• Identification of all patent documents added to the DWPI production system that have not yet been released into DWPI
• Extraction of bibliographic information for these work-in-progress patent documents immediately after the DWPI patent family equivalency search
• Addition of author text data such as title, abstract, and main claim for some patent-issuing authorities
• Addition of technical drawing images where available
• Release of these work-in-progress records as DWPI First View updates

DWPI First View is a rolling file. New patent records remain in DWPI First View until all of the value-add has been created by Derwent editors. The completed record is then added to DWPI and the corresponding DWPI First View record is removed.

DWPI First View is a patents-based database, whereas DWPI is family based. Each patent record in DWPI First View is identified as a Basic or Equivalent patent. Most of the records in DWPI First View are new Basic patents, as the majority of Equivalent patents are added immediately to DWPI, without having been in DWPI First View. DWPI First View contains records for those Equivalent patents that cannot be added to DWPI until the corresponding Basic patent record has been added to DWPI. There may also be a small number of Equivalent patents in DWPI First View for which the Basic is already in DWPI because of the timing of the extraction process for each file. These equivalents are likely to be transferred to DWPI in the next update. Equivalent patent records in DWPI First View list the corresponding Basic patent number.

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All patentable technology.

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