Hi, We are actually not in a transition phase since the beginning of this year (please see Announcements section). Just because the old version is still working that does not mean users should still be using it. We are only keeping it open because we still have certain internal processes running on ...

Dear all, This year the Office celebrates a string of anniversaries in European patent information – 40th, 30th, 20th and 10th – that all fall in 2018. Seen as a whole they are a testimony to the EPO's staying power as the world's leading provider of patent information. https://www.epo.org/searching...

20 years ago today, the EPO launched #Espacenet It is a free patent search tool giving inventors, scientists, engineers and researchers around the globe access to patent information. Espacenet has over 100 million records from some 100 countries and over 25 000 users per day. http://bit.ly/patentinf...

Due to technical maintenance work and time change (CEST to CET), the following online services will not be available between 02.00 and latest 06.00 hrs CET on Sunday, 28 October 2018: • European Patent Register (also via the EPO's mobile website) • Espacenet (also via the EPO's mobile website) • Ope...

We are happy to announce that the data coverage for the character-coded full-text service in OPS (referred to as “descriptions” and “claims” in XML ) has been extended. Since a few days now you can retrieve full text for the following 11 additional countries: BE, CY, HR, IE, LU, MC, MD, NO, PL, PT, ...

Due to technical maintenance work, the following online services will not be available between 08.00 and latest 12.00 hrs CEST, on 7 October 2018: • European Patent Register (also via the EPO's mobile website) • Open Patent Services • Automatic debiting in online fee payment We apologize for any inc...

On Wednesday, 3rd of October 2018, we are planning the next OPS release, between 17.00 to 18.00 hours CEST.

Thank you in advance for your understanding

Vesna for OPS support

Hi, Entire 5.6 clause talks about usage of personal data found in our patent information products and services. Any misuse of personal data of any natural persons found in our databases, either for commercial, marketing, spam or any kind of score statistics of "natural persons" (so, not legal person...

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This kind of information is not exchanged with the EPO, please contact the USPTO directly. https://www.uspto.gov/patent/forms/impo ... -sheet-ads

Regards,
OPS support

Hi, File wrapper in Register is not available for bulk download. It can only be reviewed manually, over the website version of the European Patent Register. At some point in time, it will be available over OPS, but we don't have any specific information when exactly that will be. Regards, Vesna for ...