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French Patents covers all French patent applications and granted French patents published by the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI). All patents published in France since 1966 as well as all special pharmaceutical patents (Brevets Spéciaux Médicaments) published between 1961 and 1978 are included.
Records include bibliographic, administrative and legal status data for each patent. Abstracts and descriptors are also available since 1978. All records are in French, but English descriptors are available from 1987 forward. Several display formats provide field labels in English to make the records easier to read.
INPI provides a substantial amount of information about the legal status of a patent. This includes announcements in the Bulletin Officiel de La Propriété Industrielle (BOPI) as well as unpublished inscriptions in the official register. Since some of the legal status information is unique to the French Patents database, it is collected in a table containing the date of the action, BOPI issue number and a description of the status. The table can be displayed in French or in English translation.
Images of patent drawings are included in records published from 1978 forward.
All areas of patentable technology are included.
| Dates Covered: |
All patents - 1966-2001
Medicaments - 1961-1978 |
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| File Size: | 1,000,000 records as of October 2004 |
| Update Frequency: | Closed |
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The FRENCH PATENTS database is produced by the Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle. Questions about file content should be directed to: 26 bis rue Saint Petersbourg 75800 Paris, Cedex 08 France
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