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This database is accessed via our Online Services facility and contains biblographic information of applications. You can search for a patent by:

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For the above fields, a wildcard in the form of a '%' character can be used to represent a variable sequence of characters.
For example, use 2001/% to search for all patent numbers beginning with 2001/

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