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This C0 information (also called "C0 marker") will appear in our data collections for EP documents in the case of a positive decision on the request for unitary effect, i.e. when the unitary effect is registered. Even though C0 is not a publication kind code per se, EP C0 documents will be...

Please look at this post, which provides dates about the availability of UP related information in EP Bulletin search - for your information, this product makes almost all EBD data searchable, visible and downloadable.

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Please look at this post, which provides dates about the availability of UP related information in EP Bulletin search - for your information, this product makes almost all EBD data searchable, visible and downloadable.

EP Bulletin search user support

This new version will be available on Wednesday 14.06.2023 - it will include changes in EP Bulletin search related to European patent proceedings (EP information) and unitary patent proceedings (UP information). More specifically: A number of EP information search criteria will be added or renamed o...

Dear JaninaB, In some rare cases a necessary re-run of the EP publication generation process results in un-used publication numbers. You may want to have a look at the EP authority file and documentation available on this page: https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/technical/publication-server/a...

Dear Boutheina, One possible reason is that an Espacenet result list item is a selected publication representing a patent family, i.e. an Espacenet result list does not show all publications of all patent families - a patent family being basically one invention filed and published by a number of pat...

This reclassification is not yet completed so we have forwarded your enquiry to our experts. Until we get their answer, we can already tell you that the CPC viewer, available via ESPACENET contains a option to display notes and warning (toggle found in the menu under the classification search field)...

As previously announced, we confirm that the new DTD ep-patent-document-v1-6 is used as of today in the XML of EP publications, downloadable e.g. from the European Publication Server (user interface and web service): <ep-patent-document id="EP22192215A1" file="EP22192215NWA1.xml"...

Please try $1 and PUB1 = * ("*" means all documents having a PUB1 date whatever its value)

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