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The European Patent Office worldwide database enables you to search for information about published patent applications from over 70 different countries and regions.

The worldwide esp@cenet database has the widest coverage with publications from 63 countries and contains GB publications from 1900 onwards. The Quick search forms link by default to the Worldwide database.

In January 2004, espa@cenet® held data on 45 million patents from 71 countries. A total of 24.2 million of these patents have a title, while 18.3 million have an ECLA class and 7.1 million an abstract in English.

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