Enhanced INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB Files
INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB were enhanced to feature more legal event categories, calculated expiry dates for all authorities, and overall efficiency gains:
- 27 instead of 7 legal event categories; most useful new categories are Entry into national phase and Non-entry into national phase, Fee payment, separate categories for SPC and Time Extension, and separate categories for Expiry, Withdrawal, and Lapse.
- Calculated expiration dates are now available for all authorities (except PCT) instead of only 41 before.
- Enhanced deduplication of names makes searching for inventors and assignees more efficient.
- A representative title in the brief family display improves clarity.
- Extensive possibilities on family statistics enabled by various new counts such as the number of applications, priorities, publications, and legal events.
- Increased display performance (up to more than three times) helps to speed up evaluation of the results, especially for large records.