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Available patent documents
A project to expand the amount of to electronically archive Irish national patent documents which are electronically archived, which commenced in 2013, continued throughout 2015. The aim of the current project is to scan all available patent application specification documents from the 1960s to the early 2000s, and to make them available to the public to view on our public via our website. It is estimated that there are approximately 58,000 documents to be scanned. This project will facilitate ease of access to the data for both the public and for staff, as well as reducing the requirement for storage space for paper files. The project continued in 2015 with over 24,000 documents scanned to date. It is estimated that the project will take 4 another 2 years to complete. As a cost saving measure and to allow continued access to the documents, the Office decided not to outsource this work and is using work but use its own internal staff resources and equipment.
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The Federated European Patent Register service provides the public with information on the legal status of both European Patents and the legal status of national National patents. In the first phase of the project (already completed) the Federated Register provides a direct link to a specific application or publication number in a selection of national patent registers including Ireland. The second phase, completed in 2015, gives the opportunity for the user to consult legal status data of EP documents in the national phase in several offices; these being displayed in a single unified list.
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