INPADOC

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INPADOC, which stands for International Patent Documentation Center, is an international patent collection. The database is produced and maintained by the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains patent families and legal status information, and is updated weekly.

INPADOC was founded by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the government of Austria under an agreement on May 2, 1972. A little less than twenty years later, on January 1, 1990, it was integrated into the European Patent Office. An EPO sub-office was then created in Vienna, Austria.

[edit] See also

• esp@cenet
• International Patent Classification
• Patent classification

[edit] External links

• INPADOC page on the EPO web site