EPO – European Patent Office
Digital transformation of systems for the central European Patent OfficeMember of the software development team supporting European patent procedures. We contributed to application management modules, migration of legacy systems to a modern enterprise architecture, and performance optimizations to handle pan-European usage load 24/7.
Contribution to the development and upgrade of complex information systems that manage applications, registrations and intellectual property data at a pan-European level.
Highlights
Central European patent organization
Intellectual property data management
Complex enterprise information systems
Pan-European scale of operation
Technologies & capabilities of the project
- Java + Spring Boot enterprise stack for mission-critical backends
- WebLogic / JBoss EAP application servers for legacy enterprise integration
- Oracle Database for transactional patent data with extreme performance
- Elasticsearch + Apache Solr for full-text search across millions of patents
- Document Management Systems (DMS) for patent applications, drawings, claims
- Camunda BPMN engine for workflow orchestration of complex procedures
- Large-scale XML / PDF processing with Apache PDFBox and XSLT pipelines
- Multilingual support for all 24 official EU languages
- LDAP / SAML 2.0 SSO with fine-grained role-based authorization
- Comprehensive audit logging for legal & regulatory compliance
- Integration with legacy mainframe systems via IBM MQ and REST/SOAP gateways
- High availability with active-active clustering and automated failover
- Data warehousing & analytics for patent trends and statistical reporting
- Maven multi-module builds + Jenkins CI/CD pipelines
- OpenShift / Kubernetes orchestration for containerized services
- Ansible for configuration management across hundreds of servers
- Prometheus + Grafana observability stack
- ELK Stack for centralized log aggregation
- SonarQube static code analysis + automated security scans
- JMeter performance & load testing for EU-wide load
- Annual penetration testing & ISO 27001 compliance audits
- Cross-datacenter disaster recovery with synchronous data replication