Which bulk data sets best suit your needs? (XLS, 23 KB)
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 OPSOPS 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.
Simply follow these five steps:
| "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:
| Title | Format |
|---|---|
| OPS OpenAPI specification | YAML |
| OPS version 3.2 documentation – version 1.3.18 | 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 |
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Open Patent Services XML schemas for CPC: |
XSD XSD XSD |
| Open Patent Services XML schema for Patent Register |
XSD
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| Cross-domain requests |
PDF |
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Legal status tag definition |
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| CPC International documentation and sample package | ZIP |
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