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WELCOME
Welcome to the European Patent Register, the place to find procedural and legal status data on patent applications handled by the European Patent Office.If this is the first time you are consulting the EP Register, please have a look at the introductory video below.
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Hungary joins the Federated Register
The Federated Register has started retrieving official bibliographic and legal status information from the Hungarian Patent Register and displaying it in the European Patent Register.Click here for more information on the Federated Register.
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More deep links to national patent registers
You can now access the legal status and procedural data of European patents that have been validated in San Marino.Click here for more information on the deep linking.
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Change in inventor address – amendment of Rule 143 EPC
Following the entry into force of amended Rule 143 EPC on 1 November 2021, the EPO will no longer publish full inventor addresses for patent applications published in the European Patent Register on or after 1 November 2021. Only the inventor's country and place of residence (city and postal code) will be published.For more information please consult:
https://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/official-journal/2021/02/a12/2021-a12.pdf .
https://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2020/e/r143.html .
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New version of the European Patent Register
CPC information has been added to the European Patent Register, a new country has joined the Federated Register service and the Global Dossier service has been extended.For more information about the improvements please consult the release notes .
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Help us to continue improving the services of the European Patent Register and Register Alert applications by giving us your feedback .___________________________________________________________________________________
European Patent Register - Introductory video
Register Alert – Introductory video
Federated Register – Introductory video
Global Dossier - Introductory video
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