Dear Patent Information Users, We are happy to inform you that the latest additions to our bibliographic and full-text databases are now published and updated daily. Latest bibliographic coverage . This is an automated daily update of the complete coverage from the EPO's bibliographic database. The ...

Romania has joined the Federated European Patent Register!!!! The Federated Register view displays official bibliographic and legal status data relating to European patents in the national post-grant phase of the designated states concerned. It’s important to know that this information is hosted in...

Hello, As far as we are aware, for a Spanish student residing in Spain, filing a PCT application with the EPO as Receiving Office there are no reductions available. However, there is a possible reduction available when entering the European phase under Rule 6 EPC and when requesting examination. For...

The EPO has extended the Global dossier service to include file wrapper data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The project is an initiative by the EPO, JPO, KIPO, China's State Industrial Property Office (SIPO) and the USPTO, collectively referred to as the IP5 offices, who...

The EPO has extended the Global dossier service to include file wrapper data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The project is an initiative by the EPO, JPO, KIPO, China's State Industrial Property Office (SIPO) and the USPTO, collectively referred to as the IP5 offices, who...

Dear Shishir, The quickest way to access the claims of a B document, is to select the granted document from the "also published as" list as shown below: Also published as.jpg By clicking on this link, you will open the original publication of the granted document. Alternatively, click on t...

Dear Espacenet Users, Some of you have reported that occasionally when opening the CPC browser in Espacenet, the page appears to be blank. This is due to users' personal settings in their browsers. If you come across this issue, please do the following: Hold down the shift button and click the refre...

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Hi Burkhard, We promote the Espacenet service as a tool to gain “Free access to 90 million patent documents worldwide”. EPODOC, the database behind Espacenet contains ~72 million patent applications. Patent applications can have more than one publication (their family members), so the total number o...

Finland has joined the Federated European Patent Register!!!! The Federated Register view displays official bibliographic and legal status data relating to European patents in the national post-grant phase of the designated states concerned. It’s important to know that this information is hosted in...