01.01.2010 Austrian Patent Law, Federal Law Gazette 1970/259 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2009/135 01.01.2010 Utility Model Law, Federal Law Gazette 1994/211 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I 2009/126 21.06.2023 Austrian Trade Mark…
Updates Feb 29, 2024: UPC publishes a detailed case-located statistics https://www.unified-patent-court.org/en/news/case-load-court-update-29-february-2024 Feb 26, 2024: The UPC court of appeal rendered its first substantive decision. Feb 22, 2024:…
The respective patent and utility model gazettes are published on the 15th and the trademark and design gazettes on the 20th of the month. In addition, the patent gazette part I may also appear for the promulgation of regulations and proclamations of…
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We provide security The success of your business is built on innovations. Innovations are the basis and the driving force of every economic system. Granting intellectual property rights to your innovations is the task of the Austrian Patent Office,…
Essential information There is no global patent! You or your representative must ensure that you file an application with each national patent office whose protection you wish to obtain and/or the European Patent Office. Make sure you do so in time!…
Stefan Harasek, Vice President for Inventions and Interim President since July 2023, will take over management of our office on December 1, 2023. His appointment makes him the 19th President in the almost 125-year history of the Austrian Patent…
We're celebrating an anniversary! 125 years of bureaucracy? No, 125 years of being open to new things! For this long, the Austrian Patent Office has been the first point of contact for people with ideas. Whether it's patents, trademarks, or designs –…
We have taken stock and can say that 2023 went well! We recorded a slight increase in patent applications at our office and Austrians worldwide even filed 2.5% more patents than in the previous year. In our recently published annual report, you can…
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