Information Reuse Act

Data that you provide to us in applications will be disclosed in the Austrian Patent Office’s public digital database and its official publications. This data is available online and can be found via search engines.

Bulk data from the Austrian Patent Office’s public database may be obtained free of charge in accordance with the provisions of the Austrian Information Reuse Act (Informationsweiterverwendungsgesetz – IWG).

You can use the contract template provided to learn more about the specific contents (types of data, prices, etc.).

If you are interested in accessing the data, please send a message to bibliothek[at]patentamt.at detailing the intended content, scope, and manner of reuse.

For reasons of privacy, data may only be transferred to third countries (i.e. countries outside the European Union) if an adequate level of data protection is guaranteed in the respective third country.