Dear fdighera,

we check the issue you reported and will answer asap

Best regards,

User support

Dear Marc, Whilst the specific data that you need will depend upon the use cases, two important sources include the EP Register and Federated Register. The Federated Register provides a single point of access to reliable post‑grant bibliographic and legal status information on European patents. INPA...

Should you use the European Publication Server (user interface or web service), please look at this important post.

User support

The EPO is rebuilding the European Publication Server (EPS) on a modern architecture. The new EPS is available for testing now, and we would like to invite users of the current EPS to contribute to the validation of the new EPS. If you would be willing to participate in the Pilot Phase of the new to...

Dear Marc, We apologise for our very late answer. - EP full-text search (weekly update): mainly for detailed searches in the bibliographic data and full-text (descriptions, claims) of EP publications - EP Bulletin search (weekly update): mainly for detailed searches in the bibliographic data and leg...

this information is searchable in EP full-text search and in EP Bulletin search.
best regards, EPAL team

Hello Marc, In our opinion, the most convenient way to assess the coverage of INPADOC legal event codes is the weekly statistics file, which are available under: https://link.epo.org/web/coverage/weekly/EN-Contents-coverage-INPADOC-lega-event-data.xlsx Event codes in this file can be filtered accord...

What happens to the previous H01L-CPC-Classification in case of the introduction of the new H10: Do H01L-CPC instances which do not correlate to any new H10 instances simply disappear or are they somehow continued? => These H01L subclasses are now residual to the new H10 places. Generally speaking ...

Dear Bradford, You could use PUB2 instead of PCPA - e.g. PUB2 = 202301 returns 100 documents that are patents maintained in amended form in January 2023, i.e. B2 published in January 2023. See for example 3479183: Most recent event Publication of B2 document - Published on 04.01.2023 [2023-01] ... P...

The new user manual is now online (version 3 - PDF file). Please check revision sheet on page 2 for an overview of the amendments. See e.g. annex 1.A for search criteria codes that have been renamed (for example, APDT "application filing date" becomes APD, APNM "Applicant" become...