About EPO Open Patent Services

PatZilla uses the Open Patent Services (OPS) provided by the European Patent Office (EPO) to display bibliographic data of patent documents. See also https://ops.epo.org/ for more information about this service.

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Introduction

Open Patent Services (OPS) is a web service which provides access to the EPO’s raw data via a standardised XML interface. It does this using RESTful architecture.

OPS data is extracted from the EPO’s bibliographic, worldwide legal status, full-text and image databases. It is therefore from the same sources as the Espacenet and European Patent Register data. The number of documents available recently passed the 100-million mark.

With OPS you can:

• add EPO data to your own software applications or in-house databases
• develop tailor-made clients
• download large volumes of data

You might also want to have a look at some information provided by the EPO:

• FAQ on Open Patent Services (OPS)
• OPS version 3.2 documentation – version 1.3.1
• Open Patent Services (OPS) » Documentation and downloads

Setup

Please follow up at Setup EPO Open Patent Services about how to use EPO OPS with PatZilla.