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Database: KOREAPAT

KOREAPAT (KORean PATent Abstracts), produced by the Korean Institute of Patent Information (KIPI) on behalf of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), provides access to Korean patent information in English.

The database covers Korean examined patents (B-documents) from 1979-2001 and Korean unexamined patents (A-documents) from 2000 to the present. KOREAPAT records contain inventor and assignee data, publication information, and International Patent Classification codes, as well as the title and abstract in English. An image of a representative drawing is also included.

File Data

• 1979 to the present, A-documents from 2000 onwards, B-documents 1979-present
• More than 1.3 million records (4/11)
• More than 1.2 million images (4/11)
• Updated monthly

Subject Coverage

• All areas of science and technology are included.

Sources

• Korean Patent abstracts (CD ROM), Examined and unexamined patents

Database Producer

Korean Institute of Patent Information (KIPI)
6-8 th Fl. KIPS 647-9 Yeoksam-dong
Gangnam-ku, Seoul 135-980
Korea
Phone: (+82) 2 3452 8144
Fax:   (+82) 2 3453 5953
Copyright Holder

FIZ Karlsruhe
P.O. Box 2465
D-76012 Karlsruhe
Germany
STNmail: HLPDESKK
Phone:  (+49) 7247/808-555
Fax:    (+49) 7247/808-259
E-mail: helpdesk@fiz-karlsruhe.de

Usage Terms

The following database producer's special conditions for use of this database apply to your use of the KOREAPAT file on STN.

I. General Part
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1. Scope
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specified under II. Special Part.

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