Expression to search for patents with filing date within a period

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MerinP
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Expression to search for patents with filing date within a period

Post by MerinP » Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:17 pm

Hi,

I am looking for an expression that allows me to search for patents with filing date withing 2 specific dates

[http://ops.epo.org/3.2/rest-services/re ... earch?q=fd within "20170701,20170930" and pa=GB&range=1-100]

Server return 400 for the above URL

Can someone please help me in correcting bove URL


Thanks,
Merin


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Re: Expression to search for patents with filing date within a period

Post by EPO / OPS Support » Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:33 pm

Hi,

The searches as you are trying to do are not possible in OPS.

You have a list of all possible queries in Testing console; https://developers.epo.org/ and all available field identifies that you can use in CQL search are in OPS documentation on the website: https://www.epo.org/searching-for-paten ... s/ops.html - Look under CQL index and CQL queries.

As you will see, filling date is not available for such queries, this is why OPS is also not a tool to be used for monitoring or watch service. Firstly, because you cannot do such queries and secondly, because OPS returns only first 2000 hits for every query.

Regards,
Vesna for OPS support


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