The PCT entry into national phase data is provided with the legal status code (field /LSC) WOWWE and now available for 66 patent offices. Based on backfile data received from WIPO, the coverage of data on the entry of PCT applications into the national phase in the INPADOC database could be increased.
The additional legal event data will lead to an update of almost 1 million WO-documents. This might also be reflected in the number of results in the SDI-alerts.
The EPO added in a first step entry data for the following 17 countries for which no entry data was available in the INPADOC database so far:
AZ Azerbaijan
CO Colombia
CR Costa Rica
CU Cuba
DK Denmark
ID Indonesia
IN India
KG Kyrgyzstan
KZ Kazakhstan
MA Morocco
NI Nicaragua
PE Peru
RS Serbia
SG Singapore
TR Turkey
VN Vietnam
YU Yugoslavia
In a second step, the coverage will be completed in the next few weeks for countries for which entry data has generally been available in the INPADOC database. This improvement affects numerous patent authorities, including
CN China
DE Germany
EP European Patent Office
KR Korea
MX Mexico
US United States
In addition, the EPO is working on increasing the coverage and correctness of entry data in the INPADOC database further within the near future.
The delivery of legal event data from Russia (RU) resumes. The update of week 5/2019 will cover missing data as of 2018, with approximately 58,000 records. After that, the data is delivered continuously again.