MyEPO - pilot phase
Welcome to the MyEPO page for pilot participants.
This page is for companies that have volunteered to participate in a MyEPO pilot phase. With your help and feedback, we will trial major new features before making them available to all users when they have been proven to work well with pilot participants.
On this page you can see information about new features that are currently available for you to trial as a participating pilot company.
You can find the full list of features we are introducing this year in our roadmap document: online user engagement pipeline.
- Accessing MyEPO
Please read our Get access page.
You can access MyEPO using your EPO account with two-factor authentication.
- Application detail: new bibliographic data panel
The application detail screen includes a new panel showing bibliographic data associated with the application.
- Assigning company members to applications
The Admin area includes a new Assignees screen that company administrators can use to assign or identify which company members have been assigned to work on specific applications in the search or examination phase.
The company administrator can assign them manually or choose to download and upload data from a CSV file so that assignees can be maintained in bulk.
When viewing portfolios in Application and patents, users can see which company members have been assigned to each application and can search and filter by assigned company member.Users can also see this information in a new Assignees panel of the application detail screen.
A company member with permission to view the portfolio can use the Actions drop-down list to assign themselves to applications or to remove themselves as assignees. They can also do this in the Assignees panel of the application detail screen.
Note: at this point, all users with permission to view a given portfolio in MyEPO can work on all applications in the portfolio, independently of whether they have been assigned to an application or not. The new field “Exclusive permission” is available but not yet active.In a future release of MyEPO it will be possible to restrict users to only view and work on applications that they have been assigned to. This will allow companies to implement so-called “ethical walls” as a working practice.
- Bulk maintenance options
In the Company members screen, company administrators can maintain company member access and rights in bulk, by downloading and uploading CSV files with the information.
- Consolidated view of applications
In the Applications and patents screen, a new view allows users to see all applications across the portfolios in their MyEPO company.
- MyEPO Homepage
After signing in to MyEPO, users will see a new Homepage that provides information about pending actions and quick access to their MyEPO services.
- Self-service creation and update of associations
Company administrators can create a new association, update details of the association and add members. A confirmation form is sent to the company Mailbox.
Please note: when creating or updating association details, there is a new option that allows company administrators to give consent to publish telecommunication details in the searchable database of associations (go live expected mid-November this year).
Please have a look at this feature guide on creating and updating associations for instructions, especially about how to provide the name of a new association.
- Third-party observations
A new simplified form is available for pilot users to trial for submitting third-party observations.
It is available in demo mode, so you can test it using dummy information. For this, please use the following link: tpo-demo.apps.epo.org.
It is also available in full production mode, so you can submit actual third-party observations to the EPO. For this, please use the following link: tpo.apps.epo.org/
As usual, third-party observations can be submitted anonymously if you wish. Therefore, you do not have to sign in to MyEPO services to access these forms.
For more information, see the guidelines on observations by third parties (E-VI, 3) and the frequently asked questions (FAQs) about third party observations.
- Further information
MyEPO FAQ
Decision of the President of the European Patent Office dated 24 March 2025 concerning the continuous development of MyEPO and other online services- Support and feedback
As a valued pilot participant, your feedback is essential for us to improve new MyEPO features before we make them available to all our users. The sooner we have your feedback, the sooner we will be able to improve MyEPO.
At any moment during the pilot phase, please email us your feedback to epo.org/support.
If you run into problems and need support as a pilot participant, you can also use this email address to get in touch with us. You may also contact your EPO Key Account Manager if you have one
