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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

The unique identifier consists of three data elements: ST.3 code/ST.6 number/ ST.16 code, e.g., SK 288048 B6

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use microforms.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.7/A: 8-up aperture card microform

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use microforms.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.7/B: 16 mm Roll Microfilm

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use microforms.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.7/C: 35 mm Roll Microfilm in 8-up configuration

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use microforms.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.7/D: Method of identifying Roll Microfilm files

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use microforms.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.7/E: Photo-optically generated microfiches

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use microforms.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.7/F: Computer Output Microfiches (COM)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use microforms.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.8: IPC symbols on machine-readable records

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

Recommendations of the Standard ST.10/B and 10/C are implemented partly.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

A bar code on the first page of a published patent document is not used. All other provisions of the Standard ST.10/B are fully implemented.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

example of the first page of SK patent document

WIPO Standard ST.10/C: Presentation of bibliographic data components

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

The priority application number (paragraph 12) in the notifications of the first filing and in the certificates of priority is presented in the format PP 5004-2015, where PP is abbreviation of “patentová prihláška” (“patent application”), the digits before the hyphen indicate the serial number of the application and the four-digit number after the hyphen indicates the year of filing of the application.

The preamble as recommended in paragraph 12 b) has not been presented yet.

All other provisions of the Standard ST.10/C are fully implemented.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

The IPO SR publishes in the Official gazette the document number indexes and the classification indexes accompanied by announcements containing the minimum bibliographic data in accordance with the “Recommendation concerning Bibliographic Data on and relating to Patent Documents (Identification and Minimum Required) (ST.9). The name indexes are not published in the Official gazette.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

Recommendations of the Standard ST.12/B and 12/C are not implemented.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

An abstract is an obligatory part of a patent application and an utility model application (Article 37(4) (b) of the Act No 435/2001 Coll. and Article 32(4)(b) of the Act No 517/2007 Coll.); i.e. an applicant is obliged to file an abstract together with an application. The Office may amend an abstract ex officio (Article 7(2) of the Decree No 223/2002 Coll. and Article 5(2) of the Decree No 1/2008 Coll.), but in the case of abstracts to utility model applications their content can not be amended (Article 5(2) of the Decree No 1/2008 Coll.)

WIPO Standard ST.12/A: Abstracts of patent documents

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

The general guidelines for the preparation of abstracts are partly included in the Instructions of the IPO SR Defining Uniform Layout of a Patent Application and Utility Model Application and also in the Methodics of the Procedure which are available for the applicants on the Office's web site respectively for patents and utility models.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not publish abstracts of patent documents as separate cards for the purposes of selective dissemination of information (SDI) services.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.13: Numbering of applications for IPRs

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

 Example of the patent application number: PP 50010-2011

The digits before the hyphen indicate the serial number of the application and the four-digit number (two-digit until January 1, 2000) after the hyphen indicates the year of filing the application.  In the example PP 50010-2011 – patent application filed electronically in 2011 with the serial number 50010.

 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

The IPO SR publishes the search reports containing a list of cited patent documents (references), which are attached to the published utility model applications in general and to the published patent applications only if the requirements have been met under the § 41, paragraph 3 of Act No.435 / 2001 (Patent Act).

In the course of a search and examination procedure any document cited in the search report is indicated by the respective category codes (of relevance) in accordance with the paragraph 20 of the Standard. 

Data related to the list of prior art documents by using code INID (56) have not been published neither on the first page of the patent document nor in databases.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

The Standard ST.25 is used by the IPO SR for the purposes of filing the international applications (as the receiving Office).

WIPO Standard ST.26: Presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings using XML

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use a magnetic tape for data exchange.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.31: Character sets for the exchange of patent documents

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

 The Standard does not include all characters of the Slovak alphabet.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.32: Markup of patent documents using SGML

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The Office had implemented the Standard ST.32 to import data by the end of 2005. Since 1st January 2006 European patent applications files are imported in compliance with the Standard ST.36.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.33: Data exchange of facsimile information of patent documents

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

The Standard ST.33 is not used for the exchange of patent documents.

The Standard is used for the purpose of monthly digitalisation of new entries of the national patent documentation (scanned and indexed documents are converted to BAC format and from BAC format to PDF format).

WIPO Standard ST.34: Recording of application numbers in electronic form

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

No

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.35: Data exchange of mixed-mode published patent information on MMMT

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The IPO SR does not use a magnetic tape for data exchange.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.36: Processing of patent information using XML

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

Yes. Not decided yet.

4. Comments (optional)

The Standard ST.36 has not been used for patent and utility model data exchange yet. The internal systems have been adapted for the export of data in accordance with ST.36 in the future (Espacenet and INPADOC database).

WIPO Standard ST.40: Facsimile images of patent documents available on CD-ROM

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1.  Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

Patent documents are not published on CD-ROM.

4. Comments (optional)

WIPO Standard ST.50: Corrections, alterations and supplements relating to patent information

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

The parts of the Standard ST.50, which does not the IPO SR use, accompanied by particular paragraphs:

Par.10: The following parts of the paragraph concerning the INID code (15) are not used: additional correction information by using supplementary correction codes as defined in paragraphs 30 and 31 (par.10 (a)) and the information relating to the previously published versions of the corrections (par.10 (b))

Par.14 and 21: Not used

Par.17-18: the IPO SR does not publish announcements of corrections to patent documents in the Official Gazette. 

Par.23-29: the IPO SR does not publish corrected patent documents neither on CD-ROM nor on other machine-readable carriers. Corrected versions are published only on the paper.

Par.30-31: the IPO SR does not use supplementary correction codes.

Par. 37-44: the IPO SR does not publish additional information after the initial publication of the patent document in the form of a supplement.

All other provisions of the ST.50 are implemented.

Examples of the corrected versions of patent documents: U8, B9 

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

IPO SR does not keep the following files for trademark search as recommended in the paragraphs j), k), l) of the Standard ST.64:

- List of Common Names for Pesticides and Other Agrochemicals issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

 - List of names of plant varieties registered in Slovak Republic

- List of names of individuals and legal entities (e.g., business register).

Names of agrochemicals, plant varieties and business names are not considered as a reason for the opposition against the registration.

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

The Standard ST.66 is used for the purpose of the specific data exchange with EUIPO (TMview database).

WIPO Standard ST.67: Electronic management of the figurative elements of trademarks

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

As to General Recommendations, paragraphs 4 and 5:

Par.4. The IPO SR does not require the usage of codes for standard RGB color space, it requires a verbal indication of the colours only.

Par.5. There is no legal obligation for an applicant to provide images in electronic form.

As to Recommendations for Electronic Image Format and Size, paragraphs 7-12: The recommendations in respective paragraphs are implemented by the IPO SR.

IPO SR image formats for scanning and publishing

 3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

4. Comments (optional)

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1. Is the Standard implemented in your Office's/Organization's practice? (Please choose one of the options below)

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2. If the answer was "Partly", please explain your Office's/Organization's practice briefly:

3. If the answer was "Not Implemented", does your Office/Organization plan to implement the Standard?

The signs in other than graphic representation (smell, sound, etc.) can not be entered into the Register (in accordance to the Act).

4. Comments (optional)

 WIPO Standard ST.80: Bibliographic data relating to industrial designs

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