Dear All, The article on GPI in the last Patent Information News explains the added value of queries combining names in Latin alphabet with names in original languages such as Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages. In order to easily identify original applicant names used in patent documents, GPI n...

Dear users, On 06 June 2018 EPAL team will hold an online seminar on how to search EP Bulletin – one of the databases offered under the Patent Information Services for Experts. EP Bulletin search (http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/legal/bulletin/ep-bulletin-search.html#tab1 ) is a different p...

Dear URTour,

Could you please indicate which EPO product you use? Is it "EP full-text search", "EP Bulletin search", Espacenet, ...?

Thanks in advance for your answer,

Best regards,

EPAL team

We are glad to inform you that the reported issue has been solved and the EPS is operational again

We are glad to inform you that the EP Publication Server is available again.

Due to technical problems are affecting the EP Publication server the service has been temporarily disabled.
We apologize for the inconveniences caused and will let you know as soon as the EPS is available again.

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Dear All, The queries available in your search history are linked to your username and as your current username will no longer be usable as of week 1/2018, your search history box will be empty. Therefore, should you have queries in your search history you would like to re-use in 2018, we advise you...

Dear Users,

We inform you that in the next GPI update (GPI 2017/46 this Friday at 12:00) there will be no new DOCDB bibliographic data available for the following authorities and kind codes: US A1 and WO A1/A2/A3.

Best regards,

Patrick

Dear Jern,

In that case you may use PUK (publication kind code) to exclude documents as follows (assuming that publications which are translations have the kind code, e.g. T, T3, etc.) :

ISG=YES and DFE[201706, 201709] andnot PUK=T* and ...

Best regards,

Patrick