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OPA Austria (AT) — national
Layer national
Jurisdiction AT (WIPO ST.3: AT)
Issuing body Österreichisches Patentamt (Austrian Patent Office, ÖPA / OPA)
Rights administered patent, utility_model (Gebrauchsmuster), trademark, design (Muster); plus supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) and semiconductor topographies
Working languages German (primary); English (bilingual see.ip UI, partial English on institutional pages — all gazettes and bulk publications are German-only)
Connector status skipped (no programmatic surface; AT patents already covered transitively via EPO OPS / INPADOC)
Last verified 2026-05-18
Manifest entry not listed in coverage/sources.yaml — AT is covered transitively via WO/EPO

Detail surveys:

Higher layers covering this office transitively:

  • EPO OPS / INPADOC (via regional/epo.md) — AT patent biblio + family + legal events. Austria is an EPC contracting state and a UPC member, and the EPO's Principal Directorate Patent Information is located in Vienna (INPADOC was founded under a 1972 agreement between WIPO and the Austrian government). This is the strongest INPADOC ingestion path of any EPC member.
  • EUIPO (via planned regional/euipo.md) — EUTMs designating AT and Community designs (RCDs / REUDs). Pure AT-national-only TMs and designs are NOT covered.
  • WIPO Madrid Monitor / Hague Express — Madrid IRs designating AT / Hague IRs designating AT; national-only filings remain ÖPA-exclusive.
  • UPC (via shipped upc_decisions connector) — Austria is a UPC contracting state (the UP system started 2023-06-01); UPC-routed disputes affecting AT are reachable via that connector.

Rating: 🔴 Red — No API

see.ip (seeip.patentamt.at) is a Next.js SPA relaunched 2026-03-05 with no API, no developer portal, no entry in WIPO IP API Catalog (179 APIs across 10 offices — zero ÖPA). Legacy ASP.NET helpers now 404. patentamt.at Impressum explicitly restricts content to personal use; commercial reuse and third-party disclosure require written consent. Jump to access details → View on the atlas →

§1 Mission

ÖPA is the Austrian national IP office — the only authoritative registrar for AT national patents, AT utility models (Gebrauchsmuster), AT national trademarks, AT national designs (Muster), and Austrian supplementary protection certificates. It also operates the historical Privilegiensammlung archive of pre-1899 Austro-Hungarian patent privileges (~95k digitized documents at privilegien.patentamt.at).

Because Austria is an EPC contracting state, an EU member, and a UPC member, most "Austrian patents" in commercial circulation are EP-routed (covered by EPO OPS) and most "Austrian trademarks" of any scale are EUTMs (covered by EUIPO). The INPADOC ingestion path for AT is particularly tight because the EPO's Patent Information directorate sits in Vienna and INPADOC itself was launched under a 1972 WIPO–Austrian-government agreement. ÖPA's genuine value-add for agents is the AT-national-only slice — utility models, national-only TMs and designs, and live AT file history — none of which has a public API.

§2 What's unique here

  • AT utility models (Gebrauchsmuster) — distinct national right (~10-year term, no novelty/inventive-step examination, product-only), per ÖPA utility-models page. Not in EP filings.
  • AT national-only trademarks — filed directly with ÖPA, not via Madrid and not as EUTMs.
  • AT national-only designs (Muster) — filed directly with ÖPA, not via Hague and not as RCDs.
  • AT patent file history (Akteneinsicht) — live file inspection through see.ip; not in EPO OPS.
  • AT-specific procedural events — oppositions, nullity, SPC live status at ÖPA-register fidelity.
  • Pre-1899 Privilegiensammlung archive — Austro-Hungarian patent privileges 1852–1899; niche but real for deep prior-art.

§3 Programmatic surfaces

Every ÖPA-operated surface is 🔴 Red against the zero-infra-proxy constraint. There is no documented public REST/JSON/XML API for patents, utility models, trademarks, or designs, and no ÖPA entry in the WIPO IP API Catalog (probed 2026-05-18 via /api/apis: 179 office APIs across DPMA, EPO, EUIPO, IP Australia, JPO, MOIP KOREA, UPRP, USPTO, WIPO, Kazakhstan — zero from ÖPA).

Surface Right(s) Endpoint Auth Format Rating
see.ip (register search) patent / UM / TM / design seeip.patentamt.at (routes /patentsuche, /markesuche, /mustersuche, /NPatentSuche) none Next.js SPA, Server Actions (opaque RSC payloads) 🔴
patentamt.at downloads (gazettes) patent / UM / TM / design /en/downloads/publications/ none PDF only (monthly Patentblatt I/II, Gebrauchsmusterblatt, Markenanzeiger, Musteranzeiger) 🔴
data.gv.at — ÖPA datasets administrative only search q=patentamt none, CC-BY 4.0 9 hits, all PDFs (ordinance, procurement, org chart, publications index) — no register data 🔴
Online services (filing portal) applicant-side filing /en/online-services/ personal Web forms 🔴 (not a search surface)
privilegien.patentamt.at historical archive (1852–1899) privilegien.patentamt.at (CNAME → oepma.intranda.com) none intranda Goobi viewer; HTML; IIIF available at page level but not advertised 🔴 (historical only)

Material details for the most consequential of these:

  • see.ip 2026 relaunch (news 2026-03-05) was a UI modernization (Next.js SPA replacing the prior ASP.NET app). It did not ship with an API, not announce a developer programme, and dropped the legacy /Help/DownloadHelp?searchType=… download helpers (404 on probe). SPA data calls are Next.js Server Actions — same-origin, RSC-encoded, unversioned, rebuilt on every deploy.
  • patentamt.at downloads ship monthly as PDFs with the explicit notice on the publications page: "NOTICE! Downloads are only available in German." Annual Jahresübersicht PDFs back to ~2015.
  • data.gv.at footprint is administrative only: e.g. Patentamtsverordnung 2019 - PAV, Vertrag Serverankauf 2025-10-10, Geschäftsverteilung und Personaleinteilung, Publikationen des Österreichischen Patentamts index. The bulk-register substrate that DPMA and other EU offices publish on national OGD portals does not exist for ÖPA.
  • Terms of use. patentamt.at/impressum is explicit: "Die Inhalte der Website sind für den persönlichen Gebrauch bestimmt. Wir weisen ausdrücklich darauf hin, dass jede weiter gehende Verwendung oder Vervielfältigung der Inhalte dieser Website, insbesondere die kommerzielle Nutzung und Weitergabe an Dritte, einer schriftlichen Zustimmung des Österreichischen Patentamtes bedarf." — content is personal-use only; commercial use and third-party disclosure require written consent. see.ip inherits this via its footer.

§4 Fees

ÖPA publishes fee schedules (in EUR) covering patents (filing, search, publication, grant, annuities), utility models (filing, search, registration, renewals), trademarks (filing per class, renewal), designs (filing, renewal), supplementary protection certificates, semiconductor topographies, and miscellaneous services (file inspection, certified copies, priority documents). Statutory basis is the Patentamtsgebühren- gesetz (PAG) and the Patentamtsverordnung 2019 (PAV), with specific rates set by ministerial regulation and adjusted by ÖPA publication.

Notable discount programs (name only — no amounts or dates per policy):

§5 Access via patent-client-agents

What we cover today

  • AT patent biblio + family + legal events — transitively via patent_client_agents.epo_ops (country code AT). Particularly strong ingestion because EPO Patent Information sits in Vienna and INPADOC was founded under a 1972 WIPO–Austria agreement.
  • EUTMs designating AT and Community designs (RCD/REUD) — transitively via the planned EUIPO connector.
  • Madrid IRs / Hague IRs designating AT — via planned WIPO Madrid / Hague connectors.
  • UPC-routed disputes touching AT — via shipped upc_decisions connector.

What we should add

Nothing in the form of a direct ÖPA connector. The rating is 🔴 Red — red_no_api — there is no programmatic surface to proxy, BYOK, or contract against. Connector status: skipped.

If we want richer AT coverage beyond what EPO OPS / EUIPO / WIPO already provide, the only realistic avenues are to monitor ÖPA for a developer-programme announcement and to stand up a separate AT substantive-law / case-law layer via ris.bka.gv.at (out of scope for this synopsis).

Next steps

  1. Watch patentamt.at/en/all-news/ for a developer-programme announcement.
  2. Watch the WIPO IP API Catalog for ÖPA entries — the canonical signal an office has shipped a public API.
  3. Re-evaluate when ÖPA appears on either signal. Until then, route AT patent queries to EPO OPS and document the AT-national-only TM / design / utility-model gap as a known limitation.

§6 Known unknowns

  • Bilateral "Datenabgabe" path. Did the 2026 see.ip relaunch include a private licensable interface ÖPA is willing to offer bilaterally? Institutional pages are silent; worth a direct enquiry to info@patentamt.at before final closure.
  • EUIPN CTI deployment. Does ÖPA participate in the EUIPN Common Tools Integration — and if so, does that translate into developer-facing TMview / DesignView ingest beyond the consumer UI? AT data flowing to TMview / DesignView is confirmed by EUIPO news, but that is the EUIPO surface.
  • AT utility-model coverage in INPADOC. Empirical probe needed to confirm what fraction of AT U (utility models) live in INPADOC vs. ÖPA-only — the single most material gap if AT utility models become research-relevant.
  • AT IP case law programmatic access. Is ris.bka.gv.at the authoritative path for Handelsgericht Wien IP rulings? Confirm before any AT case-law connector spec.

§7 References

Primary sources only — patentamt.at, seeip.patentamt.at, privilegien.patentamt.at, data.gv.at, ris.bka.gv.at, apicatalog.wipo.int, inspire.wipo.int.

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Historical archive:

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Last updated 2026-05-18.