Data Sources and Patent Family Overview Patent family Data Sources | Page 6

Patent family & Data Sources ➢ In 1990 EPODOC was merged to INPADOC to serve internal database. Questel re- launched the commercial version of EDOC as PlusPat ➢ It uses INPADOC as the source. FamPat: ➢ It is a simple patent family database ➢ It is enhanced with key contents like: ➢ Object of invention ➢ Advantages of the invention and drawbacks of the previous one ➢ Independent claims ➢ It includes EPO’s family rules along with the enhanced contents ➢ It also includes: First page information, Classification nodes, Patent and non- patent literature citations, Full specifications, claims and detailed legal status information PlusPat: ➢ It is precursor to FamPat database ➢ It grouped all the publication stages of a patent at one place. It therefore prevents duplication ➢ It is also known as the domestic patent family PatBase: ➢ It takes aggregated family data as the meta-record ➢ Instead of indexing it focuses on loading full text data of an individual publication record to increase the chances of being found on search ➢ It uses extended INPADOC patent family Esp@cenet: ➢ Used to provide representative family members that constitute entire family record in English wherever possible ➢ To search for equivalent records from other countries to match the technical content of the record undertaken 5 | © Ingenious e-Brain Solution 2019. All rights reserved. | [email protected] | www.iebrain.com