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INPADOCDB

Description:

Producer: European Patent Office, Vienna Branch Office, Austria

Coverage: 1836 to present for patent records
1978 to the present for legal status events; legal status from publication data from the beginning

File Size: More than 53,1 million records (applications) including national patent families with about 65 million published patent applications (5/2008);
35 million families (10/2007)
More than 43 million legal status data in almost 12 million records (10/2007)

Updates: Weekly, with about 70,000-1,000,000 records and 40,000-100,000 legal status data

File Type: Bibliographic

Content: International patents

Language: Original patent language; legal status also available in English
Some countries submit citations in English translations or transliterations.

INPADOCDB (INternational PAtent DOCumentation DataBase) contains the bibliographic and family data of patent documents and utility models of 80 patent-issuing organizations including the European Patent Office (EPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In addition, the legal status data of 49 patent-issuing organizations are included (36 countries + from 13 countries the nat. phases PCT/EP). Patent citations from 12 countries are also available.

The database corresponds to the EPO Patent Information Resources (combined DOCDB-XML data and Inpadoc Legal Status Service).

Click here for database summary sheet information!

Statistics for updates of publication/patent kind codes:
A. sorted by country
B. sorted by date

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

INPADOCDB is available in STN Easy.

Producer:

European Patent Office
Vienna Sub Office
Rennweg 12
P.O. Box 90
1031 Vienna
Austria
Phone: (+43 1) 52126-0
Fax: (+43 1) 52126-5491
E-mail: inpadoc.help@epo.org

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Producer:	European Patent Office, Vienna Branch Office, Austria
Coverage:	1836 to present for patent records 1978 to the present for legal status events; legal status from publication data from the beginning
File Size:	More than 53,1 million records (applications) including national patent families with about 65 million published patent applications (5/2008); 35 million families (10/2007) More than 43 million legal status data in almost 12 million records (10/2007)
Updates:	Weekly, with about 70,000-1,000,000 records and 40,000-100,000 legal status data
File Type:	Bibliographic
Content:	International patents
Language:	Original patent language; legal status also available in English Some countries submit citations in English translations or transliterations.