EPO PATENT DATA NOTIFICATION OF CHANGE 2006/1 Product ...

EPO PATENT DATA NOTIFICATION OF CHANGE 2006/1
Product EBD file (EP Bibliographic data) for EP BULLETIN etc
Change Update of website and conversion of EBD data from SGML to
XML and to Unicode UTF-8. (This is an update of a notification
sent out in March 2005).
Change date Publication week 1, 2006 (Data prepared week 46, 18 November,
2005)
References WIPO ST.36
See web site: http://ebd2.epoline.org/jsp/ebdst36.jsp
To
All recipients of EBD data
Issued by
Description
epoline®, The Hague and Epidos, Vienna
Due to the de-commissioning of part of the EPO's mainframe
system (VM/CMS to be exact) the current publication system has
been re-engineered onto another system. This is based on the
epoline® Phoenix system. It is based on the new WIPO Standard
ST.36 which has been created by the Trilateral partners with
WIPO. In addition we use Unicode (UTF-8).
The EBD website has been updated to reflect this change.
What does this mean for the EBD files
Relatively few changes take place to the old SGML EBD file,
nearly all tags remain exactly the same; the changes are:
• All tags will have end tags
• Some tags and attributes change to lower case
• The tag changes to and some
new attributes are added
• The break tag - - (in addresses) is replaced by UTF-8
code x’0A’, carriage return
• The and tags disappear - it is difficult to add
these to XML files. They are replaced by id attributes added to the
tags where changes may take place for example:
this id then refers back to new tags in the
tag which are:
and
for example:
[Note: this tag exists already]
>
all changes throughout a file are thus gathered together within
• has been added to accommodate the new IPCR
revision which came into force in 2006. The XML data files contain
the new IPC coding.
Note: any back file conversion, that is for all 2005 and previous
data we will use the current etc tagging according to the
new ST.8 recommendations: “The previous version of Standard
ST.8, valid until December 31, 2005, is reproduced as an Annex
EPO Procedural and Technical Support, European Patent Office, Patentlaan 2, NL-2280 HV RIJSWIJK, The Netherlands
epoline@epo.org
Tel: + 31 (0)70 340 4500 Fax: + 31 (0)70 340 4600

to the new Standard ST.8.”
However, any republications of pre-2006 data will be updated to
the new IPCR. See the EBD documentation (on the website) for
full details.
• The abstract data will only be available in XML format since
from week 1 2006 we switched the whole publication system
from SGML to XML.
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Regarding ST.32 and ST.35 EBD data in SGML:
!
• ST.32 and ST:35 data will continue to be published
on the epoline® website:
http://ebd2.epoline.org/jsp/index.jsp
• Please inform the EPO when you no longer
need this data and have switched to the ST.36
XML format (the official format from week 1,
2006)
• We plan to stop ST.32/35 data by the end of
2006.
EPO Procedural and Technical Support, European Patent Office, Patentlaan 2, NL-2280 HV RIJSWIJK, The Netherlands
epoline@epo.org
Tel: + 31 (0)70 340 4500 Fax: + 31 (0)70 340 4600