Dear Julia, Indeed the result list originating from a search will show only one member of a simple patent family. There are however rare circumstances when during the exploration of e.g. the citation tree two members of the same family can be moved to the result list. This can be due to the fact tha...

Dear user, Unfortunately the coverage of SA and ZA documents in Espacenet is not complete (see bibliographic coverage table ). This leads to the situation that these family members are not shown for the document EP2859608B1 . Recommendable would be to check the publications of the respective patent ...

Dear users, Please note that our EPO offices will be closed over the holiday period from 24 December 2020 to 10 January 2021 inclusive. They will open again on 11 January 2021. During this time no user support will be available. You may continue to use our contact form to send us enquiries. A backlo...

Dear Julia, A dedicated algorithm in Espacenet tries to identify and display the best matching document of the simple patent family with regards to your search query. Therefore, the representative patent of the family, which is displayed in the result list, does not necessarily correspond to the ear...

Dear user, I understand that your result list exceeds 500 results, which is the maximum number of downloadable results in xlsx or csv format, and that you would like to download all results by batches, but avoid the retrieval of duplicates in the process. Espacenet is a family based tool. This means...

A new version of the European Patent Register is available. For more information please consult the release notes.

Dear user, in both classic and new Espacenet the number of results corresponds to the number of patent families found. Classic Espacenet did not pre-aggregate the data and used an approximation approach to estimate the number of patent families based on the number of publications: This number is how...

Dear user,

The issue with Patent Translate in classic Espacenet has been resolved. However, you are more than welcome to (continue to) explore new Espacenet and its benefits.

Dear user,

in classic Espacenet, there is currently an issue with Patent Translate. The technicians are investigating it. In the meantime, you might want to use new Espacenet where Patent Translate is working as it should.

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