FOCUST
From Intellogist
| If you found this page through a web search, we invite you to visit our Main Page to see what Intellogist is all about. This Community Report exists for our users to share information and experiences about patent search resources. Registered users can add, edit, or delete material on this page. The information contained on this page is the result of community collaboration and is not vetted by individual experts or fact-checkers. For in-depth reviews of other patent search resources, please read our Intellogist Reports. For information about editing Community reports, please see our Help pages. If you'd like more information about why Intellogist did not write about this search tool, please see our Criteria for Intellogist Articles. |
FOCUST is a subscription-based patent search and analysis system created by Wisdomain, and the system includes patent search, analysis, report generation, and patent management functions.[1] FOCUST offers full-text search for US, EP, JP, and CN patent documents, and other available information includes patent legal status, patent ownership status, and citation information.[2]
The Wisdomain website seems to identify three different versions of FOCUST data coverage: the basic FOCUST, FOCUST (US) for US patent data coverage, and FOCUST-J for Japanese patent data coverage.[1] It is unclear whether all of these versions of FOCUST are included in one subscription package, or if the user needs to subscribe to each version separately.
The tables below from the Wisdomain website illustrate the data coverage for independent processed data, patents in English, patents in Korean, and patents in Japanese:[2]
| Data | Coverage Area | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Life Status | U.S. Patents | 1976 ~ Present |
| Patent Genealogy | U.S. Patents | 1976 ~ Present |
| Patent Ownership Status | U.S. Patents | 1976 ~ Present |
| Citation information | U.S. Patents | 1976 ~ Present |
| Applicant standard name | U.S. Patents | 1976 ~ Present |
| Key point of invention | Japanese Patents | 1964 ~ Present |
| Representative Drawing | All data (Excluding US-Old, CP, CU） |
Timeline according to data |
| INPADOC Family | All data | |
| INPADOC Legal Status | All data |
| Data | Timeline | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Patents registered in the U.S. | 1976 ~ Present | |
| Patents registered in the U.S. (Before 1975) | 1790 ~ Present | |
| Patents published in the U.S. | 2001 ~ Present | |
| Patents registered in Europe | 1981 ~ Present | |
| Patents published in Europe | 1978 ~ Present | |
| English abstracts of Korean patents | 1979 ~ Present | |
| English abstracts of Japanese patents | 1976 ~ Present | |
| Patents published in Germany | 1952 ~ Present | Representative Drawing: Quarterly Update |
| Patents registered in Germany | 1877 ~ Present | |
| Patents published in France | 1933 ~ Present | |
| Patents registered in France | 1900 ~ Present | |
| Patent published in U.K. | 1840 ~ Present | |
| Patents registered in U.K. | 1980 ~ Present | |
| International applications (PCT applications) |
1978~ Present | |
| Chinese patents | 1985 ~ Present | Quarterly update |
| Chinese utility models | 1985 ~ Present |
| Data | Timeline | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Korean patents | 1948 ~ Present | |
| Korean utility models | 1948 ~ Present | |
| Japanese patents | 1993~ Present | |
| Japanese patents (Before 1992) | 1928~1992 | PDF provided through patent number search |
| Japanese utility models | 1993 ~ Present |
| Data | Timeline | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese patents | 1964 ~ Present | Data prior to 1992 provided through OCR text search |
| Japanese utility models | 1964 ~ Present | |
| Japanese patent progress | 1964 ~ Present | Examination information, Trial information, Registration information |
| Japanese patent genealogy | 1964 ~ Present | |
| Japanese citation information | 1964 ~ Present |
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "FOCUST: The most powerful tool in patent data business intelligence." Wisdomain website, http://www.wisdomain.com/wis_html/en/Product/Focust.htm. Accessed January 30, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Data Coverage." Wisdomain website, http://www.wisdomain.com/wis_html/en/Search/DataCoverage.htm. Accessed January 31, 2012.
