Licence regarding Full text data
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 9:25 pm
Hi,
There are full text data available from OPS (e.g. GB Claims and Description) and I would like to ask if there are any separate licensing restrictions apart from the T&C's of the OPS (https://developers.epo.org/sites/defaul ... 022014.pdf) and if anyone can freely use such full text data, after processing the data and not the data as such provided by the OPS. Do the same rules apply to pdf documents as well, downloaded through OPS? For example, GB pdf's are subject to crown copyright.
I've also noticed that some patents are non-existent such as EP268816; have these patents never been issued or is this some error in the EPO database?
Thanks
There are full text data available from OPS (e.g. GB Claims and Description) and I would like to ask if there are any separate licensing restrictions apart from the T&C's of the OPS (https://developers.epo.org/sites/defaul ... 022014.pdf) and if anyone can freely use such full text data, after processing the data and not the data as such provided by the OPS. Do the same rules apply to pdf documents as well, downloaded through OPS? For example, GB pdf's are subject to crown copyright.
I've also noticed that some patents are non-existent such as EP268816; have these patents never been issued or is this some error in the EPO database?
Thanks