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

40.3 DWPI
China
India
Japan
Korea
From 1985
Surveys
Unexamined patent applications, patents, granted utility models
Current unexamined applications and granted utility models with new number format
Chinese utility models are entered from June 2007
Chemical indexing for patent applications and utility models from January 2008
English translations (by humans) of application title and abstract from July 2007
English translations (by human) of all claims (from 7/2008) can be displayed in Member level for
Chinese patents (from 1/2007) and utility models (from 6/2007) in the DWPI patent family
From 1946
Unexamined and examined applications, patents
Indian patent applications (new law) from 2004
Indian examined applications from 2000
Bibliographical details and abstracts available 2 weeks after publication
From 1963
Examined applications for chemical patents (CPI) from 1963, all technologies from 1999
Unexamined applications in electrical engineering (EPI) from 1982, all technologies from 1996
Granted patents from 1996
Utility model from publication year 2008
Main claims in English from 2006
Japanese patent classification (FI-Terms, File Index Codes) and FTERMS (File forming Term) from 1966
F-TERM thesaurus for easy identification of relevant F-Terms and search and display of the F-Term
hierarchy
From 1986
Unexamined applications, patents
Delay: 14 16 days in WPIFV, 30 days in DWPI
English machine translations of application title and abstract from January 2008
Korean utility models from January 2008
English machine translations of all patent claims from January 2008, searchable in publication level
Singapore: from 1995
Taiwan
Patent applications and patents
Unexamined applications from 1994
Utility models from 2000
Philippines:
315