Full-text descriptions and claims
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:47 am
Full-text descriptions and claims are currently available from far fewer authorities via OPS than via espacenet (https://www.epo.org/searching-for-paten ... tml#faq-74).
Although I understand that there may be copyright issues or licensing costs associated with providing full-text data from certain authorities, this can limit the usefulness of the OPS service.
Since there are no restrictions on use of US full-text data, as far as I am aware, it is surprising that this data is made available via espacenet but not via OPS.
For other major authorities, such as CN, JP, KR and DE publications, I would be interested to know why full-text data is not made available via OPS. If additional licensing costs were involved, perhaps it would be possible to provide this data via OPS using a different pricing model.
keywords: china japan korea germany usa chinese japanese korean german sipo jpo kipo dpma uspto
Although I understand that there may be copyright issues or licensing costs associated with providing full-text data from certain authorities, this can limit the usefulness of the OPS service.
Since there are no restrictions on use of US full-text data, as far as I am aware, it is surprising that this data is made available via espacenet but not via OPS.
For other major authorities, such as CN, JP, KR and DE publications, I would be interested to know why full-text data is not made available via OPS. If additional licensing costs were involved, perhaps it would be possible to provide this data via OPS using a different pricing model.
keywords: china japan korea germany usa chinese japanese korean german sipo jpo kipo dpma uspto