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When a patent has reached its full term, the status "Expired – Lifetime" will appear at the EP level. Designated States will all be listed with a status of "Not-in-force".
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During the lifetime of granted EP patents, an individual status is calculated for each Designated State, with a default status of "Active" when no event affecting the current status is present. Based on the individual country-by-country status, an overall status is calculated, which is present with an attribute of “EP”. The status at the EP level will be "Active" if any of the designated states has Designated States have been calculated as active. The Designated States are individually reported as "In-force" or "Not-in-force".
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<ifi-patent-status anticipated-expiration="20220110"> <ifi-patent-status-description country="EP">Not-in-force</ifi-patent-status-description> <ifi-patent-status-description country="DE">Not-in-force</ifi-patent-status-description> <ifi-patent-status-description country="GB">Not-in-force</ifi-patent-status-description> </ifi-patent-status> |
Note: If any one designated state Designated State has a status of "In-force", the EP-level status will be "Active".
Case 3.3 3 (Special impact of the default status being "Active")
The following example (EP-1777190-B1) illustrates the use of the default "Active" status in a record whose Designated States include a single country with no status reported. The EP in this example has expired in all jurisdictions except HK, but since there is no notice from Hong Kong through the Inpadoc legal status service, we are showing the patent as "In-force" in HK, and therefore "Active" at the EP level.
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Note: Detailed information about coverage in Inpadoc legal status data and coverage can be found at https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/helpful-resources/data/tables/weekly.html.
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