Dear Vesna, Many, many thanks to you and the data team for being very responsive about this question :D Yes, we have observed that recent patents (e.g. published on December 13th by Toyota Motor, 丰田自动车株式会社) are now again available with the applicant in the original language. It is very helpful for u...

Hi Visna, Many thanks for your quick response & valuable efforts :) Yes, to have the original applicant names in East Asian characters would be great like it was made available until a few weeks ago (labeled in the EPO OPS data structure: original), alongside English translations once they becom...

Dear Vesna, Many thanks for your detailed reply. I'm sorry that I was not clear. I was referring to untranslated applicants in Mandarin, Japanese & Korean, which do not seem to be available any more on Espacenet / EPO OPS, e.g. in https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=CN&a...

Dear Espacenet Team, I have been very happy with your service for many years, thanks. However, in recent weeks, I noticed an increase in new Chinese & Japanese patent applications that are listed without applicants & inventors in Espacenet & EPO OPS, for example: https://worldwide.espace...