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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.
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.
Espacenet offers free access to more than 100 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today. To guide you through Espacenet and to help you learn how to use this database, we have created an interactive e-learning tool.
The European Patent Register (EPR) contains all the publicly available informationon on European patent applications as they pass through the grant procedure,including oppositions,patent attorney/EPO correspondence and more. To guide you through the EPR and to help you learn how to retrieve legal and procedural data, we have created this e-learning tool.
The Global Patent Index (GPI) is an advanced tool for doing professional searches in the EPO's worldwide bibliographic and legal status patent data.
Specific features
The following videos present and explain some specific features of Espacenet, the European Patent Register (EPR) and the Global Patent Index (GPI).
Webinars on patent information
Selected recordings
In the following, you will find a compilation of recordings of recent webinars on the latest developments, (new) features etc. of the different patent information tools offered by the EPO.
Upcoming events
Click on this link to keep informed about upcoming webinars and other training events related to patent information.