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FRANCEPAT

Description:

Producer: Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI), France
Coverage: 1961 to the present (2/2004)
File Size: More than 1.09 million records  (4/2007)
More than 420,460 images (6/2005)
Updates: Weekly
File Type: Bibliographic
Content: French patents
Language: French, English

FRANCEPAT covers all French patent applications and granted French patents published by the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI). All patents published in France since 1966 as well as special pharmaceutical patents (Brevets Speciaux Medicaments) published between 1961 and 1978 are included as well as Complementary Protection Certificates from 1969 onwards.

Records include bibliographic, administrative and legal status data for each patent. Abstracts and descriptors are also available since 1978. All records are in French, but English descriptors are also available from 1987 onwords. Images of patent drawings are included in records published from 1978 onwards. FRANCEPAT complements the coverage of French patents on STN and provides the most complete picture of patent publications from France.

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FRANCEPAT is a member of the following file clusters:
ALLBIB, AUTHORS, CORPSOURCE, HPATENTS, and PATENTS.

FRANCEPAT is available in STN Easy.

Producer:

Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI)
26 bis, rue de Saint Petersbourg
75800 Paris, Cedex 08
France
Phone: (+331) 53 04 53 04
Fax:     (+331) 42 93 59 30
E-mail:

Copyright Holder
Private service under distribution agreement with Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle


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