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Open Patent Services (OPS)
Designed for automated queries, our Open Patent Services (OPS) deliver production-stable and high-quality raw patent data 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Latest updates
- 21.1.2013
- Web services not available on 26 & 27 January 2013
- 21.1.2013
- End support for the legacy 2.6.2 OPS services
RSS: Open Patent Services
With OPS you can:
- access the EPO's worldwide patent data
- enrich your own software applications
- develop tailor-made clients
- integrate your own data with data available via OPS.
To use OPS, you need to be familiar with RESTful web services.
OPS RESTful
| Title | Format |
|---|---|
| REST services WADL descriptor | WADL |
| OPS version 3.0 documentation - version 1.1 | 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 |
| Open Patent Services XML schema for CPC | 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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SOAP based legacy OPS
Please consider that, although the SOAP based services are still supported, their documentation is not updated any longer. OPS Register and CPC as well as any new services that come on line will only be available as REST.
| Title | Format | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Open Patent Services WSDL | WSDL | 28.10.2009 |
| Open Patent Services Manual | PDF |
18.5.2010 |
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