Inpadoc

INPADOC international patent database covering more than 60 countries... 

INPADOC (International Patent Documentation Center) is the most comprehensive tttbliographic database of scientific and technological patent documents in the world. The stock encompasses more than 26 miUion patent documents, more than 59 miUion legal status data, and about 10 million patent famihes (January, 2003). The database contains more than 35 milhon patent citations from 71 patent-issuing organizations (European Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization (WlPO)) and is updated weekly with about 40 000 new citations. 

INPADOC European Patent Office, Vienna Branch Office, Austria international patents biblio. 26mio records, 35 mio citations, 59mio legal status patent offices STN commercial online weekly mvw.european- patent-offi- ce.org/inpadoc/... 

INPADOC is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technological patent documents. 

INPADOC European Patent Office Dialog, Orbit, STN patent family and legal status... 

INPADOC INPADOC, PATOLIS, DIALOG, ORBIT, STN International Patent Documentation Center international bibliographic data patent families legal status data for 16 countries... 

The ChemicalF hstracts database does not have an on-line family capabUity, but does pubHsh a patent index, with family data obtained from INPADOC. Printed patent indexes have been including family information since the 1960s, but the number of countries covered before 1970 was limited. 

EDOG. EDOC, available on just the Questel system, provides in most instances less complete patent family information than either WPI or INPADOC, but it is unique in including Japanese C-level documents and also some AustraUan data not available in the other two databases. It is possible on occasion to find family information from before 1970 in this database, though such data are not provided systematically. The abiUty to search by the EPO-modified version of IPC is unique. Its value is tempered by the fact that output does not even include tides, much less abstracts of patents. That output can, however, be transferred by cross-file search protocols to more detailed files, such as WPI. 

Science. Technology. EPAT. European Directory of Agrochemical Products. GenBand. INPADOC. INSPECT JAPIO. Rapra Abstracts. Scl.Search. TTiomas Register Online. LTS. Patents Fulllcxi. World Patent Index (WPI), World Surface Coalings, and World Textiles. 

Derwent Guide to Patent Expiries. 9th ed. London Thomson Derwent, 2004. A collection of short siunmaries of the patent terms and legislation of coimtries covered by the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and INPADOC, republished frequently as a bound volume and updated on the Derwent Web site (http //www.derwent.com). 

EPO—Patent Information on the Internet. URL http //www. european-patent-office.org/onhne/index.htm. An extensive collection of links to patent offices aroimd the world, patent databases, patent information providers, patent laws and regulations, patent information organizations, and lists of lists. Information about the content of Internet databases and the commerciaUy available INPADOC database. Includes the EPO s gateway to the esp cenet database. 

INPADOC. EPO, Vienna. A patent family and status database produced by the EPO from data provided by about 70 patenting authorities. Bibliographic information is available from many countries, with legal status information provided... 

PLUSPAT and FAMP AT. Questel-Orbit, Paris. Created by merging INPADOC, several national patent databases, and the EPO s DOCDB database, this version of INPADOC additionally has all of the text and status information abstracts from Questel-Orbit s U.S., French, European, and PCT patent databases. In addition to access through the Questel-Orbit search service, PLUSPAT is the basis of the end-user subscription QPAT service. Available onhne. 

MicroPatent Patent Web. Micropatent, East Haven, CT. URL http //www.micropat.com/. Web-based subscription search and document delivery service. Has full text searchable U.S., EP, and WO patent documents and Patent Abstracts of Japan and INPADOC patent family information. Patent images of the searchable patents and a large collection of patents from other countries are available as PDF files without subscription payments. 

Scientific Technical Network (STN) (http //stnweb.cas.org/) is probably the most useful and extensive structure-searchable resource for chemistry worldwide. More than 200 scientific databases are available via STN (this service is not free). Several related databases can be searched simultaneously ( cluster search ). Cluster presearch is free and very useful, as the number of relevant hits per database can be visualized in this way. The most important files on STN are the CA Registry, CA Plus, Beilstein and the INPADOC (patent data) file. 

Patents CAplus, Denwent Patents Citation Index (DPCI), INPADOC, PATDPA, USPATFULL, Denwent World Patents Index (WPINDEX). 

Derwent not only contains the basic patent, like Chemical Abstracts do, but in addition patent families from the countries covered by Derwent (Fig. 131). Chemical Abstracts Service also contains patent families with the limitation that they are only accessable in the printed version (Sect. 2.1.3.6) but not in the database. Other databases offering information concerning patent families are INPADOC and EDOC (Questel). 

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