I always use the publication date of the B1 as the grant date. I never checked if there is a formal notice in the legal status.

In case you need application data sheets for US documents, you could consider contacting the USPTO via [url]mailto:EBC@uspto.gov[/url]

Vesna,

Yes, this makes it clear.

Thank you.
Gerben

Thanks for the information, One thing is not clear to me, it is the cut-off after 1300 lines of information. Does this refer to the entire xml result or to the legal status information only? If it refers to the entire result, it cannot contain up to 700 publications in the familylist. One entry cont...

Dear team,

It seems as if the link to the user guide in http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patent ... html#tab-1 is wrong. Clicking the link to the user guide opens a new tab, but does not seem to be able to actually download the .pdf file.

Regards,
Gerben

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Adding /biblio at the end makes it work.

Thanks for the tip.


Gerben

This makes sense, as I wrote earlier today "It probably is a very simple small mistake we make".
Thanks for pointing this out, I will try this tip later this week.


Gerben