A patent family and legal status search will allow you to know in what countries a patent is registered and whether it is valid.

Important to know: the legal status and patent family reports are integral and automated part of all our search reports.

Patent family
A patent family is the list of patent publications that are connected to the same invention. We use terms like Simple or Large patent family that are connected to the first application sent by the inventor and that is also used to decide the priority date of the invention.

Legal status
Legal status is indicating the legal situation of a patent or a patent application. It is the description of historical legal and office actions registered in the prosecution files and that is published by local and international patent authorities and in commercial databases.

Ordering a patent family and legal status search
You can order a search to verify the legal status and patent family (that is not retrieved automatically). The comprehensive search will include accessing the patent national register database to make sure the information is accurate and including payments of patent fees.

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