NL - Federated Register Service (FRS)

1

Status

Yes

• Request for validation received: EP patent granted (B1, B2 or B3), but the national validation proceedings are still pending (essentially, translations still to be provided).
• Patent surrendered: Patent surrendered/ renounced at proprietor's request. Surrender/renunciation has retroactive effect from the B1 granting date. Annual renewal fees may have been paid before the request for surrender/renunciation was filed. E.g. EP1237494.
• Patent revoked: Patent revoked at proprietor's request or due to revocation of the European patent. Revocation has retroactive effect from the B1 granting date. Annual renewal fees may have been paid before the request was filed or the decision was made. Revocation is relevant for both the Patent Not In Force and the Patent revoked statuses in the Federated Register, so when a revocation date is set, it will be displayed in both the Invalidation date and the Not in force since fields, e.g. EP2310453.
  
  Renewal fees last paid is not affected by revocation of the patent and may be filled if an annual renewal fee had already been paid.
  
  Record last updated is not affected by revocation of the patent and will always be filled.
• Patent lapsed: Patent lapsed due to non-payment of a renewal fee, e.g. EP2017066.
• Patent expired: Patent expired after 20 years, e.g. EP2242984.
• Patent validated: The national procedure for validation of the patent has been successfully completed, i.e. the patent is considered valid in the Netherlands, e.g. EP2257502.
  
  If the first annual renewal fee due after the grant of the patent has not yet been paid, the Renewal fees last paid field will be empty.
• Patent not validated: The national procedure for validation of the patent has not been completed successfully, i.e. the patent is not considered valid in the Netherlands, e.g. EP1254544.
• Nullity requested: Patent annulled by court decision, e.g. EP1356750

2

Application No.

Yes

Starts with the prefix EP and does not contain the final check digit that is shown in the national register

3

Publication No.

Yes

Starts with the prefix EP and has seven digits

4

Proprietor

Yes

All current proprietors are listed

5

Invalidation date

Yes

For Patent not validated: date of grant

6

Not in force since

Yes

Invalidity date, lapse date or expiry date

7

Renewal fees last  paid

Yes

Date of payment of last renewal fee paid

8

Record last updated

Yes

Date of the last update of the concrete record in the NPO patent register; however, this update can happen both for business (e.g. the data of the record were really changed) or technical reasons.