European Patent Register - WIPO Inspire

This free online web application allows users to find all the publicly accessible documents from the files maintained by the European Patent Office on these ... Skiptomaincontent PatentDatabases EuropeanPatentRegister EuropeanPatentRegister Summary Provider EuropeanPatentOffice(EPO) Fee Free ASPI No Databasedescription TheEuropeanPatentRegisterisacompleteandup-to-datesourceofpubliclyavailablebibliographicandproceduralinformationonEuropeanandPCTpatentapplicationsdesignatingtheEPOfromthemomenttheyarepublishedandastheypassthrougheachstageofthegrantingprocess. ThisfreeonlinewebapplicationallowsuserstofindallthepubliclyaccessibledocumentsfromthefilesmaintainedbytheEuropeanPatentOfficeonthesepatentapplications. TheRegisteralsoincludesdirectlinkstothepatentregistersofmanyoftheEPOmemberstates,showingthestatusofEuropeanpatentsaftergrant,whenthedifferentnationalpatentofficestakeoverresponsibilityforthem. TheFederatedEuropeanPatentRegister,aspartoftheRegister,displaysbibliographicandlegalstatusdatarelatingtoEuropeanpatentsinthepost-grantphase.Thisinformationismadeavailablebythenationalofficesofthestatesconcerned. TheRegister,viatheGlobalDossier,providesaccesstothepublicdocuments(or“filewrapper”)formembersofapatentfamilyfromtheofficesconcernedforCanadian,Chinese,European,Japanese,Korean,USandPCTapplications.ItalsooffersmachinetranslationsofChinese,JapaneseandKoreandocumentsintoEnglish. TheintegratedRegisterAlertserviceallowsuserstomonitorchangestodataintheEuropeanPatentRegister.Userscanmonitorupto5000filesoftheirchoiceandopttoreceiveane-mailalerteverytimeachangetriggeringaRegistereventoccurstooneoftheirselectedfiles. UserscanusetheEuropeanPatentRegisterto: • findoutwhatstageintheprocedureaEuropeanpatentapplicationhasreached • seewhetheraEuropeanpatentapplicationhasbeengranted • checkwhetheranyoppositionstoaEuropeanpatenthavebeenfiled • retrievepatentfamilydatarelatingtoEuropeanpatentapplications • readcorrespondencebetweentheEPOandpatentapplicants/attorneys • accesspatentapplicationdossiersfromtheworld’slargestpatentoffices • retrievebibliographicandlegalstatusinformationrelatingtoEuropeanpatentsinthepost-grantphase • monitoreventchangesinselectedapplicationsviatheRegisterAlertservice Highlights Legalstatus Searchresults InternationalPatentClassification Website https://register.epo.org/regviewer CoverageURL https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/legal/register.html;https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/legal/register/documentation/federated-register.html;https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/legal/register/documentation/data-coverage.html Coverage PatentCollections Bibliographicdata Fulltext Partialtext       EuropeanPatentOffice(EPO) Bibliographicdata Fulltext PatentCooperationTreaty(PCT) Bibliographicdata Interfaces Language English French German Generalsearchtools The“Smartsearch”fielddisplayedontheEuropeanPatentRegisterlandingpageallowsuserstoenterinventororapplicantnames,numbers,dates,keywordsandclassesinanyorder,withouthavingtospecifywhatexactlytheywanttosearch.Basedonthesearchterms,thesystemwillinterpretthesearchfieldsintendedbytheusers. SmartsearchalsoacceptscommandlinesearchesusingfieldidentifiersandfunctionsinContextualQueryLanguage(CQL).Fieldidentifiers(thereare18inall)areenteredbeforethesearchtermsandindicatethefieldsinwhichthesearchtermsaretobesearched. Userscanaccessanadvancedsearchareabyclickingonthe“Advancedsearch”toggleinthemaintoolbar.Hereuserscaneasilyentersearchtermsinthedifferentsearchfieldsconnectedbytheoperator“AND”. Truncationsymbols,i.e.wildcards,canalsobeusedinbothsmartandadvancedsearchtoexpandthesearchtoinclude,forexample,thepluralformsofaword. Classification Classifications InternationalPatentClassification TheEuropeanPatentRegisterallowsuserstoretrievepatentdocumentsbasedonInternationalPatentClassification(IPC). Patentfamilydata Patentfamilydata Extended Simple Inthe“Patentfamily”taboftheEuropeanPatentRegister,thesimple(equivalent)andextendedfamilymembersaredisplayed. Results Resultstype Keywordincontext(KWIC)highlighting Translatedtitlesand/orabstracts Searchresultsaredisplayedintheresultlistintextformat(title,applicationnumber,publicationnumber,applicantname,representativename,IPC). Thesearchtermsarehighlightedintheresultlistandpanelviews. Theresultlistcanbeexported(CSVandXLS)andprinted. TitlesareavailableinEnglish,FrenchandGerman. Wheneveravailable,theRegisterprovidesapanelviewwiththefollowinginformationforeachresult:bibliographicdata,legalstatusdata,legalevents,citations,patentfamilyinformation,fileinspectionandpost-grantdata. Allthepanelviewscanbeprintedanddownloaded. Alerts Alerts Legalstatus Searchresults Therearethreedifferenttypesofalert: 1) RSSfeedstomonitorchangesinthefollowingviews: • Searchresults(changesinthesearchresultsforaspecificsearchcriterion) • Patentfamily(collectivelyEPandCNdossierchanges) • Alldocuments(EPdossierchanges) • GlobalDossier(individualEPandCNdossierchanges) 2) Emailalertstomonitorchangesinthefollowingviews: • Patentfamily(collectivelyEPandCNdossierschanges) • GlobalDossier(individualEPandCNdossierchanges) • Alldocuments(EPdossierchanges) 3) RegisterAlertemailalerts • tomonitoreventchangestopublishedEPandEuro-PCTapplications Dataexport DataExport Bibliographicdata Citations Classification Dossiers Fulldocumentscans Legalstatus Titleand/orabstract IntheRegisteruserscandownloadupto20displayedsearchresultsincsvorxlsxformatwiththefollowinginformation:title,applicationnumber,publicationnumber,applicantnames,representativenames,IPC. ST36datadownloadispossibleinthepanelviews“Aboutthisfile”,“Legalstatus”,“FederatedRegister”,“Eventhistory”,“Citations”and“Patentfamily”. Thefileinspection“Alldocuments”panelview,canbedownloadedinpdfformat. Non-patentdata Non-patentcontent Non-patentliterature TheRegisterincludesreferencestonon-patentliterature(NPL)citations. Operators Generaloperators Boolean(AND,OR,NOT,XOR) Comparison(e.g.>,==”,“<=”,“within”tobeusedwithadate-relatedfieldidentifiertospecifyperiodsoftime. MoreinformationatRegister–Pocketguide(http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/61E49C570C2441DD…). UserscanusethreedifferentwildcardcharacterstosearchintheEuropeanPatentRegister’ssmartsearchandadvancedsearch: - thewildcard*standsforastringofcharactersofanylength - thewildcard?standsforzerocharactersoronecharacter - thewildcard#standsforexactlyonecharacter Atleastthreealphanumericcharactersmustprecedea*symbolandatleasttwoalphanumericcharactersmustprecedea?or#symbol. Iftwoalphanumericcharactersprecedea?or#symbol,thenamaximumofthreetruncationsymbolsisallowed. Ifthreeormorealphanumericcharactersprecedea?or#symbol,thenamaximumofseventruncationsymbolsisallowed. MoreinformationatRegister–Pocketguide(http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/61E49C570C2441DD…). Truncation Righttruncation Scrolltosection DownloadPDF Bibliographicdata–Atleastoneofthefollowingisavailable:publicationnumber,filingnumber,grantnumber,publicationdate,filingdate,grantdate,applicantname,assigneename,inventorname,patentclassification. Partialtext–Atleastoneofthefollowing(butnotall)areavailable:title,abstract,description,claims. Fulltext–Allofthefollowingareavailable(whereapplicableforthegivenjurisdiction):description,claims