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Yes. We provide full-page PDFs, clipped images, drawings, chemistry files, and other non-textual files delivered by patent offices. Access to the images will differ depending on your subscription level. We also offer a bulk attachment service which provides access to complete copies of recently published attachments packaged in a convenient archive. Please see the Data Coverage table to see what types of images are available for specific countries. For more information about the types of images available and how to access them, see the Attachment Server Description and Coverage page.

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Which countries have IFI

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Snapshots including patent status, expiry dates, standardized names, and claims summaries?

The ifi-integrated-content is available IFI Snapshots are available for the US, EPO, Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain (without claims summaries), France, and Great Britain. Japanese records also have IFI's enhanced content, although currently without standardized names. Availability of the IFI container by country can be viewed in table form on the ifi-integrated-content page. Access to this container is available to all subscription levels.

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Do you have PAIR/PEDS data?

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US provisional patents are only available in CLAIMS Direct if they have been published by the USPTO. Provisional patents are generally not published, so they are rarely available in CLAIMS Direct. When a US provisional patent is transformed to a "normal" patent, then it is published. The new patent will have different publication and application numbers, but the application number of the provisional patent is always included in the priority data of any member of the family. This application number is the one with a "P" as kind code. You can find them by querying ankind:P AND anctry:US. Other countries can work differently. Some of them publish provisional patents, like Australia. Also, the effect of a provisional patent can be different in different countries.

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For countries which contain IFI 's enhanced contentSnapshots, IFI calculates current legal status. This includes anticipated expiration dates, information about regulatory extensions, terminal disclaimers, and more. All of this information can be found in the ifi-patent-status container in the XML files, which can be retrieved using the text service. For more information, see our documentation on the ifi-integrated-content.

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A particularly helpful field to be aware of is the pa field, which provides a comprehensive search of the applicant, assignee, and reassignee fields. We also offer search fields like asgfull that allow you to search the name and address fields together, which may help to distinguish entities with the same name in different locations.

For countries which have IFI’s enhanced dataIFI Snapshots, we offer standardized names. As you can see on the IFI Integrated Data pagethe IFI Snapshots page, we provide standardized names for the original and current assignees. Similar to the pa field, there is an ifi_pa field which provides a comprehensive search of the original and current standardized assignees. Additional information about our standardized names can be found on the ifi-integrated-content page.

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