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European patent publication number

ID ep_publication_number

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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.

Categories
Legal and compliance
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
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Regular expression

^EP ?\d{7}(?: ?(?:A[1-489]|B[1-389]))?$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
EP1000000A1Application publication of European patent application 1000000
EP1000000B1Patent specification of the same application
EP 1000000Publication number written without a kind code
EP12345678A1 invalidEight digits instead of seven

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