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...

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...

Please note that a new EP_UP package version 3 is available on the EPO download area . The two DTDs and the EBD specifications are unchanged – we only changed the EBD XML sample data (XML of EP2671741 and EP0001381 publications). If you already downloaded the package version 2 and if you want to run...

Should you use the XML corresponding to the DTDs ep-patent-document (for EP publications) or ep-bulletin (for the EBD product), we inform you that new DTDs version 1.6 are available in the package EP_UP-package-V2 (zip file) on the EPO download area . See the readme file for details on the package c...

Dear user,

We are presuming that you are referring to Espacenet. With Espacenet you can download the translated text in PDF with or without the original text. A simultaneous download of all translated parts is not foreseen.

Best regards,
EPAL

For the publication of corrections, the kind codes used by the EPO are A8 A9 B8 and B9 and there could be for example multiple A8 for a given application. For example, EP3817295 (application EP20824052) has 3 publications: one A1 and two A8 that can be differentiated with a correction code: EP208240...

10.000.000: this is the amount of new patent documents added in the last 12 months in the EPO’s worldwide bibliographic data collection (see this post dated May 19, 2021) For the regular monitoring of, e.g. technical areas or applicants, would you use the date documents are added in GPI for the firs...

Dear alihanima,

In our previous post we recommended to use the RDF we produce for CPC.

Did you make a test with this RDF?

Best regards,

User support

query.png Using the above sample query (WORD = -T (ferment* /3w (dair* or milk* or milch* or lait*)) and -Y (lactobacill* or lactococc* or lactic +3w acid* +3w bacter* or bacter* +3w lactiq* or milchsäurebakter*) and CPC = -T (A23C9) and -Y (C12N1)), your result list documents will include, for exa...

Dear Edward, we may not have the necessary Microsoft Power BI and Excel expertise to guide you through the process of creating a collaboration network. What we did with GPI (for test purposes) is the following: - Install Power BI desktop version and import from the internet the custom visual Network...