Surely the EPO should be working at making life easier for their customers ..... rather than the customer having to make it easier for the EPO. Well it might if it weren't fobbing off on its unsuspecting public such a "problematic" PDF document creator... Come on, it isn't as if there are...

Hi to the list managers, Any news on the ISO 26300 front ? Or has the EPO gone with Office Open XML, the err, as yet still fully unpublished specification "accepted" as an ISO standard in circumstances in which the ISO normative body became the laughing stock worldwide ;-)) BTW what has a ...

Hi Thorsten,

Yes I only realised after my post that this person has been essentially polluting the list subjects. Couldn't you just unsubscribe them ?

Alex

V4 offers a Patent Management Interface and there is already some information and development kit available to start programming for this interface - see http://www.epoline.org/olfdevelopmentkit.html Hi Thorsten, I downloaded what I thought was the source for the SDK, but when you unzip it, you end...

The initial question was in relation to whether the online filing software was going to support CML or SVG representations for chemical formulae, or some other, free, open and fully documented standard. At present, if you want to file chemical formulae, e.g. Markush structures, you have to provide t...

Any update / news available on this topic ? CML is gaining ground all the time, as is Inchl/SMILES, would be nice to know where the EPO is heading ?

Alex

AllanRG wrote:Hi,

Can anyone tell me which programming language the client side eOLF opensource software is written in?

Thanks

Allan

Originally in Delphi, although I'm not sure whether that is still the case today. The client source code isn't available AFAIK.

Alex

Hi all, An update on the ODF plugin : there are now at least 2 different suppliers of a plugin that allows users to read/write in and from the ODF format from within Microsoft Office. One of these plugins is supplied by Sun Microsystems Inc. How have things progressed with evaluation of ISO26300 wit...

Hello, I am trying to copy/paste a sequence listing generated by PatentIn into a document created with PatXml. However, the resulting application is incomprehensible since the alignment between the nucleic acid sequence and its numbering is destroyed by the font used in PatXML. Any idea on how I ca...

Our firm is a Linux and MacOSX workstation outfit. Even though the card reader is recognised by my Linux systems, there is no way to load the cryptographic libraries because they are MS Windows only. A further surprise is that one can readliy find specific SmartCard drivers for Linux on the GemPlus...