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News Release from: FIZ Karlsruhe, STN Europe | Subject: Koreapat
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 December 2004
Patent database puts Korean innovations
in English
FIZ Karlsruhe has added Koreapat, a new bibliographic file covering Korean patents, to its comprehensive product portfolio.
FIZ Karlsruhe has added Koreapat, a new bibliographic file covering Korean patents, to its comprehensive product portfolio Together with the Japanese patent database Japio, STN now offers two valuable sources of patent information from Asia
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 31 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Korean patents reflect a flourishing economy.
After 40 years of rapid economic development, the Republic of Korea is now one of the important industrialised countries (member of the OECD since 1996).
Ranked by gross national product, the Korean economy is the world's number 12.
Koreapat (Korean Patent Abstracts), produced by the Korean Institute of Patent Information (KIPI) on behalf of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), is a patent database which provides access to Korean patent information from all areas of science and technology in the English language.
The database covers Korean examined patents (B-documents) from 1979 to 2001 and Korean unexamined patents (A-documents) from 2000 onwards.
Koreapat records contain inventor and assignee data, publication information, and International Patent Classification codes.
Titles and abstracts in the English language, newly phrased by the KIPO, add to the informative value.
More than 440,000 images of representative drawings are also included.
The database currently contains more than 485,000 records and is updated four to five times per year (approximately 80,000 new records per year).
Records appear about 4 months after publication in Korea.
All information in Koreapat can be accessed through STN's powerful search functions.
Search terms may be entered individually, or logically concatenated in a combined search.
Only results matching all predefined criteria are retrieved.
Simultaneous left and right truncation (searches using the root of a word, with prefixes and/or suffixes substituted by question marks) is also possible. Request a free brochure from FIZ Karlsruhe, STN Europe ...
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