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

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314<br />

Unexamined applications<br />

Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong (from 2000)<br />

40.2 INPAFAMDB<br />

China<br />

Japan<br />

Korea<br />

<strong>Guide</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>STN</strong> <strong>Patent</strong> <strong>Databases</strong><br />

Unexamined and examined patent applications, patents, utility model applications and granted utility<br />

models<br />

Current patent applications, patents and granted utility models with new number format<br />

Documents are entered approx. 1-3 months after publication<br />

Legal status data from 1985 and entry in<strong>to</strong> national phase of PCT applications<br />

English abstracts (human-translated by SIPO) are available for patents and utility models, partly<br />

original abstracts<br />

Names may appear uncommon (through transliteration), often the standardized name fields INS and<br />

PAS can help mainly relevant for national applications without other family members<br />

Unexamined and examined applications, patents, Japanese translations of PCT applications of non-<br />

Japanese applicants, utility model applications and granted utility models<br />

Documents entered from 1944<br />

Documents are entered 1-3 months after publication<br />

No legal status data, only entry and non-entry in<strong>to</strong> the national phase of PCT applications<br />

No abstracts<br />

When documents are entered the English title and inven<strong>to</strong>r and applicant names may be missing, the<br />

details are added later mainly relevant for national applications without other family members<br />

Names may appear uncommon (through transliteration), often the standardized name fields INS and<br />

PAS can help mainly relevant for national applications without other family members<br />

Examined and unexamined patent applications from 1978, granted patents from 1984, examined<br />

utility model applications and examined utility models from 1978 <strong>to</strong> 2000<br />

Documents are entered 1-3 months after publication<br />

No legal status data, only entry and non-entry in<strong>to</strong> the national phase of PCT applications<br />

English abstracts<br />

Names may appear uncommon (through transliteration), often the standardized name fields INS and<br />

PAS can help mainly relevant for national applications without other family members<br />

Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam<br />

Documents are often entered with extreme delay<br />

No current documents from IN, MY and VN<br />

Utility models from TW from 2000<br />

Utility models from PH from 1982 <strong>to</strong> 1995<br />

No legal status data<br />

English abstracts are only partly available from TW and SG<br />

Hong Kong: legal status data from 4/2009

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