Open Patent Services (OPS)

Designed for automated queries, our Open Patent Services (OPS) deliver production-stable and high-quality raw patent data 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Latest updates

27.1.2012: Temporary unavailability of web services on 28/29 January

RSS: Open Patent Services

With OPS you can:

access the EPO's worldwide patent data
enrich your own software applications
develop tailor-made clients
integrate your own data with data available via OPS.

To use OPS, you need to be familiar with SOAP-based and/or RESTful web services.

OPS v 2.6.2. RESTful

Title	Format	Date
REST services WADL descriptor	WADL	24.5.2011
OPS version 2.6.2 documentation - version 1.0.3.2	PDF	13.12.2011
Open Patent Services input and output XML schema	XSD	17.3.2011
EPO St. 36 DOCDB exchange format for bibliographic data	XSD	17.3.2011
EPO St. 36 DOCDB full-text exchange format for full-text data (claims and description)	XSD	17.3.2011
Open Patent Services XML schema for legal status data	XSD	17.3.2011
Open Patent Services XML schema for ECLA	XSD	24.5.2011
Open Patent Services XML schema for Patent Register	XSD	24.5.2011
Cross-domain requests	PDF	24.5.2011

OPS v 2.6.1. SOAP

Title	Format	Date
Open Patent Services WSDL	WSDL	28.10.2009
Open Patent Services input and output XML schema	XSD	28.10.2009
Open Patent Services XML schema for legal status data	XSD	28.10.2009
EPO St. 36 DOCDB exchange format for bibliographic data	XSD	28.10.2009
EPO St. 36 DOCDB full-text exchange format for full-text data (claims and description)	XSD	28.10.2009
Legal status tag definition	PDF	3.8.2006

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