IPOI Publications

Publications Overview

The Intellectual Property Office of Ireland produces a number of publications, the Journal of the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland (on a fortnightly basis), an Annual Report and has produced a number of information booklets on Patents, Trade Marks, Designs & Copyright. In addition, the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland makes available the Written Grounds of decisions in Inter-partes hearings relating to Trade Marks.

RE-USE OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION

Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 (SI 279 of 2005), Statement of Policy on Release of Data

(a) Individual inspections of the Patent, Trade Mark and Design registers at the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland can be accessed free of charge via the IPOI web search facilities. Specific items of information on a particular patent or patent application (under Rule 64(3) of the 1992 Patents Rules) and in relation to a trade mark application or a registered trade mark (under Rule 60 of the Trade Mark rules 1996) can be sought provided the request is made in writing in advance and on payment of the prescribed fee of €6.00 per item of information sought.

(b) Certified copies of documents or extracts from the Patents, Trade Marks and Design Registers are available upon request from the Office on payment of the prescribed fee.

Details of all fees are available to view in our schedule of fees.

(c) Documents filed with the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland under existing Intellectual Property legislation are available for public inspection at the Office's Information Centre in Kilkenny and copies of these documents can be obtained at a cost of 30 cent per page.

(d) Supply of Bulk Data Rule 77 of the Trade Mark Rules 1996 provides for the granting of a licence authorising the use of part or all of the computerised Trade Mark database which is open to public inspection. The fee for obtaining this licence is €125 and the fee for each fortnightly update is €70 thereafter. 

The Intellectual Property Office of Ireland complies with the Regulations on the Re-use of Public Sector Information and we encourage the re-use of the information that we produce. The regulations are available at http://www.psi.gov.ie All of the information featured on our website is the copyright of Intellectual Property Office of Ireland unless otherwise indicated. You may re-use the information on this website free of charge in any format. Re-use includes copying, issuing copies to the public, publishing, broadcasting and translating into other languages. It also covers non-commercial research and study. Re-use is subject to the following conditions. You must:

• Acknowledge the source and our copyright in cases where you supply the information to others
• Reproduce the information accurately
• Not use the information in a misleading way
• Not use the information for the principal purpose of advertising or promoting a particular product or service
• Not use the information for or in support of illegal, immoral, fraudulent, or dishonest purposes.

The Intellectual Property Office of Ireland is not liable for any loss or liability associated with the re-use of information and does not certify that the information is up-to-date or error free. The Office does not authorise any user to have exclusive rights to re-use of its information.

For a list of the information maintained by the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland, please refer to the Office’s Freedom of Information (Sections 15 & 16) Manual. For further information on the re-use of information maintained by this Office please contact: Mary Anne Walsh Telephone: 00 353 56 7720111 Email: ipinfo@ipoi.gov.ie