{
  "id": "ep_publication_number",
  "kind": "datatype",
  "status": "draft",
  "name": "European patent publication number",
  "doc": "Number under which the European Patent Office publishes documents from one European patent application: EP, a seven-digit serial number shared by all publications of the application, and an optional kind code. A1 to A4 mark application publications and search reports, B1 and B2 patent specifications; 8 and 9 in place of the digit mark corrections and corrected reprints. Databases that drop the leading zeros of the serial number are not covered.",
  "is_pii": false,
  "categories": [
    "legal"
  ],
  "langs": [
    "common"
  ],
  "classification": "identifier",
  "regexp": "^EP ?\\d{7}(?: ?(?:A[1-489]|B[1-389]))?$",
  "examples": [
    {
      "value": "EP1000000A1",
      "description": "Application publication of European patent application 1000000",
      "valid": true
    },
    {
      "value": "EP1000000B1",
      "description": "Patent specification of the same application",
      "valid": true
    },
    {
      "value": "EP 1000000",
      "description": "Publication number written without a kind code",
      "valid": true
    },
    {
      "value": "EP12345678A1",
      "description": "Eight digits instead of seven",
      "valid": false
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "type": "doc",
      "url": "https://www.wipo.int/documents/d/standards/docs-en-07-02-02.pdf"
    },
    {
      "type": "doc",
      "url": "https://www.wipo.int/documents/d/standards/docs-en-07-03-02.pdf"
    },
    {
      "type": "doc",
      "url": "https://www.wipo.int/documents/d/standards/docs-en-03-16-01.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "quality": {
    "score": 75,
    "missing": [
      "mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...)",
      "translation",
      "detector coverage"
    ]
  },
  "source": {
    "path": "data/datatypes/any/legal/ep_publication_number.yaml",
    "url": "https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/blob/main/data/datatypes/any/legal/ep_publication_number.yaml",
    "edit_url": "https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/legal/ep_publication_number.yaml"
  },
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ep_publication_number",
    "json": "https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ep_publication_number.json"
  }
}