Electronic Bibliographic Data

What is EBD data?

Weekly data, which can be downloaded from this site, giving bibliographic details about new and changed European Patent Office applications and patents.
The files give details, for example, about inventors, applicants, titles, filing dates, publication number, designated states, classification, etc.
The files consist of text data marked up using XML tags according to WIPO Standard ST.36.
Abstracts of new applications are also available for download - in XML format only.
(Note: We will continue to publish SGML data (WIPO ST.32 and ST.35) during 2006 until all clients have switched to the XML format - which is the official publication file from week 1, 2006)

The files are made easily available on the day of publication
Time and money are saved by giving online access to this data (compared to current CD/tape transfer)
The data is in a system and software independent format (XML) which enables it to be used on virtually any platform for many different purposes.