Status

The normalized status value, the live/dead category, the office’s own wording, and the difference between null, other and unknown.

Offices describe a mark’s legal state in hundreds of ways. The record gives you the normalized value, a three-way category, and the office’s own wording:

"status": {
  "value": "pending",
  "category": "live",
  "date": null,
  "office_status": "Në proces ekzaminimi",
  "office_status_code": null
}

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Value

status.value	Meaning	status.category
registered	Registered and in force, as far as the register shows	live
pending	Filed and not yet decided: examination, publication, opposition	live
abandoned	Withdrawn, refused or lapsed before registration	dead
cancelled	Registered, then cancelled, revoked or invalidated	dead
expired	Registered, then not renewed	dead
unknown	The office itself reports the status as unknown	unknown
other	The office’s status has no mapping yet	unknown
null	The office did not state a status	null

The mapping follows each office’s own terms, which do not always line up with these definitions. Some offices, for example, keep a lapsed mark as registered until a grace period ends. When the exact legal state matters, read office_status, and check the office record before acting on it.

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Category

status.category groups values into live (registered or pending), dead (abandoned, cancelled or expired) and unknown (unknown or other). It is null only when the status is null.

Use the category for “is this mark a potential obstacle” questions, and the value when you need to tell pending from registered.

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null, other and unknown

These three look alike but mean different things, and you can filter on each one separately:

You see	It means	Filter with
"value": null	The office published no status for this record.	status=none
"value": "other"	The office published a status that Pinakel has not mapped yet. The wording is in office_status.	status=other
"value": "unknown"	The office published a status, and it says the status is unknown.	status=unknown

The same applies to status_category=none and status_category=unknown. A record with other today may get a mapped value later, when Pinakel adds a mapping; it then appears in the changes feed.

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Office wording

• office_status is the office’s status text, untranslated, for example Në proces ekzaminimi (“under examination”) in Albania.
• office_status_code is the office’s status code, for registers that publish codes.

Both are in the full record only, not in summaries. Both can be null.

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Status date

status.date is the date of the current status as the office states it, often the date of the last decision or event. It is null when the office does not publish one. Filter on it with status_date_from and status_date_to.

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Filtering

# Live marks only
--data-urlencode "status_category=live"

# Registered or pending, in two equivalent spellings
--data-urlencode "status=registered,pending"
--data-urlencode "status=registered" --data-urlencode "status=pending"

# Everything that might still be live, including records with no usable status
--data-urlencode "status_category=live,unknown,none"

Values within one parameter are combined with OR; different parameters are combined with AND.