(b) providing 3 database platforms including EP, Worldwide and WIPO;
(c) supporting multi-lingual files and machine translation of French, German, Italian and Spanish in addition to English;
(d) available to check and download relevant patent files published in other countries in terms of patent which has been made a international application;
(e) providing patent family and relevant citation analysis of the target patent.
"IPDL (Industrial Property Digital Library)" is the online patent database of Japan Patent Office. Its features are as follows:
(a) providing several search methods including Kind Code Search, Term Search, Text Search, etc.;
(b) the limitation of 1000 pieces of search results when searching with key words, otherwise, it is unable to show all the results separately;
(c) providing machine translation in English.
Ⅱ Commercial Patent Database
"Delphion" is the patent information service system supplied by Thomson Scientific based on Internet, which is the predecessor of the IBM Intellectual Property Network. Its features are as follows:
(a) a large size of patent data including 40,000,000 pieces patent files covering patent information of countries, international organizations and regions like the United States, Europe, Germany, Japan, WIPO and etc.; providing the most comprehensive patent database DWPI (Derwent World Patents Index) services all over the world;
(b) providing several search methods including key word search, number search, Boolean search, advanced search, etc., providing search function of Citing and Cited and providing services of keeping history search records which may effectively reduce the repeated working time;
