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Country codes
Coverage of the espacenet EP database
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Coverage of the worldwide database
Default operators
Description
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FAQ database
FAQ searching
INPADOC kind codes
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Inventor
International Patent Classification (IPC)
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Legal status data correctness
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Mosaics
Nested queries
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PATLIB
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Updates
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