History of IPDL

History of Intellectual Property Digital Library:

• 1996/4 JPO website opened

• 1997/4 PAJ retrieval service launched

• 1998/10 Japanese Well-known Trademark service started

• 1999/3 IPDL has opened in the JPO website (Initial services in English:

• PAJ, Japanese Trademark Database, Japanese Well-knownTrademark)

• 2000/3 Figure Trademark Search started

• Automatic Full-text Translation was made available (PAJ)

• 2001/3 List of Goods and Services for Trademarks was made availablePatent Map Guidance/ FI/F-term Search started

• 2002/3 Patent & Utility Model Gazette DB was made availablePatent & Utility Model Concordance service launched

• 2004/3 Design Gazette Search started 

Outline of the IPDL – Facts :

Number of Searches / Fiscal year

What is IPDL ?

lIPDL (Industrial Property Digital Library):

The IPDL is a public resource which provides free access to replications of the JPO database 

of industrial property information with search functions through the Internet.

       --Everyone can access to the IPDL at anytime, anywhere, free of charge, without any permission.

      --The IPDL has been started since March 31, 1999 and over 80．4 million documents
        are available.

       --Some services are available in English as well.


Concept of the IPDL:

Concept of IPDL