Federated Register


The EP Federated register view displays official bibliographic and legal status data for European patents. Where there is unitary patent protection, the upper section of this view also provides legal status data for European patents with unitary effect.

Details can include any of the following:


     •   EP C0

         Select the EP link to go to the UP About this file view. "EP C0" indicates a European patent with
         unitary effect. "C0" is the unitary patent marker.

     •   Status EP C0

         The legal status of the European patent with unitary effect – the same legal status is displayed in
         the Status section of the UP About this file view.

     •   Member states covered by unitary patent protection

         A list of the country codes of member states covered by unitary patent protection at the date of
         registration.

     •   Proprietor(s)

         Name of the proprietor (person or company). If there are more than three proprietors, up to three
         are displayed and each is numbered.

     •   Invalidation date

         Date of the decision on invalidation. An invalidation decision can be for any of the following
         reasons:

               •   EP revocation (decided by the EPO or UPC)
               •   UP revocation (decided by the UPC)
               •   UP lapse due to non-payment of renewal fee or additional fee (Rules 14(2) and 10(4) Rules
                   relating to Unitary Patent Protection)
               •   UP lapse due to expiration of the EP patent
               •   Expiry date

     •   Renewal fees last paid

         Date of payment of the latest renewal fee and an indication of which renewal fee was paid.

     •   Record last updated

         Date when the Unitary Patent data (record) was last updated.


European patent legal status data

In the lower section of the EP Federated register view you can find the legal status data of European patents in the national post-grant phase as made available to the EPO by the national patent offices of the designated States.

Information on the content provided by each national patent office currently integrated into the Federated Register can be found on the Federated Register webpages.

Only information from the designated Contracting States providing this service is shown.

This section of the EP Federated register view includes:

     •   Country code
     •   Status
     •   Application No.
     •   Publication No.
     •   Proprietor
     •   Invalidation date
     •   Not in force since
     •   Renewal fees last paid
     •   Record last updated (and/or when the respective national register was last updated)


Where available, you can select the country code link to inspect the relevant national patent register for legal certainty of the EP patent in the national phase.

Status

Descriptions of the various legal and bibliographic statuses can be found in the Federated Register statuses glossary in Help.

Invalidation date

The invalidation date is the date when the decision on invalidation was taken as a result of any of the following events:

     •   patent revoked by proprietor
     •   patent revoked
     •   patent lapsed
     •   patent expired


The date shown in the Federated Register is the most recent date provided by the relevant national office.

Not in force since

The Not in force since date is the date on which the rights conferred by the patent are no longer considered to be in force in the country concerned.

The Not in force since date may or may not be the same as the Invalidation date, depending on the case in question and the national patent granting procedure concerned.


Please note that the responsibility for the accuracy or quality of the data displayed lies entirely with the national patent office concerned, including but not limited to the completeness of the information for specific purposes.

For complete and authoritative information, refer to the respective national patent register by selecting the relevant country code.