European Patent Register and Register Alert
Advanced features and improvements
Dr Nigel S. Clarke Sardegna Ricerche 12 June 2014
Acknowledgement: Yolanda Sànchez Garcìa
European Patent Register
Global dossier – file inspection /file wrapper
EP Application with CN family member
Global dossier – file inspection /file wrapper
EP Application with CN family member
Global dossier – file inspection /file wrapper
EP Application with CN family member
Global dossier – file inspection /file wrapper
EP Application with CN family member
Global dossier – translation into English
Global dossier – Chinese original
Global dossier – Chinese original and English translation
RSS feeds
Maintenance news and News flashes
RSS feeds - News flashes
RSS feeds Results list
RSS feeds – Results list
Links to the European Patent Register preserved
RSS feeds
All documents
Download - Search results list
Search results list download – XLS format
Links to the European Patent Register preserved
Download - All documents
All documents download – Zip Archive
Event history – Sorting by date
Links to the European Publication Server
Legal status - Deep linking
Legal status- Deep linking
Deep linked countries 27 countries*
* Stand January 2014
Federated retrieval
Federated retrieval - Common view
EP Register
National Registers
European Patent Office 26
Field sets for Quick search and Advance search
• Improved readability and visual contrast by replacing the dark grey text with black
• Tooltips were included all over the application
• Only three IPC symbols displayed in the Search results
• Link to the European Patent Bulletin from the EPO online services menu
• Modification of the URL removing «/espacenet/» (https://register.epo.org)
• Search for EP application numbers including the check digit is now possible (ex. EP00101010.7)
Other improvements 1/4
• «Report error» button redirects now to the contact form
Other improvements 2/4
Other improvements 3/4
• Help index reviewed and enhanced
Other improvements 4/4
• Additional data available
– New «Appeal folowing opposition» section in «About this file»
– Information about «Request for correction of the decision to grant filled» in «About this file/Examination procedure» and «Events history»
Register Alert
Integration of Register Alert into the European Patent Register
• Register Alert authentication is via username and password
Monitored applications list
• Possibility to select all the monitored applications
• Change status monitored applications
Monitored applications printing list
• User name display for that Register Alert account
• Display of the number of items
Register Alert notification
• Includes now the title of the application being monitored
• Shows the contracting state(s) where the lapse ocurred
• Text correction (Umlauts and accents)
• Register events list reviewed and enhanced – Procedural actions that trigger a Register Alert notification
Other improvements
Last but not least...
• EPR introductory video in EN, DE and FR
• Update EPR online assistant to be published around April 2014 (www.epo.org/espacenet-assistant)
