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In 2015, the Office commenced a “Quality at source” project to ensure standardised patent data information exchange for inclusion in Espacenet in compliance with EPO xml formats and WIPO standards. This new project will allow us to firstly, establish a standardised front file delivery of patent data : and secondly, collect missing back file patent data from 1973 to date in digital format covering bibliographic, image and full-text data (when the quality of the original document allows it).
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