Our Focus: Small and Medium-sized Businesses

Our range of services in the area of patent and trademark searches are naturally directed at all companies, regardless of their size. Nevertheless, experience has shown that large corporations have a tendency to be able to handle the excessive amount of information available in this sector better than others. Small and medium-sized businesses and individual inventors cannot deal with all the procedural stages themselves, however. To strengthen the economic structure of Austria, our focus is therefore set on the many innovative and flexible companies in this category in Austria, and for them we offer our own tailor-made information events.

Experience has shown that there is an urgent need for raising the awareness of industrial property among European small and medium-sized businesses. Japanese and US companies in this category show a far higher degree of acceptance and greater knowledge with regard to commercial protective rights, and that means they are often able to succeed better on an international level as well.

Another target group for our Service Centre is of course that of the universities and technical colleges, as centres for research and development.