{"id":369,"date":"2014-03-12T20:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T20:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.franke-ip.com\/en\/?p=369"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:24:04","slug":"ireland-london-agreement-enters-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.franke-ip.com\/en\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland: London Agreement Enters into Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.franke-ip.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3898231549_9cc0ff2a57_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"148\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.franke-ip.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3898231549_9cc0ff2a57_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ireland: London Agreement enters into force on March 1, 2014\" class=\"wp-image-368\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Ireland already having deposited on November 25, 2012 the instrument of accession to the London Agreement, the new legislation will formally enter into force in Ireland on March 1, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ireland had already signed into effect national laws in order to facilitate the transition to the London Agreement. Since 2012, applicants are no longer required to file translations into English of the specification of European patents that have been granted in French or German language. With the formal accession to the <a title=\"Londoner Agreement\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London_Agreement_%282000%29\" target=\"_blank\">club of member states<\/a> of the London Agreement, Ireland has now set a new course for a modern and simplified language regime applicable for any European patents to be validated in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo: \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jamesjordan\/3898231549\/in\/photolist-6WtsqM-67LXLd-7LXhnq-5JBkch-7Lmg8z-Pr3BQ-7DYA3y-4FcXz2-4P2mLo-bqNgh3-dtKtDz-cdh7AA-ceXKwd-4yAizc-MVY35-AA7H4-5pav8E-6Cfxgb-cfuXT9-e4eFv2-e4khAb-9rkXBA-DAyf2-j25NX-88j3uL-5oy4kA-6HWJht-7L1sYj-7fKuJK-jtmbC-67oQP8-2SFAcN-6J1Q7L-7fPpEs-3f5UH1-bSmAcZ-67Uwtk-LKurR-68kHGv-qC769-7fKsHr-6Uz2RK-25RcJ-5Uvtwv-bVXwrt-PZr3S-5JBkhQ-7UXELD-5obVkt-bpn5wQ-9Rhi62\/lightbox\/\">James Jordan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\">[CC BY-ND 2.0]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Ireland already having deposited on November 25, 2012 the instrument of accession to the London Agreement, the new legislation will formally enter into force in Ireland on March 1, 2014. Ireland had already signed into effect national laws in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.franke-ip.com\/en\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[47,65,63,66,62],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-law","category-patent-law","tag-european-patent-office","tag-european-patents","tag-ireland","tag-language-regime","tag-london-agreement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ireland: London Agreement Enters into Force - Franke IP Information<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.franke-ip.com\/en\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dr. Dirk Franke\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dr. Dirk Franke\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a46c65d4fc47d77b2bb1f21b6e21fa4e\"},\"headline\":\"Ireland: London Agreement Enters into Force\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-12T20:09:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-20T06:24:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":121,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/03\\\/3898231549_9cc0ff2a57_m.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"European patent office\",\"European patents\",\"Ireland\",\"language regime\",\"London agreement\"],\"articleSection\":[\"European Law\",\"Patent Law\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blog.franke-ip.com\\\/en\\\/ireland-london-agreement-enters-force\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ireland: London Agreement Enters into Force - 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