Database |
Description |
Operational Date |
AIDS |
AIDS-related patent full-text and images |
December 1, 1994 |
PatBib |
Patent Bibliographic Data, 1986-1995 |
November 9, 1995 |
PatBib |
Patent Bibliographic Data, 1976-present |
February 1, 1996 |
TM |
Trademark Text, registered and pending |
August 29, 1998 |
TM |
Trademark Cropped Images added |
September 15, 1998 |
PatFT |
Patent Full-Text, 1976-present |
November 19, 1998 |
PatImg |
Patent Full-Page Images, 1976-present |
March 26, 1999 |
AIDS |
AIDS-related db discontinued |
April 1, 1999 |
PatFT / PatImg |
Expanded to include 1790-present |
October 1, 2000 |
TM |
Trademark Text and Images discontinued |
October 1, 2000 |
PatBib |
Patent Bibliographic Data discontinued |
January 1, 2001 |
PatFT |
Added issue dates back to 1790 |
April 7, 2006 |
PatFT |
Direct access provided to full-page images |
April 7, 2006 |
PatFT |
Database implemented in-house |
April 7, 2006 |
The Web Patent Full-Text Database (PatFT) contains the full-text of over 3,000,000 patents from 1976 to the present, plus limited bibliographic data for over 4,000,000 patents from 1790 to 1975. It provides links to the Web Patent Full-Page Images Database (PatImg), which contains over 70,000,000 images, including every page of over 7,000,000 patents from 1790 to the most recent issue week.
The Web Patent Databases now serve over 25,000,000 pages of text (over 150,000,000 hits) per month to over 350,000 customers (distinct IP addresses, each of which might represent many individual users) each month.
The Web Patent Databases serve over 36,000,000 full-page images each month.
Information current as of 7 April 2006.