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Data coverage
The service covers complete sets of T, G, J and V decisions and incomplete sets of D (160 missing) and W (407 missing) decisions from 1979 where:
D stands for the Disciplinary Board of Appeals
G stands for the Enlarged Board of Appeals
J stands for the Legal Board of Appeals
T stands for technical boards of appeal
V stands for the Examining and Opposition Division
W stands for decisions on protest cases
The missing decisions will be included in the database as soon as possible. New decisions of the boards of appeal will be added to the database usually within one month after delivery to the parties.
Decisions older than 1.6.1993 and J decisions regardless of their date (unless they have been published in the Official Journal) do not come with a PDF file comprising the full text of the decision. These decisions display the text directly under the bibliographic data and do not contain any images.
Advanced search tips
| Boolean operators | ||
| operator | description | example |
| AND | Adds mandatory criteria to the search and finds documents that have all of the specified terms. | EPC_Art_054 AND EPC_R_065 Finds only documents containing both article 54 and rule 65 |
| OR | Adds optional criteria to the search and finds any document that contains at least one of the search terms. | EPC_Art_054 OR EPC_R_065 Finds documents containing either article 54 or rule 65 |
| NOT | Finds documents that do not contain a specific term Note: You can use NOT to modify the OR or the AND operator | EPC_Art_054 AND NOT EPC_R_065 Finds documents containing the article 54 but not the rule 65. |
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<NEAR/N>
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Finds documents in which two or more specified words are within N number of words from each other. N can be an integer up to 1000. The documents are ranked for relevance based on the words' proximity to each other. |
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| Specific information/syntax | |
| Search for | Syntax |
| EPC (Articles or Rules) | [note: the examples are valid for all 3 languages] |
| Article 54(2) | EPC_Art_054* <NEAR/1> '*(2)' |
| Article 54 | EPC_Art_054* |
| Rule 65(1) | EPC_R_065* <NEAR/1> '*(1)' |
| Rule 65 | EPC_R_065* |
| Application number | [note: the example is valid for all 3 languages] |
| EP88102368.3 |
88102368*
[8 digits + *] |
| IPC Class | [note: the examples are valid for all 3 languages] |
| Class C21 | C21* |
| Subclass C21B | C21B |
| Subgroup C21B 13/14 |
C21B 13/14
[note: please respect the "space" between B and 13/14] or C21B <NEAR/2> 13/14 |
| Date of decision | [note: the example is valid for all 3 languages YY.MM.DD] |
| 23-Apr-97 | 97.04.23 |
| 1998 | 98.* |
| Case Number | [note: the examples are valid for all 3 languages] |
| T 1022/92 |
T_1022/92
[note:the underscore "_" between the inital letter and the digits is essential] |
| Set of G-decisions in the DB | G_* |
| Set of J-decisions in the DB | J_* |
| Citing decisions | [note: the examples are valid for all 3 languages] |
| G 0003/99 |
G 0003/99
Do not use underscore between the initial letter and the digits to differentiate this search from a case number search |