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Many foreign patents are now available on the Web. Try out this link:

ESPACE
Full-text database of 50 million patent applications and patents granted by the European Patent Office and up to 71 other countries, including the United States. On one site, you can make a Worldwide search of the complete database (including the United States) or search separately through individual databases for European patents and Japanese patents

The Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) is a Patent Depository Library, and has a strong collection of foreign and international patent resources.

General Description of Availability
WIPO and EPO
Individual Countries

General Description of Availability

SIBL has a large collection of foreign and international patents and patent gazettes. Those in full text are available mainly on microfilm, though some of the more recent patents are available on CD ROM, and some of the older patents are available in paper. Those in gazettes (i.e., an abstract of the patent) are primarily available on paper.

Both the microfilm and CD ROM versions are located in SIBL's Microfilm Reading Room on the lower level.* Those in book form may be either in SIBL's closed stacks, retrievable with a call number, patent number and date, or in the New York Public Library's Annex. Those kept in the Annex can be requested at SIBL's Delivery Desk but take at least 24 hours to retrieve.

You may make photocopies of SIBL's foreign patents available on microfilm and CD ROM. Due to the fragile condition of some of the older paper copies, an archival photocopy may need to be made of these patents before photocopying is permitted by the public.

WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Abstracts and Illustrations

Date
Title
Location
May 1978-1994 PCT Gazette JSM 97-135

Text and Drawings (from patent first pages) [includes WIPO, EPO, US, GB, France, German and Switzerland]

Date
Title
Location
1971-1996 GlobalPat CD-ROM. Microform Center - Numbered GP-1 - GP-116
1997-May 2000 GlobalPat *WSC-882

Full Text

Date
Title
Location
1981-1994 WO [microfilm] *XFR-14 Microfilm. Microform Center

Indexes

Date
Title
Location
1981-1994 WO [microfilm] *XLR-7

See also: www.wipo.int

EPO (European Patent Office)
Applications - Full Text

Date
Title
Location
1978-1994 EP [microform] [A1, A2] *XFR-12 Microfilm. Microform Center
Jan. 4, 1995-Jan. 7, 1999 ESPACE-EPA (European Applications) *WSC-549 CD-ROM. Microform Center
1995-1999 ESPACE World
(World Patent Applications)		 *WSC-573 CD-ROM. Microform Center

Search Reports - Full Text

Date
Title
Location
1992-1994 EP [microform] [A3] *XFR-12 Microfilm. Microform Center

Granted Patents - Full Text

Date
Title
Location
1978-1994 EP [microform] [B1, B2] *XFR-12 Microfilm. Microform Center
1995-1999 ESPACE-EPB *WSC-574 CD-ROM. Microform Center

Indexes

Date
Title
Location
1978-1994 EP [microform] *XLR-6

 

See also: www.epo.org

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