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76 -- INTERNATIONAL PATENT INFORMATION DATABASE SOL 52-PAPT-8-00008 DUE 123197 POC Page A. Etzel, (703) 305-8579 WEB: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Procurement, http://www.uspto.gov. E-MAIL: Contracting Officer, page.etzel@uspto.gov. The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) intends to award a contract on a sole source basis to Derwent Information (Derwent), 1725 Duke Street, Suite 250, Alexandria, VA 22314. The purpose of this requirement is to load a database of value-added international patent abstracts in-house. The PTO requires "English Language Abstracts" and bibliographic data records covering substantially all of the world's issuing "patent" documents. This information is needed by the PTO to meet its mission responsibilities pursuant to patent laws and patent examining support procedures. The scope of this requirement is to lease to the PTO a database of value-added international patent information for loading in-house. The Contractor shall satisfy the requirement in a two phase approach during the performance of this contract: (1) a backfile data load, and (2) weekly updates. The Contractor shall provide to the PTO the following items: A complete database of value-added international patent information in English, including backfiles back to the 1960's and weekly updates. Each record is to contain an enhanced title in English, a claim-based abstract in English which incorporates the main technical features, intellectually selected drawing most representative of the invention, detailed classification schema including deep-indexing, patent family information, and ability to retrieve documents using the IPC assigned to the document by the patent issuing authority. At a minimum, the PTO requires coverage of chemical patents from 1960's and all disciplines from 1970's. Currently, the search system requires that PTO access the databases via commercial hosts. This method incurs hourly connect charges to the database provider, as well as hourly connect charges to the commercial host provider. The PTO already receives a discounted rate to search the databases. The PTO foresees a need for increased use of these databases resulting in increased costs, which are difficult to control with the present method. Derwent World Patent Index (DWPI) is an essential research tool for Patent Examiners who must conduct patentability determinations and search for prior art worldwide. DWPI contains information such as an enhanced title, claims-based abstract, proprietary deep-indexing, patent family information and ability to retrieve documents using the International Patent Classification assigned by each patent office, which is not available in other commercially available patent information databases. Currently, the only method for searching DWPI is through a commercial host. In addition to hourly connect charges from Derwent, additional hourly host connect charges are incurred as a result of the indirect connection to DWPI. Loading the DWPI data in-house for unlimited use will eliminate hourly charges from Derwent as well as the commercial host. Due to the specialized combination of expert knowledge required, and access to Derwent proprietary database, the PTO has identified Derwent as the only source available to meet its unique requirements. Derwent Technicians have a high level of training, familiarity and competence in DPWI and Derwent indexing. The anticipated period of performance for this requirement is two (2) years. (0350)

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