DPMAregister - Help - Search modes - Monitoring

Input options in the search form

The following search criteria are available for monitoring designs: "Owner" and/or "Class of goods".

A link to the classification for designs is provided above the input field.
Monitoring offers the following options

monitoring by name of owner
monitoring by class of goods
monitoring by name of owner and class of goods

Monitoring by name of owner

Please specify the period to be covered by the search in the field "Monitoring period".

Enter a name in the "Owner" field, for which new national design registrations and Community designs are to be searched in the specified period. You can use the wildcards admissible for searches within DPMAregister, if you are unsure about the exact spelling of a name/a company name.

Examples:
ABC Electronic# [finds "ABC Electronic", "ABC Electronics", "ABC Electronica" ...]
ABC Electroni? [finds "ABC Electroni..." + no letter/character or any number of letters/characters].
The search is case insensitive.
For more information and other examples please see the "Expert search" menu item.

For further monitoring (changes in the legal status) of a design found, we recommend you submit the respective file number to DPMAkurier. For more information, please see chapter " DPMAkurier".

Monitoring by class of goods

Please specify the period to be covered by the search in the field "Monitoring period".

In the "Class of goods" field, you can enter up to three classes of the classification for designs, for which new national design registrations and Community designs will be searched.

You can submit the classes in a one or two digit format.
Please note that when entering sub-classes the hyphen can only be left out, if you enter the complete four-digit classification symbol, for example: 0601
Input example: 06-01 or 0601 or 6-1 (not admissible: 61)

For further monitoring (changes in the legal status) of a design found, we recommend you submit the respective file number to DPMAkurier. For more information, please see chapter " DPMAkurier".

For details on the classification for designs please see the Help pages, chapter "Classification".

Monitoring by name of owner and class of goods

Please specify the period to be covered by the search in the field "Monitoring period".

Please enter the details for a combined monitoring by name of owner and class of goods (classification for designs) as specified above ("Monitoring by name of owner and "Monitoring by class of goods).

For further monitoring (changes in the legal status) of a design found, we recommend you submit the respective file number to DPMAkurier. For more information, please see chapter " DPMAkurier".

Configure result list

In the section "Hide result list configuration", you can specify which details of the results returned you wish to have displayed in the first overview.
The fields "Design number" and "File number" are selected by default and cannot be disabled.

Furthermore, options are provided to sort the result list generated. For this purpose select the desired data field and define the sort order (ascending/descending).

Select the number of results to be displayed per page in a drop-down-menu.

The field "Max. number of results" enables you to limit the result lists to e.g. 250 or 500 results. If you restrict the number of results, the lists will be loaded faster, in particular in comparison to lists comprising 1,000 results.

For more information on this section, please see "Result list".