BG - Federated Register Service

1

Status

Yes

• Request for validation received: initial status assigned to a patent on receipt of a validation request.

• Formalities in progress: indicates that validation proceedings are under way and/or formal requirements have still to be met.

• Patent in force: the patent has been validated and continues to be valid in Bulgaria.

• Patent not validated: the patent has never been validated in Bulgaria and so no specific invalidation date can be provided.

• Patent expired: the patent has expired on reaching the end of the 20th year of its term and so protection has ceased.

• Patent lapsed: the patent has lapsed because one or more conditions have not been met, e.g. annual renewal fees not paid. The date of lapse will be provided in these cases.

• Patent revoked: the patent was validated but then revoked at a later stage. The date of revocation will be provided in these cases

2

Application No.

Yes

European application number, e.g. EP10152236 (without the ".X" at the end)

3

Publication No.

Yes

Granted EP patent number, e.g. EP2379653.

4

Proprietor

Yes

All proprietors at the time of the query are listed. Where a transfer of rights results in a change in proprietors, only the new ones are displayed.

5

Invalidation date

Yes

Provided for patents that were validated in Bulgaria but later ceased to be in force there, i.e. only for those with the following statuses:
 

Patent revoked: the date when the patent was revoked and ceased be in force in Bulgaria.

Patent expired: the date when the validity period of the patent expired.

Patent lapsed: the date when the patent lapsed due to non-payment of annual renewal fees on time.

6

Not in force since

No

Applies only for patents for which Invalidation date also applies and so identical to that date

7

Renewal fees last  paid

Yes

 Date of last fee payment

8

Register last updated

Yes

Date of last update of the specific record, an "update" meaning any kind of data modification in the BPO's back-office system.

9

SPC

No

SPC data is available and can be provided if and when it becomes a specific part of FRS, and the data format and rules are specified.