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

12 PATDPAFULL
12.1 Typical queries
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Searches for the state of the art in DE publications (text and classification), e.g.:
What German inventions are there on Neurofeedbacksysteme bei der Therapie von neuronalen
Krankheiten (Neuro-feedback systems in the therapy of neural diseases)?
Name searches (inventor, applicant), e.g.:
What inventions of ROLLS ROYCE have been published in Germany during the past year?
What patent applications are there in Germany of Mr Gerhard Schröder concerning furniture?
Searches using formal data (numbers: publication number, application number), e.g.:
What is contained in the patent numbered DE 10 2004 012 732?
Are there any differences in the German patent, DE 103 53 485, compared to the publication of the
application?
Full-text display of German patents, patent applications and utility models:
What are the claims of the German application numbered DE 10 2004 018 950?
Legal status display:
Is the patent numbered DE 101 41 506 in force?
SDI searches for German patents
Using the full-text to find material for an opposition
Multi-file searches in combination with other national or regional patent databases
12.2 Brief description
Producer: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, Munich, Germany
Period covered: Since 1987 (bibliographical data since 1981)
Size: Approx. 2.2 million records on patents (full-text),
approx. 491,000 records on utility models (full-text),
approx. 649,000 patent images (May 2012)
Updated: Weekly
Languages: German
12.3 Contents
Full text from German patents and patent applications published by DPMA since 1987
Translations of European Patents (T2, T3, T4) since 1993
Claims of German utility model publications since 1999
No documents of EP or WO applications
Bibliographical details, title, names (inventor, applicant, agent)
International Patent Classification IPC1 8, IPC thesaurus, range search possible, currently no
re-classification of the back-file
Details on citations, related documents