Thomson Innovation Legal Status Codes for Germany (DE)

Legal status codes for Germany (DE)

KEY:	RED	=	Negative action
	GREEN	=	Positive action
	BLACK	=	Neutral action

Code

Description

8115 -

Request for examination void

8130 -

Withdrawal

8131 -

Rejection

8133 -

Disposal/non-payment of the application fee

8136 -

Disposal/non-payment of the fee for publication/grant

8139 -

Disposal/non-payment of the annual fee

8140 -

Disposal/non-payment of the annual fee for main application

8141 -

Disposal/no request for examination

8165 -

Unexamined publication of following application revoked

8166 -

Unexamined publication of following international application in german language revoked

8167 -

Publication of translation of international application withdrawn

8176 -

Proceedings suspended because of application no:

8176 -

Proceedings suspended because of application no:

8230 -

Withdrawal

8231 -

Rejection

8235 -

Refusal

8238 -

Disposal/non-payment of the application fee

8239 -

Disposal/non-payment of the annual fee

8240 -

Disposal/non-payment of annual fee for main application

8263 -

Opposition against grant of a patent

8265 -

Publication of the examined application revoked

8276 -

Proceedings suspended because of application no:

8276 -

Proceedings suspended because of application no:

8310 -

Action for declaration of annulment

8311 -

Complete invalidation

8312 -

Partial invalidation

8315 -

Request for restriction filed

8318 -

Patent restricted

8330 -

Complete disclaimer

8331 -

Complete revocation

8332 -

No legal effect for de

8339 -

Ceased/non-payment of the annual fee

8340 -

Patent of addition ceased/non-payment of fee of main patent

8350 -

Ceased/non-payment of application fee

8360 -

Ceased/inventor not named

8361 -

Notification of grant revoked

8362 -

Rights of main patent transferred to additional patent

8363 -

Opposition against the patent

8367 -

Partial disclaimer of the patent

8376 -

Suspension

8510 -

Disposal/without grant

8564 -

Publication of EP-application has been revoked

8565 -

Publication of translation of claims of EP-application revoked

8566 -

Designated country de not longer valid

8642 -

Impact abolished for de - i.e. pct appl. not ent. german phase

8643 -

Other disposal

8664 -

Publication of PCT-application in de withdrawn

8665 -

Publication of PCT-application in german translation revoked

BHJ -

Nonpayment of the annual fee

BHN -

Withdrawal

BHV -

Refusal

BHZ -

Application of addition ceased through non-payment of annual fee of the main patent

EGZ -

Application of addition ceased through non-payment of annual fee of main patent

EHE -

Ceased/inventor not named

EHJ -

Ceased/non-payment of the annual fee

EHN -

Ceased/invalidation

EHS -

Cancellation of a fr-patent in force in the saarland (frg)

EHV -

Ceased/renunciation

EHZ -

Patent of addition ceased/non-payment of annual fee of parent patent

EIB -

Restricted by decision of the de-patent office

EIN -

Invalid by final decision of the federal patent court

EINK -

Partial invalid by decision of the federal court

EINT -

Partial invalid by final decision of the federal patent court

EINU -

Invalid by decision of the federal court

OE -

Request for examination void

OHA -

Expiration of time for request for examination

OHB -

Non-payment of the publication fee (examined application)

OHJ -

Non-payment of the annual fee

OHN -

Withdrawal

OHW -

Rejection

OHZ -

Application of addition ceased/non-payment of annual fee of the main patent

R176 -

The application caused the suspense of application no:

R176 -

The application caused the suspense of application no:

R276 -

The application caused the suspense of application no:

R276 -

The application caused the suspense of application no:

V462 -

Part annulation of spc by law

V464 -

Spc expired

V465 -

Spc lapsed due to nonpayment of the annual fee

V466 -

Lapsed according art. 14d eu decree

V491 -

Spc annulled

V492 -

Spc regarded as annulled caused by lapse of basic patent

V646 -

Expiry of spc

WID1 -

Revocation by decision of the patent department

ZPFN -

Certificate for plant protection settled or void

ZPZA -

Refusal of application of certificate for plant protection

ZPZG -

Withdrawal of application of certificate for plant protection

ZTFN -

Certificate settled or void

ZTZA -

Refusal of application for certificate

ZTZG -

Withdrawal of application for certificate

8000 +

PCT-application designating de

8100 +

Publication of the examined application without publication of unexamined application

8101 +

Request for examination as to novelty

8102 +

Request for examination as to novelty (for ep)

8105 +

Search report available

8106 +

Search report available (for ep)

8110 +

Request for examination paragraph 44

8170 +

Reinstatement of the former position

8178 +

Suspension cancelled

8270 +

Reinstatement of the former position

8278 +

Suspension cancelled

8304 +

Grant after examination procedure

8305 +

Restricted maintenance of patent after opposition

8306 +

Patent modified in the restriction proceedings (reprinted)

8307 +

Grant after term for opposition

8308 +

Other granted patents

8309 +

EP-patent valid in de

8313 +

Request for invalidation rejected/withdrawn

8314 +

Invalidation rejected

8316 +

Request for restriction withdrawn

8317 +

Request for restriction finally refused

8364 +

No opposition during term of opposition

8365 +

Fully valid after opposition proceedings

8366 +

Restricted maintained after opposition proceedings

8368 +

Opposition refused due to inadmissibility

8370 +

Indication of lapse of patent is to be deleted

8378 +

Instruction for suspension has been quashed

8509 +

EP-patent valid in de

8570 +

Reinstatement of the former position

8670 +

Reinstatement of the former position

C2 +

Grant after previous publication (2nd publication)

C3 +

Grant after two publication steps (3rd publication)

D1 +

Grant (no unexamined application published) patent law 81

D2 +

Grant after examination

D3 +

Patent maintained restricted (no unexamined application published)

D4 +

Patent maintained restricted

E77 +

Valid patent as to the heymanns-index 1977

E771 +

Valid patent as to the heymanns-index 1977, willingness to grant licenses

EB +

Duration of protection prolongated

EILA +

Invalidation of the cancellation of the patent

I2 +

Publication of grant of certificate

OAI +

Search report available as to paragraph 43 lit. 1 sentence 2 patent law

OAM +

Search report available

OAP +

Request for examination filed

OAR +

Request for search filed

OAV +

Applicant agreed to the publication of the unexamined application as to paragraph 31 lit. 2 z1

OB +

Request for examination as to novelty

OC +

Search report available

OD +

Request for examination

OM8 +

Search report available as to paragraph 43 lit. 1 sentence 1 patent law

ON +

Later submitted papers

OP8 +

Request for examination as to paragraph 44 patent law

SH +

Request for examination between 681003 and 710422

V448 +

Application of spc

V457 +

Spc granted

V463 +

Application of annullation for spc revoked or withdrawn by law order

V506 +

Reinstatement of spc allowed; application for spc

V510 +

Reinstatement of spc allowed; spc granted

V511 +

Internal correction of state of proceedings of spc; spc granted

ZPFE +

Grant of certificate for plant protection

ZTFE +

Grant of certificate

5AU

New application no. (part 5 of the patent gazette)

5AU

New application no. (part 5 of the patent gazette)

5AU

New application no. (part 5 of the patent gazette)

8107

Announcement of search results after publication of patent document

8120

Willingness to grant licenses paragraph 23

8121

Willingness to grant licenses paragraph 23 withdrawn

8122

Nonbinding interest in granting licenses declared

8123

Nonbinding interest in granting licenses withdrawn

8125

Change of the main classification

8126

Change of the secondary classification

8127

New person/name/address of the applicant

8128

New person/name/address of the agent

8129

Change in the priority table

8142

Declaration for partition to be considered as not given as to paragraph 39 or 60

8143

Settled due to claiming internal priority

8161

Application of addition to:

8161

Application of addition to:

8162

Independent application

8162

Independent application

8172

Supplementary division/partition in:

8172

Supplementary division/partition in:

8180

Miscellaneous part 1

8181

Inventor (new situation)

8196

Reprint pf faulty title page (publication); german patentblatt: part 1a6

8197

Reprint of an erroneous patent document

8207

Announcement of search results after publication of the patent

8220

Willingness to grant licenses (paragraph 23)

8221

Willingness to grant licenses paragraph 23 withdrawn

8222

Nonbinding interest in granting licenses declared

8223

Nonbinding interest in granting licenses withdrawn

8225

Change of the main classification

8226

Change of the secondary classification

8227

New person/name/address of the applicant

8228

New agent

8229

Change in the priority table

8243

Settled due to claiming internal priority

8261

Application of addition to:

8261

Application of addition to:

8262

Application became independent

8272

Divisional inventive unit in:

8272

Divisional inventive unit in:

8280

Miscellaneous part ii

8281

Inventor (new situation)

8319

Announcement of search results after publication of the grant

8320

Willingness to grant licenses declared (paragraph 23)

8321

Willingness to grant licenses paragraph 23 withdrawn

8322

Nonbinding interest in granting licenses declared

8323

Nonbinding interest in granting licenses withdrawn

8325

Change of the main classification

8326

Change of the secondary classification

8327

Change in the person/name/address of the patent owner

8328

Change in the person/name/address of the agent

8329

Change in the priority table

8369

Partition in:

8369

Partition in:

8371

Fee returned as to paragraph 18 lit. 2 patent law

8372

Publication of ep patent withdrawn

8380

Miscellaneous part iii

8381

Inventor (new situation)

8392

Publication of changed patent specification

8393

Patent changed during the limitation procedure (changed patent specification reprinted)

8394

Patent changed during the nullification procedure (changed patent specification reprinted)

8396

Reprint of erroneous front page

8397

Reprint of erroneous patent document

8580

Miscellaneous part v

8581

Inventor (new situation)

8596

Reprint of erroneous front page

8597

Reprint of erroneous translation

8607

Notification of search results after publication

8629

Changes in the priority table

8680

Miscellaneous part vi

8681

Inventor (new situation)

8691

Reprint of erroneous front page

8696

Reprint of defective front page

8697

Reprint of erroneous translation

8716

Sentence in annex german patentblatt annex 1a6

Divided out of

Is addition to no.

Willingness to grant licenses

BGA

New person/name/address of the applicant

Miscellaneous see part 2

Patent modified in the restriction proceedings

Willingness to grant licenses

EGA

New person/name/address of the applicant

Miscellaneous see part 3

Publication of filing of certificate

OAN

New documents

OAO

Without description

OAOB

Without description

OAT

Request for search as to paragraph 43 lit. 1 sentence 2 patent law filed

Willingness to grant licenses before publication of examined application

OGA

New person/name/address of the applicant

Miscellaneous see part 1

OR8

Request for search as to paragraph 43 lit. 1 sentence 1 patent law

Publication date corrected

R161

Has additional application no.

R161

Has additional application no.

R162

Application became independent

R162

Application became independent

R171

Divided out to:

R171

Divided out to:

R172

Divided out of (supplement):

R172

Divided out of (supplement):

R174

Divided out to:

R174

Divided out to:

R261

Has additional application no.

R261

Has additional application no.

R271

Divided out to:

R271

Divided out to:

R272

Divided out of:

R272

Divided out of:

R369

Divided out of:

R369

Divided out of:

V454

Spc application withdrawn or to be regarded as withdrawn

V455

Renunciation of spc

V460

Request of annulation for spc

V467

Application of reinstatement of spc

V472

Withdrawal of application for spc

V484

Delivery of the decision of grant

V502

Application of reinstatement of spc

V507

Internal change in the state of proceedings of spc; spc applied

Miscellaneous:

ZPFA

Filing of certificate for plant protection

ZTFA

Filing of certificate