I.P. Guide: International Patent Information at NYPL
SIBL has a large collection of foreign and international patents and patent gazettes. Those in full text are available mainly on microfilm, with more recent patents available on CD ROM, and many older patents available in paper. Those in gazettes (i.e., an abstract of the patent) are primarily on paper. These materials (in particular, materials stored offsite) can be requested through our catalog or from our Access Services using appropriate call number and volume information. For making or obtaining copies of these materials, please speak to a librarian or contact AskNYPL.
ESPACENET
Espacenet is the patent search database of the European Patent Office. It contains patents from almost every country in the world, including the United States. On one site, you can make a Worldwide search of the complete database or search separately through individual national databases.
PATENTSCOPE
PATENTSCOPE is the patent search database of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Using PATENTSCOPE, as of June 2014 you can search 36 million patent documents including 2.2 million published international patent applications (PCT). Detailed coverage information can be found here.
Skip to List of Patents for Individual Countries
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
WIPO is the United Nations agency dedicated to the use of intellectual property (patents, copyright trademarks,designs, etc.) as a means of stimulating innovation and creativity. WIPO provides the patent search database PATENTSCOPE.
Abstracts and Illustrations
Date
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Title
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Location
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May 1978-1994 | PCT Gazette | JSM 97-135 |
Text and Drawings (from patent first pages) [includes WIPO, EPO, US, GB, France, German and Switzerland]
Date
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Title
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Location
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1971-1996 | GlobalPat | CD-ROM. Numbered GP-1 - GP-116 |
1997-May 2000 | GlobalPat | *WSC-882 |
Full Text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1981-1994 | WO [microfilm] | *XFR-14 Microfilm |
Indexes
Date
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Title
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Location
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1981-1994 | WO [microfilm] | *XLR-7 |
EPO (European Patent Organization)
The EPO is an intergovernmental organisation that was set up in 1977 on the basis of the European Patent Convention of 1973. It has two bodies, the European Patent Office and the Administrative Council, which supervises the Office's activities.
The EPO provides the patent search database ESPACENET.
Applications - Full Text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1978-1994 | EP [microform] [A1, A2] | *XFR-12 Microfilm |
Jan. 4, 1995-Jan. 7, 1999 | ESPACE-EPA (European Applications) | *WSC-549 CD-ROM |
1995-1999 | ESPACE World (World Patent Applications) |
*WSC-573 CD-ROM |
Search Reports - Full Text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1992-1994 | EP [microform] [A3] | *XFR-12 Microfilm. |
Granted Patents - Full Text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1978-1994 | EP [microform] [B1, B2] | *XFR-12 Microfilm. |
1995-1999 | ESPACE-EPB | *WSC-574 CD-ROM. |
Indexes
Date
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Title
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Location
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1978-1994 | EP [microform] | *XLR-6 |
Click on a country name to see a list of select patent information for that country available at the New York Public Library.
Australia (including South Australia |
Go to WIPO and EPO Patent Resources
Australia
Abstracts and Illustrations
Date
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Title
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Location
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1904-June 1986 | The Australian official journal of patents, trade marks, and designs | *VAB+ (Australia. Patents, Trade Marks and Designs Office. Australian official journal of patents, trade marks and designs) |
July 1986-Jan. 1987 | The Australian official journal of patents, trade marks, and designs | *VAB (Australia. Patents, trademarks and design office. Australian official journal) |
Jan. 22, 1987-Feb. 1994 | Australian official journal of patents | *VAB (Australia) 88-1937 |
Mar.1994-Feb 2001, May 2001-Dec 2003 | Australian official journal of patents | JSM 96-27 |
Specifications
Date
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Title
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Location
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1936-1945 | Patent specification | *VAZ (Australia) (Australia. Patent Office. Patent specification) |
Website:
IP Australia - www.ipaustralia.gov.au
Australia - South Australia
Specifications
Date
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Title
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Location
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1877-1886 | Specs. of patents granted in South Australia | *VAZ (Specs. of patents granted in South Australia) |
Australia - Victoria Province
Patents / Abstracts
Date
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Title
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Location
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1854-1892 | Patents and patentees. | *VAB (Victoria, Australia. Patent office. Patents and patentees) |
1854-1866 (Library has 1870) | Victoria. Abstracts of specifications of patents applied for from 1854 to 1866. | *VAB (Victoria (Australia). Patent Office. Abstracts of specifications) |
Austria
Patent Bulletin
Date
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Title
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Location
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July 1881-December 1895 | Illustriertes Österreichisch-Ungarisches patent-blatt [microform]. | *ZAN-U4 Microfilm. |
1899-1940, 1951-1961 | Oesterreichisches Patentblatt. | *VAB (Austria. Patentamt. Österreichisches Patentblatt) |
Website:
Austrian Patent Office - www.patent.bmvit.gv.at/Home/index.html
Belgium
Abstracts
Date
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Title
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Location
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1854-1985 | Recueil des brevets d'invention. Verzameling der uitvindingsoctrooien. | *VAB (Belgium. Propriete industrielle, Office de la. Recueil des brevets d'invention) |
1854-1855, Abstracts only;
1855-1858, Abstracts & illustrations
1858-1896, Abstracts & relevant patent nos.
1897-1954, Abstracts by subject groups
1955-1985, Abstracts by IPC
Full text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1950-1966 | Brevet d'invention [Record 1: no. 493079 - no.692350] | *VAB (Belgium. Propriete industrielle, office de la. Brevet d'invention) |
1967-1973 | Brevet d'invention [Record 2: no. 692351 - no. 796000] | *VAB (Belgium. Propriete industrielle, office de la. Brevet d'invention) |
Website:
Research.be - www.research.be
Canada
Claims and Drawings
Date
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Title
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Location
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1824-1855 | Patents of Canada | *VAB (Canada. Patent and Copyright Office. Patents of Canada) |
Abstracts only
Date
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Title
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Location
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1873-1992 | The Patent Office record. La Gazette du Bureau des brevets. | *VAB (Canada. Patent and Copyright Office, Canadian Patent Office record) |
Specifications and Drawings
Date
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Title
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Location
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1948-1951 | Patents. Brevets | *VAZ (Canada) (Canada. Patent Office. Specification and drawings) |
Library has (Print): no. 450,080 (July 27, 1948)-no. 479,997 (Jan. 1, 1952) (incomplete).
Full text (microforms)
Date
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Title
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Location
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1976-1981 | Patents. Brevets | *XLR-3 Microfiche. |
Library has: (Microfiche) no. 986,651-1106550; 1976-1981.
Date
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Title
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Location
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1986 | Patents. Brevets | *XFR-22 Microfilm. |
Library has: (Microfilm cartridges) Library has: 1,198,983-1,216,100;Jan. 7- Dec. 30, 1986.
Website:
Canadian Patent Database: http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html
Cuba
Patent Bulletin
Date
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Title
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Location
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1906-1908 | Boletín oficial de la Secretaría de Agricultura, Industria y Comercio | *VAB+ (Cuba. Comercio, Secretaria de. Boletín oficial de la propriedad industrial) |
1909-1918 | Boletín oficial de la Secretaría de Agricultura, Comercio y Trabajo | *VAB+ (Cuba. Comercio, Secretaria de. |
1918-1936 | Boletín oficial de marcas y patentes / Secretaría de Agricultura, Comercio y Trabajo | *VAB+ (Cuba. Comercio, Secretaria de. Boletín oficial de la propriedad industrial) |
1937-1965 | Boletín oficial de la propiedad industrial / Secretaría de Comercio | *VAB+ (Cuba. Comercio, Secretaria de. Boletín oficial de la propriedad industrial) |
Denmark
Full text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1895-1988 | Danske patenter | *VAB (Denmark. Patent- og varemaerkevaesenet, Direktoratet for. Dansk patenter) |
1974-1988 | Fremlæggelsesskrifter | *VAB 80-435 |
1989-1992 | Fremlæggelsesskrifter | *XLR-10 Microfiche. |
Indexes
Date
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Title
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Location
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1974-1978 | Register over danske patenter | *VAB 80-437 |
Website:
Danish Patent Office - www.dkpto.dk
France
Abstracts
Date
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Title
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Location
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1791-1900 | Description des machines et procédés pour lesquels des brevets d'invention ont été pris sous le régime de la loi du 5 juillet 1844. | *VAB (France. Commerce, Ministere du. Description des brevets d'invention) |
Abstracts and Illustrations
Date
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Title
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Location
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1950-1992 | Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle. Abreges descriptifs des bevets d'invention. | *VAB (France. Institut national de la propriété industrielle. Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle. Abréges descriptifs des brevets d'invention) |
1993-2000 | Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle. Abreges descriptifs des bevets d'invention. | JSM 99-183 |
Full Text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1902-1938 | Brevet d'invention. [Record 1: 1902-1938] | *VAE (France. Propriété industrielle, Service. Brevets d'invention) |
1939-1959 | Brevet d'invention. [Record 2: 1939-1959] | *VAE (France. Propriété industrielle, Service. Brevets d'invention) |
1960-1965 | Brevet d'invention. [Record 3: 1960-1965] | *VAE (France. Propriété industrielle, Service. Brevets d'invention) |
1966-1969 | Brevet d'invention. [Record 4: 1966-1969] | *VAE (France. Propriété industrielle, Service. Brevets d'invention) |
1970 | Brevet d'invention. [Record 5: 1970] | *VAE (France. Propriété industrielle, Service. Brevets d'invention) |
Patent Applications
Date
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Title
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Location
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1969-1970 | Demandes de brevets d'invention | *VAE (France. Propriété industrielle, Service de la. Demandes de brevets d'invention) |
1970 | Demandes de brevets d'invention | *VAE (France. Propriété industrielle, Service de la. Unique publication de brevets d'invention) |
1982-May 1995 | Demandes de brevets d'invention | *XFR-16 Microfilm. |
1983-1992 | Demandes de brevets d'invention | *XLR-8 Microfiche Indexes. |
Website:
French National Patent Office / Institute Nationale De La Propriette Industrielle (INPI) -www.inpi.fr
Germany
Abstracts & illustrations
Date
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Title
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Location
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1880-1941 | Auszüge aus den Patentschriften | *VAB (Germany. Patentamt. Auszuge aus den Patentschriften) |
Full Text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1877-1945 | Patentschrift | *XFR-9 1877-1945 Microfilm. |
1946-1972 | Patentschrift | *XFR-9 1946-72 Microfilm. |
1957-1968 | Auslegeschrift [Record 1: 1957-1968] | *VAH+ (Germany (Federal Republic, 1949- ). Patentamt. Auslegeschrift) |
1969-1977 | Auslegeschrift [Record 2: 1969 -1977] | *VAH+ (Germany (Federal Republic, 1949- ). Patentamt. Auslegeschrift) |
1978-1982 | Auslegeschrift [Record 3: 1978-1982] | *VAH+ (Germany (Federal Republic, 1949- ). Patentamt. Auslegeschrift) |
1981-1994 | Offenlegungsschrift | *XFR-11 Jan. 1981-1994 Microfilm. |
1999-2001 | DEPAROM U [electronic resource] : Deutsche Gebrauchsmuster-schriften. | *WSC-1058 CD-ROM. |
1999-2001 | DEPAROM ACT [electronic resource] : Deutsche Patentdokumente, A1, C1-C4, T1 | *WSC-998 CD-ROM. |
Website:
German Patent Office - www.dpma.de
Hungary
Patent Bulletin
Date
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Title
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Location
|
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1896-1948 | Szabadalmi közlöny | *VAB (Hungary. Szabadalmi közlöny) |
November 1949-1965; 1972-1977; 1980-1985 | Szabadalmi közlöny és védjegyértesitö [microform] | *ZAN-U9 Microfilm. |
1994-1998 | Szabadalmi közlöny és védjegyértesitö [microform] | JSM 96-28 |
Website:
Hungarian Patent Office - www.hipo.gov.hu/English/
Japan
Utility model specifications
Date
|
Title
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Location
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1905-1958 | Jitsuy¯o shin'an k¯oh¯o | *V |
Specifications
Date
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Title
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Location
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1897-1973 | Tokkyo k¯oh¯o = The patent gazette | *VAK |
1982-1995 | K¯okoku tokkyo k¯oh¯o = Published examined patent applications | *XFR-21 Microfilm. |
Patent Abstracts
Date
|
Title
|
Location
|
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1996(?)-2001 | Patent abstracts of Japan news : PAJ | JSM 01-106 |
1980-1989 | Patent abstracts of Japan [electronic resource] | *WSC-1203 |
1994-2001 | Patent abstracts of Japan [electronic resource] | *WSC-1204 |
Designs
Date
|
Title
|
Location
|
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1954-1961 | Ish¯o k¯oh¯o | *V |
Website:
Japanese Patent Office - www.jpo.go.jp
Russia/USSR
Indexes and Patents
Date
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Title
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Location
|
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1893-1907 | Zapiski Russkago tekhnicheskago obshchestva | *QCB (Russkoye tekhnicheskoye obshchestvo, St. Petersburg. Zapiski) |
Abstracts & Illustrations
Date
|
Title
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Location
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1924-1931 | Vestnik Komiteta po delam izobretenii | *V (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Komitet po izobretatelstvu. Vestnik...) |
July 1931-June 1936 | Vestnik Komiteta po izobretatelstvu. | *V (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Komitet po izobretatelstvu. Vestnik...) |
1937- | Otkrytiia, izobreteniia, promishlennye obreaztsy, tovarnye znaki. | *V (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Gosudarstvennoye byuro posleduiushchei registratsii izobretenii. Biulleten) |
1959-1962 | Biulleten izobretenii. | *VAZ (Russia) (Biulleten izobretenii) |
1963-1965 | Biulleten izobretenii i tovarnykh znakov. | *VAZ (Russia) (Biulleten' izobretenii i tovarnykh znakov) |
1966-1967 | Izobreteniia, promyshlennye obraztsy, tovarnye znaki. | *VAZ (Russia) (Izobreteniia, promyshlennye obraztsy, tovarnye znaki) |
1969-1982 | Otkrytiia, izobreteniia, promyshlennye obraztsy, tovarnye znaki : ofitsialnyi biulleten Komiteta po delam izobretenii i otkrytii pri Sovete Ministrov SSSR. | *VAZ (Russia) (Otkrytiia, izobreteniia, promyshlennye obraztsy, tovarnye znaki) |
[1983-] 1987-1991 |
Otkrytiia, izobreteniia : ofitsialnyi biulleten Gosudarstvennogo komiteta SSSR po delam izobretenii i otkrytii. | *VAZ (Russia) (Otkrytiia, izobreteniia) |
Full Text
Date
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Title
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Location
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1987-1992 | Patents & Invent. Cert. Patent Nos. 1281186-1785584 |
Microfilm. |
Websites:
Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (ROSPATENT) -www.fips.ru
Eurasian Patent Organization - www.eapo.org
Sweden
Patent Gazette
Date
|
Title
|
Location
|
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April 1968-March 25, 1985 (incomplete). | Svensk patenttidning | *VAB (Sweden. Patent- och registeringsverket. Svensk patenttidning) |
Full Text
Date
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Title
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Location
|
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1885-1972 | Patent | *VAI (Sweden. Patent- och registreringsverket. Beskrifning) |
1968-1990 | Utlaggningsskrift. [Record 1 : 1968-1990] | *VAI (Sweden. Patent- och registreringsverket. Utlaggningsskrift) |
1989-1994 | Utlaggningsskrift [microform] [Record 2: 1990-1994] | *XLR-11 |
1994-1999 | Patentskrift [microform] | *XLR-13 Microfiche. |
Website:
Swedish Patent Office - www.prv.se
Switzerland
Indexes
Date
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Title
|
Location
|
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1890-1960 | Patent-Liste | *VAB (Switzerland. Geistiges Eigentum, Amt für. Patent-Liste) |
1965-1990 | Schweizerisches Patent-, Muster- und Markenblatt / Feuille suisse des brevets, dessins et marques | *VAB (Schweizerisches Patent-, Muster- und Markenblatt) |
Full Text
Date
|
Title
|
Location
|
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1984-1993 | Patentschrift [microform] Patent Nos. 640,381-683,054 |
*XFR-19 Microfilm |
Website:
Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property - www.ige.ch
United Kingdom
Official Journal
Date
|
Title
|
Location
|
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1854-1993 | Official journal (patents) | *VAB (Great Britain. Patent office. Official journal (patents) |
1994-1995 | Official journal (patents) | JSM 96-26 |
Plates and Full Text
A Selection of Early British Patents from the NYPL Collection:
Year | Date | Number | Inventor | Title | Text | Plates |
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1802 | 2575 | de Philipsthal, Paul | Apparatus for Reflecting Objects | Text | ||
1836 | 7149 | Ericcson, John | Propeller for Steam Navigation | Text | ||
1840 | 8513 | Bush, William | Breeches of Fire-arms, and Cartridges | Text | ||
1840 | 8526 | Hawley, John | Pianofortes and Harps | Text | ||
1840 | 8573 | Poole, Moses | Locks of Fire-Arms | Text | ||
1848 | 12,352 | Bakewell, Frederick Collier | Electric Telegraphs | Text | ||
1860 | April 10 | 899 | Rigby, John & Norman, William Nicholas | Improvements in Guns and Other Fire-arms, and in Cartridges to be used therewith | Text | Plate |
1863 | Feb. 5 | 326 | Dircks, Henry & Pepper, John Henry | Improvements in Apparatus to be used in the Exhibition of Dramatic and Other like Performances | Text | |
1863 | Aug. 3 | 1917 | Munro, John | Improvements in Apparatus for Producing Optical Illusions | Text | |
1867 | Feb. 9 | 367 | Stanton, John | An Improved Self-acting Safety Gun Lock | Text | Plate 1 Plate 2 |
1869 | Dec. 30 | 3774 | Stanton, John | An Improved Rebounding Safety Gun Lock | Text | |
1871 | August 11 | 2124 | Harston, Charles Greville | Improvements in Breech-loading Fire-arms | Text | Plate |
1873 | Sept.11 | 2988 | Edison, Thomas Alva | Improvements in Perforated Paper for Telegraphic Purposes, and in Means for Receiving and Transmitting with the Same | Text | Plate |
1873 | Sept. 11 | 2989 | Harston, Charle Greville | Improvements in Breech-loading Fire-arms | Text | Plate |
1879 | Mar. 21 | 1141 | Rigby, John & Bissell, Thomas | Improvements in Breech Loading Fire Arms | Text | Plate 1 Plate 2 |
1879 | Mar. 28 | 1245 | Pepper, John Henry & Walker, James John | Improvements in Apparatus to be Used in the Exhibition of Dramatic, Dioramic, and other like Performances | Text | Plate |
1879 | May 29 | 2147 | Reeves, John | Improvements in the Lock Mechanism of Certain Kinds of Breech Loading Small Arms | Text | Plates |
1879 | Dec. 18 | 5185 | Denstone, William Huskisson | Improvements in Apparatus to be used in the Exhibition of Dramatic, Illusory and other like Performances | Text | Plate |
1880 | Jan. 3 | 31 | Beesley, Frederick | Improvements in the Construction of Break-Down Guns | Text | Plate |
1883 | Feb. 14 | 823 | Beesley, Frederick | Improvements in Firearms | Text | Plate |
1883 | April 14 | 1903 | Harrison, Edward & Beesley, Frederick | Improvements in Breech-loading Fire-arms | Text | Plate 1 Plate 2 |
1883 | June 6 | 2813 | Woodward, James & Beesley, Frederick | Improvements in or Applicable to Breech Loading Small Fire Arms | Text | Plate |
1883 | Aug. 9 | 3874 | Horsley, Thomas & Pryse, Charles | Improvements in Breech Loading Small Arms | Text | Plate |
1884 | Jan. 2 | 425 | Beesley, Frederick | Improvements in or Applicable to Break Down Hammerless Guns | Text | Plate |
1884 | Aug. 18 | 11,382 | Harrison, Edgar & Beesley, Frederick | An Intercepting Block Safety for Guns | Text | Plate |
1884 | Nov. 1 | 14,488 | Beesley, Frederick | Improvements in Safety Mechanism for Breech Loading Small Arms | Text | Plate |
1885 | April 23 | 5049 | Deeley, John & Penn, Frederick James | Improvements in the Cocking Mechanism of Drop-Down Small Arms | Text | Plate 1 Plate 2 |
1886 | July 2 | 8657 | Beesley, Frederick | Breakdown Guns | Text | Plate |
1888 | April 9 | 5254 | Castan, Lousi & Castan, Gustav | Improved Mechanism by means of which a Human Being or Other Object Appears to Float Free in the Air | Text | Plate |
1889 | Aug. 2 | 12,314 | Southgate, Thomas | Improvements in the Ejecting Mechanism of Breech-loading Double-barrelled Guns | Text | Plate |
1889 | Dec.31 | 20,979 | Beesley, Frederick | Improvements in Ejecting Mechanism for Drop-down Guns | Text | Plate |
1890 | Jan. 14 | 662 | Southgate, Thomas | Improvements in Ejector Mechanism for Breech-loading Small-arms | Text | Plate 1 Plate 2 |
1894 | April 11 | 7242 | Thorn, Henry Alfred Alexander & Wilkinson, William Frederick | Improvements in Break-down Guns, Rifles, and the like | Text | Plate |
1895 | May 1 | 8648 | Beesley, Frederick | Improvements in Breechloading Small-arms | Text | Plate |
Website:
UK Intellectual Property Office - www.ipo.gov.uk
Revised KJ 3-2014