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

Patent databases on STN International
country (e.g. because of possible infringements or for better accessibility of the language) or whether another
document from the same family is included in the Chemical Abstracts.
9.4 Dynamics
The INPADOCDB database follows the static principle using segmentation. All national publications of the same
patent or utility model application form one documentation unit. If there is legal status information in a document
unit it will be updated regularly. Every document is assigned a family number, FN, corresponding to its patent
family.
The INPAFAMDB database uses the dynamic principle. The INPADOCDB family number, FN, is used as the accession
number AN of a (family) document in INPAFAMDB (AN = FN). The individual patent documents are merged into
patent families anew with every update of the database, i.e. there is only one document in the database for every
patent family.
9.5 Updating
New documents are entered into INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB a few days (DE, EP, FR, GB) up to weeks (JP, US, WO)
after publication.
9.6 Documents from INPADOCDB
Display format: MAX (details of all national publications plus legal status)
The family number FN can be displayed with D FN:
FN 8584206
AN 23720717 INPADOCDB
FN 8584206
TI Vorrichtung zum automatischen Melken von Tieren.
A construction for automatically milking animals.
Dispositif de traite automatique d'animaux.
TL German; English; French
IN VAN DER LELY, CORNELIS
INS VAN DER LELY CORNELIS, CH
PA MAASLAND N.V.
PAS MAASLAND NV, NL
DT Patent
PI EP 1029447 A2 20000823 English
PIT EPA2 APPLICATION PUBLISHED WITHOUT SEARCH REPORT
DAV 20000823 unexamined-printed-without-grant
STA PRE-GRANT PUBLICATION
DS R: DE FR GB NL SE
AI EP 2000-201926 A 19941005
AIT EPA Patent application
PRAI EP 1994-202888 A 19941005 (EPA3, Y)
NL 1993-1753 A 19931011 (NLA, 20070614, Y)
PRAIT EPA3 Prior application claimed for a division
NLA Patent application
REP EP 560438 A (SEA, pat, Cat: Y)
LELY NV C VAN DER, NL
US 2779309 A (SEA, pat, Cat: Y)
MYER HOWARD I; MYER FRED C
US 2779310 A (SEA, pat, Cat: A)
MYER HOWARD I; MYER FRED C
REC 3. THERE ARE 3 CITED REFERENCES (3 PATENT, 0 NON PATENT) AVAILABLE FOR
THIS RECORD.
IC.V 7
ICM A01J0005-017
ICS A01K0001-01
IPCR A01J0005-017 [I,A]; A01K0001-12 [I,A]; A01K0023-00 [I,A]
EPC A01J0005-017A; A01K0001-12; A01K0023-00B
AB The invention relates to a construction for milking animals, such as
cows, comprising a milking robot (8) for automatically milking animals. A
movable collecting member (36) for the excrements of an animal present in
the construction is arranged at the trailing side of the construction.
AL English
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