The latest most frequently asked questions regarding the European Patent Register services can be found here European Patent Register and Federated Register and Register Alert.

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Your Patent Information User Support Team

The latest most frequently asked questions regarding the Espacenet service can be found here.

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Your Patent Information User Support Team

The Federated European Patent Register was launched yesterday. The Federated Register view displays official bibliographic and legal status data relating to European patents in the national post-grant phase of the designated states concerned. It’s important to know that this information is hosted in...

The EPO today announced that it has extended its Global Dossier service to include data from the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). The announcement came at the Fédération Internationale des Counseils en Propriété Intellectuelle (FICPI) World Congress, whic...

The EPO today announced that it has extended its Global Dossier service to include data from the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). The announcement came at the Fédération Internationale des Counseils en Propriété Intellectuelle (FICPI) World Congress, whic...

The EPO today announced that it has extended its Global Dossier service to include data from the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO). The announcement came at the Fédération Internationale des Counseils en Propriété Intellectuelle (FICPI) World Congress, whic...

Dear Espacenet Users,

As scheduled, this issue with the missing CPC descriptions was solved with the new release on April 2015.

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Your Patent Information User Support Team

Please check that you are both searching in the same database:
By searching in the EP- or WIPO collections you will be limiting your results to either EP or WO publications only.

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Your Patent Information User Support Team

Dear Nelly, The European Patent Register allows you to consult published EP, EURO-PCT and PCT files. Retrieving zero results could be due to one of the following reasons: • perhaps the document you are looking for is not a EP, Euro - PCT, or PCT; • the application has not yet been published; • the a...

Dear Espacenet Users, Some descriptions of classifications symbols are missing in Espacenet. It is a known issue and the fix will be included in the next Espacenet release schedule for 8 April 2015 . In the meantime, we suggest you consult the descriptions in the January 2015 CPC scheme which is pub...