International Patent Collections

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.
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