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Exercise 2: Answer the following questions; then click the Check Yourself icon to review the answers.

1. Write the search strategies for the following searches:
   1. A patent from Austria for patent 815 issued in 1984. (Annual Series)
   2. A U.S. patent 4645654. (Continuing Series)
   3. A Brazilian patent 2877 issued in 1981. (Annual Series)
   4. A Canadian patent 1169878. (Continuing Series)
   
   
   
2. Do the following countries use an annual or continuing series for their patent numbers?
   1. SE 199200699
   2. US 4845706
   3. GB 2255687
   4. AU 198170215
   
   
   
3. What command would you use for the following:
   1. I want to perform a search in both U.S. Patents Fulltext databases at the same time.
   2. I want to create a set of records.
   3. I want to verify a patent number to see whether it includes a year as part of the number.

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