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02 December 2013
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s searchable Patentscope database has added China’s national patent collection to its database, the organization has announced. With the addition, the service now includes 32.5 million records – including some never-before-seen international patent applications – covering 34 national and regional patent collections. WIPO says that 3 million documents were added from the Chinese collection.
“The addition of the patent collection from China is another big step forward for Patentscope, which is a unique worldwide service for players in the global race to conceive, produce and market new products,” said WIPO Director General Francis Gurry. “These documents will give users a fresh, important perspective on the workings of one of the world’s most-dynamic economies.”
Users now have access to English-language bibliographic data of Chinese patents and patent applications from 1985 through 1995. From 1996 onwards, the submissions include bibliographic data in English and Chinese, as well as descriptions and claims in Chinese.
Patentscope provides access to international Patent Cooperation Treaty applications in full text format on the publication day. Information may be searched through keywords, names, international patent classification, etc, in multiple languages. Complete documents may be printed or downloaded for free and search results can be visualized through graphical analysis tools. Technology developments in specific areas can also be tracked through RSS feeds.
In 2011, Chinese residents filed 415,829 patent applications, the most of any country in the world for the second year running.
