International registrations of industrial designs administered by WIPO can now provide protection for the entire EC. Consult the Hague Express Database by clicking here.
Of all the changes introduced in the autumn release of the European Patent Register, the most visible is the highlighting of search terms in the result list and the register record. The major breakthrough, however, is the deep linking to a number of national patent office registers. Deep links to national patent registers Announced at the EPO Patent Information Conference in Ireland this October, deep linking will make legal status information more easily accessible. Imagine a European application which eventually makes it to grant and enters the national phase in a number of EPC contracting states. You inspect the European register, and if you want to know what happened to the European patent in a particular member state, you can now go straight to the national patent office record via the relevant deep link.
Welcome to a new look and a new name. The old Register Plus is now the European Patent Register. The new European Patent Register delivers exactly the same information as before: procedural information for patent applications handled by the EPO, online file inspection (click on the "all documents" tab) and legal status information for the national phase.