Indian patent search databases

Indian patent office provides the bibliographic information freely, but charge for full text. Indian patents can be search in following databases:
Ekaswa- A Database: Patent applications filed in India as published in the issues of the Gazette of India (Part III, Section 2) from January 1995 to December 2004.
Ekaswa-B Database: Patent applications notified for opposition in [...]

SI International will Provide Patent Classification Services to USPTO

SI International, Inc, an information technology and network solutions (IT) company, has announced that the Company has been awarded the Pre-Grant Publication Classification Services contract by the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). As the sole winner of the new prime contract, SI International will assist the USPTO with pre-grant publication [...]

Patent Tools

We pay so many dollars to databases providers for the access of some features to reduce our time & effort. Patent Tools which provides so many features for day-to-day use for patent search and analysis freely to overcome cumbersome procedures. The features of the tools are listed below.
Claim Chart Generator: Claim Chart Generator automatically creates [...]

Dynamic mind map

FreeMind – free mind mapping software
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping  software written in Java. FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.
Features

Folding of branches
Exports to HTML, XHTML (a static ‘all-expanded image’ plus expanding +/- list below image). Also exports an ‘all-expanded image’ in [...]