PATSTAT Online

Summary
Database package

PATSTAT Online is a paid subscription product. A month free trial is possible.

Provider

European Patent Office (EPO)

Fee
Fee paying
ASPI
No
Database description

The EPO's PATSTAT database is of relevance in the field of patent intelligence and statistics. It helps you perform sophisticated statistical analyses of bibliographical and legal event patent data. PATSTAT contains bibliographical and legal event patent data from leading industrialized and developing countries. This is extracted from the EPO’s databases.

Highlights
Legal status
Cooperative Patent Classification
FI/F-Terms
Coverage
Patent Collections
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Interfaces
Language
English
French
German
General search tools
General search tools
Non-Latin character search
Search history queries

Use the full potential of SQL to query PATSTAT Online. The Beginner module helps you to write simple queries, that can be refined in the expert mode.

Classification
Classifications
FI/F-Terms
International Patent Classification
Other
US Patent Classification

CPC codes are linkable to technological fields and NACE industry classification.

Value-added data
Value added data
Standardized applicant names
Patent family data
Patent family data
Extended
Simple

The simple and Extended family are contained and pre-calculated. Any other patent family can be calculated and used based on their definition.

Index lists
Index lists
Applicant name
Field index search
Results
Results type
Sorting by relevance
Translated titles and/or abstracts

Any existing or on-the-fly computed field can be retrieved and sorted.

Analysis
Analysis data
Citation
Classification
Dates
Analysis
Graphical
Statistical

The database design and the possibility to write queries in T-SQL language allow to implement customized statistical analyses. There are almost no limits how to analyze statistically the worldwide patent data in DOCDB (which is the basis of Espacenet), INPADOC data for worldwide legal events and the European Patent Register data.

Data export
Data Export
Bibliographic data
Citations
Classification
Legal status
Title and/or abstract
Non-patent data
Non-patent content
Non-patent literature

Non patent literature references only.

Operators
General operators
Boolean (AND, OR, NOT, XOR)
Comparison (e.g. >, =<)
Proximity (within range)
Special
Wildcard operators
1 character
Unlimited characters

All T-SQL wildcard characters and operators are possible.

Truncation
Center truncation
Left truncation
Right truncation
SLART


Bibliographic data – At least one of the following is available: publication number, filing number, grant number, publication date, filing date, grant date, applicant name, assignee name, inventor name, patent classification.
Partial text – At least one of the following (but not all) are available: title, abstract, description, claims.
Full text – All of the following are available (where applicable for the given jurisdiction): description, claims