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Intellectual Property Legal Status Links

• Mayall's IP Links - Free Patent/Design/TM Status Checks
• INPADOC/Family and Legal Status Kind Codes
  "Kind Codes" are the codes each individual country uses to indicate the status of pending, issued or expired patents. Every country has a different series of letters used after patent numbers to communicate the state of a patent document. The INPADOC database provides the international standard kind codes. The above link is a table of  kind codes used in the Dialog version of INPADOC.