Dear all, This is to inform you that in February, the EPO's Asian Patent Information Services will run a series of online seminars on patent information from the EPO’s validation states. The online seminars will start with an explanation of the validation concept at the EPO. Each online seminar will...

Dear users, As every year around this special time of the upcoming Holidays, the EPO’s Asian Patent Information Services team is busy with the preparation of the programme for the annual East meets West forum on Asian patent information. The 2 days event will offer again mixture of plenary presentat...

Dear users, Please be informed that we have recently added several new useful links for India https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/helpful-resources/asian/links.html . Highly interesting we have found the website of the Cell for IPR Promotion and Management (CIPAM) http://cipam.gov.in/ . CIPAM ...

Dear users, The summer has to come to an end and so has our Asian patent information summer challenge! But before we let the summer go, here are the promised solutions: The Japanese family member published as JP2015512359 A and subsequently as JP6147846 B2 is according to the JPO’s J-PLATPAT databas...

Dear Alberto231, Thank you for raising this interesting question. We would like to refer you to the EPO’s user guide available on Linked open EP data website https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/data/linked-open-data.html#tab-1 . According to the information in this guide https://documents.epo....

Dear patent information users, We are very happy to have so many viewers of our summer challenge! For the ones who are also considering posting their solutions in this forum, here are the promised hints: The complete patent family overview of EP 2830949 B1 can be quickly grasped in the INPADOC paten...

Dear patent information users, Are you sweating in your office while everyone else is on vacation? Are you looking for a real challenge, fighting with language barriers, exotic databases and tricky legal events? The EPO’s Asian Patent Information Services invite you to be part of our “Asian Patent I...

Dear users, In December 2017, the Indian Patent Office (IPO) http://www.ipindia.nic.in/writereaddata/Portal/News/382_1_Patents_and_Trademarks-Suggestions_Received_from_Stakeholders_and_Action_taken_by_Office_of_CGPDTM_2-1-18.pdf collected wishes, comments and feedback, including suggestions for the ...

Dear users, We are happy to share with you that the EPO’s annual East meets West forum on patent information once again attracted more than 100 participants: searchers, patent attorneys, scientists and delegates from different patent offices. The experts from the Asian patent offices discussed the r...

Dear users, As you may know, our annual forum “East meets West” will take place on 19/20 April 2018 in Vienna. As the registration deadline (21 March 2018) is approaching, we would like to share with you some good news about our event! We are happy to announce that we have reached the minimum number...