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The IPO SR co-operated with the European Patent Office (EPÚEPO) particularly on projects realised within the Co-operation Plan for 2016 – 2020.The main priorities of cooperation within the EPO were the implementation of projects Federative European Patent Register and Quality at Source. The aim of both projects is to establish a common European web register containing data on European patents granted by EPO and their status in the national phases of maintaining the European patent by the national offices of the EPO Member States. Register is focused on legal information (e.g. legal status of a patent). Within the cooperation with the EPO, the Office continued in implementation tools for ensuring data conversion according to WIPO standards for purpose the project “Quality at source”. By accession the FePR service in 2018, the Office continued to provide data on the legal status of the EP with the designation of the Slovak Republic.

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The number of granted patents in 2018 is 109; it is increase has increased by 32.9 % compared to previous year.

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The most registered utility models are from: Transport (12.46 %), Consumer Goods and Equipment (10.68 %), Civil Engineering, Construction, Mining (10.09 %).

For comparison there is the are statistics on filed patent applications and granted patents, on filed utility model applications and registered utility models and on translations of European patent specifications in the years 2014 – 2018:

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Information on the legal status is in the internal register of patents, utility models and supplementary protection certificates. The Office provides information on the request in the form of an extract from the Register. In addition, data of this type are also  also published in the  the IPO SR  SR database on the internet https://wbr.indprop.gov.sk/webregistre/ but have only informative character and do not  substitute the  the extract from the Register; similar to  to the system Espacenet where the data are mentioned  mentioned by the EPO based on the information from the IPO SR Official Gazette.

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Participation in PATLIB 2018 Conference.

Assistance to developing countries

Other activities

VII. OTHER RELATED MATTERS

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