Provision of Name Harmonisation of Party Data for PATSTAT and other Patent Knowledge products

Item Description:

The European Patent Organisation is an intergovernmental organisation that was set up on 7 October 1977 on the basis of the European Patent Convention (EPC) signed in Munich in 1973. It has two bodies, the European Patent Office and the Administrative Council.

The European Patent Office, the executive arm of the European Patent Organisation, offers inventors a uniform application procedure which enables them to seek patent protection in up to 44 countries. The Office is supervised by the Administrative Council.

Objective of this tender

The European Patent Organisation issues this tender for the Delivery of harmonised applicant and inventor information for the EPO’s worldwide patent data using data from the following EPO data sets: EPO worldwide bibliographic data (DOCDB), EP bibliographic data (EBD), European Patent Register data and EPO worldwide legal event data (INPADOC).

Name harmonisation of party data for PATSTAT and other Patent Knowledge products (EPO-2022-0005)