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by gerben
Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:30 am
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: Updated applicant or co-applicant ?
Replies: 3
Views: 8678

Re: Updated applicant or co-applicant ?

Dear geoffreyp, To clarify a little, let me explain one of the differences between the published data and the legal status sections of OPS. The purpose of the published documents section is to present the information as it appeared in the publications. Any change after the publication date will not ...
by gerben
Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:39 pm
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: Retrieving family members of US applications
Replies: 4
Views: 9505

Re: Retrieving family members of US applications

That won't help, the epodoc format for US application also includes the filing year. If all you have is the application number, the only option you have is to try a search using the original format.
by gerben
Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:57 pm
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: Retrieving family members of US applications
Replies: 4
Views: 9505

Re: Retrieving family members of US applications

US applications in docdb format are not the same as the original US application number and is rather messy as well. Original US application number ss/#### filed in yyyy-mm-dd ss: series number ######: serial application number (within that series) Will be represented in docdb as: yyyy-###### or as Y...
by gerben
Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:16 am
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: Not full Patent application number
Replies: 2
Views: 1570

Re: Not full Patent application number

The result you receive depends on the query you submit. Application/publication/priority numbers can be present in three different formats: Original, DocDB and Epodoc.The European application number in DocDB format is an 8 digit number consisting of a two digit application year and 6 digit sequence ...
by gerben
Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:29 pm
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: EP application number check digit algorithm
Replies: 8
Views: 13883

Re: EP application number check digit algorithm

Vesna, This is a different calculation and one that brings a (theoretical) interesting artefact. Theortically the highest application number is 99999999 multiplied by alternating factors 1 and 2 followed by summarisation produces a theoretical max value of 108 In the first suggested method: 10 - ([c...
by gerben
Tue Jan 18, 2022 5:52 pm
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: EP application number check digit algorithm
Replies: 8
Views: 13883

Re: EP application number check digit algorithm

Actually,
One question, which of the two threes should I substract from the 10?
The 3 that is the integer result of the division or the 3 that is the remains?
(33 : 10 = 3 remains 3)

I suppose it is the remains value, that would make most sense. Just to be sure.

Gerben
by gerben
Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:12 pm
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: EP application number check digit algorithm
Replies: 8
Views: 13883

EP application number check digit algorithm

Dear all, The EP application number consists of 8 digits (yy######) with an optional period and check digit following this application number (yy######.#). Frequently, (commercial) data sources include the EP application number without the check digit. We are frequently interested in the legal statu...
by gerben
Wed Jul 07, 2021 10:06 am
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: Translated patents
Replies: 3
Views: 7014

Re: Translated patents

ArnauC EP and WO patent documents can be published in any of their official languages. English French or German for EP and Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish for WO. Machine translations are available via both Espacenet and Patentscope and in t...
by gerben
Mon May 17, 2021 9:02 am
Forum: Open Patent Services (OPS) and bulk data subscription products
Topic: Robot Detected Error only from one computer
Replies: 11
Views: 8993

Re: Robot Detected Error only from one computer

@dtandon, According to the error occurrence description in the clipping from the OPS manual that Vesna included the error 403 is related to: Recent behaviour implies you are a robot. The server is at the moment busy to serve robots. Please try again later. The 403 error in OPS indeed speaks about ro...