Global Patent Index (GPI)

Summary

Database package

GPI is a subscription database. A month free trial is possible.

Provider

European Patent Office (EPO)

Fee

Fee paying

ASPI

Database description

GPI enables you to perform detailed searches in the EPO's worldwide bibliographic, legal event and full-text data sets.
You can can:
• Run detailed searches combining bibliographic, legal event and full text data
• Run data quality assessment
• Run regular monitoring searches
• Visualize search result sets
• Customize data display and download

Highlights

Legal status

Search results

Cooperative Patent Classification

Website

https://data.epo.org/expert-services/index.html

Coverage URL

https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/data/coverage/weekly.html

Coverage

Patent Collections

Bibliographic data

Full text

Partial text

Armenia

Bibliographic data

Partial text

African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)

Bibliographic data

Partial text

European Patent Office (EPO)

Bibliographic data

Full text

Argentina

Bibliographic data

Partial text

Austria

Bibliographic data

Partial text

Australia

Bibliographic data

Partial text

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bibliographic data

Belgium

Bibliographic data

Partial text

Bulgaria

Bibliographic data

Partial text

Brazil

Bibliographic data

Partial text

Belarus

Bibliographic data

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Canada

Bibliographic data

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Switzerland

Bibliographic data

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Chile

Bibliographic data

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China

Bibliographic data

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Czechoslavakia

Bibliographic data

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Colombia

Bibliographic data

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Costa Rica

Bibliographic data

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Cuba

Bibliographic data

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Cyprus

Bibliographic data

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Czech Republic

Bibliographic data

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Germany(DDR data)

Bibliographic data

Partial text

Germany

Bibliographic data

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Denmark

Bibliographic data

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Dominican Republic

Bibliographic data

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Algeria

Bibliographic data

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Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)

Bibliographic data

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Ecuador

Bibliographic data

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Estonia

Bibliographic data

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Egypt

Bibliographic data

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European Patent Office (EPO)

Bibliographic data

Full text

Spain

Bibliographic data

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Finland

Bibliographic data

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France

Bibliographic data

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United Kingdom

Bibliographic data

Full text

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Bibliographic data

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Georgia

Bibliographic data

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Greece

Bibliographic data

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Guatemala

Bibliographic data

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Hong Kong, China

Bibliographic data

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Honduras

Bibliographic data

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Croatia

Bibliographic data

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Indonesia

Bibliographic data

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Ireland

Bibliographic data

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Israel

Bibliographic data

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India

Bibliographic data

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Iceland

Bibliographic data

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Italy

Bibliographic data

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Jordan

Bibliographic data

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Japan

Bibliographic data

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Kenya

Bibliographic data

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Kyrgyzstan

Bibliographic data

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Republic of Korea

Bibliographic data

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Kazakhstan

Bibliographic data

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Lithuania

Bibliographic data

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Luxembourg

Bibliographic data

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Latvia

Bibliographic data

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Morocco

Bibliographic data

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Monaco

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Republic of Moldova

Bibliographic data

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Montenegro

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Mongolia

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Malta

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Malawi

Bibliographic data

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Mexico

Bibliographic data

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Malaysia

Bibliographic data

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Nicaragua

Bibliographic data

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Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

Bibliographic data

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Norway

Bibliographic data

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New Zealand

Bibliographic data

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African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI)

Bibliographic data

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Panama

Bibliographic data

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Peru

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Philippines

Bibliographic data

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Poland

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Portugal

Bibliographic data

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Romania

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Serbia

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Russian Federation

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Saudi Arabia

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Sweden

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Singapore

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Slovenia

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Slovakia

Bibliographic data

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Russian Federation(USSR data)

Bibliographic data

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San Marino

Bibliographic data

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El Salvador

Bibliographic data

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Thailand

Bibliographic data

Tajikistan

Bibliographic data

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Tunisia

Bibliographic data

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Türkiye

Bibliographic data

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Trinidad and Tobago

Bibliographic data

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Taiwan, Province of China

Bibliographic data

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Ukraine

Bibliographic data

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United States of America

Bibliographic data

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Uruguay

Bibliographic data

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Uzbekistan

Bibliographic data

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Viet Nam

Bibliographic data

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Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

Bibliographic data

Full text

Yugoslavia

Bibliographic data

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South Africa

Bibliographic data

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Zambia

Bibliographic data

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Zimbabwe

Bibliographic data

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Interfaces

Language

English

French

German

General search tools

Non-Latin character search

Search history queries

• Run detailed searches combining bibliographic, legal event and full text data
• Run data quality assessment
• Run regular monitoring searches
• Visualize search result sets
• Customize data display and download

Classification

Classifications

Cooperative Patent Classification

FI/F-Terms

International Patent Classification

Other

US Patent Classification

Value-added data

Value added data

Standardized ID numbers

Use of EPO standardized publication, application and priority numbers

Patent family data

Extended

Simple

Searchable simple families, non-searchable extended families

Index lists

Applicant name

All search criteria have their own index, e.g. to check name variations.

Results

Results type

Sorting by relevance

Search result list has customizable content and is sortable, e.g. by dates, numbers, family size – ascending, descending or using search engine default ranking.

Analysis

Analysis data

Applicant and/or inventor

Classification

Dates

Analysis

Graphical

Statistical

Barcharts ranking and correlating the results according to various criteria (applicant, IPC etc.). Bar charts for 15 parameters (Applicant, CPC etc.) and bubble charts for 10 parameters (Earliest priority date, Country of applicant etc.).

Data export

Data Export

Bibliographic data

Citations

Classification

Full document scans

Legal status

Title and/or abstract

Current download limits:
• 10,000 result list entries (bibliographic data, titles and abstracts), e.g. in CSV format
• 1,500 documents (bibliographic data, titles, abstracts and legal event data), e.g. in ODT format
• 10 full documents in PDF format

Non-patent data

Non-patent content

Non-patent literature

NPL references, e.g. of search report citations

Operators

General operators

Anti-proximity (outside of range)

Boolean (AND, OR, NOT, XOR)

Comparison (e.g. >, =<)

Proximity (within range)

Special

Wildcard operators

0-1 characters

1 character

Unlimited characters

‘WITH’ operator for more accurate search results compared with ‘AND’ operator. Anti-proximity can be realized by a combination of ‘NOT’ and ‘Proximity operator.’ Maximum of 5 wildcards per term are allowed.

Truncation

Center truncation

Left truncation

Right truncation

SLART