Autonomous system
AS9011 The Patent Office
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
The Patent Office (UK Intellectual Property Office)
government legacy
Held by The Patent Office, the UK government body now trading as the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), the agency responsible for patents, trade marks, designs and copyright.
What it's used for
Enterprise/government networking for the agency's own systems and public-facing services. It announces about 8k addresses concentrated in the contiguous 212.100.0.0/19 block with only ~3 observed neighbours, the profile of a single-organisation government network rather than a service provider.
Notable
No PTRs were returned on the addresses sampled, so nothing can be said about how individual hosts are named. The tight, contiguous block and low neighbour count are consistent with a legacy departmental allocation in use since at least 2000.
Interesting
The registry handle still reads "The Patent Office", the office's name before it was rebranded the Intellectual Property Office, a handle that has outlived the trading name.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| GB | United Kingdom | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS9011- Registry name
- UNSPECIFIED
- Registrant
- The Patent Office
- Abuse contact
- chesh@ipo.gov.uk
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2025-06-27
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere