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Information regarding protection of patents outside the IE jurisdiction is available at: https://www.patentsoffice.ie/en/Patents/Protection-Abroad

 

The IE patent Irish national patent register may be searched by publication or application number at:https://eregister.patentsoffice.ie/PTRegNr.aspx

 

The IE Irish national patent register may also be searched over several fields such as: title/abstract; application, grant or priority number; application date range; grant date range; legal status; IPC; inventor name; applicant name; etc. at:https://eregister.patentsoffice.ie/query/PTQuery.aspx

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Availability of the application dossier in electronic form

The IE patent Irish national patent register may be searched by publication or application number at: https://eregister.patentsoffice.ie/PTRegNr.aspx

The IE patent Irish national patent register may also be searched over several fields such as: title/abstract; application, grant or priority number; application date range; grant date range; legal status; IPC; inventor name; applicant name; etc.:https://eregister.patentsoffice.ie/query/PTQuery.aspx

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All abstracts are submitted in English by applicants and are checked and modified, if necessary, by the patent examiners. 

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A report, providing information on statistics, IP application trends, office activities, office projects, training, patent information dissemination, etc. is published on a yearly basis.  It is provided both in hard copy and electronically on our website. 

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The examiners have access to a complete catalogue of IE documents Irish national patents reaching as far back as 1927.  Full document retrieval is made possible through our Patent Database search system.  External databases such as Espacenet, Epoquenet and Patentscope are accessed to retrieve relevant patent information also. 

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Copies of information booklets, ; other national office annual reports, ; IP legislation, ; previous copies of the IPC; guides to IP Law, ; patent case law reports, ; scientific journals and magazines, etc. are stored in our main information centre.     

Our office is open to the public five days a week, where users can file applications, perform searches on our patents National Patent database, Espacenet, and/or Patentscope, peruse available booklets/journals or avail of an IP clinic with an examiner for pre-filing advice.  These services are provided free of charge. 

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Legal status information is contained in the IE Irish national patent online bibliographic data page and may be searched in our patent database search at: https://www.patentsoffice.ie/en/Patents/Patent-Searching

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