The European Patent Office (EPO), established on October 7, 1977, under the European Patent Convention (EPC), is an intergovernmental organization responsible for examining and granting European patents that can take effect in 42 contracting states.

  The EPO ranks among the world's most authoritative and modern patent offices, possessing the most comprehensive patent documentation resources, advanced patent information retrieval systems, and extensive experience in patent examination, appeal procedures, and legal research. The China National Intellectual Property Administration has engaged in extensive collaboration with the EPO regarding document collection, retrieval systems, examiner training, and information product development.

  USDataverse presents European Patent Office patent data containing essential information fields such as patent applicants, patent inventors, IPC classification symbols, CPC classification symbols , C-sets classification , application date, publication date, and publication number collections. This dataset provides robust support for relevant research.

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As of 2022

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