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INPAFAMDB

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 35 million patent families with about 65 million puhblished patent applications (5/08)
More than 42 million legal status data in almost 12 million records (5/2008)
More than 78 million citations in 7.3 million patent families (5/08)

Updates: Weekly, with about 70,000-1,000,000 records and 40,000-200,000 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.

INPAFAMDB (INternational PAtent FAMily DataBase) contains the patent family data of patent documents and utility models of 81 patent-issuing organizations including the European Patent Office (EPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In addition, the legal status data of 51 patent-issuing organizations are included (38 countries + from 13 countries the national phases of PCT/EP applications only). Patent citations from 13 countries are also available.

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

The database indexes of INPAFAMDB are based on the patent families, where in INPADOCDB the indexes are based on the patent applications. The Accession Number AN in INPAFAMDB is the family number FN from INPADOCDB.

Note: The patent family number can change due to corrections/updates of patent relevant numbers and codes.

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

Producer:

European Patent Office
Vienna Sub Office
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 35 million patent families with about 65 million puhblished patent applications (5/08) More than 42 million legal status data in almost 12 million records (5/2008) More than 78 million citations in 7.3 million patent families (5/08)
Updates:	Weekly, with about 70,000-1,000,000 records and 40,000-200,000 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.