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

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Guide to STN Patent Databases
Publications in respect of national and international patent and utility model specifications (~90+ national
and regional patent offices, EPO, WIPO)
DWPI
Database coverage before 1968: since 1836 (US), 1840 (GB), 1879 (DE), 1900 (FR), 1944 (JP)
Bibliographical details
International Patent Classification IPC1 8, online thesaurus incl. catchwords, range searching possible,
re-classification of the back-file
Patent family details
Legal status details:
Countries with legal status information: AT, AU, BE, BR, CA, CH, CN, CO, CS, CU, CZ, DD, DE, DK, EE, EP,
ES, FI, FR, GB, HK, HU, IE, IL, IT, LT, LU, MC, MD, NL, NO, NZ, PH, PL, PT, RU, SE, SI, SK, TW, US, WO
Entry of PCT applications into the national stage: AT, AU, BE, BG, BR, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CN, CZ, DE, EA, EG,
ES, FI, GB, GE, HR, HU, IL, JP, KE, KR, LI (über CH), LT, LV, MD, MX, MY, NZ, PH, PL, RO, RU, SE, SI, SK, US,
UZ, WO, ZA ZA
Non-entry of PCT applications into the national stage: CA, DE, JP, KR
Entry of EP patents into the national stage: 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, AU, BE, BR, CH, CN, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EP, ES, FI, FR, GB,
HU, IT, IL, IT, LU, NL, NO, SE, SK, US
Start of coverage varies by country, new countries are constantly added
European Patent Classification (ECLA), online thesaurus, range searchable; other European classifications:
ICO, IDT
National classifications: AT, BR, CA, ES, GB, MX, NL
National US Classification with thesaurus, Locarno Classification for US Design Patents (since 04/2005)
Japanese FI- and FTERMS (from1966) with thesaurus
Partly abstracts (31 million) of 50 countries from 1970: e.g. US, GB (from 1897), WO, EP, CA, DE, KR, JP, FR,
CN; an English equivalent abstract ABEQ from the simple patent family is displayed in the ALL and MAX
display formats if no English abstract is available for a given publication (since update week 200740)
Patent citations from 23 countries
First page images are available for the following patent authorities: CH (1978-), DE (1970-), EP (1978-), FR
(1969-), GB (1969-), JP (1980-), US (1971-), and WO (1978-)
INPAFAMDB: display of the PI patent family information plus hyperlinks to the full-text documents (PDF) in
Espacenet (PI.PDF)
INPADOCDB is the most comprehensive patent database with regard to the countries covered. It corresponds to the
Patent Family Service (PFS) and the legal status information of the Patent Register Service (PRS). The database is
updated weekly with approx. 70,000 to 1,000,000 entries/updates of the bibliographical PFS and approx. 40,000 to
180,000 legal status entries in the PRS. The EPO receives the data from the patent offices or patent organisations in
electronic or paper form. The EPO tries to standardise the data, but relies on the quality of the data provided. The
data are in the original language, but partly (e.g. for Russian or Japanese publications) an English translation (titles)
and/or transliteration (Names) is given. (For some countries (in particular JP), published applications (code JP-A2)
are often entered without details of title, assignee and inventor. As soon as such details are available, they are
added to the record.)
Using the priority information, documents belonging to the same patent family can be grouped together in
INPADOC. This is particularly useful to find out whether an equivalent to a known document exists in another