The Institute for Industrial Research and Standards was established in 1946.\u00a0 Its function is to undertake, encourage and foster scientific research and investigation for its utilisation of indigenous resources, improvement of existing and the discovery of new techniques or processes for use in native industries and the testing and analyses of commodities.<\/p>\n
The Institute operates an information service on technical matters in industry and publishes bulletins designed to draw the attention of industrialists to technological developments in particular areas.\u00a0 It was empowered to issue standard specifications for commodities.\u00a0 A prescribed mark might be used by manufacturers as products conform to the specifications.<\/p>\n
The Patents Office comprised the design and trademarks branch and the patents branch.\u00a0 It was under the control of the Controller of Industrial and Commercial Property, an officer appointed by the government who was an officer and staff member of the Department of Industry and Commerce.<\/p>\n\n
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Cereals The Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Acts, 1933 to 1956 conferred functions on the Department in relation to cereals.\u00a0 The initial 1933 legislation sought to secure that wheat and flour consumed in Ireland should be made in Ireland to arrest the contraction of the milling industry into a number of large units, prevent ownership from passing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31177,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19572\/revisions\/31177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}