Useful tables and statistics, coverage and codes

Kind of publication codes included in the WIPO XML data (PDF, 10 KB)

Kind code concordance list:

PDF, 226 KB

XLS, 273 KB

Number format concordance - publication numbers:

PDF, 235 KB

XLS, 225 KB

Number format concordance - application/priority numbers:

PDF, 91 KB

XLS, 76 KB

Table of all PRS codes available for SPCs (PDF, 15 KB)

Concordance list for the Italian provinces (PDF, 61 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).
You can download free viewers for the following formats: PDF (Adobe Reader ®), XLS (Excel Viewer ). 

File description File type File size Last updated Download
Contents and coverage of the DOCDB bibliographic file XLS 100 KB
W 05/2012 download
Contents and coverage of the INPADOC legal status file XLS 68 KB W 05/2012 download
DOCDB ST36 kind codes statistics XLS
245 KB W 05/2012 download
DOCDB ST36 status statistics XLS 8438 KB
W 05/2012 download
DOCDB ST36 new documents statistics XLS 123 KB W 05/2012 download
DOCDB ST36 overview statistics TXT 16 KB W 05/2012 download
DOCDB ST36 kind codes ASCII 54 KB
W 09/2011 download
Changes in DOCDB ST36 kind codes ASCII 19 KB
W 09/2011 download
Legal status codes in original language ASCII 232 KB
W 05/2012 download
Legal status codes in English ASCII 237 KB
W 05/2012 download
Changes in legal status codes in English ASCII 135 KB
W 05/2012 download
Overview of citation data in the EPO's citation database (REFI) PDF
  January 2012 download
Classification of recently used PRS codes XLS
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PRS Code Collection List PDF
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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 EXE,WP6 150 KB-1.4 MB July 1996 download
pdf   July 1997 go to page
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 download
pdf   July 1997
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Description of legal status (PRS) codes for applications in the United Kingdom (GB-CODES) Part III pdf   July 1997
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Description of legal status (PRS) codes for applications in Germany (DE-CODES)       go to page

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