ABSTRACT

The INPADOC/Family and Legal Status patent database, the world’s most complete source of information about patent documents and their legal status, has been added by DIALOG. The database, available as File 345, is produced by the International Patent Documentation Center in Vienna, Austria. INPADOC/Family covers patent documents issued from 55 countries and organizations around the world. It contains over 14 million patent documents with searchable bibliographic information such as patent and application numbers, inventors, patent assignees, and titles. Legal status information provided by 10 patent issuing authorities is also included.