EN:Data Content

The IP7 patent database is one of the world’s largest patent databases.

Content

• DOCDB – bibliographic data and texts for more than 100 offices
• INPADOC – Legal status data and patent family information
• OPS und DepatisNet-Interface – Original documents (PDF and figures)
• Full texts are completed by third-party providers

Data content European Patent Office:
https://www.epo.org/en/searching-for-patents/data/coverage/weekly
https://www.epo.org/en/searching-for-patents/technical/full-text-additions
http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/technical/patent-additions.html
These websites are regularly updated by the European Patent Office.

Full text extension

This additional data content can be optionally booked to your current service plan.
This extension enables the user to access additional original texts and machine translations in English.
It is possible to search these texts.

Fulltext coverage (claims and description)

CC	country	original language(s)	default database - original language(s)		extension - original language(s)			extension - english machine translations
AR	Argentine Republic	ES			1974-1984	2000 -2009	2012 - now	1974-1984	2000 -2009	2012 - now
AT	Austria	DE	1899 - now					1899 - now
AU	Australia	EN			1966 - now
BE	Belgium	DE FR NL	1926 - now					1980 - now
BG	Bulgaria	BG			1994 - now			1994 - now
BR	Brazil	EN PT			1982 - now			1982 - now
CA	Canada	EN FR			1920 - now			1920 - now
CH	Switzerland	DE FR IT	1888 - now					1888 - now
CN	China	ZH			1985 - now			1985 - now
CR	Costa Rica	ES			2000 - now			2000 - now
CS	Czechoslovakia	CS SK			in progress
CU	Cuba	ES			2009 - 2012			2009 - 2012
CY	Cyprus	EN			1983 - 1998
CZ	Czech Republic	CS			1993 - now			1993 - now
DD	former East Germany - German Democratic Republic	DE			1956 - 2003			1956 - 2003
DE	Germany	DE	1879 - now					1879 - now
DK	Denmark	EN DA			1895 - now			1895 - now
DZ	Algeria	FR			2001 - 2005			2001 - 2005
EA	EAPO (Eurasian Patent Office)	RU			2000 - 2022			2000 - 2022
EE	Estonian	ET			1995 - now			1995 - now
EP	EPO (European Patent Office)	EN DE FR	1978 - now					1978 - now
ES	Spain	ES	1941 - now		1941 - now			1941 - now
FI	Finnland	EN FI SV			1881 - now			1881 - now
FR	France	FR	1902 - now		1902 - now			1902 - now
GB	United Kingdom	EN	1893 - now		1893 - now
GC	Patent office of the cooperation council for the arab states of the Gulf (GCC)	AR			2002 - 2007			2002 - 2007
GE	Georgia	KA			2017 - now			2017 - now
GR	Greece (Hellenic Republic)	EL			2000 - now			2000 - now
HK	Hong Kong	EN ZH			in progress
HR	Croatia	HR	1994 - now					1994 - now
HU	Hungary	EN DE FR HU			2000 - now			2000 - now
ID	Indonesia	EN			in progress
IE	Ireland	EN	1991 - now		1991 - now
IL	Israel	EN HE			1970 - now
IN	India	EN			1912 - now
IS	Iceland	EN NO IS			1964 - now			1964 - now
IT	Italy	IT			1979 - jetzt			1979 - jetzt
JP	Japan	JA			1983 - now			1983 - now
KR	Korea	KO			1983 - now			1983 - now
LT	Lithuania	LT			2014 - now			2014 - now
LU	Luxembourg	EN DE FR	1945 - now		1945 - now			1945 - now
LV	Latvia	LV			2019 - 2020			2019 - 2020
MA	Morocco	FR AR			2005 - jetzt			2005 - jetzt
MC	Monaco	FR	1961 - 2012					1961 - 2012
MD	The Republic of Moldova	RO			1998 - now			1998 - now
MX	Mexico	ES			1982 | 1997-1998 | 2002 - now			1982 | 1997-1998 | 2002 - now
MY	Malaysia	EN			2005 - 2010
NL	The Netherlands	EN NL			1913 - now			1913 - now
NO	Norway	EN NO			1968 - now			1968 - now
NZ	New Zealand	EN			1984 - now
OA	African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI)	EN FR			1966 - 2007			1966 - 2007
PL	Poland	PL	1973 - 1975 | 2006 - now		1973 - 1975 | 2006 - now			1973 - 1975 | 2006 - now
PT	Portugal	PT	2007 - now		2011 - now			2011 - now
RO	Romania	RO			1996 - now			1996 - now
RS	Serbia	EN SR			2006 - 2018			2006 - 2018
RU	Russia	RU			1994 - 2022			1994 - 2022
SE	Schweden	EN SV			1886 - now			1886 - now
SG	Singapore	EN			2012 - 2013
SI	Slovenia	SL			2014 - now
SK	Slovakia	SK			2013 - now			2013 - now
SU	Soviet Union (USSR)	RU			1924 - 2021			1924 - 2021
TH	Thailand	EN			in progress
TN	Tunisia	EN FR AR			1990 - 2018			1990 - 2018
TR	Turkey	EN TR			1998 - 2022			1998 - 2022
TW	Taiwan	ZH			1993 - now			1993 - now
UA	Ukraine	UA			2000 - now			2000 - now
US	United States of America	EN	1976 - now		1836 - now
UY	Uruguay	ES			2011 - 2023			2011 - 2023
WO	WIPO	EN DE FR ES JA RU KO PT ZH AR	1978 - now					1978 - now
VN	Vietnam	EEN			in progress
ZA	South Africa	EN			in progress

Update

Our data content is updated on a weekly basis.
We receive the data on a Thursday and the data is available in our database the following Monday.

Units/Grouping

• The document (D) is equivalent to a published text.
  

• The application (A) contains all documents of an application.
  

Example

A and B document:
DE 10248531 A1
DE 10248531 B4

Constitutes one application:
DE 10248531

In this case the document number does not necessarily have to be the same, e.g. US applications have a different number.
By using the application number, the documents of an application can be detected.

• The strict patent family (S) corresponds to DOCDB simple patent family.
  

Patent applications with the same technical content.
A simple patent family is a collection of patent documents that are considered to be covering one single invention.
Patent applications that are members of one simple patent family will have all priorities in common with all of the other members.

• The extended patent family (E) corresponds to INPADOC extended patent family.
  

Patent applications with similar technical content.
Patent applications that are members of an extended patent family will have at least one priority in common with at least one of the other members – either directly or indirectly.

Separating the extended patent families into strict patent families significantly simplifies patent work.
Once a document from a strict patent family was read, the strict patent family can be considered as read. This however, does not apply to the extended patent family.

Example

Extended patent family of: WO 2010036678 A1
Contains strict patent families with similar technical content:

• fluid turbine
• wind turbine

Presentation with further information about the patent families (from minute 4:43)

PDF with additional information regarding the patent family