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The USPTO's Foreign Patent Access System (FPAS PLUS)

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  • Dell'Orto, Kathleen M.

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The USPTO's Foreign Patent Access System (FPAS), located in the Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC), is a token ring LAN dedicated to library dissemination of foreign patent information and documents contained in CD-ROMs to internal and external customers. The CD-ROMs currently contain documents from 18 foreign countries and, with the addition of the US document system of USPat, has now become FPAS PLUS. The CD-ROMs are held in various jukebox systems with a capacity of 1450 CD-ROMs (approximately 1.3 million documents). The system comprises eight workstations, four for the public and four for the USPTO. An express service allows a user to order copies of up to 10 documents by country code and document number whilst a full service option enables performance of a simple search of first page bibliographic data and titles and to display and print a hit list.

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  • Dell'Orto, Kathleen M., 1995. "The USPTO's Foreign Patent Access System (FPAS PLUS)," World Patent Information, Elsevier, vol. 17(3), pages 183-187, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:worpat:v:17:y:1995:i:3:p:183-187
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