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EPFULL

Description:

Producer: European Patent Office, Germany
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
Coverage: 1978 to the present
File Size: More than 2,4 mill. records (7/2008)
Updates: Weekly
File Type: Bibliographic, Full text
Content: European patents
Language: English, German, French

The European Patents Fulltext (EPFULL) database covers the full text of European patent applications and granted European patents since 1978 and bibliographic records for PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) applications transferred to the EPO. Each record contains bibliographic data, abstract and full-text of detailed description and claims. The complete specification is given in one of EPO’s official languages English, German or French for published unexamined applications (A-documents) from 1987 to date and examined granted patents (B-documents) since 1991. Titles are available in all three languages. Claims can be accessed for A-documents in English, German or French, for B-documents in all three languages. Abstracts in the original publication language can be searched for all A-documents. English abstracts are added to German and French documents within several weeks of their addition to the database.

Patent, application, priority and related patent information, abstracts, detailed descriptions and, claims may all be searched. Display of legal status information from the INPADOCDB file is possible.

All data featuring the same application number are grouped together in one single document. Bibliographic data and legal status information correspond to the European Patent Bulletin.

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EPFULL is a member of the following file clusters:
AEROTECH, ALLBIB, AUTHORS, CORPSOURCE, ENGINEERING, FULLTEXT, HPATENTS, PATENTS, and PNTTEXT.

EPFULL is available in STN Easy.

Producer:

European Patent Office
Vienna Sub Office
Rennweg 12
P.O. Box 90
1031 Vienna
Phone: +43 1 52126 0
Fax:     +43 1 52126 5491

FIZ Karlsruhe
P.O. Box 2465
76012 Karlsruhe
Phone:  (+49 7247) 808 555
Fax:      (+49 7247) 808 131
E-mail: helpdesk@fiz-karlsruhe.de
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