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European Patent RegisterAn introductory guide

Where to nd

what you need

The European Patent Register is pided into sections giving you access to different types of information about the patent application you are interested in.

About this le

Legal statusContains bibliographic and procedural information on the current status of a particular patent application, plus history.

Shows the most important legal events in

the European and Euro-PCT procedure plus

any information available to the EPO on the

fate of the European patent once it becomes

the responsibility of the designated states

following grant.

Lists all events relating to a le in chrono-

logical order.

Displays a list of documents found during

the patentability search for the European

patent application or cited by the applicant.

Displays a list of documents from around the

world that are linked to the European patent

application by a common priority number.

Gives access to all documents in the public

part of a le, also known as online le

inspection or “

le wrapper”. Event historyCitationsPatent familyAll documents

Published and edited by European Patent Of ce, Vienna, Austria © EPO 2011 All rights reserved

What is the European Patent Register?

The European Patent Register is the place where

the European Patent Of ce stores all the publicly

available information it has on European

patent applications as they pass through the grant procedure. It is a free internet service accessible via the quick link http://www.77cn.com.cn/register, which forwards you automatically to the secure Register server.

What can the European Patent Register do for you?

You can use the Register to:

nd out what stage in the procedure a European patent application has reached

see whether a European patent application has

been granted, or will be granted soon

check whether any oppositions to a European

patent have been led

read correspondence between the EPO and

a patent applicant/attorney

download data for later study.

What is in the European Patent Register?

The Register contains procedural information on all European patent applications from the moment

they are published.

It also contains all the public documents in the

EPO’s le (often called the “ le wrapper”).

What is the Register Alert service?

If you are interested in tracking speci c European

patent applications, you can sign up for the Register Alert service, which will automatically send you

an e-mail alert every time something happens to

any of these applications in the course of the grant procedure.

You can monitor your own les and other people’s

patent applications.

Getting started

First go to http://www.77cn.com.cn/register. This will take you directly to the

Smart search screen on the secure Register server.Searching for procedural data

Smart search allows you to enter either single-word or multi-word searches or more complex search commands. You can use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and you can also formulate your search using eld identi ers. Alternatively you can type in the number of a patent document. Online “Help” provides advice on how to formulate queries.

Quick search gives you immediate access to a le when you know the EP application or publication number or the ling date.Advanced search allows searches based on twelve search criteria.

Looking at the results

If your search produces more than one hit, the results will appear in a list on your screen. Just click on the title to see the details of any patent application that interests you.

When you open a patent application, the current status and the most recent event are displayed at the top of the page. Then come details of the patent application.

To see the patent application in Espacenet, click on this link

Inspecting lesTo inspect the le for a particular patent application, simply click on the “All docu-

ments” button on the left of the screen.

A new screen will appear, listing the documents in groups by pro-cedural stage in the public part of the le, including correspondence between the EPO and the applicant (or the patent attorney). Click on the document title to open it in PDF format.When a document opens, only

the rst page is displayed.

To print all the pages, click on

“Load all pages”. Then click

“Print” on the right-hand side

of the PDF toolbar.

To download documents, click

the checkbox next to the title,

then click on “Download selected

documents” and save. The

documents will be packaged in

one single PDF le.

Register Alert

Enrolment

If you are new to the Register Alert service, you will have to enrol for a username and password (Smart card users can access Register

Alert direct using their card). To do this, click on the “Register Alert” link in the “Other EPO online services” menu.

Once you have enrolled, log in and then click on the “WebRegMT” link (this will change to “Register Alert” during 2011).

Monitored les

You can monitor up to 1 000 cases per e-mail account. When you use Register Alert for the rst time, the “Monitored les” view will be empty. To add a le you want to monitor, just click the “Add” button and enter the application or publication number. You can also add a le reference or description if you wish.

Then click “Save”.

How do I know a le has changed?

There are two ways of nding out whether a le you are monitoring has changed:

- by e-mail alert: click on

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