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GLOBAL PATENT COLLECTIONS
PatentCafe’s web-accessible patent database is one of the largest and most complete online patent collections in the world. Our expanding collections are continually being processed to 6-Sigma quality targets.
ICO Global Patent Database Current Statistics
Database Last Updated:
Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Total issuing authorities:
8
Total patent collections:
12
Searchable Documents in database:
19,290,208
Viewable Documents in database:
20,087,976 N
Collections update frequency:
Weekly, or per authority frequency
Authority | Patent Doc type | Date Range – Current Back To: | Records (Approx) | Document Kind | Search Options Technology |
United States | Granted | 1972 .. (Biblio) 1976 .. (Full Text) | 2.7 million records | Bibliographies Full Text Images (PDF) | – Concept-search – Boolean search – Combined |
United States | Applications | 2001 … | 500,000 records | Bibliographies Full Text Images (PDF) | – Concept-search – Boolean search – Combined |
WIPO (PCT) N | WO-A | 1978 … | 835,000 records | Bibliographies Full Text Images (PDF) | – Concept-search – Boolean search – Combined |
Japan N | A2, B2, B4, T2 | 1973 … | 10.7 million records | Bibliographies Images (PDF) | – Concept-search (Abstract) – Boolean search |
EP-A | EP-A | 1978 .. (Biblio) 1991 .. (Full Text) | 1.3 million records | Bibliographies | – Concept-search – Boolean search – Combined |
EP-B | EP-B | 1980 .. (Biblio) 1990 .. (Full Text) | 625,000 records | Bibliographies Full Text Images (PDF) | – Concept-search – Boolean search – Combined |
Germany | DE-A, DE-C, DE-U | 1980 … | 1.7 million records | Bibliographies Full Text Images (PDF) | – Concept-search – Boolean search – Combined |
Canada N | CA-A, CA-C | 1970 … | 800,000 records | Bibliographies Images | – Concept-search – Boolean search |
France | FR-A (Applications) | 1980 … | 375,000 records | Bibliographies Full Text Images (PDF) | – Concept-search – Boolean search – Combined |
Great Britain N | GB-A | 1979 … | 385,000 records | Bibliographies Full Text Images (PDF) | – Concept-search – Boolean search – Combined |
NOTES:
Viewable Documents are earlier or later referenced versions of searchable patent documents, and where they occur, are linked from the searchable document.
WIPO: Full text for JP, KR, CN and RU are not available on the WIPO collection.
Japan: Japanese documents are available in English translated bibliographies / abstracts. Full text documents are not available. Concept-based Semetric™ search limited to documents containing English abstracts. All Japanese documents are searchable with our traditional Boolean engine.
Canada: Canadian documents are available in English translated bibliographies / abstracts. Full text documents are not available.
Great Britain: GB issued some documents with references to a priority PCT application rather than duplicating the full text contained in the PCT.
Patents / Authorities / Collections Not Listed: If you have a requirement for patent collections not listed above, please contact us. PatentCafe can provide additional patent collections on special request.
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