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- Mon Aug 27, 2018 9:27 am
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: Aug. 2018 - LU: Data has been added
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Aug. 2018 - LU: Data has been added
We are pleased to announce that the delivery of Luxembourg bibliographic patent data to the EPO is expected to be resumed this summer. The Luxembourg legal event data connected to the bibliographic data and dating back to early 2017 has been loaded end of August. The data is expected to be updated m...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:27 pm
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: Juli 2018 - AT: Change of number format, kind code ‘U’
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Juli 2018 - AT: Change of number format, kind code ‘U’
The change of number format affects AT applications and priorities with kind code ‘U’. Applications and priorities with a filing date from 2000 onwards will be changed from old format n(nnnn)yy to new format n(nnnn)CCyy. The correction will have an impact on: - 11.599 applications with authority cod...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 10:11 am
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: EPO databases - Coverage information
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- Views: 6007
EPO databases - Coverage information
You can find weekly updated coverage information about bibliographic and legal status data here: http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/data/coverage/weekly.html You can find information on citations and other useful tables here: http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/data/coverage/regular.html ...
- Tue May 15, 2018 9:59 am
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: Mai 2018 - TR: Change of publication number format
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Mai 2018 - TR: Change of publication number format
As of mid-Mai the publication number format for authority code TR (Turkey) has changed. Old format YYnnnnn has become CCYYnnnnn for a total of 10.306 publications in the range from 9500299 to 9903344 for kind codes A1, A2, A3, T1, T2 and U. Examples: Old format -> New format TR 9500765A1 -> TR 19950...
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 1:42 pm
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: "Raw data products" now called "Bulk data sets"
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- Views: 6181
"Raw data products" now called "Bulk data sets"
The data offered by the EPO is highly structured: data undergo an intensive standardisation and enrichment processes before being loaded into our databases. Starting from 3 April 2018, we decided to introduce the term “Bulk data sets” on all Patent Information pages to replace the term “Raw data pro...
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 3:35 pm
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: Febr. 2018 - MT: Kind code changed from 'A' to 'B'
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Febr. 2018 - MT: Kind code changed from 'A' to 'B'
As of week 8/2018, the publication kind code ‘A’ has become kind code ‘B’ to be in line with the kind code as it is currently used by the Maltese patent office in their database and gazette. Examples: MT P541 A => MT P541 B MT P1102 A => MT P1102 B Please refer to the Kind Code Concordance List http...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:19 pm
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: Dec. 2017 - RU: Deletion of RU-C documents
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- Views: 3626
Dec. 2017 - RU: Deletion of RU-C documents
Please be informed that 18.945 RU-C publications were deleted. The reason for this exercise is that we have received data from ROSPATENT covering the years 1994 to 2016. When checking the contents of the file against the collection of SU publications currently present in the master database, we real...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:29 pm
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: Nov. 2017 - BE: new data loaded
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- Views: 5300
Nov. 2017 - BE: new data loaded
We are pleased to announce that, after a long break, fresh data from Belgium is now being loaded regularly. For details, please have a look at the DOCDB statistics. http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/helpful-resources/data/tables/weekly.html Questions? Comments? Write to patentdata(a)epo.org
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 9:59 am
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: Nov. 2017 - AU: change of kind code D0 to A0
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- Views: 4534
Nov. 2017 - AU: change of kind code D0 to A0
Please be informed that from the third week of November 2017, the AU publication kind code 'D0' is changed to 'A0'. Approx. 67 000 documents are affected. Please note that publication with this kind code are not visible in Espacenet and OPS. Only GPI, PATSTAT or raw data users will find this informa...
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:37 pm
- Forum: Data News
- Topic: Oct. 2017 - BE: Change of publication kind code
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- Views: 4444
Oct. 2017 - BE: Change of publication kind code
Please be informed of a change of kind code for publications with authority code BE. Publications with a publication number < 1.000.000 will be re-keyed to align the publication kind codes with the kind codes in the Kind Code Concordance List which you can consult on this web page http://www.epo.org...