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  Summary of available backfiles data
  For establishing, developing and updating your own IP databases and other information systems and services you can receive our weekly online publication data. You can choose between different data of patents, trade marks, utility models and designs. The following list provides an overview of the available data.
  Category of data, kind codes A,B,C,T,U
  Full texts in the original layout
  (title page, descriptions, claims, drawings) PDF 2004 ff.
  (data of the title page, description, claims, drawings) XML/TIFF 2004 ff.
  Full texts (bibliographic data, description, claims) XML 1987 - 2003
  Bibliographic data and legal status data
  (updates and corrections on the register) EBCDIC
  Bibliographic data XML 1877 ff.
  * The full texts from 1877 to 1986 have been generated from the original document using automatic OCR conversion. They may therefore contain errors and/or omissions. They do not contain drawings. Tables and formulas may be of poor reproduction quality or missing altogether.
  Bibliographic data, images trademarks applied for, registered trademarks, trademarks not eligible for protection XML, JPG 1875 ff.
  Bibliographic data registered designs XML 10/1988 ff.
  Images registered designs JPG 2000 ff.
  For the supply of data, we charge only the cost for providing the data, depending on the data volume and data format. You can find an itemised list of costs in the summary of available data.
  Supply of data is subject to an agreement to be concluded between you and the DPMA.
  The agreement defines the purpose for which the contractual partner is using the data. In order to facilitate the conclusion of the agreement, we have provided the following notes on filling in the agreement. We are also happy to assist you via telephone.