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.

The EUIPO website is currently experiencing a technical issue, which is preventing some registered users from logging in as usual.

The EUIPO website suffered a short outage between 17.30 and 18.15 CET today, which affected the e-filing applications and e-business services....

This Saturday 23 November, the EUIPO website and e-filing tools will have limited functionality from 08:00 – 12:00 CET. Other e-business applications will be unavailable.

This Saturday, June 15, the EUIPO website and e-filing tools will have limited functionality from 08:00 – 12:00 CEST. Other e-business applications will be unavailable.