Status patent registration on 11/08/2026

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 17/07/2026
• Registering/granting: processed until 27/07/2026
• Subsequent filed documents: processed until 10/07/2026
• Send search reports *: processed until 06/07/2026

Management of granted patents

• Payments: processed until 07/08/2026
• A-publications: processed until 27/07/2026
• B-publications: processen until 27/07/2026
• Patent certificates: processed until 25/06/2026
• Priority certificates: processed until 05/08/2026
• Deeds: processed until 10/08/2026
• SPC’s: processed until 10/08/2026
• PCT: processed until 07/08/2026

European translations

• EPNL-validations: processed until 21/07/2026   

*  This concerns the administrative handling of the completed search reports. 

It may happen that a process has a specific file pending.