Thursday, May 6, 2010

Legal status forthcoming in patstat?

Legal status informations, taken from INPADOC database, describe designated states, extension, examination process and so on; in short refer to the entries and procedural steps occurring during the patent grant procedure and the subsequent life of a patent. These are normally published in the patent gazette of the patent-granting country or organisation concerned.

FI for patent EP 1.000.000 you can find here the legal status of the patent.

Each record is described by a PRS code.
For current code explanations please go to the download section under "Legal status codes in English".
Legal code classifications can be found in the download section under "Classification of recently used PRS codes" .
Nowadays this informations are not included in PATSTAT; this is what Geert Boedt posted on patstat forum.


Following the "Patent statistics for decision makers" conference, the EPO has had many requests to link legal status data to PATSTAT.
Some PATSTAT customers already have experience in linking these datasets and we understand several other users are considering carrying out work in this area.
In order to avoid unnecessary double work, the EPO is looking into possibilities to adapt the INPADOC database such that it could be easily linked to PATSTAT.
It would of course be helpful if you would like to share any experiences or user requests with the PATSTAT user community and the EPO.
If you have any suggestions on how you might like to use PATSTAT in conjunction with INPADOC Legal Status Data, we would like to hear from you.


So there's hope in the next future to see legal data inserted in PATSTAT.

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