Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Application of punched cards to patent searching
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 26, no. 6, Jun 1954, pp. 107-110
- Description
This paper, No.1152, was presented before Section H of the A.N.Z.A.A.S. Conference held at Canberra between 13th and 20th January, 1954.
The author, C. N. Jeffery, BSc, is Examiner of Patents, Commonwealth Patent Office.- Abstract
Conventional methods of classification are not suitable for rapid searching of patent specifications. The Australian Patent Office has developed a method of coding the component ideas of an invention and has applied it to mechanised searching with punched cards. Useful procedures and rules for coding an invention are proposed.
