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Juli 2018 - AT: Change of number format, kind code ‘U’

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 2:27 pm
by EPO / Patent Data Services
The change of number format affects AT applications and priorities with kind code ‘U’.

Applications and priorities with a filing date from 2000 onwards will be changed from old format n(nnnn)yy to new format n(nnnn)CCyy.

The correction will have an impact on:
- 11.599 applications with authority code ‘AT’ - triggered by the correction of the application numbers
- 20.886 applications for a variety of authority codes - triggered by the correction of the priority numbers

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