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Dresdner Straße 87 POB 95 A-1200 Vienna Austria |
For enquiries or comments
Advisory service from Mo to Fri 09:00 to 14:00 (central European time UTC+1/ central European summer time UTC+2) with the exception of National holidays
Telephone (customer center): +43 (1) 53424 76
Telephone (general): +43 (1) 53424 0 (line open from Mo to Fri 08:00 – 16:00)
Fax: +43 (1) 53424 535
E-mail: info@patentamt.at
Website : www.patentamt.at
Find below a list of IP actors available in this country. They are classified along the following categories :
Name | Region | Website | |
Continous Training/Education | Wirtschaftskammer Österreich Austrian Chamber of Commerce | Austria | wko.at |
Wirtschaftskammer Wien | Vienna | wkw.at | |
Wirtschaftskammer Niederösterreich | Lower Austria | wko.at/noe | |
Wirtschaftskammer Oberösterreich | Upper Austria | wko.at/ooe | |
Wirtschaftskammer Burgenland | Burgenland | wko.at/bgld | |
Wirtschaftskammer Salzburg | Salzburg | innovationsservice.at | |
Wirtschaftskammer Steiermark | Styria | wko.at/stmk | |
Wirtschaftskammer Kärnten | Carinthia | wko.at/ktn | |
Wirtschaftskammer Tirol | Tyrol | wko.at/tirol/tiz | |
Wirtschaftskammer Vorarlberg | Vorarlberg | wko.at/vlbg | |
WIFI Wien | Vienna | wifiwien.at | |
WIFI Oberösterreich | Upper Austria | ooe.wifi.at | |
WIFI Steiermark | Styria | stmk.wifi.at | |
WIFI Niederösterreich | Lower Austria | noe.wifi.at | |
WIFI Tirol | Tyrol | tirol.wifi.at | |
WIFI Vorarlberg | Vorarlberg | vlbg.wifi.at | |
WIFI Burgenland | Burgenland | bgld.wifi.at | |
WIFI Kärnten | Carinthia | fifikaernten.at | |
WIFI Salzburg | Salzburg | wifisalzburg.at |
Name | Region | Website | |
Initial Training/Education | Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH – ipp innovationsschutzprogramm Innovation protection Program of the Austrian Economics Service | Vienna | awsg.at |
Austrian Patent Office | Vienna | patentamt.at |
Name | Region | Website | |
National IP bodies | Austrian Patent Office | Vienna | patentamt.at |
Ministry of Justice | Vienna | bmj.gv.at | |
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management | Vienna | lebensministerium.at |
Name | Region | Website | |
IP agents (patent, trademark…) (eventually the professional association) | Association of patent engineers | Styria | patentingenieure.at |
Austrian Chamber of Patent Attorneys | Vienna | patentanwalt.at |
- IP lawyers (non-exhaustive list) (eventually the professional association) ( 1 contact(s) available)
Name | Region | Website | |
IP lawyers (non-exhaustive list) (eventually the professional association) | Austrian Chamber of Lawyers | Vienna | oerak.at |
Name | Region | Website | |
Guidance for financial assistance | Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft m.b.H. | Austria | ffg.at |
Steirische Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft m.b.H. | Styria | sfg.at | |
Catt Innovation Management GmbH | Upper Austria | catt.at | |
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ZIT Zentrum für Innovation und Technologie | Vienna | zit.co.at | |
INiTS Universitäres Gründerservice GmbH | Vienna | inits.at | |
Wiener Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds | Vienna | wwff.gv.at | |
Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH Austrian Economics Service | Vienna | awsg.at |
Name | Region | Website | |
Guidance for valorisation (licencing, sale or any other form of IP transfer) | L.E.S. Austria Verein Gesellschaft für Lizenzwesen und Technologietransfer DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach Rechtsanwälte GmbH | Vienna | les-austria.at |
Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH Austrian Economics Service | Vienna | awsg.at |
Name | Region | Website | |
Organisations combating IP counterfeiting | Ministry of Finance Customs Office Klagenfurt | Carinthia | bmf.gv.at/Zoll/Produktpiraterie |
Name | Region | Website | |
Other: Academic ipr research | ZIT Zentrum für Innovation und Technologie | Vienna | zit.co.at |
INiTS Universitäres Gründerservice GmbH | Vienna | inits.at | |
Department of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law | Vienna | wu-wien.ac.at/informationsrecht/frameset.htm | |
Internationalisierungscenter Steiermark GmbH | Styria | ic-steiermark.eu | |
BEP Büro für Europäische Programme | Tyrol | bep.at |
Austrian Patent Office is competent for filing
– an opposition or a declaration of invalidity (patents)
– a request for cancellation (utility model)
– an opposition, a request for cancellation or limitation (trade mark)
– a declaration of invalidity (registered design)
– respective requests with regard to semiconductors and supplementary protection certificates
The Commercial Court of Vienna is competent for civil cases, e.g. for claims for injunction
– claims for elimination
– publication of the judgment
– monetary claims
– rendering of accounts
-With reference to rights to demand an injunction, elimination, adequate compensation, damages and surrender of the profits preliminary injunctions may be issued to safeguard the claim itself as well as to secure evidence.
The Vienna Provincial Court for Criminal Matters is competent for all criminal matters with regard to IP-Rights.
The Customs Competence Center Villach is competent for customs seizures
Publications of the Austrian Patent Office
We publish monthly the Austrian Patent Gazette, Utility Model Gazette, Trademark and Design Gazette in electronic from on our website for free (www.patentamt.at/Publikationen). Paper issues and previous issues can be ordered at our Copy Service, phone: +43(1) 534 24 738, e-mail: kopierstelle@patentamt.at.
All the Austrian patent documents published by the Austrian Patent Office are published on the Austrian publication server (http://pubserv.patentamt.at/PublicationServer/search.jsp?lg=de) which is updated monthly.