Promotion

Free patent databases

esp@cenet
Search 60 million patent documents online
Register Plus
Procedural information on all European patent applications 
ESPACE EP
Full-text of the most recent four weeks of EP-A and EP-B publications

European patent documents


Learning area

Find seminars and other educational events offered by the EPO or consult e-learning modules online



URL: Location: HomePatentsPatent informationRaw data resources (INPADOC)Raw data products and test data

Description of the raw data products and test data

Due to an increasing demand for detailed information on our raw data products this section has been added to our website.

Here you will find descriptions and details of our product as well as some test data.

To access them, please click on the title of the files in the table below.

The following raw data products can be processed and customised according to individual requirements.

Please note: The included test data are only extracts of the weekly download files.


Product number
Name of product
14.2 Text of EP-A documents
14.3 Text of EP-B documents
14.5 Text of EP A abstracts created in English from EP-A documents published in French and German
14.6  Text of decisions of the EPO Boards of Appeal  
14.7 EPO patent information resource (DOCDB)
14.8
ECLA database  
14.9
REFI database
14.11 INPADOC Worldwide legal status (PRS)  
14.12 EP-A & EP-B combined
14.14.1 Clipped Images from the BNS collection
14.15 NPL Database
14.17 EP Full Text Database
14.18 WO Full Text Database

Information on downloading the products from our website

  • To regularly download raw data from the EPO website, you must subscribe to the service
  • The data is password protected
  • Only the most recent weeks of the front files are available
  • Back-files are delivered on carriers (CD-Rom/DVD or external hard disk)

Data Usage

Please note that neither the data nor the products may be used or sold commercially without a licence agreement. Details on the agreement and the general conditions for the delivery of EPO information products can be referred to in the overall products price list


© European Patent Office.Imprint.Terms of use..Last updated: 30.9.2008