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Country and Kind Codes

• View a List of Patent Kind Codes for Derwent World Patents Index?
• View a List of Patent Kind Codes for EPO and WIPO/PCT Patents?
• Use Dialog Online Help Tools to Find Country and Kind Codes in Files 345 and 351?

Number

• Search Using a Patent or Publication Number?
• Find a U.S. Patent Using an Application Number?
• Find a Japanese Patent?
• Locate a Complete Patent Family in INPADOC/Patent Families & Legal Status?
• Find a Complete Patent Family Using Derwent World Patents Index®?
• Order a Patent from the Thomson Patent Store?
• Search by U.S. Provisional Application Number?
• Search By U.S. Patent or Published Application Number?
• Find a Design Patent?
• Search for Atypical Patent Documents?
• Locate Plant Patents?
• Locate Statutory Invention Registration Patents (SIRS)?
• Locate Patents that have been Reissued?
• Locate Defensive Publications?
• Locate U.S. Government Published Patent Applications?
• Locate PCT Applications?
• Sort Out Patent Number, Application Number and Publication Number Confusion?
• Use the MAP Command to Eliminate Duplicate Patent Records?

Assignee/Company Name

• Locate All Patents for a Specific Company?
• Find All Owners for a Particular U.S. Patent?
• Find Pending Patents That May Be Issued to a Company?
• Find Top Companies and Their Products Using Business Databases?
• Find Patent Assignees Worldwide for Patents from a Specific Company?

Technology

• Find Companies That Are Working Most in a Specific Area of Technology?
• Find Companies Active in Your Field of Technology?
• Find Technology a Company Has Recently Licensed?
• Find Information on New Technologies and Pending Patents?

Legal Status/Litigation

• Find International Legal Status for a Specific Patent?
• Find Results of Reexamination of a Specific Patent
• Find the Extension Period for a Specific U.S. Patent?
• Find the Legal Status of Patents in a Particular Country?
• Find the Status of Legal Action Taken on a Company?
• Find Drug Brands Coming Off Patent?
• Find Information on Patent Litigation in the Business Files?
• Find Patent Licensing Information in Dialog's Business Files?

Citations & Prior Art

• Find Cited Patents in Derwent Patents Citation Index?
• Find Competitors Who are Working in the Same Area of Technology by Searching Patent Citations?
• Find Patents and Technical Articles Cited as Prior Art by a Specific Patent and Its Equivalents?
• Find Out Who the Competition Is for a Specific Company by Identifying Who Is Citing Their Patents?
• Find Prior Art for a Specific Technology?
• Find Prior Art Using International Classification Codes?

Setting Up an Automatic Patent Watch

• Set Up a Dialog Alert to Track All New Patents for a Specific Company?

Additional Resources

• Find Statistical Information on Patents?

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