Most member states have an Espacenet service in their national language, and access to the EPO's worldwide database, most of which is in English.
In 2022, the Espacenet worldwide service claimed to have records on more than 140 million patent publications.
"[5] She reported it as being deliberate, on the part of the USPTO and EPO, "who have said they do not wish to compete unfairly with commercial vendors".
Created in partnership with Google, the translation engine was "specifically built to handle complex and technical patent vocabulary", using "millions of official, human-translated patent documents" to train the translation engine.
[9] In March 2016, Espacenet began offering full-text search through its collection of English, French and German patent documents.