PATSTAT 2023 Autumn release edition ready for download

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PATSTAT 2023 Autumn release edition ready for download

Post by EPO / PATSTAT Support » Thu Nov 04, 2021 6:37 am

Dear PATSTAT subscriber,

The 2023 Autumn edition has been tested, found sound, and is now ready for download.

The bulk data extraction was done end of July 2023, so for the major patent authorities, patents published until the end of 2022 should be complete. PATSTAT Online databases have not yet been updated, but that should happen shortly. (No extra e-mail will be send to announce it.)

EPO Bulk Data Distribution Service platform

Here is the link to the download platform: https://publication-bdds.apps.epo.org/raw-data/products. Questions regarding subscription, access credentials, pricing or invoicing can be sent directly to the EPO Customer Service Centre via csc@epo.org.

Information on how to use the REST service for this new platform is available in the PATSTAT documentation set in the folder: \Useful manuals and other docs\Bulk Data Distribution Service (REST)

In the documentation folder you will also find an updated document called “HowToLoadPATSTATData_v1.16” which contains valuable information on how to get started loading the PATSTAT data files.

PATSTAT news - business as usual, only minor changes.

Data and more

The PATSTAT Standardised Names were not updated. As a result, analysts and researches will need to pay special attention to new applicant (and/or inventor) names, especially with regards to patents that have been published the last 2 years by new applicants.

As already announced in the previous release, all attributes and references to the TLS223_APPLN_DOCUS table have now been removed.

We re-introduced the APPLN_NR_EPODOC attribute in the table TLS201_APPLN because of usage for linking to the PATSTAT EP Register data base. The APPLN_NR_EPODOC attribute is also the best attribute to use in SQL queries to deep link into Espacenet .
Something like the below:

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SELECT top 5 'https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q='+appln_nr_epodoc as 'ESPACENET'
,tls201_appln.appln_auth+appln_nr as number, appln_filing_date 
FROM tls201_appln where appln_auth = 'EP' and appln_filing_year = 2023
Due to technical issues, in the previous edition (Spring 2023) the applicants for US applications (published <2011) was not correctly represented. This has now been corrected, and is similar as in the Autumn 2022 and earlier editions.

This PATSTAT edition is also the first edition that contains data about European patents with unitary effect (UP). Those patent have been registered by the EPO on or after 1 June 2023 and will take effect in the 17 EU Member States currently participating in enhanced co operation and having ratified the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPC Agreement). More information is available here: https://www.epo.org/en/applying/european/unitary

Unitary patents can very easily be identified and retrieved via the extra EP publication kind code ‘C0’ (C- ZERO) -although strictly spoken, it is not a real publication, rather an indication of a positive UP request-.
Something like this:

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SELECT * FROM tls211_pat_publn where publn_auth = 'EP' and publn_kind = 'C0' 
Also the INPADOC data (in TLS231) has already information on the UP. Relevant UP event codes are for example: U01: REQUEST FOR UNITARY EFFECT FILED, U07: POSITIVE DECISION AFTER REQUEST FOR UNITARY EFFECT, etc... There is currently a de-synchronisation between the C0 publications in TLS211 and the data available in TLS231. Also PATSTAT Register does not yet contain UP data. We plan to have it available and nicely synchronised for the Spring 2024 release.

PATSTAT Register
No changes.

PATSTAT Online on PISE (Patent Information Services for Experts)
No changes.

Additional resources
We take this opportunity to inform you about some additional sources of PATSTAT information: On the PATSTAT webpage (http://www.epo.org/patstat) you will find the “Documentation” and “Getting started” tabs with many useful documents and self-study material and sample queries.

The EPO also hosts and monitors the PATSTAT forum; here is the link: patstat-product-line-28/

We also observed that more and more PATSTAT users are starting to use the “EP full-text data for text analytics”. It is available for free, and more information can be found here: https://www.epo.org/searching-for-paten ... ytics.html
Below you will find the links to the upcoming “Patent Knowledge Week” event. A (beginner) PATSTAT session is planned, but there are many other topics that might attract your interest.


EPO Vienna – November 2023
Last edited by EPO / PATSTAT Support on Tue May 09, 2023 3:03 pm, edited 4 times in total.
PATSTAT Support Team
EPO - Vienna
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