<designated-states>
  <ep-contracting-states>
    <country>DE</country>
    <country>GB</country>
  </ep-contracting-states>
  <ep-extended-states>
    <ep-extended-state-data>
      <country>BA</country>
    </ep-extended-state-data>
    <ep-extended-state-data>
      <country>ME</country>
    </ep-extended-state-data>
  </ep-extended-states>
</designated-states>

Note: designated-states data is found within the international-convention-data container.

designated-states

Element

INID

Description

pct-designated-states

81, 84

PCT states designated by the applicant. Often the applicant will select to include all member states.

ep-contracting-states

84

EP member states at time of filing or those designated by the applicant.

ep-extended-states

84

Non-member states which signed extension agreements with the EPO. Currently only includes BA. See details here: https://www.epo.org/about-us/foundation/extension-states.html.

ep-validation-states

84

Non-member states which have a validation agreement with the EPO (e.g. MA, MD, TN, KH etc.), different from states which went through the post-grant validation process. See details here: https://www.epo.org/about-us/foundation/validation-states.html

ep-up-participating-states

84

States participating in the Unitary Patent (UP). This element appears only in C0 records.
Note: For A and B records, a list of the UP-participating states is generally available within the legal-status container several days after the initial UP data is received.

designated-states/pct-designated-states

Element

INID

Description

country

81, 84

Country is represented by a standard 2-character code based on WIPO ST.3.

region

84

When the designation is via a regional patent office, the region is specified with the country codes (PCT only).

designated-states/ep-contracting-states

Element

INID

Description

country

84

Country is represented by a standard 2-character code based on WIPO ST.3.

designated-states/ep-extended-states/ep-extended-state-data

Element

INID

Description

country

84

Country is represented by a standard 2-character code based on WIPO ST.3.

date

-

Payment date (YYYYMMDD)

withdrawal-date

-

The request for extension may be withdrawn at any time. It will be deemed withdrawn if the European patent application or the Euro-PCT application is finally refused, withdrawn, or deemed withdrawn.

designated-states/ep-validation-states

Element

INID

Description

country

84

Country is represented by a standard 2-character code based on WIPO ST.3.

designated-states/ep-up-participating-states

Element

INID

Description

country

84

Country is represented by a standard 2-character code based on WIPO ST.3.

Further Reading

For information about the Solr search fields associated with this container, see International Filing and Publishing Data. 

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