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Patent information products
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| Name | Description | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Online services | ||
| European Patent Register | The most complete and up-to-date source of publicly available procedural information on European patent applications as they pass through each stage of the EPO granting process and on European patents with unitary effect. | Free |
| European Publication Server | The European Publication Server is the legally authoritative source of information on patent applications and patent specifications published by the EPO. | Free |
| Espacenet | The public online service for searching and retrieving patent information including EPO’s worldwide bibliographic and full-text data collections | Free |
| Technology Intelligence Platform (TIP) | The Technology Intelligence platform is the latest state-of-the-art data platform which allows you to process, combine, analyse, and visualise patent data with third-party data in a single web-based cloud-native platform. | Free |
| EP Bulletin search | The online EP Bulletin search offers free access to bibliographic and procedural data on European patent applications and granted patents from 1978 to the present day, using advanced full-text search capabilities. | Free |
| EP full-text search | With EP full-text search you can search European patent applications (A documents) and granted patents (B documents) from 1978 to the present day and track new publications using advanced full-text search capabilities. | Free |
| Text of decisions of EPO Boards of Appeal | The Boards of Appeal has published over 42 000 decisions, which can be consulted by performing a free text search, or by using advanced search filters. | Free |
| Global Patent Index (GPI) | Global Patent Index (GPI) is a legacy product for searches in the EPO’s worldwide bibliographic, legal status and full-text data collections. | Annual subscription: EUR 755 Bi-annual subscription: EUR 490 Quarterly subscription: EUR 250 |
| PATSTAT Online | Legacy web-based interface to the PATSTAT databases for conducting statistical patent analyses, visualising the data and downloading it for offline use. | Annual subscription: EUR 755 Bi-annual subscription: EUR 490 Quarterly subscription: EUR 250 |
| Data | ||
| EP bibliographic data (EBD) | EBD contains all newly published applications and patents and recent changes to previously published patents. | Free |
| European Patent Register data | The backfile is a snapshot of the European Patent Register data. | Free |
| EPO worldwide bibliographic database (DOCDB) | DOCDB contains all worldwide bibliographic data, abstracts and citations. | Free |
| EPO worldwide legal status database (INPADOC) | INPADOC contains all worldwide legal status information on patent publications. | Free |
| EP full-text data | EP full-text data contains all bibliographic, claims, descriptions and drawings of European Patent applications. | Free |
| Linked open EP data | Linked open EP data uses uniform resource identifiers (URIs) to identify patent applications, publications and other resources present in patent data. | Free |
| Sequence listings | Sequence listings of nucleotides or amino acids from EP, Euro-PCT and PCT publications where the EPO is the International Searching Authority. | Free |
| European Case Law Identifier | ECLI is a machine-processable code that can be assigned to decisions from any national or European court. The EPO offers a dedicated sitemap referencing all EPO board of appeal decisions. | Free |
| PATSTAT Global and EP Register | PATSTAT Global: PATSTAT EP Register: | PATSTAT Global PATSTAT EP Register |
| National full-text data | Full-text extractions from our database for the national collections of Switzerland, France, United Kingdom and Spain. | Subscription (download): EUR 2 700 / country Backfile: EUR 9 100 / country |
| APIs | ||
| European Publication Server web service | Application Programming Interface (API) to access all the European patent documents published by the EPO. | Free |
| Open Patent Services (OPS) | Application Programming Interface (API) to access most of the EPO’s data sets programmatically. | Free of charge for up to 4 GB / week Subscription: EUR 2 800 |