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Overview

Open Patent Services (OPS)

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Open Patent Services (OPS) is a web service which provides access to the EPO's data via a standardised XML interface. It does this using RESTful architecture.

Test OPS

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OPS data is extracted from the EPO's bibliographic, worldwide legal event, full-text and image databases and  is therefore from the same sources as the Espacenet and European Patent Register data.

With OPS you can:

  • add EPO data to your own software applications or in-house databases
  • develop tailor-made clients
  • download large volumes of data
Getting started

 

Simply follow these five steps:

  1. Register to get access credentials
  2. Log in and define a test app for testing
  3. Test the system by clicking APIs in the menu
  4. Define your apps and handle authentication (using "OAuth")
  5. Add them to your script
Conditions
"Non-paying" users Up to 4 GB of data per week Free
"Paying" users More than 4 GB of data per week Annual subscription:
EUR 2 800

For more information about what we consider to be appropriate usage see our:

Fair use charter

Terms and conditions for use of the EPO's Open Patent Services (OPS) 

Further information

Downloads 

Title Format
OPS OpenAPI specification YAML
OPS version 3.2 documentation – version 1.3.20 PDF
Open Patent Services input and output XML schema XSD
EPO St. 36 DOCDB exchange format for bibliographic data XSD
EPO St. 36 DOCDB full-text exchange format for full-text data (claims and description) XSD
Open Patent Services XML schema for legal status data XSD
Open Patent Services XML schemas for CPC:

CCD schema
CPC schema
CPC definitions

 

 

XSD

XSD

XSD
Open Patent Services XML schema for Patent Register XSD
Legal status tag definition PDF
CPC International documentation and sample package  ZIP
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