Exclusively with us, you can also obtain a search from the European Patent Office (EPO) for your Austrian patent application. The EP search is available for Austrian SMEs at a cost of € 510, while it is free of charge for public research institutions…
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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 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…
This was our anniversary year 2024 was a special year for us: we celebrated 125 years of the Patent Office. What was there to celebrate? 125 years of filing? 125 years of stamping? Yes, but actually much more than that. 125 years of being open to new…
Almost 300 inventors and creative minds have entered the competition for the National Award for Patents 2022, which is awarded by the Austrian Patent Office together with the Ministry of Climate Protection. The submissions were evaluated by a…
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