EPO Open Patent Services API
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Overview
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Open Patent Services (OPS) is the European Patent Office's RESTful web service giving access to EPO bibliographic, worldwide legal event, full-text and image data via a standardised XML interface. Registered apps authenticate with OAuth. Free for non-paying users up to 4 GB of data per week; paying users above that on an annual subscription.
Company
Verified- Legal name
- European Patent Office
- Headquarters
- Not confirmed
- Founded
- Not confirmed
- Employees
- Not confirmed
- Ownership
- Not confirmed
- Status
- active
- Kind
- Government source
- Website
- epo.org
- Support
- docs
API
Verified- Access
- Self-serve API
- Style
- REST
- Auth
- OAuth 2.0
- Base URL
- Not confirmed
- Features
- Bulk —Async —Webhooks —MCP —Sandbox —
- Rate limit
- Fair use: up to 4 GB of data per week free
- Docs
- Reference
Pricing
Verified- Model
- subscription
- List prices
- Non-paying Free, Up to 4 GB of data per week
- Paying EUR 2 800 annual subscription, More than 4 GB of data per week
- Currency
- EUR
- Free tier
- Up to 4 GB of data per week
- Checked
- Sep 29, 2026
Compliance
- SOC 2
- Not confirmed
- GDPR
- Not confirmed
- CCPA
- Not confirmed
- DPA
- Not confirmed
- Resale / storage
- Unknown until a written agreement says otherwise
Relationships
- Integrations
- Not confirmed
- Alternatives
- None named by the vendor
Sources (3)
- EPO Open Patent Serviceschecked Sep 29, 2026
- EPO fair use charterchecked Sep 29, 2026
- EPO developer portalchecked Sep 29, 2026
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API
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Rate limits
Fair use: up to 4 GB of data per week free Without a published limit GridRouter paces conservatively (1 request per second).