How do I search for and access Australian Patent Data ?
IP Australia has no comparable Internet search engine to the • US Patents Office search engine • IBM Patents search engine If you are interested in finding Patents for a specific Technology (eg all Patents containing Heliothis) then use those facilities. The APAS CD-ROM system, available at the State Offices or by subscription, provides a similar facility to search and display the Australian Patent Abstracts. IP Australia are working on an Internet search engine for Australian Patents. You can search and access some Australian Patents via the Internet using the mainframe and the AU-B. The mainframe search programs “Patent Index System” and Patents Administration return Australian Patent Numbers that, used as input to the AU-B facility return the full Patent Specification. The general methods are: If you want Australian Patents for a specific technology then • Use the IPC to classify the technology with an IPC mark. For example, B41F 7/02 (2006.01) is the IPC Mark for rotary lithographi
