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This page contains information about known gaps and other content issues. Please note that most of these problems affect only a small number of records.

This page was last updated on: 2020-03-03

Country codeCountry/ AuthorityLast Full text loadedKnown issues (in progress)
Notes
APARIPO2005-04-21

AT

Austria2020-01-15
  • Incorrect separation between description and claims, or between claims
  • Some granted patents published from 1902 to 1989 have full text but the collection is not complete and the format is not as good as usual
  • Abstracts are not available for some records, mainly kind code B in 2008 and 2010-2012

AU

Australia

2020-02-20


  • No paragraphing in description field
  • Abstracts are not available for pre-2011 records
  • Missing full text for some records, mainly published 2002-2005, 1994-1998, 2016

BE

Belgium

2020-02-04


  • Abstracts are not available for records with kind code A published between 1980 and May 1982
BGBulgaria2018-03-30
  • No paragraphing in description field

BR
Brazil2020-02-04

CA
Canada2020-02-14
  • Some PDFs missing

CH
Switzerland2020-01-31
  • Incorrect separation between description and claims

CN
China2020-02-28
  • In some records, paragraph numbers in the translated full text don't match those in the original text

CSCzechoslovakia1993-03-17

CZCzech Republic2020-02-05

DDEast Germany2003-08-07
  • About 2,000 records with no full text
  • Some records have been published by the patent office without abstracts
DE
Germany

2020-02-27



DK
Denmark2020-01-16

EAEurasia2019-12-30
  • PDFs don't include the front page (not delivered by the patent office)

EP

EPO2020-02-26

ES

Spain2020-02-14

FI
Finland2020-01-31

FR
France2020-02-14

GB
Great Britain2020-02-19
  • About 16K records contain description but no claims

HUHungary2019-07-29
  • Some records have been published by the PTO without abstracts

IN

India2020-02-14
  • Some records are missing priority date. Data provider is solving the problem.

JP
Japan2020-02-27

KR
Korea2020-02-28

LtLithuania2020-01-27
  • Some records have been published by the PTO without abstracts
LU
Luxembourg2020-01-10

LVLatvia2020-01-20
  • Some records have been published by the PTO without abstracts
NL
Netherlands2020-01-30

OAOAPI2019-01-31
  • Some records have been published by the PTO without abstracts
PT
Portugal2019-12-27
  • Some full text specifications were not delivered by the patent office
RORomania2020-01-30
  • Some records have claims in the description field
  • Abstracts are not available for some records
RU
Russia2020-02-19

SISlovenia2020-01-31
  • Abstracts are not available for some records
SKSlovakia2020-02-04
  • Abstracts are not available for some records
SUSoviet Union1993-12-30

TW
Taiwan2020-02-11
  • Missing claim dependency in some translations
  • Missing some PDF files

US
United States2020-02-27

WO
WIPO PCT2020-02-27
  •  Some corrupt PDF files

Known issues that are not country-specific

DescriptionResolutionStatus
We found a fair number of records that do not have CPC FI flags, but which do have IPCR FI recordsDocDB issue, reported to the EPOMarch 2019: EPO informed us that this may be a structural problem which will take longer than expected to correct

Some claim numbers were lost in translations

Under evaluationIn progress
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