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April 2017: Planning a reload of ifi-integrated-content of EP records
We want would like to announce an improvement in the way we calculate the patent status for EP Designated States. Our upcoming reload of EP records that will consist of:
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will incorporate the following changes:
- Due to customer requests for a simple live/dead status, we are now offering an In-force/Not-in-force status for Designated States. This will result in a more reliable and easy-to-understand calculation of status, and will make this field more usable for things like queries and reports. The new rules are described with in more detail in this page here. Our prior calculation rules can be seen here.
- As a result of this reload and the previous reload of bad formatted claims, we will add the Claims Summary information to EP records.
- We plan to start reloading EP granted patents on May 22, 2017. This will take a few weeks.
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