Our Investment Service: We Search for You.

The experts at the Austrian Patent Office help Austrian companies, especially SMEs, to avoid stranded investments. Our service centre serv.ip offers comprehensive advice on how you can make your research and development more efficient. So far, European business have been investing an incredible € 60.000.000.000 per year in unnecessary failures. For all those who do not want to count the zeros: That is 60 billion (!) euros. These investments were failures because all the work had already been done before and the inventions had already been made.

That does not have to be so: With our express search tool for the state of the art, which is conducted in accordance with Patent Cooperation Treaty rules (PCT), you obtain a valuable basis for solving technical problems within just four weeks. And it can also be used to evaluate innovations, assess the current market situation, or estimate future market developments.

More than 2000 searches conducted by us annually for your technical problems are proof of both our competence and the importance of timely and specific information.