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ESPACENET (EPO) – FREE PATENT SEARCH
WHAT IT IS ABOUT.
Espacenet (EPO) – Free Patent Search is an open dataset published by European Patent Office (EPO) in the "Intellectual Property & Patents" domain. Available formats: Web portal, PDF, XML. License: EPO data policy; free for public use. Update cadence: daily.
Suitable for undergraduate and graduate theses, group projects, papers and personal analysis portfolios. Always review the documentation and collection methodology before citing the data: institutions publish detailed methodological notes alongside every series.
Accountra indexes this resource and verifies its free-access requirements; delivery remains the responsibility of European Patent Office (EPO) on the official site.
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