Wednesday, February 12, 2014

European Patent Register for PATSTAT

As previously annonced EPO has released EP register data as plug and play extension of patstat.

This new dataset, linkable by appln_id to the other tables, contains the full track of events the application goes across (the legal events table TLS221 may be considered as a subset of this dataset) as well as legal rappresentative and aother useful pieces of info.

An example of the data contained (for EP1.000.000):

https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP99203729&tab=main

here the full EPO letter announcing the releaase:




It is our pleasure to announce that we now have the “European Patent Register for PATSTAT” database ready for sale.  

What is the European Patent Register for PATSTAT ?

The European Patent Register for PATSTAT is a data base extracted from the European Patent Register.  In this database, the European Patent Office stores all the publicly available information it has on European patent applications (inclusive Euro-PCT) as they pass through the grant procedure.  The main purpose of the data base is to allow patent information users in companies, research institutes and public institutions to carry out in-depth statistical or business intelligence analysis of European patent applications.

What can the register do for you ?

Possible areas of research:

§        Broad analysis of the European patent system
§        Applicant filing behaviour at the EPO
§        Technology developments
§        Speed an quality of the granting process
§        Competition matters

Typical questions that can be answered with this data base:

§        In what stage of the procedure do we find European patent applications:  published, refused, withdrawn, granted, opposed, revoked, amended,...  ?
§        Oppositions to a European patents: who is opposing who, in what technological areas (IPC-based) is opposition custom, how long do the various procedural steps take, ... ?
§        How do you find professional representatives active in a certain technological area?
§        What are the success rates of opposition and appeal proceedings?
§        How wide is the scope of the cited prior art? What is the impact of non-patent literature?

How does this new data base relate to PATSTAT ?

The “European Patent Register for PATSTAT” can be used as a standalone database or can be linked to PATSTAT via the application identification (appln_id) .  There are sufficient bibliographical attributes to carry out a broad range of analysis on European patent applications without the need of having PATSTAT.  But it speaks for itself that linking PATSTAT to the “European Patent Register for PATSTAT” opens a whole new range of analysis which was previously not easy possible.



Where do you start ?

If you are interested in “European Patent Register for PATSTAT”, we would advise you to first download a sample data set so that you can check for yourself it the data base contains the necessary attributes for your purpose.  
This sample is available in MS ACCESS format via this link: https://publication.epo.org/raw-data/product?productId=1
We also strongly recommend you to consult the Register Data Catalog if you want to learn about the details of the various tables and attributes.  Here is the link: http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/2A7D990B3A6ADDCCC1257C4000559878/$File/data_catalog_register_v1-1-2_en.pdf

For pricing, we kindly refer you to this document : http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/2A7D990B3A6ADDCCC1257C4000559878/$File/patstat_family_products_pricelist_en.pdf
You will see that we have made a very competitive package price for users who want to order the 3 products together:

ü        PATSTAT
ü        European Patent Register for PATSTAT
ü        EPO worldwide legal status database for PATSTAT

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact us via patstat@epo.org .

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