PatLegal Monitor - Watch the legal status of patents, file histories, and patent families thanks to alerts

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Watch - Legal Status Alerts (PatLegal Monitor)

PatLegal Monitor is an easy-to-use alerting service which automatically notifies users of any changes made in patent families, legal status and file histories from various patent offices. Types of actions monitored include legal actions related to published patent applications and granted patents during their prosecution and opposition.

Patent office coverage

• EPO for monitoring patent families, legal status: Sample Report
• EPO’s epoline service for EP and Euro/PCTs: Sample Report
• USPTO’s Patent Application Information Retrieval service (PAIR): Sample Report
• German Patent Office, for monitoring all changes in official actions: Sample Report
• Japanese Patent Office (provided by PATOLIS-e): Sample Report
• Chinese Patent Office: Sample Report
• Korean Patent Office: Sample Report
• Canadian Patent Office: Sample Report
• United Kingdom Patent Office: Sample Report
• French Patent Office: Sample report

Alerts

Alerts can be setup to automatically run every week, 2-4 weeks, or every 8th week. You also have the option to not receive a report if there are no changes in legal status. Subaccount information may be included as well to better keep track of the alerts.

Reports

PatLegal Monitor’s reports are color coded to highlight any new, modified, or deleted actions making them easy-to-read, and administrators also receive the legal status reports, a summary report, and a report listing all the reports generated.

PatLegal Monitor: Pricing

Pricing for PatLegal Monitor is 30 Euros or $35 annually for each number monitored.

At the end of one year if the previously monitored patents are still being monitored, then you will be automatically invoiced.

Because of the low annual price for monitoring patents, there is no refund policy if you wish to cancel an order before the end of the 12-month monitoring period.
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FAQs

If I want to only monitor new family members and their Legal Status, do I have to enter all the existing family members?

No –only enter one number from the patent family. However if you want to monitor their legal status in particular countries, i.e. US PAIR, German Patent Office, etc., then you have to enter these numbers separately.

If I am monitoring a patent number in “Family and INPADOC Legal Status” and a new family member appears, will its legal status automatically be monitored?

Yes but only for those being monitored in “Family and INPADOC Legal Status”. If a new US family member is included in the family then this will automatically be monitored in the Legal Status part but will not be automatically monitored in PAIR. If you want to monitor the US family member in US PAIR, then you have to manually add this number to the selection.