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Tutorials: Patent information tools
Introductory resources
The following e-learning tools have been created to help you find your way around patent information products and services the EPO makes available to the public.
IP tools - Put your business idea in context
Ideas alone are not always enough to make a successful breakthrough into the business world. Using intellectual property tools, users can find relevant legal, technical and commercial information to help them put their business idea in context.
Patent information is the name we give to the technical information you find in patent documents, plus legal and business-relevant information about them.This e-learning module has been created to help you learn about patent information and its uses.
The European Patent Register contains all the publicly available information on European patent applications as they pass through the grant procedure, including oppositions, patent attorney/EPO correspondence and more. To guide you through the Register and to help you learn how to retrieve legal and procedural data, we have created this e-learning tool.
GPI is a powerful tool that enables you to perform detailed searches in the EPO's worldwide bibliographic, legal event and full-text data sets.
Specific features
The following videos present and explain some specific features of various highly useful tools.
Federated Register
OPS - Open Patent Services
CCD - Common Citation Document (Espacenet)
Register Alert
Global Dossier
EP Bulletin search
European Patent Register
GPI - Global Patent Index
Patent families at the EPO
Basic documentation
Click on the links to access:
CCD Handbook ( EN)
Pocket Guide: European Patent Register (EN, FR, DE )
Pocket Guide: New Espacenet (EN, FR, DE)
Pocket Guide: Classic Espacenet (EN, FR , DE)
Resource Book: European Patent Register (EN, FR, DE)
Resource Book: Classic Espacenet (EN)
User manual: EP Bulletin search (EN)
User manual: Global Patent Index (EN)
User manual: Patent families at the EPO (EN)
Virtual classrooms on patent information
Selected recordings
Click on the accordions to find a compilation of recordings of recent virtual classrooms on the latest developments, (new) features etc. of the different patent information tools offered by the EPO.
Asian patent information
Protection beyond 20 years – SPCs, term extensions and adjustments.
Session 3: Korea and China (June 2021)
Protection beyond 20 years - SPCs, term extensions and adjustments.
Session 2: Japan (June 2021)Protection beyond 20 years - SPCs, term extensions and adjustments.
Session 1: EU (May 2021)
Patent information from the ASEAN region - Session 1:
Singapore and Malaysia (February 2021)
Patent information from the ASEAN region - Session 2:
Thailand and Indonesia (March 2021)Patent Information from the ASEAN region - Session 3:
Philippines, Vietnam and Myanmar (March 2021)
Patent information from India (December 2019)
Overview of Korea (December 2019)
Overview of Japanese patent information (November 2019)
Overview of Chinese patent information (November 2019)
Searching Asian trade mark information: China (December 2018)
Searching Asian trade mark information: Korea (December 2018)
Searching Asian trade mark information: Japan (November 2018)
Data and analysis
EP patent information and CPC taxonomy as linked data (March 2021)
INPADOC worldwide legal event database:
What - Why - Where - Which -
How of EPO's legal event collection (March 2021)INPADOC worldwide legal event database (September 2020)
PATSTAT Online (September 2020)
EP patent information and CPC taxonomy as linked data (March 2020)
PATSTAT online (February 2020)
Patent families (January 2020)
Overview of PATSTAT Online (September 2019)
PATSTAT Online - Beginners interface (July 2019)
PATSTAT Online (February 2019)
Business use of patent information (April 2018)
Innovation/patent insight reports
Future and emerging technologies:
CAR Immunotherapy - beyond T-cell (February 2021)
Future and emerging technologies (FETs):
4D printing (February 2021)
Future and emerging technologies:
graphene in healthcare (February 2021)
The patent landscape of quantum sensing and metrology (June 2020)
The patent landscape of Graphene Composite Technology (May 2020)
The patent landscape of blockchain (May 2020)
The patent landscape of CAR T-cell immunotherapy (April 2020)
Space-borne sensing and green applications (November 2022)
Legal information search and products
INPADOC worldwide legal status database – advanced (March 2021)
The European Patent Register as a source of legal information (February 2021)
The European Patent Register as a source of legal information (October 2020)
Accessing court decisions on patents across Europe with ECLI (September 2020)
The EP Register as a source of legal information (March 2020)
The European Patent Register as a source of legal information (October 2019)
European Patent Register improvements:
File inspection - Cited opposition documents (September 2019)What is new in the European Patent Register? (July 2019)
Accessing court decisions on patents across Europe with ECLI (May 2019)
Patent information from EPO validation states: Cambodia (February 2019)
Patent information from EPO validation states: Morocco & Tunisia (February 2019)
Patent information from EPO validation states: Moldova (February 2019)
Accessing court decisions on patents across Europe with ECLI (December 2018)
The Federated Register service as a source of legal status information (September 2018)
Monitoring with EPO products (September 2018)
Accessing court decisions on patents across Europe with ECLI (June 2018)
Patent search
Get the most from Global Patent Index (GPI) (March 2021)
Introduction to Espacenet (February 2021)
Advanced features of Espacenet (February 2021)
New Espacenet: Advanced features (January 2020)
Introduction to new Espacenet (January 2020)
New Espacenet: Advanced features (June 2019)
Overview of new Espacenet (June 2019)
Introducing the new Espacenet (March 2019)
Business Use of Patent Information
Library
This section of the course provides direct access to the videos. There is no additional material available here.
Specific features
Asian patent information
Data and analysis
Innovation/patent insight reports
Legal information search and products
Patent search
Business Use of Patent Information