EPO Patent Search: Company Portfolios, Inventors, Prior Art
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from $1.00 / 1,000 patent rows
Patent search by company, inventor, keyword, CPC or publication number from the EPO official worldwide register: 100+ patent offices, family, legal status, citations and claims. Verified company portfolios and prior art search. $0.002 a search, $0.0015 a row, $0.001 on higher Apify plans.
How every query is read. Company: the patents a company owns (verified against the company's legal names). Inventor: patents naming a person. Search: keywords in title and abstract, narrowed by the filters below. Document: one publication number with family, legal status, citations and claims. Family: every member of a publication's family.
One query per line, read in the mode above: company names, inventor names, search phrases or publication numbers (EP3000000A1, US12724156B1, WO2023187781A1). For programmatic use each entry may also be an object with 'query', 'mode' and any filter below, so one run can mix modes.
Cap on the rows a company, inventor or search query returns. Each row is one patent_record event. Up to 500 (the live search window). Larger portfolios: read has_more in the summary, then run again with the same query and a higher offset.
Where the page starts for a company, inventor or search query. 0 is the first page. For the next page, raise it by the rows you already read (0, then 100, then 200 at 100 rows per query) for as long as has_more in the summary stays true. A live search reaches 500 rows, a stored company portfolio reaches its whole size. Document and family modes ignore it.
Keep only publications from these offices: US, EP, WO, CN, JP, KR, IL, DE, GB and the other two-letter codes. Empty means every office.
Drop applications and keep granted patents (kind codes B, C, E, S, U, Y).
Collapse the members of each patent family to one row, so a portfolio counts inventions rather than filings.
Inventor and search modes: earliest publication date (2020, 2020-06, 2020-06-15).
Search mode: CPC symbols, comma separated (G01S17, H04L9/06, A61K). Any of them matches.
Search mode: narrow the keyword search to this applicant name (token match, not verified).
Inventor mode: narrow to patents where this company is the applicant.
Document mode: which sections to fetch beyond the bibliographic record. Claims and description text exist for EP and WO publications and a few national collections.
[ "family", "legal", "citations"]