Rest-Service Method to obtain supported country codes
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:35 pm
We are retrieving Legal Status Events from the OPS. Furthermore we are aware that the OPS may either not have information about the patent or information about all patents of a certain country.
The later situation relates to the coverage of legal events you publish here on the web
http://www.epo.org/searching/data/data/ ... eekly.html
In order to not send too many request to the OPS, we would like to have something like a white-list of country codes that may yield a result in the OPS. If a user tries to fetch legal events of a patent that is out of scope of your coverage we want to display immediately that there is no information available.
Currently we parse the excel file of yours, like the one linked below and feed the information into a database.
https://webserv.epo.org/projects/d5413/ ... S_1408.xls
What we would like to have is an endpoint in the rest-service where we can retrieve that information from. Since excel is not the best format to interchange information between computer systems.
Something like
Is there any chance to see something like this some when?
The later situation relates to the coverage of legal events you publish here on the web
http://www.epo.org/searching/data/data/ ... eekly.html
In order to not send too many request to the OPS, we would like to have something like a white-list of country codes that may yield a result in the OPS. If a user tries to fetch legal events of a patent that is out of scope of your coverage we want to display immediately that there is no information available.
Currently we parse the excel file of yours, like the one linked below and feed the information into a database.
https://webserv.epo.org/projects/d5413/ ... S_1408.xls
What we would like to have is an endpoint in the rest-service where we can retrieve that information from. Since excel is not the best format to interchange information between computer systems.
Something like
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# request #
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http://ops.epo.org/3.1/rest-services/legal/supported-countries
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# response #
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{
"countries": [
{
"country": {
"name": "Argentinia",
"availability": [
{
"country_code": "AR",
"from": "2004-01-08T00:00:00Z",
"to": "2013-10-31T23:59:59Z"
}
]
}
},
{
"country": {
"name": "Austria",
"availability": [
{
"country_code": "AT",
"from": "1970-11-15T00:00:00Z",
"to": "2014-02-15T23:59:59Z"
},
{
"country_code": "WO",
"from": "1995-02-01T00:00:00Z",
"to": "2011-11-30T23:59:59Z"
}
]
}
}
]
}