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[April 2004]
FIZ Makes Over 1 Million French Patent Documents Available
FIZ Karlsruhe (Germany), 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 Propriete Industrielle (INPI) in Paris, 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, according to FIZ.
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 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 available from 1987 onwards for customers who prefer English terminology and IPC codes for subject searching.
http://stnweb.fiz-karlsruhe.de
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