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eRegister

 

eRegister comprises bibliographic data of the patent Register as described in the Patent's Law but also the full text patents and the correspondence between the Patent Office and the applicants.

You can find data about:

  • Belgian patent applications BE;
  • European patent applications (EURO-PCT included);
  • Belgian supplementary protection certificates (SPC) for medicines and phytopharmaceutical products.

The data are regularly updated by the Belgian Patent Office.

eRegister does not require any subscription and is accessible for all.

 

eFiling & Front Office eFiling

 

In cooperation with the European Patent Office (EPO), the Belgian Intellectual Property Office (IPObel) has developed 5 electronic forms since 2014. These were integrated in the Belgian eOLF (electronic online filing) application for the electronic online efiling of:

  • Belgian patent applications (eOLF form BEPAT1),
  • follow-up correspondence relating to filed Belgian patent applications (eOLF form BEPOST),
  • applications for a Belgian supplementary protection certificate (SPC) and related follow-up correspondence (eOLF form BESPC),
  • documents concerning European patents designating Belgium (eOLF form BEEPNP), and
  • requests to amend the patrimonial information of a patent or a supplementary protection certificate (or the corresponding applications) (eOLF form BECHANGE).

These eOLF forms are used extensively by patent attorneys. 93% of Belgian patent applications and 100% of Belgian supplementary protection certificate applications were filed electronically online with the IPObel in 2024.

The Belgian eOLF application is a client/server application based on technology that is over twenty years old. The European Patent Office has now developed a new web-based application, called ‘Front Office eFiling’. It is made available for national patent offices and can be configured further based on their needs.

Between 2023 and 2025, the IPObel worked with the European Patent Office and an external IT provider to configure a Belgian version of the Front Office (FO) eFiling web application. It will go live on 30/09/2025 and will include the following electronic forms:

Row

 

Front Office eFiling form

for the submission of:

1

National patent applications

- Belgian patent applications

2

National patent applications - subsequent action

 

- follow-up correspondence for any submissions mentioned in row 1

3

EP Document (submitted for the national phase)

- translations of the claims of published European patent applications (not yet available on 30 September 2025);

- appointments of a representative for a granted European patent (available for a filing of an appointment of a representative for a European patent for which the mention of the grant has already been published in the European Patent Bulletin)

 

4

EP Document (submitted for the national phase) - subsequent action

 

- follow-up correspondence for any submissions mentioned in row 3

5

SPC applications 

 

- applications for a Belgian supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products or plant protection products;

- applications for a paediatric extension of a Belgian supplementary protection certificate for a medicinal product

 

6

SPC applications - subsequent action

- follow-up correspondence for any submissions mentioned in row 5

7

Request for change

- requests to change any patrimonial information of a patent or supplementary protection certificate (or the corresponding application), e.g. change of name or address, licence, transfer, pledge, etc.

 

8

Request for change - subsequent action

 

- follow-up correspondence for any submissions mentioned in row 7

 

These electronic forms are integrated in the back office of the Belgian version of the Benelux Patent Platform, which the IPObel uses to manage filing, examination, publication and grant processes for patents, documents, and requests concerning patents and supplementary protection certificates.

After a submission has been sent to IPObel by means of the FO eFiling web application, the system automatically generates a receipt. The user can also choose to have an automatic email confirmation of the send of the submission generated by the application sent to his email address.

The FO eFiling web application subsequently generates a request form (a PDF file ‘Submission file’) containing almost all data and attachments entered by the user during the ‘draft’, ‘sign’, ‘pay’, and ‘send’ stages in a Front Office eFiling form.

After the FO eFiling web application goes live on 30 September 2025, the IPObel’s eOLF application will remain available for at least six weeks for users who were registered for eOLF before 26/09/2025. They will still be able to submit applications and documents. However, users of both the FO eFiling web application and the eOLF application must ensure that the same application/document is not submitted twice via these applications. The IPObel will notify the users in advance about the exact date when the Belgian eOLF application will be taken out of production.

The FO eFiling web application also allows electronic subsequent action forms to be used for sending information and any documents for (applications for) patents and supplementary protection certificates that were previously submitted on paper, by fax, or via the eOLF application.

 

MyPage

 

MyPage is a BPP online service that provides secure electronic access to patent applications filed with the Belgian Patent Office.

With MyPage you can:

  • make payment orders for your patents
  • make 3rd party payment orders on behalf of applicants or patent holders

 

Register of patent attorneys

 

The list of recognized patent attorneys with the Belgian Intellectual Property Office is updated and published on BPP Portal every months.