STN® Patent Databases
April 2014
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STN PATENT DATABASES
The following table is a list of patent databases on STN listed by country coverage and
database, and including content highlights:
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Worldwide
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Asia
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Australia
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Canada
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Europe
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Russia
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United States
STN DATABASE –
CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS
WORLDWIDE
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Worldwide literature on all aspects of biotechnology with about 30% of the
database citing patent publications
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Patents and patent families from over 63 patent authorities, including cited
references for patent basics from USPTO, EPO, WIPO, and GPO added
from 1999 to date
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A chemical reaction database with reaction information derived from journal
and patent documents from 1840 to date
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All aspects of pesticides, including data from patents from 1996 to date
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Nucleic and peptide sequences extracted from basic patent documents of
the 41 patent-issuing authorities covered by the Derwent World Patents
Index
DPCI
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Derwent Patents Citation
Index
Examiner citations, both patent and literature, appearing in patents from 10
major patent offices
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Examiner and Author citations for 16 patent offices from mid-1994 to May
1997
ENCOMPPAT
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Citations to patents relating to the petroleum and petrochemical industries
BIOTECHABS
Derwent Biotechnology
Resource Non-Subscriber
CAPLUS
SM
Chemical Abstracts Plus
CASREACT
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Chemical Abstracts
Reaction Search Service
CROPU
Derwent Crop Protection
File
DGENE
GENESEQ
EnCompass Patent File for
Supporters
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Patent family data for commercially significant drugs
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Information collected by the IMS network of offices and published in Patents
International
INPADOCDB
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International Patent
Documentation Database
Bibliographic and family data of patent documents and utility models of 90
patent-issuing organizations
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The legal status data of 59 patent issuing organizations
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CAS Markush Search
Service
Markush structure records for patents found in CAplus with patent
publication year 1988 to the present
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English language patents from 1984-1987 (selective coverage)
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French, and German patents from 1986-1987 (selective coverage)
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Japanese patents from 1987 (selective coverage)
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Korean patents from 2008 to the present
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Russian patents published after January 10, 2000
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Markush structures derived from Institute National de la Propriete Industrielle
(INPI) data from 1961 to 1987
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Markush structures found in the claims and often the disclosure of the patent
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Full text of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) published applications issued
under the auspices of WIPO since 1978
PCTGEN
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World Patent Application
Biosequences
Nucleotide and amino acid sequence information submitted electronically to
WIPO by patent applicants
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Actual sequence and additional information on the sequence, e.g., molecule
type, organism, and patent information
PIRA
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Bibliographic database that contains information from patents and other
sources on business and technological developments in packaging, printing,
publishing, pulp, paper, imaging, and nonwovens industries
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Essential substance information, trade data, and preparation methods,
including from patents, for active pharmaceutical ingredients currently on the
market and launched from 1957 to the present
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Bibliographic and directory database covering patent documents relevant to
the rubber and plastics industries and published since 1974 by the EPO,
USPTO, and WIPO
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Bibliographic citations to literature, including information from patents, on the
oil and gas exploration industry
WPIDS
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Derwent World Patents
Index Subscribers
Information on patent publications from the 50 most important patent-issuing
authorities of the world
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Descriptions of patent families, starting with the new invention and adding
information about the same invention issued in other countries
IMSPATENTS
IMS LifeCycle, Patent
Focus
MARPAT
PCTFULL
WIPO/PCT Patents Full
Text
PIRA and PAPERBASE
PS
Pharmaceutical
Substances
RAPRA
RAPRA
TULSA/TULSA2
Petroleum Abstracts
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WPINDEX
Derwent World Patents
Index Non-Subscribers
WPIX
Derwent World Patents
Index Subscribers with
Extension Abstracts
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Information on patent publications from 50 patent-issuing authorities
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Descriptions of patent families, starting with the new invention and adding
information about the same invention issued in other countries
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Information on patent publications from 50 patent-issuing authorities
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Descriptions of patent families, starting with the new invention and adding
information about the same invention issued in other countries
STN DATABASE –
CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS
ASIA
CNFULL
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Full text of patent applications, granted patents, and utilities models
published in People’s Republic of China from 1985 to the present
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Full text of patent applications and granted patents in India from publication
year 1912 onwards
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The most comprehensive English-language access to Japanese
unexamined patent applications in all technologies
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Full text of patent applications, granted patents and utilities models
published in Japan from 1984 onwards
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Korean patent information in English language
China Patents Full Text
INFULL
Indian Patents Full Text
JAPIO
Japan Patent Information
Organization
JPFULL
Japan Patents Full Text
KOREAPAT
Korean Patent Abstracts
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AUSTRALIA
AUPATFULL
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Australia Patents Full Text
Full text of patent applications and patent specifications published in
Australia from 1964 to the present
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CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS
CANADA
CANPATFULL
Canadian Patents Full Text
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Full text of patent applications and patent specifications published in Canada
from 1906 to the present
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EUROPE
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Full text of patent applications and granted patents from application
publication year 1877 onwards
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Complete text of applications and granted patents published by EPO
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All French patent applications and granted French patents published by the
Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle (INPI) since 1966
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Special pharmaceutical patents (Brevets Speciaux Medicaments) published
between 1961 and 1978 are included
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Complimentary Protection Certificates from 1969 to the present
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Full text of all patent applications published in France
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Full text of all patent applications published in the United Kingdom
PATDD
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All patent-relevant areas of science and technology
PATDD
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Patent publications according to the patent law of the GDR from 198110/2/90 and the German Patent Office from 10/3/90-11/9/99
PATDPA
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Bibliographic data and legal status of patent documents published by GPO
German Patent Database
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Patent documents of EPO and WIPO designed for Germany
PATDPAFULL
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All areas of patentable technology
German Patents Full Text
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Full text of German published patent applications from 1997 to date
DEFULL
German Patents Full Text
EPFULL
European Patents Fulltext
FRANCEPAT
FrancePat
FRFULL
French Patents Full Text
GBFULL
United Kingdom (GB)
Patents Full Text
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CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS
RUSSIA
RUSSIAPAT
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Russian patents from 1924
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UNITED STATES
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U.S. utility patents, reissue patents, defensive publications, expired patents,
reinstated patents and patents with adverse decision in interface
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Chemical and chemically-related patents from 1950 to date
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Patent and trademark infringement lawsuits filed in the ninety-four U.S.
District Courts, and reported to the Commissioner of the United States
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
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Lawsuits filed since the early 1970s that have never been reported in the
Official Gazette
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Full text, including images, of technical disclosures
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All available peptide and nucleic acid sequences from the published
applications and issued patents of the USPTO dating back to 1982
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full text and classifications for the latest publications of U.S. patents and
applications issued by the USPTO since 2001 to date
USPATFULL
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U.S. Patents Original
Publications
Full text and current classifications for the original publication of patents
issued by the USPTO from 1975 to date
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Granted utility patents, defensive publications, design patents, reissue
patents, statutory invention registrations, and plant patents
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U.S. applications published since 2001 to date
USPATOLD
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U.S. Patents in all areas of
technology
Full text and classifications for the publication of the U.S. patents issued by
the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
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U.S. patents in all areas of technology 1790-1975
IFIALL
IFI Patent Database
LITALERT
LitAlert
RDISCLOSURE
Research Disclosure
®
USGENE
USPTO Genetic Sequence
Database
USPAT2
U.S. Patents Latest
Publications
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