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Kind of publication codes included in the WIPO XML data
(PDF, 10 KB)
Kind Code Concordance List
(PDF, 148 KB)
Number format concordance - publication numbers
(PDF, 100 KB)
Number format concordance - application/priority numbers
(PDF, 34 KB)
Table of all PRS codes available for SPCs
(PDF, 122 KB)
SPC Number Formats (PDF, 4 KB)
Concordance list for the Italian provinces
(PDF, 61 KB)
List of priority codes (PDF, 38 KB)
The following files are updated weekly. The suffix refers to the number of the current week of the year. For instance, a file with a suffix .21 or 21.xls indicates that its content is valid up to the 21th week of the current year.
The following file formats are used: PDF (Portable Document Format from Adobe), ASCII (ascii); XLS (Microsoft Excel 4.0); WP5 (WordPerfect 5); WP6 (WordPerfect 6), DOC (Microsoft Word 6.0), EXE (self-extracting files).
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| Contents and coverage of the PFS bibliographic file | XLS | 111 KB |
W 20/2008 |
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| Contents and coverage of the legal status PRS file | XLS | 56 KB |
W 20/2008 | download |
| DOCDB ST36 kind codes statistics | XLS |
138 KB | W 20/2008 | download |
| DOCDB ST36 status statistics | XLS | 3.7 MB | W 20/2008 | download |
| DOCDB ST36 new documents statistics | XLS | 144 KB | W 20/2008 | download |
| DOCDB ST36 overview statistics | TXT | 12 KB | W 20/2008 | download |
| DOCDB ST36 kind codes | ASCII | 44 KB |
W 17/2008 | download
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| Legal status codes in original language | ASCII | 204 KB |
W 20/2008 | download |
| Legal status codes in English | ASCII | 210 KB |
W 20/2008 | download |
| Changes in legal status codes in English | ASCII | 49 KB |
W 20/2008 | download |
| Classification of recently used PRS codes | XLS |
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| Description of legal status (PRS) codes for European applications (EP-CODES) | go to page | |||
| Description of legal status (PRS) codes for applications in the United Kingdom (GB-CODES) Part I |
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150 KB-1.4 MB |
July 1996 |
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| Description of legal status (PRS) codes for applications in the United Kingdom (GB-CODES) Part II |
EXE,WP6 |
150 KB-1.4 MB |
July 1996 |
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| Description of legal status (PRS) codes for applications in the United Kingdom (GB-CODES) Part III | July 1997 |
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| Description of legal status (PRS) codes for applications in Germany (DE-CODES) | go to page | |||
| EPO databases weekly download | password protected access |
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