Patents located in folders can easily be transferred to a legal status monitoring. Pre-defined or individually created filters define for which events (e.g. granted, lapsed, change in family, opposition) you will receive an automatic notification. The entire patent family is monitored regarding changes in the family or in legal status. This can also be specified for individual countries. This process saves a lot of time, as specific family members do not have to be monitored individually and new family members are automatically included in the monitoring, thus reducing the administrative effort significantly.