''Patent Information News'' is a trilingual, quarterly

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published by the Principal Directorate Patent Information of the

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(EPO),

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sub-office,

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History and profile

''Patent Information News'' was launched in the early 1990s. At that time, it was known as ''EPIDOS news'', European Patent Office web site
''Patent Information News''
. Retrieved 17 August 2011. and the name ''Patent Information News'' was apparently adopted in 2006. It is published in

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and French, the three official languages of the EPO. It often contains articles about the online search service

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, patent documentation and

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strategies. Michael J. White
''esp@cenet Europe's Network of Patent Databases''
Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship (), Number 47, Summer 2006.

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''Patent Information News''
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