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by EPO / Innovation Networks
Fri Oct 09, 2020 7:31 am
Forum: Technical issues
Topic: Direct links to older patents no longer working
Replies: 1
Views: 1308

Direct links to older patents no longer working

Dear Espacenet User, We do not have Hayward's 1871 GB patent #2014 "Pavement Lights" in our database which explains why you cannot retrieve it. A colleague has found a link to the bibliographic data for you here . Please note that the links you are using are from a very old version of Espa...
by EPO / Innovation Networks
Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:01 pm
Forum: Patent Information Matters
Topic: Q&A regarding "Patent rights & specific law issues"
Replies: 2
Views: 4261

Q&A regarding "Patent rights & specific law issues"

:?: QUESTION: Under assumption: 1. We applied to any patent office/institute for a product we invented 2. This application/filing passed for first phase and moved to search phase > at this time assume please we give license to some companies and the product is being produced and used by folks. 3. As...
by EPO / Innovation Networks
Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:30 pm
Forum: Patent Information Matters
Topic: Covid 19
Replies: 10
Views: 18830

Re: Covid 19

US patent application, US2020279585 (published in our online patent database Espacenet, is a US patent application pending before the USPTO and being treated according to applicable US patent law, and US patent law allows changes to appending patent application to a certain extent (“Continuation in ...
by EPO / Innovation Networks
Fri Oct 02, 2020 10:46 am
Forum: Technical issues
Topic: RSS-Feeds for Espacenet patent families
Replies: 6
Views: 5200

RSS-Feeds for Espacenet patent families

Dear User, Here is the list of browsers that was updated in March this year, Espacenet supports the following browsers (starting from the indicated browser version): Google Chrome: 64 Mozilla Firefox: 60 Microsoft Edge: 80 In case you are using other browsers or older versions of the supported brows...
by EPO / Innovation Networks
Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:10 pm
Forum: Patent Information Matters
Topic: Improvement in the Register Alert service
Replies: 0
Views: 12602

Improvement in the Register Alert service

A single Register Alert account now allows you to monitor up to 5 000 files (previously only 1 000).
by EPO / Innovation Networks
Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:59 am
Forum: Patent Information Matters
Topic: Patent maintained as amended
Replies: 1
Views: 4062

Re: Patent maintained as amended

Under Article 65(1) of the European Patent Convention, any contracting state may, if the European patent as granted, amended or limited by the European Patent Office is not drawn up in one of its official languages, prescribe that the proprietor of the patent supply to its central industrial propert...
by EPO / Innovation Networks
Thu Aug 20, 2020 10:56 am
Forum: Patent Information Matters
Topic: Ongoing revision and changes on the CPC Y-tags
Replies: 5
Views: 9819

Ongoing revision and changes on the CPC Y-tags

A number of users have observed that a substantial amount of CPC Y-tags are no longer available via the CPC browser in ESPACENET and show an empty screen when searched. Instead you will receive results when searching in ESPACENET via the Advanced search screen with the same CPC code (e.g. Y02T10/144...
by EPO / Innovation Networks
Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:34 am
Forum: Patent Information Matters
Topic: GDPR / Data Privacy of inventors / Filings
Replies: 1
Views: 4107

Re: GDPR / Data Privacy of inventors / Filings

Dear alainjpr , For any European patent application the inventor(s) must be designated. The designation shall state the family name, given names and full address of the inventor (Article 81 and Rule 19 of the European Patent Convention (EPC)). Please note that the EPO shall not verify the accuracy o...
by EPO / Innovation Networks
Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:08 pm
Forum: European Patent Register and Register Alert
Topic: New version of the European Patent Register
Replies: 3
Views: 5664

Re: New version of the European Patent Register

Dear Hahn,

When you use the ZIP archive, all pages are downloaded even if you have selected documents that amount to less than the limit of 1000 pages.

If you want to download only the documents you have selected, you must use the "Selected documents" download option.