On this page you can see if the Netherlands Patent Office is on schedule with the processing of applications/requests. For each process it is indicated until which date the applications/requests have been processed.
Dutch applications
- Register applications: processed until 06/10/2026
- Registering/granting: processed until 09/10/2026
- Subsequent filed documents: processed until 01/10/2026
- Send search reports *: processed until 27/09/2026
Management of granted patents
- Payments: processed until 22/10/2026
- A-publications: processed until 09/10/2026
- B-publications: processen until 09/10/2026
- Patent certificates: processed until 20/10/2026
- Priority certificates: processed until 15/10/2026
- Deeds: processed until 13/10/2026
- SPC’s: processed until 26/10/2026
- PCT: processed until 22/10/2026
European translations
- EPNL-validations: processed until 12/10/2026
* This concerns the administrative handling of the completed search reports.
It may happen that a process has a specific file pending.