ESPACE LEGAL

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Databases searchable using the MIMOSA software:

• Decisions of the EPO boards of appeal
• Directory of professional representatives
• Collection of legal texts

Collection of publications:

• Collection of legal texts, guides and reports related to the European Patent Convention
• Decisions of the EPO boards of appeal, from 1978 onwards in XML
• EQE Compendium, including all the examination papers of the European Qualifying Examination from 1990 onwards.
  

Business use

ESPACE LEGAL was designed as the patent attorney's bookshelf in electronic format  and as a complement to the collection of publications on the EPO's website. Target users are patent attorneys, legal departments and lawyers interested in monitoring the case law at the EPO.

Access

The legal texts are available in HTML or in PDF format which enable links within and between the documents. You only need a standard internet browser and Acrobat Reader software to use ESPACE LEGAL.

The MIMOSA software is provided on the DVD, you do not need to install it. For some functions to work properly, you will need to install Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on your workstation and enable Java scripts.

MIMOSA software

MIMOSA retrieval software is a Microsoft Windows-based software. You can learn to use MIMOSA very rapidly thanks to an extremely user friendly interface in eight different languages. You can customise many parameters for display, printing and downloading to suit your own needs.

With MIMOSA, you have a range of functions available for consulting databases (ten interfaces in different languages; three search masks), and for building, submitting and saving queries. You can display, print or download your search results (documents, notices, hitlist) according to the configuration you choose.

MIMOSA retrieval software includes export facilities for text and image data in standard formats (ASCII, TIFF, PDF, SGML, RTF, TXT, XML), and detailed help in English, French and German. You can use MIMOSA on a stand-alone workstation or over a (LAN) network.

Update frequency

There are two issues of ESPACE LEGAL per year (May, November)

Searchable fields

The following fields are available for searching the decisions of the EPO Boards of Appeal:

APL	Applicant
APN	Application number
ART	Articles and Rules
BOA	Board of appeal
CLR	Year of Jurisprudence Report
CSN	Case number
DAT	Decision date
DCI	Cited decisions
HDN	Headnote
HDW	Headword
IPC	IPC Class
KEY	Keyword
LNG	Document language
NEW	First published on LEGAL, issue
OFJ	Published in Official Journal, issue
OPP	Opponent
PRESENCE	Presence of data
PRL	Procedure language
TXT	Full text (proximity)
TYP	Decision type

The following fields are available for searching the directory of professional representatives:

CITY	Representative's city
LAND	Representative's country code
NAME	Representative's name

The following field is available for searching the collection of legal texts:

TXT

Full text

Subscription

A yearly subscription costs 215 EUR per year.