The addition of file wrapper data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) introduced last month completes the coverage of file wrapper information from the IP5 Offices. Within the European Patent Register you access first a European patent application and then its family members i...

Dear user, To search for AT (Austrian) patent documents in our databases please use the kind code AT in any of the number fields of the "Advanced search" mask in espacenet. This refines your search for the Austrian publications only. If you fail to find Austrian documents in your results l...

Dear Nelly,

To view the history of a particular file, please open it and click on the Event history tab on the left hand-side of your screen:
Kind regards,

The Patent Information User Support Team

Have you seen our European Patent Register Assistant yet? Why not try some of our interactive e-learning modules and see how well you know your way around the European Patent Register and the Register Alert? European Patent Register Assistant - English European Patent Register Assistant - French Eur...

Have you seen our Espacenet Assistant yet? Why not try your hand at a few of our interactive e-learning modules or test your searching in Espacenet abilities? Access :arrow: Espacenet Assistant We'd be happy to hear how you got on and to receive any comments or suggestions you may have. Best wishes ...

Dear Nelly, In Espacenet you can download or print documents containing up to 500 pages. For EP documents of 500 or more pages, you can retrieve and download the full document in our European publication server . The European Publication Server covers European patent documents published by the EPO f...

Dear Allirog, The log files are used internally at the EPO simply to determine the activity and data loads on the database server. The EPO does not check the content of these files nor do third parties have access to our log files. However, Espacenet is not an https:// secured internet site. OPS ( h...

Temporary unavailability of Register Plus Due to essential maintenance there will be no access to Register Plus on Sunday 18 October 2009 between 10.00 and 13.00 hrs CET. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Register Plus vorübergehend nicht verfügbar Aufgrund von Wartungsarbeiten ist ...

Last minute Registration for the EPO Patent Information Conference in Biarritz, 2-5 November 2009 still possible. Dear patent information professional, The programme of the EPO patent information conference is developed each year on the basis of research made with patent information users. It strive...

Due to essential maintenance Register Plus, WebRegMT and esp@cenet will be unavailable from 12.00 to 16:00 CET on Saturday 29th August. We apologise for any inconvenience. En raison d’importants travaux de maintenance, Register Plus, WebRegMT et esp@cenet ne seront pas accessibles le samedi 29 aout ...