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Posted: **Tue May 08, 2018 3:30 pm**

Hi,

I noticed some unusual behavior with the docdb biblio endpoint.

If I query the following two patents together:
JP.H0678863.U
JP.H088451.Y2

The response opens with a status="not found" result, followed by the correct response for each of the two patents:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/3.2/style/exchange.xsl"?>
<ops:world-patent-data xmlns="http://www.epo.org/exchange" xmlns:ops="http://ops.epo.org" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <exchange-documents>
        <exchange-document system="ops.epo.org" country="JP" doc-number="H0678863" kind="U" status="not found">
            <bibliographic-data>
                <publication-reference>
                    <document-id document-id-type="docdb">
                        <country>JP</country>
                        <doc-number>H0678863</doc-number>
                        <kind>U</kind>
                    </document-id>
                </publication-reference>
                <parties/>
            </bibliographic-data>
        </exchange-document>
        <exchange-document system="ops.epo.org" family-id="12112381" country="JP" doc-number="H0678863" kind="U">
            <bibliographic-data>
            ...

But if I query each of those two patents individually, or grouped with other patents, they work just fine.

Posted: **Wed May 09, 2018 6:42 am**

Hi

What was your request in this case? I tested few variations and I cannot come to the same response as you did.

For cases like this, since Japan changes number of every step in a patent procedure, the easiest is to use Full-cycle constituent to get all documents available:

http://ops.epo.org/3.2/rest-services/pu ... full-cycle

The result gives you your U and your Y with only this one simple query.

Please paste here example of your query that gives you below error

Regards,
Vesna for OPS support

Posted: **Wed May 09, 2018 7:25 am**

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curl -X POST \
  https://ops.epo.org/3.2/rest-services/published-data/publication/docdb/biblio \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer MY_TOKEN_HERE' \
  -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' \
  -d 'JP.H0678863.U,JP.H088451.Y2'

Posted: **Mon May 14, 2018 6:58 am**

Please know that the issue is taking care off since you reported it but it might take a release to fix it in production environment. I will let you know once I hear something

Regards,
Vesna for OPS support

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