Office Address
The Netherlands Patent Office Visiting address: |
The Dutch online register is accessible free of charges, and can be used in three languages
For access to the Register click the title.
Depending upon your requirements and the experience that you already have with patents, the Netherlands Patent Office is able to assist you with your search or carry out an exploratory search in the patent databases on your behalf.
Information
Public Information Office Visiting adress: Prinses Beatrixlaan 2, 2595 AL The Hague, The Netherlands |
Telephone: +31 88 602 6660
Fax: +31 88 602 9024
E-mail: octrooien@rvo.nl
The Netherlands Patent Office is promoting the knowledge of and the demand for intellectual property rights.
We target our services at small and medium-seized enterprises, intermediairs, scientists, teachers and students, and government institutes.
Activities:
– organising seminars
– tailor made training sessions on patent information or searching
– publishing educational information material
– individual support on location
Do you have a business in The Netherlands, and are you interested in one of our services? Please contact our Public Information Department, tel. +31 88 602 6660, fax +31 88 602 9024, or mail to octrooien@rvo.nl.
If a patent owner discovers that someone else has made use of the invention as described in the patent and the patent owner has not given his consent for this, such an act constitues an infringement of the patent.
The patent owner may start infringement proceedings, eventually ending up in court.
When the of infringement accused party may feel that the patent does not meet the requirements as stipulated in the Patent Act, he has the option of trying to have the patent declared ‘invalid’.
Nullification proceedings are worth considering.
All patent procedures in The Netherlands are brought before the District Court of The Hague, in interlocutory proceedings if necessary. The Court can obtain an advice by the Netherlands Patent Office.
You may read more by clicking on the title.
Publications and subscriptions
Our Official Journal is available online (only in Dutch).
Please contact our Public Information Department,
tel.: +31 88 602 6660,
fax: +31 88 602 9024,
mail: octrooien@rvo.nl.