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PatSearch FullText - the world's largest, commercial collection of searchable full-text data, featuring granted patents and published applications from all the major world authorities, plus several national collections.
MPI-INPADOC Plus - the most timely, most complete front-page bibliographic database available, comprising INPADOC, DOC.db (the EPO examiner's database), and front-page data from MicroPatent's other collections.
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PatentWeb provides easy-to-use, first-level analysis tools to help you better decipher the mountain of information contained in even a small set of patent documents. These enable you to quickly assess large sets of IP data. A seemingly complex group of patent documents can be transformed into a telling chart or exported for more in-depth review - helping you towards a better understanding of your research results. The tools include:
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Nearly 50 million patent documents are just a click away with the MicroPatent online document delivery service. Within seconds, you can order patent copies, file histories, text-only records, legal status information, and patent family data - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And, you will just as quickly receive the electronic documents you need if they're in our enormous online repository.
This service gives you electronic access to tens of millions of global patent documents, available in .pdf, .tif, .html, .xml, .nsf, and other formats. File histories are available in .pdf and .tif format and may be searchable text and images, or just the image. If you'd like your documents delivered offline, that's easily done as well. We are happy to fax them to you, save them on CD-ROM, or send you hard copies in the mail.
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Thomson Scientific is the world’s largest — and fastest — file history provider, now offering immediate download of over 130,000 file histories. Time-saving enhancements have been added including:
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