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The EPO provides high-quality patents and efficient services that foster innovation, competitiveness and economic growth. Searching for patents Find out what technology already exists
Discover the potential of the EPO’s legal patent information: find out if and where a patent has been granted, if it is valid, if there is still time to challenge it and much more.
Sep 12, 2024 · The European Patent Register is the most complete and up-to-date source of publicly available procedural information on European patent applications as they pass through each stage of the EPO granting process and on European patents with unitary effect.
National patent offices' databases. Open Espacenet Open classic Espacenet. Espacenet is accessible to beginners and experts and is updated daily. It contains data on more than 150 million patent documents from around the world.
The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court are the building blocks which supplement and strengthen the existing centralised European patent granting system. They offer users a cost-effective option for patent protection and dispute settlement across Europe.
Applicants seeking worldwide patent protection may use the services of the EPO under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). PCT applications may be filed, searched and examined at the EPO.
The European Patent Office (EPO) examines European patent applications, enabling inventors, researchers and companies from around the world to obtain protection for their inventions in up to 45 countries through a centralised and uniform procedure that requires just one application.
Use the Online Filing software to file EP, Euro-PCT and PCT applications and requests for unitary effect; submissions in opposition, appeal, limitation and revocation proceedings before the EPO; and subsequently filed documents for all EP and UP proceedings.
Nov 29, 2000 · European Patent Convention. 17th edition / November 2020. The 17th edition of the European Patent Convention features: the text of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (EPC) as in force since 13 December 2007. the EPC Implementing Regulations as in force since 1 July 2020.
Use our web-based Online Filing 2.0 service to file EP and PCT applications and submissions in opposition, appeal and other proceedings. Online Filing, our legacy software, is still available for download, but we encourage you to use Online Filing 2.0 instead. Read more.
