At present, Inpadoc database contains legal status information of 55 countries, among which the legal status of Germany, Denmark, Spain, European Patent Office, France and Britain is updated once a week; The legal status of Switzerland, East Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden is updated every two weeks; The legal status of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Lithuania and Finland is updated once a month; Estonia, Latvia and Slovenia are updated every two months; Luxembourg and Romania are updated irregularly.
Countries have given each country a code name according to their different legal status. The code name of each country is not necessarily the same, but in a word, The legal status of these countries can be roughly divided into the following 2 1 types: default, expiration, withdrawal, partial invalidation of original rights, restoration, maintenance fee (payment of fees), issue (objection), review (restoration), request for review (retrieval report), extension of time (extension of time), change of owner/applicant, change of representative, and $ of rights. Translations), PCT enters the national phase (PCT enters (does not enter) NAT. Stage), department or other application (department and additional application/partition). , specification revision, errata and miscellaneous. Different countries have corresponding PRS codes to show the legal status of patent cases.