Find the Legal Status of Patents in a Particular Country?

TOPIC: In this example, you want to obtain the current legal status for the German equivalent of U.S. patent 4733665. INPADOC (File 345) provides legal status information for approximately 22 countries.

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 345
SELECT PN=US 4733665
TYPE S1/3,DE/1

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN in File 345 to see legal status in specific countries.               2. SELECT the U.S. patent number using PN=. 3. TYPE the record using the two-letter code(s) for the countries you want (DE for Germany).
Note that patent information including patent and application numbers display first, followed by the legal status information Germany.
Types of legal status changes are listed for the German family member in English and German.

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Stock #: 53118; Last modified: 14 Sep 2011

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