The INPADOC database will be reloaded with many enhancements on 29 April 2007.

The new file, INPADOCDB, will include the following features:

• Approximately 63 million documents compared to 49 million documents in the current INPADOC 
   
  
• Backfile back to 1836 (United Staes), 1879 (Germany), 1840 (United Kingdom, 1900 (France), and 1944 (Japan) 
  
  
• Additional abstracts, predominantly English-language 
  
  
• Cited references (patents and nonpatent literature) for 11 patent offices - Citations from all searches made at the EPO for Belgium (BE), Switzerland (CH), European Patent Organization (EP), France (FR), United Kingdom (GB), Netherlands (NL), Turkey (TR), and World Intellectual Property Organization (WO) are included, as well as data from Australia (AU), Germany (DE), and the United States (US) 
  
  
• European classifications (ECLA, ICO, IDT) 
  
  
• Original bibliographic data and abstracts for many documents 
  
  
• Introduction of seven categories for simplified legal status searching