Headnotes and Catchwords of EPO Board of Appeal Decisions
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Headnotes and Catchwords of EPO Board of Appeal Decisions
Extracted from a bulk dataset released by the European Patent Office
✅ 4,989 headnotes and catchwords available in three languages: 2,506 in English, 1,029 in French, and 1.454 in German
✅ Includes headnotes from G-, J-, T-, D-, and W-decisions
✅ Coverage: Decisions from 1979 onwards
✅ #OpenSource #OpenAccess – freely available for all
✅ Available in multiple formats: CSV, XLSX, DOCX, TXT, and MD
Source:
14.6 EPO Boards of Appeal Decisions - BoA decisions March 2025; https://publication-bdds.apps.epo.org/raw-data/products/public/product/21 (available as a bulk dataset for direct download)
GitHub: https://github.com/xi2pi/epo_decisions
Statistical Overview of Decision Types and Languages (Figures indicate the number of headnotes):
| Decision Type | D | G | J | T | W |
| Language | |||||
| DE | 40 | 103 | 206 | 1052 | 47 |
| EN | 41 | 120 | 287 | 1993 | 44 |
| FR | 40 | 98 | 185 | 674 | 29 |
Note: R-decisions (just a small number of decisions) were not extracted to the docs - to be improved for v3.
Structure of references: D YY NNNN L T S
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Data |
Value |
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D |
Decision type |
T technical board of appeal J legal board of appeal W PCT protest case D disciplinary board of appeal G enlarged board of appeal R petitions for review under Art. 112a |
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YY |
Case year |
e.g. 90 for 1990, 04 for 2004 |
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NNNN |
Case number |
e.g. 0005 |
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L |
Decision language |
E English F French D German |
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T |
Decision publication type |
U unpublished (distributed, not distributed) X published in OJ P translated and published in OJ |
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S |
Decision publication serial number |
e.g. 1, 2, 3 |
Update based on version 1
- adapted to March 2025 release
- catchwords were included
- X1 and U1 reference were included
- duplicates were removed
- sorted by year (starting with the earliest)
- references were transformed into common case number, e.g. "G 1/15"
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2025-03-07