Help on Designs Search
Design No: The Design number can either be the:
(1) Application Number allocated by the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland e.g. 2002/1010
or,
(2)
Registration Number allocated to the Design when it was registered
i.e. 123456
Registration
Published:
This is the date the registration became available
for public viewing. The registration published field must be entered
in the format dd/mm/yyyy.
Keywords
for the description of design:
Enter any word or phrase
on which you would like to search. The system will return any records
that contain the word or phase you have entered.
Keywords for the description of products: Enter
any word or phrase on which you would like to search. The system
will return any records that contain the word or phase you have
entered.
Class: To view the complete list of classes and
description of the goods contained within each class click on the
following link:
Design
Classes:
Enter
the appropriate class or goods covered by the design.
Author: This is the original creator of the Design.
Proprietor: This is the current owner of the registered
Design.
Author/Proprietor: This field is searched using a full text indexing system. Under this system, a number of words and characters are reserved for internal system use only. If you use any of these reserved words or characters as part of your search criteria, the system will ignore them. To view a full list of the reserved words and characters, click on the following link: Reserved Words.
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If you are searching on the word 'Guinness', the system will automatically return Designs belonging to any Author/Proprietor where the search field contains the exact word 'Guinness'.
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You can use the operators 'AND', 'OR', and 'NOT' as part of your search criteria.
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If you search on 'Guinness and Sons', the system will return Author/Proprietor where the searched field contains the exact words 'Guinness' and 'Sons' in any order, e.g., 'Guinness & Sons Limited', 'Arthur Guinness and Sons'.
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If you search on 'Guinness' or 'Sons', the system will return Author/Proprietor where the searched field contains the exact word 'Guinness' or the exact word 'Sons'.
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If you search on 'Guinness and Sons not Limited', the system will return Author/Proprietor where the searched field contains the exact word 'Guinness' and the exact word 'Sons' but does not contain the word 'Limited'.
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Please be aware that the results of your search may be affected by variations in spelling of different names.
Representative: This field is searched using a full text indexing system. Under this system, a number of words and characters are reserved for internal system use only. If you use any of these reserved words or characters as part of your search criteria, the system will ignore them. To view a full list of the reserved words and characters, click on the following link: Reserved Words.
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If you are searching on the word 'Guinness', the system will automatically return any Representative where the searched field contains the exact word 'Guinness'.
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You can use the operators 'AND', 'OR', and 'NOT' as part of your search criteria.
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If you search on 'Guinness and Sons', the system will return any Representative where the searched field contains the exact words 'Guinness' and 'Sons' in any order, e.g., 'Guinness & Sons Limited', 'Arthur Guinness and Sons'.
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If you search on 'Guinness' or 'Sons', the system will return any Representative where the searched field contains the exact word 'Guinness' or the exact word 'Sons'.
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If you search on 'Guinness and Sons not Limited', the system will return any Representative where the searched field contains the exact word 'Guinness' and the exact word 'Sons' but does not contain the word 'Limited'.
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Please be aware that the results of your search may be affected by variations in spelling of different names.
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