diff --git a/ippisite/ippidb/ws.py b/ippisite/ippidb/ws.py
index cc4807daecf71b18736f27d57bd21a46b44dfa80..2cf9ecb8284f04e24e01958cde21fafc54f3dcf9 100644
--- a/ippisite/ippidb/ws.py
+++ b/ippisite/ippidb/ws.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from bioservices.eutils import EUtils
+import requests
 
 def get_pubmed_info(pmid):
     eu = EUtils()
@@ -8,8 +9,26 @@ def get_pubmed_info(pmid):
     authors_list = [a['LastName']+ ' ' + a['Initials'] for a in article['AuthorList']['Author']]
     authors = ', '.join(authors_list)
     journal_name = article['Journal']['Title']
-    biblio_year = article['Journal']['JournalIssue']['PubDate']['Year']
+    biblio_date = article['Journal']['JournalIssue']['PubDate']
+    if 'Year' in biblio_date:
+        biblio_year = biblio_date['Year']
+    else:
+        biblio_year = biblio_date['MedlineDate'][0:3]
     return {'title':title,
             'journal_name':journal_name,
             'biblio_year':biblio_year,
             'authors_list': authors}
+
+def get_epo_info(patent_number):
+    resp = requests.get('http://ops.epo.org/3.1/rest-services/published-data/publication/docdb/{}/biblio.json'.format(patent_number))
+    data = resp.json()
+    exchange_doc = data['ops:world-patent-data']['exchange-documents']['exchange-document']
+    if isinstance(exchange_doc, list):
+        exchange_doc = exchange_doc[0]
+    title = [el['$'] for el in exchange_doc['bibliographic-data']['invention-title'] if el['@lang']=='en']
+    authors = [i['inventor-name']['name']['$'] for i in exchange_doc['bibliographic-data']['parties']['inventors']['inventor'] if i['@data-format']=='original']
+    biblio_year = [el['date']['$'][:4] for el in exchange_doc['bibliographic-data']['publication-reference']['document-id'] if el['@document-id-type']=='epodoc'][0]
+    return {'title': title,
+            'journal_name': None,
+            'biblio_year': biblio_year,
+            'authors_list': authors}