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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: 2019-09-16

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

AT

Austria2019-09-15
  • 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

2019-10-03


  • 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

Belgium2019-09-16
  • 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
Brazil2019-10-01

CA
Canada2019-10-01
  • Some PDFs missing

CH
Switzerland2019-09-13
  • Incorrect separation between description and claims

CN
China2019-10-11

CSCzechoslovakia1993-03-17

CZCzech Republic2019-09-25

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

2019-10-10



DK
Denmark2019-10-04

EAEurasia2019-06-28
  • PDFs don't include the front page (not delivered by the patent office)

EP

EPO2019-10-09

ES

Spain2019-09-30

FI
Finland2019-09-13

FR
France2019-10-04

GB
Great Britain2019-10-02
  • About 16K records contain description but no claims

HUHungary2019-06-14
  • Some records have been published by the PTO without abstracts

IN

India2019-09-20
  • Some records are missing priority date. Data provider is solving the problem.

JP
Japan2019-10-10

KR
Korea2019-10-11

LtLithuania2019-09-25
  • Some records have been published by the PTO without abstracts
LU
Luxembourg2019-09-02

LVLatvia2019-09-20
  • Some records have been published by the PTO without abstracts
NL
Netherlands2019-09-13

OAOAPI2019-01-31
  • Some records have been published by the PTO without abstracts
PT
Portugal2019-01-13
  • Some full text specifications were not delivered by the patent office
RORomania2019-08-30
  • Some records have claims in the description field
  • Abstracts are not available for some records
RU
Russia2019-09-26

SISlovenia2019-08-30
  • Abstracts are not available for some records
SKSlovakia2019-08-05
  • Abstracts are not available for some records
SUSoviet Union1993-12-30

TW
Taiwan2019-10-01
  • Missing claim dependency in some translations
  • Missing some PDF files

US
United States2019-10-10

WO
WIPO PCT2019-10-10
  •  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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