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Product 14.17
EP Full Text Database
Description
This product includes all patent applications published by the EPO as a so-called "dump" database. Each document is written in one of the three official languages of the EPO. This product is extracted from the internal full-text database and is the only product providing the complete back-file of full text EP-A documents. It does not include images/drawings and some of the texts are OCR'ed (sometimes resulting in poor quality texts)
14.17 is EBCDIC coded
Please note that, according to article 158(1) EPC the European patent applications (EP-A documents) filed via the PCT route are published by WIPO in one of the official language of the EPO are therefore not republished by the EPO. For this reason, they are not included in this product
Details
Current year: updates via download ftp server only
Back-file: from 1978 until 2007 ob USB/Firewire high density hard disk
Format
EBCDIC coded, EPOQUE proprietary form
Price
Current year: € 1924
Back-file: € 2600