Global Patent Index (GPI)

GPI is a powerful tool that enables you to perform detailed searches in the EPO's worldwide bibliographic, legal event and full-text data sets.

GPI is updated weekly. More than 500 000 patent documents are added every month.

With GPI you can:

perform regular monitoring (e.g. monthly or quarterly) of technical areas or companies to identify newly added patent documents
use the built-in charts to visualise technical trends and companies' patenting activity in your presentations and reports
choose the data you want to see and download to focus on what you are interested in
run data quality assessments to measure the risk of incomplete search results

Getting started