The STN AnaVist Database Summary Sheet for USPAT2 includes the following:
Description
USPAT2 is a companion file to the USPATFULL file. The USPAT2 file contains full text and classifications for the latest publications of U.S. patents and applications issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 2001. The original (first published) U.S. patent and application documents from 1971 to the present are available in the USPATFULL file.
Complete Chemical Abstracts indexing for one equivalent U.S. chemical patent may also be included in a record. The file also includes a thesaurus for the USPTO Manual of Classifications and for the current edition (8th) as well as the other editions (1-7) of the WIPO manual of the International Patent Classification (IPC) codes. The complete document, including graphics such as tables, diagrams, structures, and graphics, can be displayed and captured online in page image format. These images are TIFF images. Any program that handles TIFF images compressed in Group 4 fax format, e.g., STN Express, may be used to capture images from DISPLAY. Images can be displayed directly on the screen when accessing the file via STN on the Web.
A thesaurus is present for the /IC, /ICM, /ICS, IPCI, IPCR (and /IPC1 - /IPC8), /NCLS, and /RPCL search fields in the USPAT2 File.
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File Data
- 2001 to the present
- More than 546,719 records (4/07)
- Page images
- Updated twice a week
- U.S. Patent Classifications are updated bimonthly
- Automatic current-awareness searches (SDIs) may be run every update (twice a week), weekly, or monthly. Weekly is the default.
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Subject Coverage
U.S. patent and application publications in all areas of technology
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Sources
U.S. patents and applications published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 2001
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Database Producer
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Office of Data Base Administration
Data Maintenance Division
2011 Jefferson-Davis Highway, CP2-9C18
Arlington, VA 22202
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Usage Terms
The following special conditions provided by the database producer are for use of the USPAT2 database on STN.
The following use and distribution restrictions apply to your use of
the USPAT2 File on STN.
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Updated: 9/6/2007 5:00:02 PM
