HI, Data in DOCDB in XML has kind of the documents codes as those in the table, under DOCDB column, of course. Please note that the table shows kind codes as EPO has them in our databases, not necessary same as original kind codes in national offices (some biblio data does not have a kind code, but ...

Due to technical maintenance work, the following online services of the EPO will not be available on Sunday, 14 February between 05:00 and 10:00 hrs CET: [*]Espacenet (also via the EPO's mobile website) [*]European Patent Register (also via the EPO's mobile website) [*]Open Patent Services (OPS) [*]...

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That depends what you are looking at, actually. Espacenet is a prior art database of published data as filed at the time, but Espacenet also has "Legal events" part that shows some changes from various registers of national offices, including CN. Changes or names or assignments would be in legal eve...

Hi, Are you waiting 60 seconds before you trigger that search again? Actually, the best thing is to trigger another query after 60 sec and repeat that failed one down the line again. OPS has a 60 second rolling window rule after error or rejection such you you describe below. Also, you need to check...

Hi, Good indicator is so called "priority linkage type" that we display in OPS family service: .../rest-services/family/publication/docdb/CN.1341753.A/ Capture_lt.PNG Linkage types description for WO: A : PCT application claimed from national procedure W : Additional PCT application 0 : Prior applic...

Dear all, As you know, EPO's data sets use two number format flavours for searching and displaying data: - EPODOC number normalisation , used by Classic Espacenet and OPS Publication Service: see https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/data/web-services/ops/faq.html (see answer to question under “...

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Please send me an email to patentdata (at) epo.org with your OPS UserID or User name and I will have a look.

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Vesna for OPS support

Hi, The only thing you can get from our webservices is biblio in XML or JSON as in the picture. You can transfer any XML into PDF on your end if you prefer, but we don't offer any other output format than XML or JSON for biblio. The URL as in the picture is: .../rest-services/published-data/publicat...

Hi, There is no such thing as biblio in PDF, at least I never saw any at any patent office. If you want Biblio only you always only download 1st page of any publication. Biblio by definition is everything on the first page of any patent publication that follows WIPO's standard minus representative d...