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European Patent Office dated 27 February 2003 concerning use of the Online
European Patent Register [more] |
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The Online Register
contains data on all published European patent applications and international
applications designating the EPO. As well as this bibliographic data, it also
provides information about the grant procedure and the legal status of
individual applications, from the date of publication to the grant of the
patent, and about any opposition or appeal proceedings.
In addition to
the data entered in the European Patent Register (Article 127,
Rule 92 EPC), the Online Register also
includes application and procedural data previously only accessible by way of
the EPIDOS Register. Any data which are not part of the European Patent
Register are not published in the European Patent Bulletin under
Article 129(a) EPC.
The Online
Register can be searched using the following search criteria:
- Date of publication
- Priority date
- Filing date
- Inventor
- Opponent
- Representative
It also has a hyperlink to
esp@cenet®
which will enable users, with the aid of the publication number, to inspect
published patent documents cited in search reports and examination or
opposition proceedings.
More details about the content of the Online
Register are available from the
online help
function.
Access to the Online Register via the Internet is free of
charge.
The Online Register is normally available 24 hours a
day, except for a short break between 05.00 and 05.05 hrs CET to refresh
the data.
Information from the Online European Patent Register can be
obtained by telephone from epoline® Customer Services:
epoline® Customer Services
European Patent Office
Patentlaan 2 NL - 2288 EE Rijswijk
Tel.:
(+31-70) 340 4500
Fax: (+31-70) 340 4600
e-mail:
epoline@epo.org
Internet:
www.epoline.org
epoline®Customer
Services can be contacted from Monday to Friday, 08.00 to 18.00 hrs. User
support is available in the EPO's three official languages (English, French and
German).
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