EN:Data Content

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

Content

• DOCDB – bibliographic data and texts
• 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

Currently the IP7 database contains full texts for the following countries (CC):

DE (DD), EP, WO, US, FR, GB, AT, CH, CA, ES

Data content European Patent Office:
http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/helpful-resources/data/tables/weekly.html
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.

The following full texts are available additionally:

Machine translations (English)

• CN – China from 1986
• JP – Japan from 1993
• KR – Korea from 2006
• DE - Germany from 1987
• DK - Denmark from 1980
• ES - Spain from 2004
• FI - Finland from 1980
• FR - France from 1981
• MX - Mexico from ab 2014
• NO - Norway from 1969
• RU - Russia from 1994
• SE - Sweden from 1980
• WO from 1978

Original (characters)
CN, KR, JP, AU, BR, DK, FI, IE, MX, NO, RU, SE

Our database is regularly updated with new texts.

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.
  

Applications with the same technical content.

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

Applications with similar technical content.

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

PDF with additional info regarding the patent family