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Patent- och registreringsverket (SE/PRV) — national
Layer national
Jurisdiction SE (WIPO ST.3: SE)
Issuing body Patent- och registreringsverket (Swedish Patent and Registration Office, PRV)
Rights administered patent, trademark, design, supplementary protection certificate (including paediatric extension), municipal arms (kommunvapen); copyright collective-management oversight
Working languages Swedish (primary); English (institutional pages + most response fields carry parallel *Sv / *En slots)
Connector status planned (green — undocumented but live)
Last verified 2026-05-18
Manifest entry not yet listed (planned)

Detail surveys:

Higher layers covering this office transitively:

  • EPO INPADOC (via regional/epo.md) — SE-validated EP patents at biblio/family/legal-events fidelity. Sweden is an EPC contracting state and a UPC contracting state (since 2023-06-01); EP-route patents are well-covered.
  • EUIPO (via planned regional/euipo.md) — EUTMs designating SE and Community designs (RCDs / REUDs).
  • WIPO Madrid / Hague — Madrid IRs designating SE / Hague IRs designating SE.
  • UPC (via shipped upc_decisions connector) — UPC-routed disputes touching SE.

Rating: 🟢 Green

Three undocumented unauthenticated REST/JSON APIs (patents-search-api.prv.se, dv-search-api.prv.se, api.prv.se) reverse-engineered from beta UI bundle.js. CC0 / CC BY 4.0 on parallel bulk feeds + Sweden's Open Data Act SFS 2022:818. Probes returned 764k patents + 89 IKEA TMs + design records. Jump to access details → View on the atlas →

§1 Mission

PRV is Sweden's national IP office — sole registrar for SE-national patents, SE-national trademarks, SE-national designs, Swedish supplementary protection certificates, and the niche Swedish register of municipal arms (kommunvapen). Because Sweden is an EPC contracting state, a UPC member, and an EU member, most "Swedish patents" of commercial scale are EP-routed (covered by EPO OPS) and most "Swedish trademarks" of any reach are EUTMs (covered by EUIPO). PRV's genuine value-add for agents is the SE-national-only slice — national-only trademarks, national-only designs back to 1971 (probed), national-route SE patents, Swedish SPCs, and live register status updated daily.

What sets PRV apart in this wave: it ships its register data on the open-data side as CC0 1.0 and CC BY 4.0 (the most permissive license posture among the secondary-nationals surveyed 2026-05-18), and runs three live JSON APIs behind the new search.prv.se beta UI — undocumented but unauthenticated and well-structured.

§2 What's unique here

  • SE-national-only patents and patent applications — filed at PRV, not via EP.
  • SE-national-only trademarks — filed directly with PRV, not via Madrid or EUTM. National-vs-Madrid is surfaced as dossierTypeEn on response records.
  • SE-national-only designs — back to at least 1971 on probe.
  • Swedish SPCs and SPC extensions — searchable via /searchpatentspc/.
  • Municipal arms (kommunvapen) — separate Swedish register with its own simple + advanced + count + announcements endpoints.
  • SE-language full text for patents (the 2019- bibliographic feed + 1973–2017 backfile have both been OCR-corrected).
  • Live status with daily updates — both the new beta UI and the SE-Federated Register Service confirm daily refresh.
  • Aktinsyn — file inspection for public patent applications from 2004 onward (raw originals as PDF).
  • Daily online announcements since 2026-01-26 replacing the pre-2026 weekly PDF gazettes (Svensk Patenttidning, Svensk Varumärkestidning, Svensk Designtidning).

§3 Programmatic surfaces

search.prv.se backing APIs (the live REST/JSON surface)

Field Value
Endpoint https://patents-search-api.prv.se/ (patents + SPC), https://dv-search-api.prv.se/ (TM + design + municipal arms), https://api.prv.se/ (per-record fetch, documents, replication log)
Auth none — no API key, no signed ToU, no developer portal
Format JSON (UTF-8); offset/limit pagination with totalHits / totalPages
Rate limit not published, no rate-limit headers observed on probe
ToS posture no published API ToS; parallel bulk feeds are CC0 1.0 / CC BY 4.0 under Sweden's Open Data Act SFS 2022:818
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🟢 Green (undocumented)
Primary source reverse-engineered from search.prv.se bundle.js 2026-05-18; backend identified as WildFly + RESTEasy at internal prvpublicapi-web/api/public/

Simple-search payload (probed and confirmed on patents, TMs, designs):

{"page": 0, "pageSize": 10, "sortColumn": "filingDate", "sortOrder": "DESC", "simpleSearchText": "Volvo"}

Probes returned 764,224 total patent records, 3,307 hits for "Volvo", 89 hits for "IKEA" TMs, and a 1971 design registration for "chair". The endpoints are unauthenticated and the backend Web Archive is named prvpublicapi-web deployed at /api/public/ — strong intent signal these are designed for outside callers.

Caveats: undocumented, versionless, schema can change on any SPA deploy. Production deployment should send a courtesy registration to data@prv.se and identify the client by User-Agent.

was.prv.se SPD — SE-Federated Register Service

Field Value
Endpoint https://was.prv.se/spd
Auth none
Format deep-link HTML record pages from the EPO Federated Register
Rating 🟡 Yellow — HTML deep-link target, but the underlying register data is already on the search APIs
Primary source SE-Federated Register Service page

PRV publishes biblio + status + proprietor + last-paid renewal-fee date to the EPO's federated register. Useful as a cross-link, not as a primary surface.

data.prv.se — open data bulk

Field Value
Catalog https://data.prv.se/ (DCAT/RDF at /index.rdf)
Distribution FTP — ftp://opendata.prv.se, user OpenDataSource, password opendata
Format XML (bibliographic + full-text), CSV (1973–2017 backfile), PDF (gazettes, kind codes, DPK lists)
License CC0 1.0 (most patent + TM datasets) and CC BY 4.0 (bibliographic + DPK)
Rating 🔴 Red against zero-infra proxy — bulk only, FTP-only — but clean license posture informs the live API
Primary source Open public data (EN)

17 datasets covering Swedish patent documents from 1885 forward, trademark exports, design tidning, kind codes, and the IPC↔DPK concordance. Useful as a backfile snapshot and as the license governance signal for the live APIs.

tc.prv.se SPD — legacy UI (frozen)

Field Value
Endpoint https://tc.prv.se/spd/search
Auth none
Format HTML
Rating 🔴 Red — HTML scrape; frozen 2026-01-26
Primary source About Swedish Patent Database

Retained during the transition period for pre-2000 material the new beta does not yet surface. Not a connector target.

Sveriges dataportal — federal open data

Field Value
Endpoint https://www.dataportal.se/ (CKAN-flavoured)
Rating 🔴 N/A — PRV's data lives on data.prv.se, indexed via DCAT into the federal portal but not separately exposed

WIPO IP API Catalog

Field Value
Endpoint https://apicatalog.wipo.int/
Result 0 PRV entries as of 2026-05-18 (179 total across DPMA, EPO, EUIPO, IP Australia, JPO, MOIP KOREA, QAZ, UPRP, USPTO, WIPO)
Rating informational — confirms the search APIs are undocumented from the canonical-inventory standpoint

§4 Fees

Policy: link only.

PRV publishes fee schedules (in SEK) covering patent filing, search, examination, grant, opposition, renewal, and SPC fees; trademark filing per class + renewals; design filing + renewals; plus miscellaneous services (file inspection, certified copies, priority documents). Statutory basis is the Patent Act (patentlagen 1967:837), the Trademark Act (varumärkeslagen 2010:1877), and the Design Protection Act (mönsterskyddslagen 1970:485), each with implementing fee ordinances set by government regulation.

Notable discount programmes (name only):

  • Patent application without examination fee — small-applicant pathways under patentlagen ch. 2.
  • SME fund (EUIPO Ideas Powered for Business) — partial reimbursement of national trademark and design fees, administered jointly with EUIPO for SE applicants.

§5 Access via patent-client-agents

What we cover today

  • SE-validated EP patents at biblio / family / legal-events fidelity — transitively via patent_client_agents.epo_ops (country code SE).
  • EUTMs designating SE and Community designs (RCD / REUD) — transitively via the planned EUIPO connector.
  • Madrid IRs / Hague IRs designating SE — via planned WIPO Madrid / Hague connectors.
  • UPC-routed disputes touching SE — via shipped upc_decisions connector.

What we should add (planned — green, undocumented)

  • patent_client_agents.prv — thin connector against the three search-API hosts. Pattern: zero-auth REST/JSON like Google Patents, with the wrinkle that the schema is reverse- engineered and versionless. Initial scope:
  • patents-search-api.prv.se/searchpatent/patentsimplesearch/ and …/patentadvancedsearch/
  • dv-search-api.prv.se/searchtrademark/tmsimplesearch/ and …/tmadvancedsearch/
  • dv-search-api.prv.se/searchdesign/dssimplesearch/ and …/dsadvancedsearch/
  • patents-search-api.prv.se/searchpatentspc/patentsearchspc/
  • dv-search-api.prv.se/searchtrademark/municipalArmAdvancedsearch/
  • Count endpoints (countPatent, counttrademark, countdesign, countmunicipalarm) as cheap probes.
  • Per-record GET on api.prv.se/patents/applications/{id} after one more bundle-extraction pass to resolve the applicationType enum.

Closes the SE-national-only TM + design + SPC + national-patent gaps. Estimated 3-5 days build — most of the time is structured field-name extraction from the SPA bundle (the advanced-search payload), then writing the response models. The simple-search path is already proved-end-to-end.

What we should NOT add (and why)

  • HTML scrape of the new search.prv.se UI. The backing APIs are the better target — the SPA only adds rendering on top.
  • HTML scrape of legacy tc.prv.se/spd. Frozen 2026-01-26. Treat as a pre-2000 fallback only if/when it matters.
  • FTP bulk ingestion of opendata.prv.se. Violates the zero-infra constraint. The license posture (CC0 / CC BY 4.0) is informationally useful but bulk ingestion is out of scope.
  • EPO Federated Register Service (was.prv.se/spd) deep links. Same data is already on the JSON APIs.

Next steps

  1. Send a courtesy registration to data@prv.se before the hosted demo turns on. Identify ourselves, ask for breakage notice, confirm we're identifying the client by User-Agent. Sweden's Open Data Act (SFS 2022:818) provides statutory cover, but proactive contact is cheap insurance against schema-change surprises.
  2. One more bundle-extraction pass to resolve: (a) the applicationType enum string for /patents/applications/{id} GET, (b) the advanced-search field names per right-type, (c) the patent status-code lookup (response carries numeric codes like "116" with multilingual display-text slots that need resolution).
  3. Write specs/se-prv-connector-spec.md — patterns:
  4. Three hosts, one connector class.
  5. Versionless schema: validate response shape on every call, surface clean errors when fields disappear.
  6. Polite caching: 5 min for status, 24 h for record bodies.
  7. User-Agent identifying the project + contact link.
  8. Probe a granted patent to confirm whether cpcClasses / ipcClasses / dpkClasses populate post-classification, vs. the empty arrays observed on freshly-filed Volvo applications.

§6 Known unknowns

  • Status code lookup. Patent records carry numeric status codes ("116") with multilingual display-text slots returning null on probe — needs a separate /codes/ or /status/ endpoint we haven't yet discovered, or the display text comes from the SPA's i18n bundle.
  • applicationType enum. GET /patents/applications/{id}?applicationType=… rejects NAT, NATIONAL, EP, PCT, and lowercase variants. The SPA's record-detail view sends the correct value.
  • Madrid IR coverage in the TM index. Both national and Madrid IRs likely live in the same index (dossierTypeEn slot suggests a discriminator); needs filter-confirmation.
  • Hague IR coverage in the design index. Same question.
  • Page-size upper bound. SPA defaults to 10–20; the cap is undocumented.
  • Rate-limit behavior under load. No headers observed on single-pager probes — production patterns unknown.
  • Pre-2000 material gap. PRV's own beta notice acknowledges limitations; the magnitude isn't quantified.
  • Nordic cluster — NIPO / DKPTO / PRH. Worth checking whether the Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish offices follow the same pattern (open, English-friendly, undocumented JSON behind a modern SPA). PRH (Finland) is historically the most API-open.

§7 References

Primary sources only — prv.se, search.prv.se, data.prv.se, apicatalog.wipo.int, riksdagen.se for statutes.

Service overviews:

Open data and licenses:

Fees:

Substantive law (Swedish statutes via Riksdagen):

Cross-office context:

Detail surveys + waves:

Last updated 2026-05-18.