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The current patent documentation (from 1992 up to present) is stored in the AGEPI Library and is divided into a national and a foreign patent documentation Collection.
The retrospective portions of the patent documents collection (author certificates of the former URSS) from 1924 up to 1992 is stored within the National Technical Scientific Library and includes 12,454,037 documents.
The national patent documentation Collection is stored on paper and on CD-ROM and includes full descriptions of inventions and utility models (applications, patents and certificates) of the Republic of Moldova.
The collection of foreign patent documentation is stored by country, by year of publication (within the countries) and in numerical order only on CD/DVD-ROM.
The patent Collection is updated annually both for national and foreign patent documentation.
On December 31, 2002, the patent collection included 15,535,526 copies of patent documents on CD-ROM: 2430 national and 15,533,096 foreign documents (7,244,575 patents and 8,290,951 patent applications).
A new addition in 2002 was the Regional Data Base on CD-ROM with patent documentation from CIS countries “CISPATENT”.
At the user’s disposal, there are 39 databases in the field of patents.
The patent documents stored with the AGEPI Library can be seen in the attached Table I.
TabelI.doc - The attached Table I provides the list of all patent documents stored in the AGEPI Library on CD/DVD-ROM
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The Library collections are arranged along geographical-systematic-numerical lines. The conditions for storing collections correspond to the types of information carriers used:
- patent documentation on paper is stored in cassettes on shelves;
- on CD-ROM – in catalog racks;
- in automated databases.
The AGEPI Collection available to the public is shown in the attached Table II.
The collection on CD-ROM is available for search by both the internal users and the public.
TableII.doc - The attached file provides the list of the AGEPI Library Collection on CD/DVD-ROM
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