Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 414: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the public has on-line access to the Patents Office Journal and to the Patents Office's register and databases; if the public can patent and trademark designs on databases on-line; if people can renew patents and trademarks and if they can search and renew industrial designs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10087/06]

Michael Ahern (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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The Patents Office has provided on-line searchable access to the Patents Office Journal via its website at www.patentsoffice.ie since November 2002.

Since December 2002, it has also been possible for the public to access and search on-line the office's patent, trademark and design registers and databases free of charge, via the office's website.

On 15 December 2004, the office implemented its on-line renewals payment system, which facilitates the payment of patent, trademark and design renewal fees via its website using various credit and debit cards.

A facility for filing patents, trademarks and designs on-line is not currently available.