Esp@cenet

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The correct title of this article is esp@cenet. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

esp@cenet is a free online service for searching patents and patent applications. esp@cenet was developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) together with the member states of the European Patent Organisation. Every member state has an esp@cenet service in its national language, and access to the EPO's worldwide database, most of which is in English.

By the end of 2004, the esp@cenet worldwide service contained records on over 50 million patent publications.

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On the esp@cenet's "Advanced Search" page, searching for an application or for a patent by its PCT application number is done in the following way: one enters, in the "Application number" field, firstly, the letters "WO", then the year of the PCT, then the country of origin and finally the five digit identification code for the patent. For example, "PCT/AU99/00872" would be entered "WO1999AU00872".

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