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Product 14.7

EPO patent information resource "DOCDB"

Description

DOCDB is the EPO master documentation database with worldwide coverage containing bibliographic data, abstracts and citations (but no full text). Bibliographic data from over 80 countries are available. Product 14.7 is a "value added" service and consists of a consolidated back-file and weekly updates in XML Standard 36. Also included as a further enhancement to this database is the complete simple patent family data using the family identifier-tag

For more details on the coverage of this world wide bibliographic database, please refer to our statistics under "Contents and coverage "

Details

Current year: Weekly updates on DVD or via download
Back-file: Bibliographic data can be retrieved from 1920 for some patent authorities
Data included is available until week 12/2008 on 6 double density DVDs

Subscribers to the CD/DVD are also entitled to download access

Format

XML format, file layout description in the manual

Price

Current year: € 2600 per year on DVD OR € 1924 download from the internet
Back-file: € 2500

Media

CD-Rom/DVD and download


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