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

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Guide to STN Patent Databases
Entry of EP patents into the national phase: BE, CH, CY, DK, EP, ES, FR, GB, GR, HK (EP,CN), IE, IT, LI,
LT, LU, NL, RO, SE, SI, TR
SPCs (Supplementary Protection Certificates):
AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, IE, LU, NL, NO, SE, US
The start date varies with the country; more countries are constantly added.
PATDPA German and European patents (DE, EP), (no more updates from 7/2011)
SPCs (Supplementary Protection Certificates): DE, EP
PATDPASPC SPCs (Supplementary Protection Certificates): DE
IFICLS Legal status of US patents including Reassigned Patents, Reexamined Patents, Expired Patents,
Reinstated atents, Certificates of Correction, Adverse Decision in Interference,
Disclaimer/Dedication, Reexamination Request, Reissue Request
EPFULL Legal status from INPADOCDB and searchable legal status from the European Patent Register
FRANCEPAT French patents and utility models (no updates from 11/2009)
SPCs (Supplementary Protection Certificates): FR
RUSSIAPAT Publication data of earlier publications in the national patent procedure for Russian patents, entry
of PCT applications into the national phase and the priority date
IMSPATENTS Pharmaceutical patents and patent families from 90 countries:
Current information on protection and expiry dates, comments on each individual patent, on
other patents of the respective technical patent family and on other patent families relevant for
the substance indexed, including Supplementary Protection Certificates and Pediatric Extensions
LITALERT Lawsuits on US Patents and US Trademarks
The INPADOCDB legal status can be displayed in other databases: PCTFULL, PATDPAFULL, GBFULL, DGENE, USGENE,
AUPATFULL, CANPATFULL.
In all these databases, no responsibility is accepted for the correctness of the legal status information. Correct
information can be obtained by inspection of the files of the respective patent office.
Still, databases with legal status information have some advantages compared to the national registers:
Legal status information from multiple countries can be displayed in the international databases. The
information can be displayed in chronological order and in compact form for the whole patent family.
Extensive search options are available to find documents containing certain legal status information, e.g.:
Search for active patents of a company or in a technology field
Search for lapsed patents of a company or in a technology field
Search for patents that were opposed
Search for opponents of European patents (partly also AU, BR, FI, GB, NL, NO, PT)
Statistics of opponents
Search for patents offered for licensing
Search for SPCs
Monitoring of legal status events