# MicroPatent

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'''MicroPatent''' was a subsidiary of the [Thomson Corporation](/source/Thomson_Corporation) (now [Thomson Reuters](/source/Thomson_Reuters)). It was a commercial source for online [patent](/source/patent) and [trademark](/source/trademark) information. The service offered a searchable collection of full text patent data, including patent documents from France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, the [European Patent Office](/source/European_Patent_Office) and the [World Intellectual Property Organization](/source/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization).<ref name="micropat">{{cite web|url=http://www.micropat.com/0/datacoverage.html|title=Patsearch Fulltext Database Coverage|publisher=micropat.com|accessdate=2014-01-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050204042035/http://www.micropat.com/0/datacoverage.html|archivedate=2005-02-04}}</ref>

In 2004, [hacker](/source/Hacker_(computer_security)) Myron Tereshchuk attempted to extort $17&nbsp;million from MicroPatent by threatening to release confidential information and launch a [DDOS](/source/DDOS) attack. Tereschuk was arrested by the [FBI](/source/FBI) in a raid which uncovered "components for [hand grenade](/source/hand_grenade)s, the formula and items necessary for making [Ricin](/source/Ricin), and literature about poisons" in his possession.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/press-releases/2004/tereshchukPlea.htm US Dept. Of Justice Press Release] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130415114134/http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/press-releases/2004/tereshchukPlea.htm |date=2013-04-15 }}</ref><ref>[https://www2.fbi.gov/hq/nsb/wmd/wmd_cases.htm#Myron FBI WMD case listing]</ref>

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