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ICO Global Patent Database Current Statistics
Database Last Updated:
7/4/2008
Total issuing authorities:
8
Total patent collections:
12
Documents in database:
22,200,000+
Collections update frequency:
Weekly, or per authority frequency

Authority
Patent
Doc type
Date Range
From - current:
Records
(Approx)
Available Data Technology
Search Options
United States
Granted
1972 .. (Biblio)
1976 .. (Full Text)
3,000,000 + records
Bibliographies
Full Text
Images (PDF)
- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined
United States
Applications
2001 ...
1,000,000 + records
Bibliographies
Full Text
Images (PDF)
- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined
United States
Design Patents
1976 ...
265,000 + records
Bibliographies
Images (PDF)
- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined
WIPO (PCT) N

WO-A

1978 ...
1,100,000 + records
Bibliographies
Full Text
Images (PDF)
- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined
Japan N

A2, B2, B4, T2

1973 ...
11,000,000 + records
Bibliographies - Concept-search
- Boolean search
EP-A

EP-A

1978 .. (Biblio)
1991 .. (Full Text)

1,600,000 + records

Bibliographies

- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined
EP-B
EP-B
1980 .. (Biblio)
1990 .. (Full Text)
750,000 + records

Bibliographies
Full Text
Images (PDF)

- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined
Germany
DE-A, DE-C, DE-U
1980 ...
1,850,000 + records
Bibliographies
Full Text
Images (PDF)
- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined
Canada N
 CA-A, CA-C
1970 ...
790,000 + records
Bibliographies
Images
- Concept-search
- Boolean search
France
FR-A (Applications)
1980 ...
435,000 + records
Bibliographies
Full Text
Images (PDF)
- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined
Great Britain N
GB-A
1979 ...
410,000 + records
Bibliographies
Full Text
Images (PDF)
- Concept-search
- Boolean search
- Combined

NOTES:
Viewable Documents are earlier or later referenced versions of searchable patent documents, and where they occur, are linked from the searchable document.
WIPO: Full text for JP, KR, CN and RU are not available on the WIPO collection.
Japan: The Japanese data collection is being reprocessed between January 1 and January 31, 2006 to include significantly expanded searchable content. During this time, access to the 11+ milion documents may be interrupted. Japanese Japanese documents are available in English translated bibliographies / abstracts. Full text documents are not available. Concept-based Semetric™ search limited to documents containing English abstracts. All Japanese documents are searchable with our traditional Boolean engine.
Canada: Canadian documents are available in English translated bibliographies / abstracts. Full text documents are not available.
Great Britain: GB issued some documents with references to a priority PCT application rather than duplicating the full text contained in the PCT.

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