyed the hunt a lot! I had to browse many Polish resources, and 1st of Polish documents was found in its native country, but in the end I spotted the 2nd article via – surprise – US source, located not far from where are patron resides 🙂
I just love document detective job. You got some, feel free to contact me.
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Today I came across Prior Smart meta-search engine which searches through number of patent sources – first I read about it at PIUG list and later spotted it mentioned by TechCrunch.
All in all, it’s another nice attempt to make a specialized patent meta-search engine recently I’ve also seen Patent Bar toolbar and some kind of Squidoo lens to name just a few. While Prior Smart have its merits (e.g. I was able to easily locate IT patent of an italian inventor I’ve been in touch on regard of licensing patent in Russia lately), it certainly does have it’s limitations, which have been known for ages – that be lame national PTO sites.
I tried a search on Russian patents (in fact, I wanted to locate a Russian patent granted to inventor from Italy) and spotted two issues:
1) Prior Smart submits query to RU.Espacenet server and NOT directly to RUPTO site (even despite RUPTO site been lame, it’d make sense to refer to original source, not to a mirror). More to this – RU.Espacenet server data is limited to past 1994 Russian patents only, all pre-1994 Russian (that is Soviet/USSR) patents remained out of reach.
2) Russian PTO has a funny habit of double transliteration (from Latin to Cyrillic and from Cyrillic back to Latin character set) of foreign inventors’ names which might ruin original name completely. That’s what happened in my search attempt exactly. I do not want to reveal real name I was searching on, but for example it might look like this:
Foreign applicant’s name: Inventor OH JANG-KEUN (KR)
after double transliteration –
Inventor information: OKh Dzang-keun (KR)
So, do you think I’d succeed in locating OH JANG-KEUN in Russian patents?
Hint: no, I would fail, cause OH JANG-KEUN is unknow to RUPTO, it knows only OKh Dzang-keun .
Owner of 262ventures.com blog said yesterday:
In an ideal world, making it easier to know what prior art exists across the world, should prevent, proverbially, ¦the reinvention of the wheel.· For example, there are probably tons of interesting invention buried in the Swedish patent office. But because I can·t read Swedish, I won·t even bother to look.
Same for Russian. Sadly, PriorSmart didnt succeed in making it easier by now.
PS today I updated our portfolio of most recent Russian scientific and medical articles search – this time we achieved mindblowing 2 hours turnaround, that truly deserves to be put into Guinness book of records – I wonder if they mind starting a book of patent world records 🙂
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