Background info:

The purpose of the project was development of the National Patent Registers (NPR) for Montenegro and for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

European Patent Office (EPO) is developing Federated Patent Register service, which will establish a common European entry point which will allow the users to access national register data in harmonized way. This requires the existence of electronic national register, for this reasons it has been envisaged to develop national register. The NPR shall provide the patent with direct access to all the publicly available information on the national patent applications as they pass through the grant procedure. It shall provide procedural and legal data on national filings. With the NPR it shall be possible:

• to find out what stage in the procedure a national patent application has reached
• to see if a national patent has been granted, or will be granted soon
• to check whether any oppositions to a national patent have been filed
• to read the correspondence between the national office and the patent applicant/attorney
• and store these documents off-line for later study (download data).

The NPR should support deep linking with the future EPO’s Federated Patent Register.

The deliverables are:

• Technical Implementation Plan (TIP)
• NPR and related modules
• Training for the use of the NPR Software
• Corrective maintenance of NPR Software
• Adaptive and perfective maintenance of NPR Software
• Preventive maintenance of NPR Softwarev