Guide to STN Patent Databases – Basic Version - Paton - TU Ilmenau

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.F
complete family
Guide to STN Patent Databases
.H
publication with
HIT terms
.B
earliest
publication
.P
Latest
publication
.U
Latest updated
publication(s)
De-duplicated
family formats
BIB BIB.F BIB.H BIB.B BIB.P BIB.U
BIB BIB.F BIB.H BIB.B BIB.P BIB.U
IBIB IBIB.F IBIB.H IBIB.B IBIB.P IBIB.U
STD STD.F STD.H STD.B STD.P STD.U
ALL ALL.F ALL.H ALL.B ALL.P ALL.U
ALLO ALLO.F ALLO.H ALLO.B ALLO.P ALLO.U
IALL IALL.F IALL.H IALL.B IALL.P IALL.U
IND IND.F IND.H IND.B IND.P IND.U
MAX.F MAX.H MAX.B MAX.P MAX.U
MAXO.F MAXO.H MAXO.B MAXO.P MAXO.U
IMAX.F IMAX.H IMAX.B IMAX.P IMAX.U
PI.F PI.H PI.B PI.P PI.U
TIPI.F TIPI.H TIPI.B TIPI.P TIPI.U
PI.PDF.F
=PI.PDF
PI.PDF.H PI.PDF.B PI.PDF.P PI.PDF.U
UPALL
TRIAL
BRIEF (default)
UPALL.F
All family members: If the display fields (TI, PA, IN, etc.) are used with .F they are displayed with all information and
not de-duplicated. The legal status formats, MAX (MAXO, IMAX) and BIBLS, are equivalent to the formats MAX.F
(MAXO.F, IMAX.F) and BIBLS.F, respectively, i.e. the legal status LS is not de-duplicated.
Basic Patent: In INPAFAMDB the first publication of a patent family is defined as the basic patent. If there are more
than one publication on the first publication date the documents are sorted by the publication country PC in
descending order. Then the first publication, e.g. the WO publication, is selected as the basic publication. PN.B (PI.B)
are SELECT fields.
HIT Patent: In INPAFAMDB patent families can be monitored using patent numbers. The following HIT display
formats show the publication number used for the search: PI.H, TI.H, TIPI.H. SELECT HIT is available for PI.H if one of
the fields in PI (PC, PN, PK, PY, PD) was searched.
Full-text links: The display format PI.PDF contains a direct link to the original document (PDF) at the European Patent
Office.
22.5.4 DWPI
The Derwent World Patents Index database (WPINDEX, WPIDS, WPIX) is not quite as comprehensive as
INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB with regard to country coverage. In Derwent World Patents Index a dynamic design is
implemented on the invention level, i.e. later publications of the same family are included into the same record. The
first patent publication of a new patent family received at the database producer, is the Basic Patent. All additional
patent publications (equivalents) in this document have the same priority (or priorities) as the Basic Patent.
The FAM format is a very compact format for the patent family, the format IBIB presents the family in a very clear
format:
=> D FAM
The asterisk * marks the Basic Patent.
The family members are in chronological order.
L1 ANSWER 1 OF 1 WPINDEX COPYRIGHT 2009 THOMSON REUTERS on STN
PI WO 2002067264 A2 20020829 (200265)* DE 23[3]
DE 10107314 A1 20020905 (200267) DE