Espacenet: free access to the database of over 90 million patents

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New in Espacenet

The first batch of fulltext searchable languages are English French and German, This has involved the creation of so-called “logical databases” one for each language. Read more here…

Also new in Espacenet

Combisets will be searchable but only in Smart search Read more here…

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