Business and Intellectual Property Authority

Check a certificate

Enter the verification reference printed on the certificate to see whether BIPA issued it, and whether the register still says what it says.

No account needed.

What a check tells you

  • Whether BIPA issued it. A reference that is not on the register was not issued by BIPA, whatever the paper looks like.
  • Whether it is still true. A certificate is a frozen record of the register on the day it was issued. The register moves; the certificate does not. A genuine certificate can be out of date, and this check says so rather than leaving you to assume.