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Worldwide legal event information is essential for a broad variety of our customers, ranging from occasional users of patent information to professional and frequent users.

Legal event information is used, for instance, for market analysis, freedom-to-operate searches, decision-making for business investments and statistical studies.

Please have a look at the EPO website https://www.epo.org/searching-for-paten ... data.html for answers to theses questions:

• What is a legal event?

• Where does the information come from?

• Which EPO products and services contain legal event data?

• How is legal event data classified?

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