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GLOBALPat is derived from the First Page Data Base (FPDB) and is now produced in cooperation with WIPO. The FPDB is an English-language collection representing nearly all of the world's patent literature. Documents are presented as bibliographic text, including title and abstract, and, where appropriate, the image of a representative drawing. The Trilateral Offices (the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the European Patent Office and the Japanese Patent Office) jointly financed the preparation of the database and the translation of all non-English abstracts.

The EP/US part of the FPDB contains a single, representative member of almost every patent family (96% coverage for the backfile) published by the United States (US), the European Patent Office (EP), France (FR), Germany (DE), United Kingdom (GB), Switzerland (CH), or the World Intellectual Property Organization (WO). Patent families occur when a patent applicant submits an application for the same invention in several countries, resulting in several patents based on the same priority application. Because the Trilateral Offices started using computer-based photo composition in the 1970s, the FPDB includes most documents from that time forward (varies with country and year).

Records in the FPDB include a bibliographic summary, abstract, and a representative drawing (where appropriate) as they appear on the first pages of the source documents. A small number of records in the FPDB may contain information from more than one family member. Drawings are combined with text into ISO-8879 Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) documents. The Document Type Definition (DTD) for GLOBALPat is based on WIPO Standard ST.32. GLOBALPat uses the MIMOSA software which was developed by the Trilateral Offices for SGML-encoded documents.

The Japanese Patent Office publish their part of the FPDB in Patent Abstracts of Japan (PAJ) on CD-ROM (available from the Japanese Patent Office), using the MIMOSA software and SGML. GLOBALPat contains data from the United States, World Intellectual Property Organization, European Patent Office, United Kingdom, German, France, and Switzerland. The GLOBALPat backfile covers 1971-2000 and is arranged in 69 technology groups based on the International Patent Classification (IPC) system. The front file is arranged by issuing country and document number on monthly issues

Recommended use

GLOBALPat is designed for conducting a quick off-line state-of-the-art search on all the first pages of patent applications belonging to the PCT minimum documentation and for finding family members for a given patent application.

Type of documents

Bibliographic records including abstract and a drawing (where available) of patent applications published by the United States (US), the European Patent Office (EP), France (FR), Germany (DE), United Kingdom (GB), Switzerland (CH), or the World Intellectual Property Organization (WO).

Languages available

Searchable data in English throughout.

Coverage of the overall series

First pages of patent applications from 1971 to December 2003 for the above-mentioned offices.

Volume 1-116: 1971 to 1996

The existing ESPACE GLOBALPAT Classified Collection is also sold as 13 individual groups of IPC clusters.

Globalpat update collection - : 1997 to 2000

The updated ESPACE GLOBALPAT Classified Collection is also sold as 13 individual groups of IPC clusters.

Update frequency

The backfile (discs 1 to 144) were produced in 1997 and updated to include data up to end of 2000. The frontfile includes data up to December 2003.

Searchable fields

The following fields are available for searching, alone or combined:
AB     Abstract
AP     Application ID (Application number)
BI      Basic index
EC      EPO classification
FA     Family data
IC      International Patent Classification
ICO    ICO classification
IDT    IDT classification
IN      Inventor
PA     Applicant
PD     Publication date
PNR   Publication ID (Publication number)
PR     Priority data
Presence    Presence of data
TI      Title

Special features

Hyperlinks are included on every document which allow access the complete document, its family members, ECLA etc..on esp@cenet and the IPC on the WIPO website.

Sample record

(51) Int. Cl.: G03B 2 1/12
(52) EPO. Cl.: G03G 1 5/22
(11) Patent Id:CH 612015 A
(43) Date: 29 . 06 . 1979
(21) Applic id:CH 127076A
(22) Filed: 02 . 02 . 1976
(30) Priority: CH 127076A 02 . 02 .1976 Family: CH 612015 A 29 . 06 .1979
(71) Applicant: COULTER SYSTEMS CORP ( US)
(72) Inventor: KUEHNLE MANFRED RUDOLF ( US )
(54) Apparatus enabling an enlarged image to be displayed on a projection screen and its use
(57) An electrophotographic film (16) is exposed to an image source such as a cathode ray tube display apparatus (12) in a first station (28). The film (16) bearing the momentarily visible image is brought step-wise to a projection station (30) where it is projected, in the form of an enlarged display, onto a suitable receptive surface (36). Next, a disc (20) bearing the film (16) is moved step-wise via gears (22, 24) by a drive motor (26). After projecting, the film is brought to an wiping-off station (38) where the toner is removed therefrom by a brush (96). During the charging (loading) and application of the toner, the film is kept in the dark by virtue of the perfectly lighttight casing (44).

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