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by EPO / Patent Data Services
Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:21 am
Forum: Data News
Topic: July 2020 - AP: Change in publication/application/priority number
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Views: 6498

July 2020 - AP: Change in publication/application/priority number

Please be informed that publication/application/priority numbers for the authority code ‘AP’ (ARIPO - African Regional Intellectual Property Organization) published after 2000 have been corrected. The EPO has received a complete backfile from ARIPO including titles and abstracts. In order to process...
by EPO / Patent Data Services
Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:49 pm
Forum: Data News
Topic: July 2020 : PH - SEA and NPL citation data now available
Replies: 0
Views: 6383

July 2020 : PH - SEA and NPL citation data now available

We are pleased to inform you about the introduction of Philippines (PH) search results (SEA) citations into our citation database that were not present or searchable until now. PH citations are present in rich format and, at this point, cover patent and non-patent literature from 2019 onwards. Citat...
by EPO / Patent Data Services
Wed Jul 22, 2020 8:36 am
Forum: Data News
Topic: July 2020: ZA – Change of publication and application number
Replies: 0
Views: 6157

July 2020: ZA – Change of publication and application number

Please be advised of a correction of both publication and application/priority numbers for authority code ‘ZA’ published before 2000. The change is being executed after analysis of the South African authority file. The correction will have an impact on approximately 175 000 documents. The change in ...
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Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:54 am
Forum: Data News
Topic: June 2020 - CN: additional SEA and NPL citation data
Replies: 0
Views: 7595

June 2020 - CN: additional SEA and NPL citation data

The EPO has recently obtained more Chinese search results patent citations (SEA) and non-patent literature citations (NPL). With these additions, the number of cited CN patent literature in our database increased to over 29 million and the number of non-patent literature (NPL) citations to over 3 mi...
by EPO / Patent Data Services
Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:22 am
Forum: Data News
Topic: May 2020 - SE: Change in publication kind code
Replies: 0
Views: 6520

May 2020 - SE: Change in publication kind code

The publication kind code has changed from “A” to “L”. This change has being executed after analysis of the Swedish authority file. Examples From SE 0202029 A to SE 0202029 L From SE 9601063 A to SE 9601063 L The correction had an impact on approximately 40.000 SE-A publications in the database. Abo...
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Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:30 am
Forum: Data News
Topic: Jan. 2020 - IT: SPC legal event data
Replies: 0
Views: 10598

Jan. 2020 - IT: SPC legal event data

End of January 2020 information on the request for and the grant of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) in Italy was introduced to the INPADOC worldwide legal event database. The data dates back to 2015. The data will be updated every time the Italian Patent Office publishes the SPC Bulleti...
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Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:23 am
Forum: Data News
Topic: Jan. 2020 - HR legal event data
Replies: 0
Views: 4938

Jan. 2020 - HR legal event data

For the first time, Croatian (HR) legal events are available in the INPADOC worldwide legal event database, thanks to regular deliveries from the Croatian Patent Office. You will now find information on the discontinuation of applications, on the grant and discontinuation of IP rights, party data ch...
by EPO / Patent Data Services
Tue Nov 19, 2019 2:48 pm
Forum: Data News
Topic: Nov. 2019 - PE: Correction of publication and application numbers
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Views: 7358

Nov. 2019 - PE: Correction of publication and application numbers

We have performed a correction of publication/application numbers for authority code ‘PE’. Approximately 20.000 documents were affected. These documents had inadvertently been loaded with CCYY at the end of the number instead of CCYY at the start of the number. This has now been fixed. Publication n...
by EPO / Patent Data Services
Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:51 pm
Forum: Data News
Topic: More data for EP full-text search
Replies: 0
Views: 24394

More data for EP full-text search

The full-text of international publications of Euro-PCT applications published by WIPO and not republished by the EPO is now searchable once the international publication has been mentioned in the European Patent Bulletin. As of today, documents from week 1/2019 onwards have been loaded. The backfil...
by EPO / Patent Data Services
Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:28 am
Forum: Data News
Topic: July 2019: UA - Change of number format
Replies: 0
Views: 7990

July 2019: UA - Change of number format

Please be informed of a change of number format in applications and priorities with authority code ‘UA’ (Ukraine). This change combines two actions on the application number format: 1) complete collection : application number will be prefixed by letter ‘A’ or ‘U’ – representing the application kind ...