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Anyone who is developing a new product, or a new process of manufacture should consider applying for a Patent. A Patent is a form of statutory protection for technical innovations.Â
In return for disclosing the invention, the inventor (or their employers) receives a state monopoly in the use of the invention for a limited period, usually of 20 years. What can be patented? An invention must be new and not form part of the state of the art, it must be capable of use in industry or agriculture, and it must involve some form of inventive step representing a true advance in the art. Inventions are made in advanced technology such as microelectronics or genetic engineering, which may be patented, but improvements in such mundane things as clothes pegs may also receive patent protection. An invention may involve a new manufacturing process, or an improvement in an existing process. However scientific discoveries, aesthetic creations, schemes for performing mental acts or for carrying on business and surgical or therapeutic methods are not generally patentable in Europe. In the USA, business methods and surgical methods are patentable. To an increasing extent, computer software is being patented, despite former restrictions which existed. Very many inventions now require the use of software, but like any other invention, the steps performed by a programmed computer must be new and not obvious in order to be patentable.
Copyright will also exist in any proprietary software. The organization with responsibility for dealing with patent applications and granting Irish patents is: The Patents Office Government Buildings
Hebron Road
Kilkenny
Telephone (056) 20111
Lo-CalI1890-220223
Fax (056) 20100
Lo-Call Fax 1890-220120
Preparing patent specifications and filing them in the patent office’s is normally carried out by patent agents who provide specialist advice on all aspects of intellectual property.
The following are the firms of patent agents in Ireland.
Cruickshank & Company
1 Holles Street
Dublin 2
Telephone: 01 6612533
Fax: 01 6612480Â
Email:
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Web: www.cruickshank.ie | F F Gorman & Co
15 Clanwilliam Square
Dublin 2
Telephone: 01 6760363
Fax: 01 6761550
Email:
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 | MacLachlan and Donaldson
47 Merrion Square
Dublin 2
Telephone: 01 6763465
Fax: 01 6612083
Email:
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Website: www.maclachlan.ie | Dermot P Cummins & Co
46 Merrion Square
Dublin 2
Telephone: 6628522
Fax: 01 6628529/01 6612083
Email:
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Website: www.cummins.ie | F R Kelly & Co
27 Clyde Road
Ballsbridge
Dublin 4
Telephone: 01 6602111Â
Fax: 01 6682844/01 6602104
Email:
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Website: www.frkelly.com | John A O'Brien & Associates
Third Floor
Duncairn House
14 Carysfort Avenue
Blackrock
Co. Dublin
Telephone: 01 2883877
Fax: 01 2883878 | Barry Moore
European Patent Attorney
Hanna Moore & Curley
11 Mespil Road
Dublin 4
Telephone: 01 667 3009Â
Fax: 01 667 3017
Email:
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Website: www.hmc-ip.com | Anne Ryan & Co
60 Northumberland Road
Ballsbridge
Dublin 4
Telephone: 01 6680094
Fax: 01 6680412
Email:
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Website: www.anneryanip.com | Tomkins & Co
5 Dartmouth Road
Leeson Park
Dublin 6
Telephone: 01 6605033/6605114
Fax: 01 6606920
Email:
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Website: www.tomkins.com | Murgitroyd & Company
Unit 1, Block 8
Blanchardstown Corporate Park
Cruiserath Road
Dublin 15
Telephone: 01 8829400Â
Fax: 01 8829401
Email:
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Website: www.murgitroyd.com | Ms Anne Wingfield
Wingfield Island Patents
Island House, Oulart
Gorey
Co Wexford
Telephone: 053 30893Â
Fax: 053 30892
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Website: www.islandpatents.com
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