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Get Patent and Trademark File Histories through Dialog

Increase your productivity and get invaluable details for intellectual property research and development, litigation and prosecution by ordering file histories directly through patent and trademark databases on Dialog. Combined with the comprehensive patent information in Dialog’s 19 patent files, file histories give you the most complete view of a patent and its history in one place.

File histories are up-to-date accounts of the prosecution history for published or granted patents and trademarks.

File Histories are available from any of the following Dialog databases:

Patents

• CLAIMS^®/Current Patent Legal Status (File 123)
• Chinese Patents Fulltext (File 325)
• CLAIMS^®/U.S. Patents (File 340)
• Derwent World Patents Index (for users in Japan) (File 352)
• Derwent World Patents Index^® (File 351)
• Derwent World Patents Index^® (File 350)
• Ei EnCompassPat™ (File 353)
• European Patents Fulltext (File 348)
• French Patents (File 371)
• German Patents Fulltext (File 324)
• IMS Patent Focus (File 447, 947)
• INPADOC/Family and Legal Status (File 345)
• JAPIO — Patent Abstracts of Japan (File 347)
• LitAlert^® (File 670)
• Patents Citation Index (File 342)
• U.S. Patents Fulltext (1971-1975) (File 652)
• U.S. Patents Fulltext (1976-present) (File 654)
• WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext (File 349)

Trademark

• TRADEMARKSCAN^® — U.S. Federal (File 226)
• TRADEMARKSCAN^® — U.S. State (File 246)
• TRADEMARKSCAN^® — Community (File 227)

File histories can be ordered through the following Dialog platforms: DialogLink 5, DialogClassic Web, DialogWeb, DialogSelect, Dialog Alerts, Dialog API, and Dialog SourceOne. When searching in these databases, a link to an online order form is displayed in your search results so you can save time in ordering File Histories.

Each electronic file history ordered through Dialog automatically includes a family report with a complete INPADOC family list for your source document. And, for each family member, you will see:

• U.S. litigation information
• U.S. post-issuance assignment data
• U.S. post-issuance data
• Maintenance fee status
• Legal status

More Information

Learn how you can begin ordering file histories through Dialog today. Contact your account representative or the Knowledge Center at: +1 800 334 2564 (within North America); +00 800 33 34 2564 (outside North America).