Open Patent Services (OPS)

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

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OPS data is extracted from the EPO's bibliographic, worldwide legal event, full-text and image databases and is therefore from the same sources as the Espacenet and European Patent Register data.

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

Getting started

Simply follow these five steps:

Register to get access credentials
Log in and define a test app for testing
Test the system by clicking APIs in the menu
Define your apps and handle authentication (using "OAuth")
Add them to your script

Conditions

"Non-paying" users	Up to 4 GB of data per week	Free
"Paying" users	More than 4 GB of data per week	Annual subscription: EUR 2 800 Subscribe as paying user

For more information about what we consider to be appropriate usage see our:

Fair use charter

Terms and conditions for use of the EPO's Open Patent Services (OPS)

Further information

Downloads

Title	Format
OPS OpenAPI specification	YAML
OPS version 3.2 documentation – version 1.3.20	PDF
Open Patent Services input and output XML schema	XSD
EPO St. 36 DOCDB exchange format for bibliographic data	XSD
EPO St. 36 DOCDB full-text exchange format for full-text data (claims and description)	XSD
Open Patent Services XML schema for legal status data	XSD
Open Patent Services XML schemas for CPC: CCD schema CPC schema CPC definitions	XSD XSD XSD
Open Patent Services XML schema for Patent Register	XSD
Legal status tag definition	PDF
CPC International documentation and sample package	ZIP

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