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Contact us. Updated weekly, the European Publication Server gives you free online access to all the European patent documents published by the EPO. The European Publication Server is the legally authoritative source of patent applications and patent specifications published by the EPO. If you are using the European Publication Server for the first time, please see our help pages. There you can find information about European patent documents, search syntax, updates and the data formats available.

Home Searching for patents Searching for patents. Focusing on future and emerging technologies Read more. Patent Knowledge News Technical information We provide access to the largest single source of technical information in the world: our databases containing millions of patent documents. Free Software and its freedoms to use, study, share, and improve are the key to that goal. We are working towards a world where software does what software users want it to do. For this, software users must be able to participate in the development and distribution of the software.

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