Several EUIPO Online Services (RCD eFiling application, EasyFiling, GI View and TMDSView) will be unavailable on Friday from 20.30 (CEST) and Saturday until 13.30 (CEST) for maintenance and service upgrades.

Service to a number of the EUIPO platforms will be interrupted during the morning of Saturday 21 August to allow service upgrades.

Today our electronic communication services have experienced some technical difficulties.

As part of our drive to modernise the EUIPO’s online services, we have made several enhancements to the online application form for registered Community designs (RCD). Most of these improvements follow up on suggestions made by our customers to improve the user experience at the time of filing, including additional guidance to avoid possible deficiencies during the examination of the application.

On Monday 18 January the EUIPO launched its new e-filing form designed for direct filers (usually small businesses and individual entrepreneurs) from the European Economic Area.

In the framework of the EUIPO-WIPO Work Programme 2020, the Smart Button feature is now active in both DesignView and WIPO’s Global Design Database. This enables users to search in one tool and then conduct the same search in the other tool, without the need to enter the search criteria again.

On 11 July 2020 the EUIPO became a participating intellectual property (IP) office of the WIPO Digital Access Service (WIPO DAS) as an Office of First Filing.

In light of the difficulties that customers have reported when working from home, the EUIPO has accelerated work on e-communications so that all communications sent to the Office can be carried out online.

The technical issue which caused the unavailability of opposition eActions for some users has been resolved.

The EUIPO website is currently experiencing a technical issue causing the unavailability of opposition eActions for some users.