The file is updated with applications and registrations every week. SDIs are also available weekly. By means of one procedural system, the Community trademark grants its proprietor a uniform right valid in all Member States of the European Union. Countries that are not members of the Union cannot participate in this system. History notes are available and are being updated, providing a concise overview of the legal status of the trademark.
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The file is updated at least weekly, and SDIs are available weekly. About 500,000 new records are added each year. The coverage on STN is from 1984 to the present, and includes more than 8.5 million records. Updating and SDI runs are weekly. Several classification schemes are used, and controlled descriptors from a vocabulary of over 80,000 terms are added in English, French, and Spanish.