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22.5.2023
Patent Knowledge Snippets

Unitary Patent in European Patent Register

 
8.5.2023
Patent knowledge seminars

Sign up for the next round of free seminars in May!

 
24.4.2023
Patent Knowledge Snippets

PATLIB conference on 11 May open for registration now!

 
24.4.2023
Accessing and understanding patent information from Latin America

Worldwide IP seminars on five jurisdictions

 
24.4.2023
Patenticulars

Solutions to the Easter egg hunting challenge

 
11.4.2023
Patent Knowledge Snippets

Share your Espacenet results as data visuals

 
11.4.2023
DOCDB – putting a square peg in a round hole

PART III – publication kind codes and using ST.30 tags

 
4.4.2023
Patenticulars

Easter egg hunting challenge

 
27.3.2023
Accelerated examination and speedy grants in China

Short time window when monitoring Chinese applications

 
27.3.2023
Patent knowledge seminars

Sign up for the next round of free seminars in April!

 
13.3.2023
DOCDB - putting a square peg in a round hole

Part II – exotic kind codes and number suffixes: the details

 
8.3.2023
CNIPA's file inspection platform is moving!

Important news for users of Chinese patent information

 
27.2.2023
Patent Knowledge Snippets

EPO learning event alerts

 
27.2.2023
New standard for sequence listings now visible to users

EPO publishes first EP applications with sequence listings according to WIPO Standard ST.26

 
27.2.2023
Second public consultation on the EPO Observatory

Share your input before 10 March and help steer the Observatory's key topics, tools and activities

 
13.2.2023
Patent Knowledge Snippets

Unitary Patent information in patent knowledge

 
13.2.2023
Patent knowledge seminars begin in 2023

Sign up for free online training

 
13.2.2023
DOCDB - putting a square peg in a round hole

Part I – exotic kind codes and number suffixes, an overview

 
30.1.2023
Patent Knowledge Snippets

New patent analytics Patent Knowledge Nuggets released

 
30.1.2023
Unitary Patent transition period has started

Finding requests to delay grants in the European Patent Register

 
30.1.2023
Patent knowledge and technology transfer

How using patent knowledge can help you to find innovative business partners

 
30.1.2023
Patenticulars

Patent Knowledge News celebrates World Braille Day

 
19.12.2022
Christmas baking

'Tis the season to be baking … falalalalaaa … lalalala!

 
19.12.2022
Patent Knowledge Snippets

Publication of first EP application with Montenegro as designated contracting state

 
19.12.2022
Innovation today for a greener tomorrow

The role of patent knowledge in innovation and sustainability

 
5.12.2022
Patent Knowledge Snippets

South Korea: tips for monitoring examination requests

 
5.12.2022
Calendar systems and their role in patent documentation

Part III: Buddhist calendar and Hijri years

 
21.11.2022
Patent Knowledge Snippets

Sequence listings in ST.25 txt format / New developments in China and Vietnam

 
21.11.2022
Content and coverage tables

The weekly updates

 
7.11.2022
Patent Knowledge Snippets

Espacenet reaches 140 million documents / USPTO's Public PAIR system replaced by Patent Center

 
24.10.2022
Creating opportunities with patent knowledge

Report on the EPO's second Patent Knowledge Week 2022

 
24.10.2022
Searching legal information beyond the Register

Combining two powerful products for the perfect search

 
10.10.2022
Patent Knowledge Snippets

Montenegro becomes a contracting state / New set of Patent Knowledge Nuggets released

 
10.10.2022
A new patent insight report on space-borne sensing and green applications

The importance of space-borne sensing technologies for the UN-SDGs

 
10.10.2022
Did you know … it's easy to edit your queries in Espacenet?

Would you like to have a better visualisation of your search when using complex queries?

 
26.9.2022
Patent Knowledge Snippets

New milestone reached in INPADOC / update on utility model law in Korea

 
26.9.2022
Patent Knowledge Week 2022

Last chance to register. Find out more about the programme

 
26.9.2022
EP post-grant events and validity searching

Finding post-grant events in EPO services

 
12.9.2022
Patent Knowledge Snippets

Espacenet help files released / new functions for searching Korean licensee data in KIPRIS

 
12.9.2022
Calendar systems and their role in patent documentation

Part II: Taiwanese Republican years

 
12.9.2022
Patenticulars

Patent citations are like music to our ears

 
3.8.2022
Patent Knowledge Week 2022

Registration is now open!

 
18.7.2022
New version of the EP authority file published

A valuable tool for understanding EP patent document publication numbers

 
18.7.2022
European Patent Register

Sequence listings available in the Register in ST.26 XML format

 
18.7.2022
PK News wishes you a nice summer break!

Here are some fun inventions for the summer to help keep you cool, hydrated and entertained!

 
4.7.2022
Patent Knowledge Week 2022

Save the dates: 4-7 October 2022

 
4.7.2022
Patenticulars

Celebrating a sweet, sweet day with some traditional knowledge!

 
20.6.2022
A new patent insight report on electrolysers for hydrogen production

The latest trends in the field of electrolysers and their importance for our world.

 
20.6.2022
PATLIB2022 Conference

Learn, share and connect to support innovation!

 
20.6.2022
Patenticulars

Solution to the previous challenge

 
7.6.2022
Calendar systems and their role in patent documentation

Part I: Japanese imperial years

 
7.6.2022
IP Statistics for Decision Makers conference

Save the dates: 14 and 15 June

 
7.6.2022
Patenticulars

Celebrating a healthy, equitable and environmentally-friendly invention!

 
23.5.2022
Patent gazettes

Your first port of call for new technical inventions.

 
23.5.2022
Save the dates – EPO Patent Data User Days 2022

This year, sessions open to the public!

 
9.5.2022
Patent knowledge online training

Sign up to our live patent knowledge online seminars

 
9.5.2022
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25.4.2022
Patents and standards

Standards play an important role in search reports in many technical areas.

 
25.4.2022
Did you know that …

… in Espacenet you can find applicants or inventors residing in a certain country?

 
25.4.2022
Patenticulars

Solution to the previous challenge

 
11.4.2022
What’s new in Asia?

Recent and upcoming developments in Asian patent information

 
11.4.2022
Patenticulars

"Spirit in motion": how inventions support Paralympic athletes

 
28.3.2022
Did you know that…

…you can use a template with predefined search fields in Espacenet?

 
28.3.2022
Patenticulars

How patent data helps monitor trends in water-related innovation

 
14.3.2022
Patent document INID codes and how they can help you

Do you sometimes struggle to make sense of patent documents in a foreign language?

 
14.3.2022
Patenticulars

How do you make Japanese inside-out boiled eggs?

 
28.2.2022
Patent knowledge online training

Sign up for one of our live online seminars in Spring 2022!

 
28.2.2022
Improvements in the European Patent Register

More countries have joined the Federated Register and the deep-linking service

 
28.2.2022
Regular patent monitoring: Why you should use GPI

and why you should not search by publication date

 
28.2.2022
Patenticulars

Thanks to two women, you can see clearly now!

 
14.2.2022
Making CPC available at the time of publication

Availability of the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) on the day of publication on published EP documents.

 
14.2.2022
International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Let's celebrate women inventors today and every day

 
14.2.2022
Patenticulars

Here is the solution to our end-of-year crossword challenge

 
31.1.2022
Why “B” does not always build on “A”

Why it can be dangerous to focus only on laid-open publications (“A” documents) in a prior art monitoring

 
31.1.2022
Patenticulars

Patent Translate - a success story thanks to our users and co-operation partners

 
17.1.2022
Patent knowledge and sustainable solutions

The role patent knowledge plays in building sustainable solutions

 
17.1.2022
Patent Knowledge Nuggets released

The first three videos in the Patent Knowledge Nuggets series have been released!

 
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