Advanced search results

Results are displayed in the tab where you initiated the search request, for example the ‘Trade mark decisions’ or ‘National Court judgments’ tab.

The application’s default setting is to display 15 results per page. This setting can be changed to display more by using the drop-down menu to the right of the option ‘Show’. To navigate to another page of search results click on one of the page numbers in the top right-hand corner of the table or, to view the next page in order, on the right or left arrow. To access the first or last results in the list you can click on the double-left or double-right arrow.

The total number of search results is displayed next to the tab heading, e.g. ‘Trade mark decisions (246)’. Information on the number of results, number of pages and the time taken to process the request is displayed immediately above the list of results.

Results can be displayed in the ‘Element view’ or the ‘List view’. The former provides more detailed information per result and the latter provides less information per result so that you can see more results in one page.

Text within a result which is in blue indicates a hyperlink to more information. For example, clicking the blue trade mark number in a result will lead you to more information about the trade mark which was the subject of the case.

• Sorting results

  Trade mark decisions
  The results can be sorted in ascending or descending order or by:

  • Decision/judgment date
  • Decision type
  • Trade mark name
  • Trade mark number

  Design decisions
  The results can be sorted in ascending or descending order or by:

  • Decision/judgment date
  • Decision type
  • Design number

  National Court judgments
  The results can be sorted in ascending or descending order or by:

  • Judgment date
  • Country
  • Instance
  • Court name
  • Interim measures
  • Admissibility

  Preliminary rulings
  The results can be sorted in ascending or descending order or by:

  • Judgment date
  • Nickname
• Modify search

  You can refine your search by clicking on the ‘Modify search’ button, which will take you back to the advanced search page showing all the search criteria you selected previously to modify your selection: add or delete keywords, change the text search that you were looking for.

  If you want begin a completely new search, eliminating all of your previous search criteria, there are two options at the bottom of the page, ‘Clear’ or ‘Reset to default’. Clicking ‘Clear’ will delete what you have put into the search fields but not the criteria selected. Clicking ‘Reset to default’, resets the interface to look the same as it did when first opened.