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ILPO Israel (IL) — national
Layer national
Jurisdiction IL (WIPO ST.3: IL)
Issuing body Israel Patent Office (רשם הפטנטים, המדגמים וסימני המסחר) — registration unit inside the Ministry of Justice
Rights administered patent, trademark, design, geographical indication (appellations of origin)
Working languages Hebrew (controlling); English (EN locales on all three search portals; partial EN coverage of examination guidelines)
Connector status register: skip (no API); fees: yellow — extraction needs dev-browser (ecom.gov.il SPA reachable + valid SSL, but content is Angular-hydrated behind Akamai bot manager; promotable to clean httpx after ~1-2 hr of SPA reverse-engineering); statutes: planned (revive israel_statutes, StaticLawCorpus-shape)
Last verified 2026-05-19
Manifest entry not yet listed in coverage/sources.yaml — proposed split into IL/ILPO/Register (none) + IL/ILPO/Fees (yellow) + IL/ILPO/Statute (planned)

Detail surveys:

Higher layers covering this office transitively:

  • EPO INPADOC (via regional/epo.md) — IL patent biblio + family + legal events (~2011-present per WIPO INSPIRE).
  • WIPO Madrid (planned multilateral/wipo-madrid.md) — international TMs designating IL (IL is a Madrid Protocol member since 2010 per WIPO Madrid members).
  • WIPO Hague (planned multilateral/wipo-hague.md) — international designs designating IL (IL is a Hague member since 2020).
  • WIPO PATENTSCOPE — PCT applications routed through ILPO as receiving office, and ILPO-issued ISRs / written opinions (IL has been an ISA / IPEA since 2012-06-01 per the USPTO notice).

Rating: 🔴 Red — No API

israelpatents.justice.gov.il is an Angular SPA fronted by CSRF + reCAPTCHA + Glassbox session capture (explicit anti-automation perimeter); TM and Design portals are ASP.NET WebForms with no API; data.gov.il TM CKAN feed is bulk-shaped. Jump to access details → View on the atlas →

§1 Mission

ILPO is the registration unit inside the Israeli Ministry of Justice that administers all three registered IP rights (patents, trademarks, designs) plus appellations of origin / geographical indications under the 5725-1965 law. Plant breeders' rights sit separately at the Plant Variety Council under the Ministry of Agriculture. Israel runs roughly ~8,000 patent applications a year — a small register by IP5 standards, but disproportionately weighted toward pharma (Teva inheritors), semiconductors, defense electronics, cyber, and software. Beyond the register, two structural facts matter for agents working Israeli IP: ILPO has been an ISA / IPEA since 2012-06-01, placing it in the small club of ~16 offices that examine PCT applications for the world, and Israel has a standalone statutory trade-secrets regime in the Commercial Torts Law 5759-1999 — a regime that bundles trade secrets, unregistered marks, and procedural remedies in one instrument.

§2 What's unique here

  • Israeli national patents, TMs, designs, and appellations of origin — the authoritative register. EPO INPADOC + WIPO Madrid + WIPO Hague cover most of what agents touch transitively, leaving the national-only Israeli slice as the genuine ILPO-exclusive value.
  • Commercial Torts Law 5759-1999 — standalone statutory trade secrets — distinct from US/UK/Canadian common-law breach-of-confidence baselines and from EU member-state Directive-2016/943 transpositions. Bundles trade secrets (Arts. 6-9), unregistered TMs, and procedural remedies (Anton Piller-style seizures, asset freezes) in one instrument. (WIPO Lex 2375)
  • Designs Law 5777-2017 — modernised the register and introduced a 2-year blackout post-registration during which designs are not publicly searchable. (WIPO Lex 19434)
  • ILPO as PCT ISA / IPEA (2012-06-01-) — ILPO-issued international search reports and written opinions flow into WIPO PATENTSCOPE under the standard PCT event flow; no separate IL feed is needed for them. (PCT eGuide IL)
  • Pre-1978 Israeli patent backfile (1902-1977) — published Israeli applications before EPO INPADOC's coverage window starts. Niche but real for prior-art searches in older art.

§3 Programmatic surfaces

Patents Search SPA (israelpatents.justice.gov.il)

Field Value
Endpoint https://israelpatents.justice.gov.il/<lang>/search?AP_0_option=... (Angular SPA over undocumented JSON backend)
Auth None on the surface; CSRF + reCAPTCHA + Glassbox session capture on the JSON backend
Format HTML envelope; per-record PDFs; undocumented internal JSON
Rate limit None published; reCAPTCHA + Glassbox is the enforcement
ToS posture Implicitly anti-automation; no standalone ToS page found
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — no public API; explicit anti-automation perimeter
Primary source Patents Search EN

The combination of CSRF + reCAPTCHA + Glassbox is an explicit product decision against programmatic third-party use. No documented JSON contract; reverse-engineering against a CAPTCHA gate is off-spec.

Trademarks Search (trademarks.justice.gov.il)

Field Value
Endpoint https://trademarks.justice.gov.il/TradeMarkSearch/TradeMarkSearch?lang=en
Auth None
Format ASP.NET MVC + Kendo UI HTML
Rate limit None published
ToS posture No published ToS page; session-cookie-based UI
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — HTML scrape only; the supported data substrate is data.gov.il
Primary source Trademarks Search EN

Designs Search (designsearch.justice.gov.il)

Field Value
Endpoint https://designsearch.justice.gov.il/
Auth None
Format ASP.NET MVC + Kendo UI HTML
Rate limit None published
ToS posture No published ToS page
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — HTML scrape only; 2-year post-registration blackout further narrows coverage value
Primary source Designs Search

Patents Journal / Gazette

Field Value
Endpoint israelpatents.justice.gov.il/<lang>/patents-journal (browsed inside the SPA)
Auth None on browse; inherits the SPA's anti-automation surface for indexing
Format HTML index + per-event PDFs
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🔴 Red — bound to the same SPA perimeter as the patents register
Primary source Patents Search EN

data.gov.il — Trademark dataset (CKAN)

Field Value
Endpoint https://www.data.gov.il/ (CKAN backend at /api/3/action/...)
Auth Free public reads; API key available for higher-volume / production use
Format JSON envelope {"result": {"records": [...]}}
Rate limit None pinned by primary source
ToS posture Israeli government open-data programme; redistribution licence text not pinned by primary source in this wave — walk the dataset page before any redistribution claim
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🟡→🔴 Yellow trending red — clean CKAN feed, but bulk-shaped; under our zero-infra constraint, hosting an offline index of weekly TM dumps is off-spec
Primary source data.gov.il landing · datagovil-ckanext

This is the only confirmed structured ILPO-source feed. Whether parallel patents or designs datasets exist on data.gov.il alongside the TM feed is not evidenced by primary source as of 2026-05-18.

Substantive law via WIPO Lex (statute mirror)

Field Value
Endpoint wipo.int/wipolex/en/profile.jsp?code=IL
Auth None
Format PDF + HTML; authoritative EN translations by ILPO / Ministry of Justice
Rating (zero-infra proxy) 🟢 Green — clean static-corpus material; same shape as our existing ipo_in_statutes, dpma_statutes, legifrance_ip, tw_trade_secrets modules
Primary source WIPO Lex IL profile

§4 Fees

Status (2026-05-19): yellow — extraction needs dev-browser. This is the first office in the current wave where the canonical current-effective schedule lives behind a JS-rendered SPA + Akamai bot manager, with no parallel static PDF mirror on the live-data side. The statutory structure is reachable on WIPO Lex but the consolidated text there is stale by 7 years (last amendment up to 2019-01-16) — useless for current fee amounts because Israeli fees are CPI-adjusted every 1 January.

Publication chain:

  1. Current effective amounts — Government Payment Service (ecom.gov.il / "שירות התשלומים הממשלתי"):
  2. Patents: ecom.gov.il/counterspa/home/14/2/patents — Angular SPA, 3 KB HTML shell, no server-rendered content
  3. Trademarks: ecom.gov.il/counterspa/home/14/2/trademarks — same shape
  4. Designs: ecom.gov.il/counterspa/home/14/2/designs — same shape

All three reachable from US egress with valid SSL — they are not blocked. But the SPA queries a CSRF-protected /counterspa/* JSON backend with Akamai Bot Manager gating (the /TSbd/ script in the shell loads Akamai's PoW + behavioural fingerprint). A plain httpx POST to common endpoint guesses (/PatentsAgra/GetAll, /Service, /Counter/GetSpaContent) returns 302 to the session-bootstrap page. Reverse-engineering the SPA's data flow to a clean httpx connector is a multi-hour task and might prove brittle to Akamai rotation.

Practical extraction path: dev-browser. The SPA renders the full fee table after Angular initialization, and the rendered DOM has stable Hebrew-labelled cells that map cleanly to FeeItems. Pattern matches the EPO BFF case (where we used dev-browser to discover the hidden JSON endpoint, then promoted to clean httpx). For v1 the pragmatic approach is to ship dev-browser-rendered HTML extraction and queue the upgrade.

  1. Statutory structure — WIPO Lex (stale by 7 years for amounts, but useful for confirming what categories of fees exist):
  2. WIPO Lex 19117 — Patents Regulations (Office Practice, Rules of Procedure, Documents and Fees), 5728-1968 (as amended up to 2019-01-16) — Hebrew-only PDF at wipolex-res.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/he/il/il117he.pdf. The Schedule (תוספת / "Tosefet") to these Regulations contains the fee table structure. The amounts are stale — CPI-adjusted annually since 2019, so they should not be quoted to clients. Use only for confirming category boundaries (which items have separate fees, how excess-claims/excess-pages are codified).
  3. Prior English-language consolidations exist at WIPO Lex IDs 15984, 15259, 2365 — also stale.
  4. Patents Law 5727-1967 (parent statute): WIPO Lex 15167 — substantive law, not fee amounts.
  5. Trade Marks Ordinance [New Version], 5732-1972 and the Trade Marks Regulations, 5700-1940 — fee schedule for trademarks. Available on Nevo / gov.il (gov.il currently Cloudflare-403 from US egress, but Nevo reachable at nevo.co.il).

  6. Designs Law, 5777-2017 — replaced the 1924 Patents and Designs Ordinance for designs filed on/after 2018-08-07. New regulations on Nevo / gov.il.

  7. Annual CPI-adjustment notices publish in Reshumot (Israeli official gazette). The notices are PDFs on gov.il/he/departments/dynamiccollectors/publications-of-justice — but that path currently returns 403 Cloudflare from US egress. Reshumot is therefore not a viable direct extraction target without a dev-browser or stealth-IP detour.

Cloudflare-403 perimeter on gov.il. All gov.il/* sub-pages return 403 Cloudflare from US residential IPs as of 2026-05-19, regardless of language (EN, HE) or sub-path (ilpo, departments, units, services, dynamiccollectors). The block is wholly on gov.il proper; the ecom.gov.il deep counterspa paths bypass it (Akamai bot manager replaces Cloudflare on that subdomain). This is analogous to the gob.mx-CMS-attachment-vs-HTML-shell split in Mexico — the e-payment subdomain is the only reachable surface for the fee data.

Scope of the schedule (NIS-denominated, structural shape from WIPO Lex 1968 Regulations Schedule + current-amount hints from practitioner sources):

  • Patents. Filing fee (national, ~NIS 2,344 for 2025 after the ~3.5% CPI bump from 2024's NIS 2,264), national- phase entry (PCT), search report fee, examination request, allowance, excess-claims fee (per claim over 50 — easy to miss for biotech / software with many claims), excess- pages fee (per 50 pages over 100 pages of description, excluding sequence listings), grant, renewal fees at year 6, 10, 14, and 18 (cumulative-coverage model — fewer individual annuities than European offices).
  • Trademarks. Filing per class, opposition, registration, renewal (10-year), recordation. Per-class structure similar to most international offices.
  • Industrial designs. Filing, examination, registration, renewal, recordation.
  • Cross-cutting administrative fees. Priority claims, certified copies, file inspection, late-payment surcharges.

Discount tiers (mapped to EntityTier):

  • Small-entity 40% reduction. Available for individuals or companies with annual turnover under NIS 10 million in the preceding year, on a first-ever patent application for the invention. Applies to filing and grant fees. Requires a turnover declaration. Maps to EntityTier.small with explicit eligibility criteria (turnover-based and first-time-filer, not pure entity-size). Note this is stricter than the US small-entity test — only the first application for the invention qualifies, and only the filing + grant fees are reduced (not examination, search, or annuities).
  • ISA / IPEA reductions for Israeli-routed PCT applicants — academic / student / pensioner tiers documented through the PCT eGuide IL.

Excess-claims / excess-pages structural levers. Both are easy to miss when budgeting for claim-heavy or long-spec applications:

  • Excess claims: per-claim charge for claims over 50. Connector should emit as a per-claim FeeItem with a threshold = 50 note.
  • Excess pages: per-50-pages charge for descriptions over 100 pages, excluding sequence listings. Connector should emit as a per-50-page FeeItem with threshold = 100 and exclusions = ["sequence_listings"].

Annual revision cadence — CPI-tied, January 1. ILPO fees adjust each 1 January by Israeli CPI movement, rounded to the nearest shekel. The 2025 round was about +3.5% (national patent filing: NIS 2,264 → NIS 2,344); the 2024 round was lower-single-digits, the 2023 round was higher (post-pandemic inflation). Freshness window should be 30 days through January, then relaxable to 90 days through the rest of the calendar year.

NIS volatility caveat — same warning as Turkey: the NIS moves enough against the USD that a dollar-equivalent quoted on practitioner websites is only a snapshot. Always confirm against the live ecom.gov.il page when sending client estimates.

Proposed amendments in flight (2025). The Israeli Patents Statute had proposed amendments working through the Knesset in 2025 — worth checking whether anything has been gazetted that affects fees or procedural deadlines before relying on a stale figure. The Reshumot publication track is the source of truth; gov.il/he/departments/dynamiccollectors/publications-of-justice is the (currently Cloudflare-blocked) index.

Statutory basis (summary):

v1 connector plan — IL/ILPO/Fees/{Patent, Trademark, Design}:

  • Source: dev-browser-rendered ecom.gov.il counterspa pages (three URLs above).
  • Parser pattern: dev-browser → wait for Angular hydration → extract the rendered fee-table DOM → match against the WIPO-Lex-derived category map → emit FeeItems. Closest sibling: the EPO BFF connector, which used dev-browser to discover the hidden JSON endpoint and then promoted to clean httpx; the same upgrade path applies here when the SPA's CSRF / Akamai handshake is decoded.
  • Currency: NIS.
  • Provenance metadata: version_as_of = "live" (re-fetched on first access in calendar year + on detected CPI-notice publication); statutory_basis = "Patents Regulations 5728-1968 Schedule + Trade Marks Regulations 5700-1940 + Designs Regulations 5777-2017"; last_cpi_adjustment_year = YYYY; freshness_max_age = 30d through January, 90d thereafter.
  • Eligibility tag handling: eligible_for_small_entity_reduction = True/False (40% on filing + grant only, with turnover-under-NIS-10M + first-ever-application criteria documented as eligibility notes).
  • Excess-charge handling: emit excess-claims and excess-pages as their own FeeItems with threshold and unit provenance, so cost-estimator tools can compute portfolio-specific totals.
  • SSL note: ecom.gov.il/counterspa/* valid; gov.il/* returns Cloudflare 403 from US egress (not an SSL issue, a WAF block). WIPO Lex valid SSL.

Connector readiness summary. Rate this yellow rather than green: extraction requires dev-browser (and depends on the dev-browser skill being healthy — see [feedback_dev_browser_health] in MEMORY if it isn't). All other documented offices in this wave (MX, TR, HK, SG, ES) ship cleanly with httpx + pypdf / lxml; Israel is the first that needs the browser. Plan to spend ~1-2 hours on the SPA reverse-engineer to promote to a clean httpx connector before depending on the dev-browser path at scale.

§5 Access via patent-client-agents

The 2026-05 worktree at IL/ILPO built a single "ILPO statutes + TM bulk catalog" module that never integrated; STATE.yaml shows connector_status: in_progress. This synopsis splits that ambiguity into two independent decisions, each with its own rating.

Register layer — skip

Rating: 🔴 red_no_api. Recommendation: skip, monitor.

ILPO exposes no public REST/JSON register API for patents, TMs, or designs. The Patents SPA is explicitly anti-automation (CSRF + reCAPTCHA + Glassbox); the TM and Design portals are ASP.NET WebForms with no API. The data.gov.il weekly TM dataset is clean and licensed but bulk-shaped — under our zero-infra constraint ("proxy live APIs at runtime; do NOT host bulk dumps, build search indexes, or maintain offline corpora") a bulk feed has the same outcome as no API.

Coverage of the bibliographic essentials is provided transitively:

  • IL patent biblio + family + legal events via patent_client_agents.epo_ops (country code IL, 2011-present per WIPO INSPIRE).
  • Madrid IRs designating IL via planned wipo_madrid (IL is a Madrid member since 2010).
  • Hague IRs designating IL via planned wipo_hague (IL is a Hague member since 2020).
  • ILPO-issued ISR / written opinions via WIPO PATENTSCOPE under the standard PCT event flow.

The unique register-side coverage gaps — file-wrapper PDFs, Israeli national-only TMs (~190k+ across the dataset), pre-2011 legal events, and designs in the 2-year blackout window — exist but the demand is too thin and the perimeter too hostile to justify the build. No PIBD-style "documented migration in progress" announcement has been made by ILPO.

Statutes layer — revive

Rating: 🟢 green. Recommendation: revive israel_statutes as a StaticLawCorpus module.

The 2026-05 worktree's statute half is salvageable independent of the bulk-TM-catalog decision. Eight core IP statutes, all with authoritative ILPO / Ministry-of-Justice English translations on WIPO Lex, addressable today:

  1. Patents Law 5727-1967
  2. Patents Regulations (Office Practice) 5728-1968
  3. Trade Marks Ordinance 5732-1972
  4. Designs Law 5777-2017
  5. Commercial Torts Law 5759-1999 — standalone statutory trade secrets
  6. Plant Breeders' Rights Law 5733-1973
  7. Copyright Act 5768-2007
  8. Appellations of Origin / GIs Law 5725-1965

Same shape as our existing ipo_in_statutes, dpma_statutes, legifrance_ip, and tw_trade_secrets modules — SQLite/FTS5 corpus fronted by the standard StaticLawCorpus access layer. Manifest entry proposal: IL/ILPO/Statute. The unique-feature row is the Commercial Torts Law 5759-1999 — bundling trade secrets, unregistered marks, and procedural remedies in one statute is structurally different from the common-law and EU-Directive baselines, and is the highest-leverage agent payoff in the corpus.

Next steps

  1. Spec the revived israel_statutes module against CONNECTOR_STANDARDS.md §6 and the canonical USPTO Applications migration template. Manifest entry IL/ILPO/Statute; one PR.
  2. File IL/ILPO/Register as none / closed_bulk_only in STATE.yaml and add the rationale (this synopsis + the wave file) as reconciliation log on BACKLOG.md.
  3. Stretch (not queued now): Versa-Cardozo curated EN translation mirror for the ~700 Israeli Supreme Court decisions, IP slice. Static HTML, public-mission project — confirm redistribution permission before any cache-and-serve pattern. Doubles as a precedent for future Versa-style curated-translation sources in other jurisdictions.
  4. Monitor (not work): watch for a documented ILPO REST surface on israelpatents.justice.gov.il or a gov.il work-procedures developer announcement. None is signalled in 2026-05.

§6 Known unknowns

  • data.gov.il IP dataset inventory. Does ILPO publish parallel patents and / or designs datasets alongside the confirmed TM feed? Run CKAN package_search against the data.gov.il backend for patents, מדגמים (designs), סימני מסחר (TMs). Open since the 2026-05 detail survey; still open.
  • data.gov.il open-data licence text. No single primary-source page pinned in this wave for the redistribution clause; walk the dataset page + the datagovil-ckanext repo docs before any user-facing redistribution claim.
  • Israel as Madrid / Hague member — coverage depth. Confirm empirically that Madrid IRs designating IL and Hague IRs designating IL flow through INPADOC / Madrid / Hague Express at the expected fidelity, before claiming the transitive substitution closes the register-coverage gap.
  • Versa-Cardozo redistribution licence. Public-mission translation project — confirm permission for cache-and-serve before queuing the stretch module.
  • ILPO examination guidelines EN coverage ratio. What fraction of the work-procedure-db is translated to EN? If <20%, an EN-subset mirror is a stub; if

    50%, it's worth a proper MPEP-shape index.

  • Commercial Torts Law placement in the cross-cutting trade-secrets matrix. Israel's statute combines trade secrets + unregistered TMs
  • procedural remedies — should it sit in the trade-secrets row of the cross-cutting index, the TM row, or both?

§7 References

Primary sources only — justice.gov.il, gov.il, data.gov.il, wipo.int, pctlegal.wipo.int, knesset.gov.il, supreme.court.gov.il, versa.cardozo.yu.edu, uspto.gov (for the ISA / IPEA notice).

ILPO portals + register search:

Open data:

Examination guidelines + work procedures:

Substantive law (WIPO Lex IL):

Courts (case-law layer, out of scope for v1):

PCT (Israel as ISA / IPEA, 2012-06-01-):

Detail survey + wave file:

Last updated 2026-05-19.