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

11 PATDPA
11.1 Typical queries
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What applications have been filed in Germany in respect of brakes for inline skates?
Name searches (inventor, applicant), e.g.:
What inventions from Jenoptik have been published in Germany over the last year?
What patents have been applied for by Mr Jozsef Bugovics in Germany ?
Searches using formal data (numbers: publication, application), e.g. :
What is contained in the patent numbered DE 197 22 778?
Who owns the patent numbered DE 197 01 766?
Search for legal status
Is patent number DE 37 44 917 still in force?
Have Siemens AG offered the patent numbered DE 197 27 219 for use under licence?
11.2 Brief description
Producer: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA), Munich, Germany
Period covered: Since 1968
Size: Approx. 6.9 million records of patents,
approx. 687,000 of German utility models,
approx. 757,000 patent images (June 2011)
Updated: Database closed last update week 24/2011
Language: German
11.3 Contents
patents and utility models published by the German Patent and Trademark Office
Excerpts from EP, PCT, and Euro-PCT publications (from 31st week 1998)
Excerpts from EP, PCT, and Euro-PCT publications where Germany was named as designated state (from
1978)
Translations of European patents granted, with amended claims, or corrected by the assignee, where the
original application was in English or French
Bibliographical details, title, names (inventor, assignee, agent)
International Patent Classification IPC1 8, IPC thesaurus, range search possible, currently no
re-classification of the back-file
Patent drawings (or chemical formulae) from the first pages of German patent publications (from 1983)
Data of citations and related patents
Patent family information (DE, EP, WO; full coverage from July 1998)
Selected legal status data (DE from 1981, EP from July 1998)
SPCs (Supplementary Protection Certificates) (from July 1998), not searchable