Intellectual Property Services Centre (IPSC) for Ireland

The Chairman of the Irish Software Association, Cathal Friel in an interview with Silicon Republic "The idea is to make Dublin an international centre for patent registration in the same way that the Irish Financial Services Centre became a financial services hub. “The carrot is that patents would be filed for free. That would hoover in people from all over Europe: if they want to file patents they would come to Dublin,” says Friel, who adds that centre would in time become a magnet for patent lawyers, standards bodies and other IP-related activities. Although the detail has yet to be worked out and a lot more research needs to be done in the coming months, Friel is convinced that the IPSC “could be one of the most successful things we do in the software sector.”"