• INPAFAMDB - the new patent family file
• INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB News:
  • BASIC publication in INPAFAMDB (2008/10)
  • Extended Legal Status Events (revised 2008/10)
  • Legal Status concerning IE, GB, EA (2008/06)
  • New companion file to INPADOCDB: INPAFAMDB (2008/05)
• INPADOCDB_ INPAFAMDB STN User Meeting (10/08)
• Making the Difference – Enhancing the Quality of First Level Patent Data (03/07)
• INPADOCDB INPAFAMDB auf STN Handbuch (05/08)

STN International has released two patent files based on the new raw data of DOCDB from the European Patent Office (EPO) together with the INPADOC legal status data:

Data source and content are the same for both files, but for INPAFAMDB all data belonging to one invention (one family) are indexed as one record, while for INPADOCDB all publications from one authority for one application are indexed as one record. In short, INPAFAMDB´s records are invention- (family-) based, INPADOCDB´s records are application-based.

The new files offer a lot of new and enhanced content:

• about 65 million documents in 36 million patent families
• more backfile data ( 14 million documents) back to 1836(US), 1879(DE), 1840(GB), 1900(FR), 1944(JP), etc.
• many more abstracts, mostly in English,
• cited references (patents and non-patent literature) for 13 offices. Citations from all searches made at the EPO for BE, CH, EP, FR,GB, NL, TR and all WO are loaded as well as data from AU, DE, ES, JP and US,
• comprehensive European patent classifications (ECLA, ICO, IDT),
• many original bibliographic data and abstracts,
• introduction of legal status code categories.

A list of the patent kind codes can be found at:
http://www.stn-international.de/stndatabases/details/inpadoc/pk.txt
Priority application information type can be found at
http://www.stn-international.de/stndatabases/details/inpadoc/prait.txt

See information about new search and display fields in the new INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB summary sheets

Learning files LINPADOCDB and LINPAFAMDB are available for training!