Report:QPAT/Data Coverage/Patent Coverage/Introduction
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Introduction
New QPAT users will immediately notice that the database separates its country-specific full text collections from its bibliographic family data file. The heart of the system is the unique and proprietary FamPat file, a database of international family groupings constructed using a strict algorithm. The bibliographic coverage for FamPat equals or surpasses that of the EPO’s INPADOC file.
FamPat contains certain excerpts from family documents, but it is not a full-text file. Thus, in addition to FamPat, QPAT hosts the following collection of full text patents and published applications by country (some front page images are available, but coverage is not comprehensive):
- Austria (AT) published applications
- Belgium (BE) published applications
- Germany (DE) published applications
- Germany (DE) granted patents
- Germany (DE) granted utility models
- European Patent Office (EP) published applications
- European Patent Office (EP) granted patents
- France (FR) published applications
- Japan (JP) published applications (for both patent and utility models)
- Switzerland (CH) published applications
- United Kingdom (GB) published applications
- United States (US) granted patents
- United States (US) published applications
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WO/PCT) published international applications
- Austria (AT) published applications
Ultimately, the system supports these files separately but intends them to be used in concert: users can keyword search within country-specific full text records, and then use the FamPat file to construct families around the individual search hits.
When images are unavailable, links to image mosaics hosted by the EPO’s free esp@cenet database are provided from the full text record view (these load in a separate window).
