From update 200534
Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) will additionally cover the translations of granted EPs in French or English and translations of PCT international applications, i.e. records with patent kind codes T2 and T5 respectively.
From early June the existing patent kind DET5 in DWPI, associated with the notification in the PatentBlatt that the respective PCT has entered the national phase, will be converted to T0 (as defined in table) in the backfile and ongoing.
| Kind Code in DWPI |
Definition |
| DE E |
Granted EP in English or French with DE assigned serial number (from 198901; as notified in the PatentBlatt) |
| DE G |
Granted EP in German with DE assigned serial number (from 198901; as notified in the PatentBlatt) |
| DE T2 |
Translation of granted EP in English or French with DE assigned serial number (from 2005 34) |
| DE T |
PCT transfer to DE published in German (as notified in the PatentBlatt) |
| DE T0 |
PCT transfer to DE published in non-German language (from June 2005; as notified in the PatentBlatt) |
| DE T5 |
Translation of PCT international announcement (from June 2005) |
From update 34 DWPI will also include patent specifications modified after opposition, i.e. patents with kind code C5 and their corresponding corrected versions C8 and C9.
| Kind Code in DWPI |
Definition |
| DE C5 |
Modified granted patent (from; previously kind code C3) |
| DE C8 |
Correction of modified patent (bibliographic change) |
| DE C9 |
Correction of modified patent (claims, description or drawing) |