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News Release from: FIZ Karlsruhe, STN Europe | Subject: French patent documents
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 March 2004
Over million French patent documents to
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FIZ Karlsruhe makes more than one million French patent documents available on STN International. Patent database FRANCEPAT has more than 400,000 technical drawings on site.
FIZ Karlsruhe makes more than one million French patent documents available on STN International New patent database FRANCEPAT with comprehensive legal status data and more than 400,000 technical drawings/special pharmaceutical patents
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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FIZ Karlsruhe, one of Europe's leading providers of information services, and European partner of premier science and technology online service STN International, has added the new bibliographic patent database FRANCEPAT to its comprehensive product portfolio.
FRANCEPAT, a private service under distribution agreement with Institut National de la Propri?t? Industrielle (INPI), Paris, France, contains more than one million records of French patents and patent applications with more than 400,700 images of patent drawings.
It thus complements the coverage of French patents on STN and provides the most complete picture of patent publications from France.
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FRANCEPAT covers all French patent applications and granted French patents published by the INPI.
All patents published in France since 1966 as well as special pharmaceutical patents (Brevets Speciaux Medicaments) published between 1961 and 1978 are included as well as Complementary Protection Certificates from 1969 onwards.
Records include bibliographic, administrative and legal status data for each patent.
Abstracts and descriptors are also available since 1978.
All records are in French, but English descriptors are available from 1987 onwards for customers who prefer English terminology and IPC codes for subject searching.
The database is updated weekly.
Simultaneous left and right truncation (searches using the root of a word, with prefixes and/or suffixes substituted by question marks) is possible, as well as multifile searching in several databases at the same time (e.g using the IPC code).
Weekly or monthly automatic current awareness-searches (SDIs) allow for an automatic monitoring of patenting activities (by patent number, IPC code or controlled terms).
FIZ Karlsruhe plans to add a French Patent full-text file based on OCR data later this year.
The more than 220 databases on STN can be accessed by dialling into STN's online service using its powerful proprietary client software, STN Express with Discover! Alternatively, it can be accessed directly over the Internet using a standard web browser (http://stnweb.fiz-karlsruhe.de).
At a later time, FRANCEPAT may also be available in STN Easy, the point-and-click interface for occasional searchers unfamiliar with the STN command language. Request a free brochure from FIZ Karlsruhe, STN Europe ...
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