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50,000 World Traditional Medicine Patents Now Available in CAS Databases

April 2010

A total of 22,000 World Traditional Medicine (WTM) patents from many countries were recently added to the CAS databases, increasing the number of these patents to 50,000. WTM records expand coverage of this unique type of unique prior art, which is becoming more inportant to the pharmaceutical and consumer products industries.

CAS Adds Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines as 60th Patent Authority in its Patent Coverage

CAS has enhanced its extensive patent coverage by adding patent and patent family information from the IP Philippines, increasing the number of patent authorities covered to 60.

New Podcast - CAS: Better content = better research

CAS is the most authoritative and comprehensive source for chemical information. Our databases, including CAS REGISTRY, the gold standard for substance information, are curated and quality-controlled by a global team of scientists. Combining these databases with advanced search and analysis technologies, CAS delivers the most complete, cross--linked, and effective digital information environment for scientific research and discovery.

To view this podcast, please visit the CAS Media Library. You can also view the podcast on YouTube^TM .

50 Millionth Unique Chemical Substance Recorded in CAS REGISTRY

Novel analgesic marks major milestone in scientific discovery

CAS has recorded the 50 millionth substance in CAS REGISTRY^SM, the world's most comprehensive and high-quality compendium of publicly disclosed chemical information. The recently registered substance is a novel arylmethylidene heterocycle with analgesic properties. Reaching the 50 million mark so quickly is an indicator of the accelerating pace of scientific knowledge.

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CAS REGISTRY Approaches 50 Millionth Registration Milestone

August 2009

CAS is on track to register the 50 millionth unique chemical substances in CAS REGISTRY in September. REGISTRY is the most comprehensive and high-quality compendium of publicly disclosed chemical information. This milestone came quickly, since it was only 9 months ago that CAS registered its 40 millionth substance. In contrast, it took 33 years for CAS to register the 10 millionth compound in 1990.

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CAS Patent Authority Coverage Expanded

June 2009

CAS patent coverage has been expanded to include patent documents from the Gulf Cooperation Council Patent Office and Irish Patent Office. Patent and patent family references from 59 patent authorities around the world are now included in the CAS databases.

Coverage includes patents (kind code A) from the Gulf Cooperation Council Patent Office (country code GC) back to November 2002 and patent applications (kind code A1) and short-term patent applications (kind code A2) from the Irish Patent Office (country code IE) back to January 2002.

For additional information, visit CAS Coverage of Patents.

Largest Collection of Proton NMR Spectra Now Available in SciFinder

Scientists worldwide can now access more than 23.8 million predicted proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectra in SciFinder. SciFinder is the leading research and discovery tool and the authoritative source of information on more than 41 million chemical substances.

Introducing CAS - Science Connections

December 2008

In recent weeks, you may have noticed articles on the CAS web site about melamine toxicity, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry even fruit flies. These "CAS - Science Connections" showcase the value of CAS databases in light of important general-interest, science, and technology news and highlight CAS database enhancements and editorial milestones.

From CAS - Science Connections articles, you can link directly to Substance Details and Reference Details in the web version of SciFinder.

To read the latest article on American chestnut tree, visit http://www.cas.org/newsevents/connections/index.html

CAS Databases to be Enriched with Wiley Reaction Collection

November 2008

In Fall 2008, the CAS databases will be enhanced with content from Wiley reaction collections. These evaluated collections represent seminal reference works, and inclusion of these reactions will give SciFinder customers access to important older reaction information.

The first collection, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (EROS), began appearing in CAS databases in September 2008. EROS is considered the definitive reference source for reagents used in organic synthesis.

The addition of two other Wiley collections, Organic Syntheses and Organic Reactions, is planned for later in 2008. These collections will further enrich the CAS databases with older reactions, dating back to 1921.

2008 CAS Databases Update

May 2008

CAS databases - the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of disclosed chemistry-related information - have recently been updated with the following key enhancements:

176,000 experimental spectra have been added to CAS REGISTRY^SM - this includes 90,000 proton NMR spectra, 15,000 carbon-13 spectra, and 71,000 mass spectra. CAS REGISTRY now includes more than 480,000 experimental spectra.
CAS databases now contain more than 200 million cited references.
More than 163,000 exemplified prophetic substances (from the example section of all English, French, and German language basic patents) from over 1,700 published patents have been added to CAS databases.
CASREACT has recently surpassed 15 million single- and multi-step reactions and coverage has been extended to include prophetic reactions.
South Korean patent data is now current through February 2008.
Japanese (JPO), Chinese (SIPO), and South Korean (KIPO) utility models are now being added to the CAS databases. By the end of this year, a backfile from the beginning of 2006 will be included in the CAS databases.
CAS databases have been enhanced with approximately 3,500 World Traditional Medicine (WTM) Chinese patents, bringing the total to 13,500 WTM patents.
Mexican patents through the end of 2007 have been added to CAS databases.
Over 1 million 10-digit CAS Registry Number identifiers

CAS REGISTRY^SM Enhanced with Additional Experimental Spectra

March 2008

Since the beginning of 2008, approximately 176,000 experimental spectra have been added to the CAS REGISTRY, including:

90,000 proton NMR spectra
15,000 carbon-13 NMR spectra
71,000 mass spectra

This enhancement is part of an ongoing effort to strengthen the collection of experimental spectra first made available in 2005. The CAS REGISTRY now includes more than 480,000 experimental spectra.

CAS Leads the Information Industry in Processing Chemistry-Related Korean Patents

February 2008

CAS leads the information industry in processing chemistry-related Korean patents. Patent processing improvements now enable CAS to provide access to chemistry-related South Korean patent applications and granted patents accessible in the CAS databases at least four months sooner than any competitive scientific information service. CAS databases contain all South Korean chemistry-related patents issued in 2007, nearly 35,000, and have begun adding 2008 patents.

Enhanced CAS Patent Coverage Now Includes Exemplified Prophetic Substances

January 2008

In December 2007, CAS database content was enhanced to include exemplified prophetic substances from new English-language basic patents. These substances may be identified (exemplified) by the inventor with a chemical name or structure (including a structure displayed in tabular format).

Newly identified prophetic substances are assigned CAS Registry Number identifiers, indexed, and added to CAS databases. Reactions involving prophetic substances (whether reactants, intermediates, or products) are also added.

CAS defines prophetic substances as:

specific substances described, but not characterized, in patent examples that do not also appear in patent claims, or
known substances reported in a patent to have novel or new uses when no substantiation of the novel/new uses is provided

CAS plans to add approximately 500,000 new prophetic substances to the CAS databases in 2008. Initially, these substances will be drawn from English-language basic patents from the following five sources:

United States Patent and Trademark Office
European Patent Office
World Intellectual Property Organization
United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
English-language basic patents represent 28% of all patents covered by CAS.

CAS indexing of prophetic substances is considered supplemental to standard patent indexing. It does not fall under the CAS timeliness guarantee of full indexing within 27 days of receipt of patents from 9 of the major patent offices.

For questions regarding the impact of prophetic substance indexing on Keep Me Posted alerts, contact CAS Customer Care.

CAS Databases Enhanced with pre-1907 Records from Chemisches Zentralblatt

October 2007

Nearly 18,000 records from Chemisches Zentralblatt (issues from 1905-1906) have been added to the CAS databases. A predecessor to Chemical Abstracts^TM, Chemisches Zentralblatt is a German chemical abstracting journal published from 1830 to 1969.

The new pre-1907 records are enhanced with English machine-translations of the bibliographic and abstract information. Only the CAS databases offer English translations of Chemisches Zentralblatt data. This content enrichment strengthens CAS' coverage of older patents and journals from Germany and other European countries.

Some of these pre-1907 Chemisches Zentralblatt records may appear to be duplicates of existing pre-1907 CAS database records. Because the focus of the abstract information from the two sources differs significantly, both records have been retained. CAS will be adding earlier issues from Chemisches Zentralblatt, as well as page images, but there are no plans at this time to provide indexing for these new pre-1907 records.

Traditional Medicine Patents Now Available in CAS Databases

September 2007

CAS database coverage has been extended to include traditional medicine patents. In addition, approximately 10,000 of these patents from 1985-2005 are being added to CAS databases. Traditional medicine patents are selected for coverage based on the World Health Organization definition of traditional medicine: health practices, approaches, knowledge, and beliefs incorporating plant-, animal-, and mineral-based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques, and exercises applied singularly or in combination to treat, diagnose, and prevent illness or maintain well-being.

Currently, traditional medicine patents are predominantly from China, but other Asian countries will be represented in the future as additional such patents are added to CAS databases.

Discontinued Versions of SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar

September 2007

On January 2, 2008, CAS will discontinue the following SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar versions:

2004.2 for MAC OS 9
1.0 for MAC OS X.

Also discontinued at that time will be SciFinder for Windows versions:

2007.0
2007.0_s.

To obtain the latest versions of SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar for Windows or Macintosh, please get in touch with your organization's SciFinder or SciFinder Scholar Key Contact. Please note that CAS will no longer support Macintosh OS 9 after January 2, 2008.

CAS REGISTRY^SM Enhanced with New Experimental Property Tags

August 2007

New experimental property tags have been added to the CAS REGISTRY. The tags are applied to new proteins and nucleic acids added to the CAS REGISTRY and refer to biochemistry-related data, including:

Allele frequency and heterozygosity
Disease-related mutations
Drug targets
Functional sites
Genetic mapping
Genetic polymorphism
Human disease-related mutations
Non-human animal disease-related mutations
Plant disease-related mutations
Post-translational protein modifications
Subcellular localization

For a list of all experiment property tags in the CAS REGISTRY, including definitions, visit Searching for Property Data at www.cas.org.

CAS REGISTRY^SM Enhanced with Additional Experimental Spectral Property Data

July 2007

More than 85,000 proton NMR spectra for nearly 84,000 substances have been added to the CAS REGISTRY.

CAS Databases Enhanced with French and German Abstracts

July 2007

CAS databases now provide French- and German-language abstracts in basic patents from the European Patent Organization (EPO) whenever an English-language abstract is not available. For additional information, visit Patent Coverage in Chemical Abstracts or refer to the CA/CAplus Database Summary Sheets at www.cas.org.

2007 CAS Databases Update

May 2007

CAS databases - the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of chemical and chemical-related information - have recently been updated with the following key enhancements:

Indian patent applications from the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks have been added. Coverage is retroactive to December 4, 2004.
Bibliographic and abstract information has been added for 14,500 additional U.S. patent records from 1870-1889.
More than 270,000 additional reactions from more than 17,000 documents from 1992-1999 have been added.
More than 1.2 million new commercial source records have been added. These include approximately 500,000 new small molecules.
The New Zealand Inventory of Chemicals (NZIoC) is a list of chemicals that may be used as components in formulated products, manufactured in, or imported into New Zealand. All non-confidential NZIoC substances are now included. These substances are identified with On NZIoC in the Inventory Status field.

CAS Indexes a Million Documents in 2006

International Output of Scientific Literature and Patents Continues To Grow

February 2007

For the first time, Chemical Abstracts Service has indexed and added to the CAS databases more than a million document records in a single year, reflecting the worldwide acceleration of scientific research and patents. CAS announced this signal achievement on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the organization and Chemical Abstracts, which was first published in January 1907.

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2006 CAS Databases Wrap-up

December 2006

Your scientists can access the CAS databases - the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of chemical and chemical-related information. In 2006, CAS databases were further enhanced with the following:

1.7 million single- and multi-step reactions totaling nearly 12 million
278,000 experimental property values totaling more than 1 million
588 million predicted property values totaling more than 1 billion
4 million organic and inorganic substances totaling more than 30 million
21 million citations totaling 170 million

CAS databases also have:

27 million references to published research from 1907 to present; with selected coverage to 1840
More than 5.5 million patents from 50 active patent-issuing authorities
17.7 million total indexed entries from 1907-1966

CAS Databases Update

Reaction content improved and expanded: Explore 11 million single- and multi-step reactions.
The 86th millionth CAS Registry Number, 888904-21-0, was assigned on June 22, 2006 to a chemical catalog substance, a heterocyclic triamine a product of AKos Consulting and Solutions GmbH.
Substances from the NCI (National Cancer Institute) Cancer Screened Database are now being added to CAS databases.
CAS sets new timeliness standard by making Chinese patent records available in CAS databases approximately 140 days sooner than competitive services.
More than 10,000 references for U.S. chemical patents from 1900-1906 were added to CAS databases.

Experimental Properties

Customers who access SciFinder 2006, SciFinder Scholar 2006 (both PC and Mac), and SciFinder for Mac OS X now have access to three new sets of experimental spectral property graphics. These new data sets include:

More than 142,000 Carbon-13 NMR Spectra from Wiley Subscriptions Services, Inc. (WSS)
More than 38,000 Mass Spectra from Wiley Subscriptions Service, Inc. (WSS)
Approximately 28,000 IR Absorption Spectra from the "Integrated Spectral Data Base System of Organic Compounds" provided by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan (NIAIST)

This addition significantly strengthens the references to spectra properties that were introduced in 2005.

Spectra are available either as images or referenced documents in a number of competitive print and web sources. However, in REGISTRY, these images are part of the extensive information about substances, which includes structures, names, roles, properties, and references.

For Task Package customers, there is no additional charge for the spectral data beyond the current cost for an Explore by Chemical Substance.

The CAS Registry^SM in SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar has been enhanced with additional experimental properties from 1920-1987 CA records

During December 2004, approximately 100,000 new experimental property values from abstracts in CA records from 1940-1987 are being added to REGISTRY. The experimental property values include:

Experimental Property	Number of Values
Boiling Point	>35000
Density	>10000
Electric Conductance/Resistance	>150
Glass Transition Temperature	>300
Magnetic Moment	>150
Median Lethal Dose	>5000
Melting Point/Sublimation	>17300
Optical Rotatory Power	>10000
Refractive Index	>17500
Tensile Strength	>250

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