A new GPI version is available and includes the following enhancements: The format XLS is replaced with XLSX for the download of result lists – result list and additional information (including the query) are in two separate sheets The download limit is increased for result lists in XLSX, CSV and XM...

First of all, we apologise for answering so late to your question. There might several EPO tools that could partially or fully fulfil your needs. For example, EP full-text search is a free product where you could retrieve backward patent and NPL citations in XLS, CSV or XML format, the coverage bein...

Question 1: could you please make a test with "EP Bulletin search" (same user interface as "EP full-text search") ? "EP Bulletin search" is based on EBD and it enables you to download data (biblio. and procedural (legal status information) in XML format. Your query woul...

The collection of GPI full-text descriptions and claims has been enhanced to include the display and the use of Patent Translate for documents published by the following authorities (same coverage as Espacenet): AP AT AU BE BG BR CA CH CN CS CU CY CZ DD DE DK EA EE EP ES FI FR GB GR HR IE IL IN IS I...

CPC International is searchable in GPI front-file data as of today 06/09/2019. For a given simple family member, a key aspect of the CPC International is the inclusion of all CPC symbols of all CPC assigning offices as shown below: CPC-I in GPI.jpg (click the image to enlarge) In this example we ca...

Should you use legal event data in GPI (also known as INPADOC legal status data), you might be interested in the new post Additional information on legal event data (forum Data news).

Patrick Le Gonidec

Patent Translate is available only in Espacenet, European Publication Server and the Global Patent Index. We would suggest you to retrieve the patent document in a Espacnet and use the Patent Translate. We hope this helps, but please if you have any other queries feel free to contact us. Kind regard...

Please be informed that after the filing, the divisional applications are treated as normal EP applications, including the principles for the publication. The publication of an EP application happens after the standard 18 months from either the date of filing or the priority date, but this period ha...

You may use the date of "Decision to grant a European patent", this communication being available in the dossier of an EP document (see section "All documents" in the European Patent Register). Once this communication becomes available in the dossier (it is usually published on a...

The full-text of international publications of Euro-PCT applications published by WIPO and not republished by the EPO is now searchable in EP full-text search . This applies once the international publication has been mentioned in the European Patent Bulletin, i.e. once the WO publication number can...