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Introduction
As the legal status data is maybe complex to understand and follow, Questel introduced a dedicated tool to view a graphical overview of the history of proceedings and quickly decipher the legal status.
This legal status analyzer will allow you to quickly:
- Understand the current stage of the procedure (Office action? Notice of allowance?)
- Understand the sequence of the different stages of the procedure
- Analyze the number of official letters received
Key features
- Share the information with your colleagues (share link)
- If the patent is not yet granted, obtain information on the likelihood of being granted.
- Find the official patent expiration information (PTE/PTA)
Available for 12 offices :
- Germany (DE)
- Canada (CA)
- France (FR)
- Australia (AU)
- United Kingdom (GB)
- China (CN)
- Singapore (SG)
- South Korea (KR)
- European patent office (EP)
- Israel (IL)
- United States (US)
- Japan (JP)
Technical information & limitation:
The information is based on information from Orbit Intelligence's legal status and information directly from the register office (for DE, CA, FR, AU, JP, GB and US).
Only applications after these dates can be introduced in the Legal Status Analyzer:
- Germany (DE) : 01/01/2004
- Canada (CA) : No limitation
- France (FR) : 01/01/1970
- Australia (AU) : 05/07/2002
- United Kingdom (GB) : 01/01/2010
- China (CN) : 01/10/2003
- Singapore (SG) : 01/01/2015
- South Korea (KR) : 01/01/1999
- European patent office (EP) : 01/01/1979
- Israel (IL) : 01/01/1992
- United States (US) : No limitation
- Japan (JP): 01/01/2000