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8 IFIPAT
8.1 Typical queries
Patent databases on STN International
Search for current US publications using text, names, international or national (US) classification, e.g.:
Have there been new publications (up to last week) by American Cyanamid Co.?
What has the US Patent & Trademark Office up to date on the subject of removing alcohol from
alcoholic beverages to produce non-alcoholic ones?
What patents have been published in the USA in the field of spectral analysis (classes within the US
classification system: 324/076.190, 324/076.210, 324/076.220)?
Searches using numbers or other formal data, e.g.:
What are the claims for patent US 5,749,087?
Display of the bibliographical details with all claims
SDI for US publications
Using the full-text to find material for an opposition
Multi-File searches with other national and regional patent databases
8.2 Brief description
Producer: IFI Patent Intelligence, a Wolters Kluwer Company, Wilmington, DE, USA
Period covered: Since 1950
Size: Approx. 8.1 million records (June 2011)
Updated: Twice per week
Language: English
8.3 Contents
Extracts from the US Patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as published in the
Official Gazette (including Utility Patents, Defensive Publications, Design Patents and Reissue Patents, Statutory
Invention registrations, Plant Patents) from 1963 onwards, and in the field of chemistry from 1950 onwards
Published applications since 15 March, 2001
Bibliographical details (title, publication number and date, number and date of application, applicant,
inventor)
Abstract (AB), Exemplary Claim, all Claims (CLM) since 1971
U.S. Classification codes (the current one in the NCL field (NCLM, NCLS), that at the time of publication in
the INCL field); made accessible through the IFIREF database
International Patent Classification, IPC1 8, online thesaurus, range searching is possible, currently no
re-classification of the backfile
CAS Registry Number (RN) and references to the CAPLUS database for chemical patents
Details of the examination: References (REN, REP) (EXNAM)
(EXF)
Further details: legal representative (Agent: AG, LREP)
Expiration Date (XPD), Disclaimer Date (DCD) for patents, Term of Patent (PTERM) for Design Patents
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