A series of semirigid thermotropic copolyesters with different compositions were prepared from p‐hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA), hydroquinone (HQ), terephthalic acid (TPA) and poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) by acidolysis reaction and following polycondensation. Fourteen procedures of calculation of the intrinsic viscosities from a single viscosity measurement for polymer solutions, including three proposed ones, have been applied for the copolyesters in phenol/1,1,2,2‐tetrachloroethane (60/40, v/v) at 30°C. It is found that various forms of the Huggins and Kraemer equations, used singly or in a combined form, yield intrinsic viscosities in good agreement with those extrapolated values obtained in the usual manner from multipoint viscosity measurements over a wide range of concentrations.