Register Plus and WebRegMT

What is Register Plus?

Register Plus is the place where the EPO stores all the publicly available information it has on European patent applications as they pass through the grant procedure. It is a free service available on the internet.

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What can Register Plus do for you?

You can use Register Plus to:

• find out what stage in the procedure a European patent application has reached
• see if a European patent application has been granted, or will be granted soon
• check whether any oppositions to a European patent have been filed
• read the correspondence between the EPO and the patent applicant/attorney
• batch process and store these documents and correspondence offline for later study.

What is in Register Plus?

Register Plus contains procedural information on all European patent applications from the moment they are published. It also contains all the public documents in the EPO's file (often called the "file wrapper").

The service provides direct access to both the European Patent Register (online procedural data) and Online Public File Inspection. It also allows you to access the data in esp@cenet and Open Patent Services (patent family information and INPADOC legal status).

What is the "WebRegMT alert service"?

If you are interested in tracking specific European patent applications, you can sign up for the free WebRegMT alert service, which will automatically send an e-mail alert every time something happens to any of these applications in the course of the grant procedure.

Users can monitor up to 1 000 individual cases. They can elect to monitor not only their own files, but also third-party applications, and can choose one of two security options to ensure confidentiality.