The EPO extends its coverage of Latin American countries in the bibliographic database - update
Newsflash 04/2009
The EPO is continuing to extend the coverage of Latin American countries in the bibliographic databases. In addition to those included in weeks 51 and 52/2008 (Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Peru) as announced in the update of 12.12.2008, the EPO will include Ecuador (EC), Chile (CL), Nicaragua (NI) and Panama (PA) from week 4/2009 onwards.
Below are some details on the coverage and number formats of documents for the new countries.
| Country |
CC |
Types of kind codes |
Number of publications |
Date range |
Upload schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chile |
CL |
A1, A2, A3, B, P, U, Y, S1, S2 |
3.828 | Dates ranging in 2005 and 2008 | Week 6/2009 |
| Ecuador |
EC |
A, S, U | 782 | Dates ranging from 2005-2006 | Week 4/2009 |
| Nicaragua |
NI |
A, S, U | 179 | Dates ranging from 2006-2008 | Week 4/2009 |
| Panama |
PA |
A1, A2, A3, R, S, U | 1953 | Dates ranging from 1999-2006 | Week 5/2009 |