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by EPO / EPAL Team
Fri May 26, 2023 1:28 pm
Forum: Data News
Topic: New EP Bulletin search coming soon
Replies: 0
Views: 4870

New EP Bulletin search coming soon

Please look at this post, which provides dates about the availability of UP related information in EP Bulletin search - for your information, this product makes almost all EBD data searchable, visible and downloadable.

EP Bulletin search user support
by EPO / EPAL Team
Fri May 26, 2023 1:26 pm
Forum: Patent Information Matters
Topic: New EP Bulletin search coming soon
Replies: 0
Views: 4960

New EP Bulletin search coming soon

Please look at this post, which provides dates about the availability of UP related information in EP Bulletin search - for your information, this product makes almost all EBD data searchable, visible and downloadable.

EP Bulletin search user support
by EPO / EPAL Team
Fri May 19, 2023 4:36 pm
Forum: EP Publication and Search
Topic: New version of EP Bulletin search coming soon
Replies: 4
Views: 13594

New version of EP Bulletin search coming soon

This new version will be available on Wednesday 14.06.2023 - it will include changes in EP Bulletin search related to European patent proceedings (EP information) and unitary patent proceedings (UP information). More specifically: A number of EP information search criteria will be added or renamed o...
by EPO / EPAL Team
Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: EP Publication and Search
Topic: Unassigned EP Publication Numbers
Replies: 1
Views: 4686

Re: Unassigned EP Publication Numbers

Dear JaninaB, In some rare cases a necessary re-run of the EP publication generation process results in un-used publication numbers. You may want to have a look at the EP authority file and documentation available on this page: https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/technical/publication-server/a...
by EPO / EPAL Team
Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:55 pm
Forum: EP Publication and Search
Topic: Company Search
Replies: 1
Views: 5257

Re: Company Search

Dear Boutheina, One possible reason is that an Espacenet result list item is a selected publication representing a patent family, i.e. an Espacenet result list does not show all publications of all patent families - a patent family being basically one invention filed and published by a number of pat...
by EPO / EPAL Team
Mon Apr 17, 2023 1:45 pm
Forum: Classic Espacenet
Topic: H10
Replies: 2
Views: 14368

Re: H10

This reclassification is not yet completed so we have forwarded your enquiry to our experts. Until we get their answer, we can already tell you that the CPC viewer, available via ESPACENET contains a option to display notes and warning (toggle found in the menu under the classification search field)...
by EPO / EPAL Team
Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:20 pm
Forum: EP Publication and Search
Topic: New DTDs with Unitary Patent XML structures used as of March 2023
Replies: 1
Views: 6647

Re: New DTDs with Unitary Patent XML structures used as of March 2023

As previously announced, we confirm that the new DTD ep-patent-document-v1-6 is used as of today in the XML of EP publications, downloadable e.g. from the European Publication Server (user interface and web service): <ep-patent-document id="EP22192215A1" file="EP22192215NWA1.xml"...
by EPO / EPAL Team
Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:56 pm
Forum: EP Publication and Search
Topic: Filtering results in EP Bulletin search
Replies: 3
Views: 4616

Re: Filtering results in EP Bulletin search

Please try $1 and PUB1 = * ("*" means all documents having a PUB1 date whatever its value)

Best regards

User support
by EPO / EPAL Team
Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:37 pm
Forum: EP Publication and Search
Topic: New DTDs with Unitary Patent XML structures used as of March 2023
Replies: 1
Views: 6647

New DTDs with Unitary Patent XML structures used as of March 2023

ep-patent-document-v1-6.dtd is used for the XML of EP publications available in the European Publication Server. ep-bulletin-v1-6.dtd is a subset of ep-patent-document-v1-6.dtd and is used for the XML of the EBD bulk data product. Both DTDs version 1.6 are now available for download and will be used...
by EPO / EPAL Team
Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:05 am
Forum: EP Publication and Search
Topic: EP numbering format / system
Replies: 1
Views: 5589

Re: EP numbering format / system

Here are few links where you should find all the answers: Please note that there is a difference between application e.g EP99203729 , publication EP1000000 and kind codes e.g A1. Furthermore, EP application include a check digit, which is left out in most search engine e.g 99203729.1 The EP applicat...