Re: [PIUG List] AW Help with identifying a French publication

Dear Robin,
Thank you for taking the time to clarify the situation.
With respect to your other comment,

> PS: Note that, surprinsingly, you can get more FR granted patents (B1)
> published on http://fr.espacenet.com/ than on
> http://www.espacenet.com/index.en.htm ; same for other countries, like
> NL. Please read Steve Van Dulken's post on this
> (http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/patentsblog/2007/11/french-granted.html)


I think that this is a reflection of the known (and increasing)
divergence between the original Level 1 servers based in national member
states and the Level 2 server which mounts the "Worldwide" file, based
on the DocDB backbone data. Some of the Level 1 servers (available
though the URL in the form http://cc.espacenet.com, where cc is a
country code other than EP) are investigating loads of searchable full
text, and others (such as SE I believe) have already gone much further
back with their bibliographic data content compared to the original
espacenet model of loading a rolling two-year file. Consequently, you
may well find that you can obtain older bibliographic data for a
specific country from its Level 1 server than you can searching the same
country's documents in the Worldwide file. It doesn't surprise me to
hear that this extension has included additional PDFs, such as the FR-B
stage on the French Level 1 server.

Stephen

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