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Outline of main policies and plans aimed at development of patent information activities and expected time frames for their realization

In 2013 strategy of the Office´s Office's activities by 2016 was adopted. It contains inter-alia activities in the patent information area:

• To prepare the draft of the conception of the Office´s Office's information services development for 2014 - 2016 in accordance with the Strategic Plan of the Office;
• To identify the WIPO standards related to public services and data providing which are not or are partially implemented at the Office and to prepare the proposal for their implementation with the publication of their content in Slovak language for public;
• To prepare the proposal for implementation of new standardised processes and outputs of the Office related to provided services;
• To prepare the proposal for implementation of new and modification of existing public services of the Office;
• To implement a new complex package of public services with relevant information materials and documents.

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The co-operation on the common project of the Federative European Patent Register to improve the access to information on the status of continued. Slovakia belongs to states national registers of which have been made available via "deep linkingslinking" directly from the European patent register.

In co-operation with the external company the Office launched the project Electronic Services of the IPO SR aimed at inter-alia preparation of new modern web registers of the Office.

Main areas of patent information activities and related information and communication technology (ICT) practices which were in the focus of attention last year.

Plans about patent information relate to

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For comparison, there is the 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 2005 - 2013:

Patentandutilitymodelstatistics_2013.docx

Other matters and useful links (URLs): annual report of the Office, news page, statistics, etc.

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Information Centre
http://www.upv.sk/?information-centre

Within their professional consultancy activities, the Centre staff provides the public with the necessary IPR-related information personally, by telephone (+421 48 4300 131), mail or e-mail infocentrum@indprop.gov.sk or by fax. The Information Centre includes also "Helpdesk" providing information about electronic on-line filing.

The number of requests for information increased in comparing to 2012 up to 8,020 requests. Information Centre provided 6,291 pieces of information by phone; 1,345 by e-mail; 244 personally; 139 by post and 1 piece of information was sent by fax.

Pre-diagnostics of industrial property rights
http://www.upv.sk/?prediagnostika-priemyselnych-prav

To increase the awareness of industrial property, to support innovations, creativity and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises are the primary goals of industrial rights pre-diagnostics performed by the IPO SR experts since 2008. During 2013 the Office employees visited 13 companies from the whole Slovakia. The most of them were from Bratislava (4), Trenčín  Trenčín (3), Banská  Banská Bystrica (2), and Nitra (9) Self-Governing Regions. Although filing applications is not the primary goal of the pre-diagnostics, totally 155 applications in 6 years were received since implementation of this service.

Workplace of the IPO SR in Bratislava

Workplace of the Office, which was opened in 2004 offered information relating to filing applications for industrial property rights subjects last year. In the workplace, there is a filing room.

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Patent documents are available in the paper form in the study room of the IPO SR and also in the electronic form on the web page of the IPO SR http://data.indprop.gov.sk/Patenty/search.php?jazyk=en extent: patent specifications SK a CS (213521 - 288151), European patents with designation for SR (1 - 15009) and utility models (1 - 6628).

Moreover, all kinds of patent specifications published in the Official Gazette regularly in the PDF format are available in the Office´s Office's web databases http://registre.indprop.gov.sk/registre/?lang=sk, in the system http://sk.espacenet.com/ and also http://worldwide.espacenet.com/?locale=en_EP. Slovak patent documents from 1993 to 2008 are available on ESPACE ®ESPACE®-PRECES CD-ROM (CD-ROM contains patents from the Region of Eastern and Central European States). ESPACE ® ESPACE® ACCESS PRECES (complete bibliographic information) is used as an index to these fulltext full text CD-ROMs.

Official Gazette "Vestník ÚPV Vestník ÚPV SR"
http://www.upv.sk/?vestnik-uradu-priemyselneho-vlastnictva-slovenskej-republiky

Patents and utility model information forms part of the Official Gazette - "Vestník ÚPV Vestník ÚPV SR", covering all industrial property rights in one publication. In 2013 the Gazette had a circulation of 130 copies, of which 28 were distributed monthly by subscription. Other copies were sent free of charge to patent information centres and contact and information points of the IPO SR, to information and consulting sites INNOINFO, within the frame of industrial property information exchange to foreign offices and as statutory copies according to the act as well.

The following numbers of documents were published in the Official Gazette in 2013:

168 published patent applications
118 granted patents
360 published utility model applications
285 registered utility models
38 applications for granting SPC's
24 granted SPC's
2 387 translations of European patent specifications with designation for SK
11 corrected translations of European patent specifications with designation for SK
37 translations of amended European patent specifications with designation for SK

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• list of published patent applications (numerical series with classification symbols)
• bibliographic data and abstracts of published patent applications with an image, where available (arranged according to International Patent Classification)
• list of granted patents (numerical series with classification symbols)
• bibliographic data of granted patents (arranged according to International Patent Classification)
• suspended patent application procedures
• patents lapsed by reason of abandonment
• lapsed (expired) patents
• patents lapsed by reason of failure to pay renewal fee
• refused patent applications
• revocations of patents
• partial revocations of patents
• assignments and transfers of rights to patents and patent applications
• changes of rights of disposal to patents and patent applications (lien)
• changes of rights of disposal to patents and patent applications (termination of lien)
• license offers to patent applications and patents
• withdrawals of licence license offers to patent applications and patents
• license contracts registered or granted to patents
• the termination of force of license contracts to patents
• patents registered in the register after declassification
• corrections of names, addresses, dates and mistakes

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• list of available translations of patent claims of European patent applications with designation for SK (numerical series with classification symbols)
• bibliographic data of available translations of patent claims of European patent applications with designation for SK (arranged according to International Patent Classification)
• list of available corrected translations of patent claims of European patent applications with designation for SK (numerical series with classification symbols)
• bibliographic data of available corrected translations of patent claims of European patent applications with designation for SK (arranged according to International Patent Classification)
• list of available translations of European patent specifications with designation for SK (numerical series with classification symbols)
• bibliographic data of available translations of European patent specifications with designation for SK (arranged according to International Patent Classification)
• list of available corrected translations of European patent specifications with designation for SK (numerical series with classification symbols)
• bibliographic data of available corrected translations of European patent specifications with designation for SK (arranged according to International Patent Classification)
• list of available translations of amended European patent specifications with designation for SK (numerical series with classification symbols)
• bibliographic data of available translations of amended European patent specifications with designation for SK (arranged according to International Patent Classification)
• suspended procedures on European patent applications by reason of withdrawal
• conversions of the European patent applications to national applications
• abandoned European patents
• revocations of European patents
• partial revocations of European patents
• lapsed (expired) European patents
• European patents lapsed by reason of failure to pay the maintenance fees
• assignment and transfer of the rights to European patents and European patent applications
• changes of the rights of disposal to European patents and European patent applications (lien)
• changes of the rights of disposal to European patents and European patent applications (termination of lien)
• license offers to European patents and European patent applications
• withdrawals of licence license offers to European patents and European patent applications
• license contracts registered or granted
• termination of force of license contracts
• corrections of names, addresses, dates and mistakes

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• Patent documents since 1984 http://data.indprop.gov.sk/Patenty/search.php?jazyk=en
• Extracted data from register http://registre.indprop.gov.sk/registre/?lang=en
• Patent documents in the system Espacenet Level I http://sk.espacenet.com/
• Internal database system „INVENTIO"INVENTIO" for managing the industrial property subjects
• Freely accessible foreign databases http://www.upv.sk/?zahranicne-online-databazy#patenty

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• STN online (e.g. database CAS), coverage: worldwide
• access to EPOQUE (search database system EPO), coverage: worldwide
• database Derwent World Patents Index® Index® (DWPI) available within the EPOQUE, coverage: worldwide
• database EPO Global Patent Index, coverage: worldwide
• database EPO Espacenet
• European Patent Register (with links to national registry data, deep linking )
• other free available databases of national offices, e.g.. Czech patent and utility models databases, coverage: CZ, USPTO national database, coverage: US, IPOUK national database, coverage GB
• WIPO PATENTSCOPE (collections of international and national applications), coverage: PCT applications and national collections in the limited extent.

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• "Data extracted from Registers" http://registre.indprop.gov.sk/registre/?lang=en also called "Webregisters" give public access to data extracted from patent, utility models, European patents with designation for SK, supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) registers, which are kept by the Office with the possibility of simple and advanced search or browsing results. Data concerning in particular pending patent, utility model and SPC applications, all filed applications or granted patents, SPCs and registered utility models in the register are daily updated.
  
  
• "Patent documents of the IPO SR" - SK and CS patent documents including bibliographic data and also complete patent documents, utility models documents and European patents documents with designation of SR
• http://data.indprop.gov.sk/Patenty/index.php?jazyk=sk&typdokumentu=patenty&new=1
  
  
• "Classification Systems" http://www.upv.sk/?systemy-triedenia contains patent classifications used in Slovakia and abroad http://www.upv.sk/?systemy-triedenia-patenty
  including various additional information.
  
  
• Official Gazette "Vestník ÚPV Vestník ÚPV SR" may be viewed on the address http://www.upv.sk/?official-gazette - each issue is available as a one PDF file containing the whole issue. At the same time it is divided into PDF files containing only selected parts of the gazette, e.g.: patents, designs, trademarks or official announcements. In the archive on this webpage are available the previous volumes also in PDF format. The older volumes are gradually being added.

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• providing general information, methodical and professional consulting assistance for the public
• lending service (patent documents, Official Gazettes, special monographs, patent associated literature and reference literature) in the reading room
• sale of special monographs and periodical publications ("Intellectual Property" in paper, Official Gazette "Vestník ÚPV Vestník ÚPV SR" on CD-ROM) upon request or on the place
• reprographic services upon request or on the place
• sending of copies of patent documents upon request
• searches on state of the art, international patent search, searches on patent families, bibliographic data upon request in written or on-line form
• on-line searches in Office's databases for patents, European patents with designation for SK, utility models and supplementary protection certificates and self-service during a personal visit
• monitoring of the state of selected technical fields upon request (permanent sending of documents)
• registry information provided in the reading room
• CD-ROM workstations available in the reading room

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In 2013, the Office's reading room has been visited by 1 242 users and 1 218 of it were from the public. In total there were provided 6 142 borrowings of patent and other literature made available to the public and 19 554 copies of patent documents and other industrial property documents for the manual and computer search purposes, as well as copies from technical periodicals and other associated and non-patent literature were made. In 2013 there were performed 56 patent searches and 40 searches on bibliographic data.

The Office's reading room serves as a WIPO deposit library as well. The deposit library fund includes 196 volumes of publications issued by WIPO, which are available for study in reading room.

The Office's reading room including the search workstation opens daily from 8:00 to 15:00.


Collecting, acquisitions, preparation
In the last year were processed 5 255 patent documents in paper form and 452 optical discs containing full texts and bibliographic information relating to patent documents as well to made them available for search purposes. The entire acquisition of patent documents amounted to
1 820 945 documents, out of which 1 815 690 entries represented documents in electrical form. Other new entries, for instance Official Gazettes of the foreign offices (22) and miscellaneous associated literature, were processed on the monthly basis.

The patent literature (patent documentation and official gazettes) were acquired within the frame of mutual exchange and the non-patent literature mostly by purchase or as a gift.

A list of the complete patent documentation was regularly updated on the Office's web site. Non-patent literature was processed, stored according to librarian rules and made available via in-house database system "KnižnicaKnižnica" to the staff.

Patent Information Centres and Contact and Information Points

Since 2003 the Office has established 10 contact and information points, while four of them are the Patent Information Centres. They are located in state, regional and district libraries as well as in the Slovak National Library (SNK) in Martin and Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (CVTI) in Bratislava. A list of centres and points is available on the Office's web site http://www.upv.sk/?partners.

The main goal of patent information centres is to provide complex information services in the field of patent, trademark and industrial design information, search services, consultation and methodical assistance concerning the searching of information, making copies of required patent documents, printing records from electronic form etc. Every patent information centre serve as a contact and information point.

The main goal of contact and information points of the Office is to inform the public about where can apply for protection of the results of creative activity, and particularly to inform the general public about the existence of the national institution, which protects immaterial goods, industrial property. The Office supported the activity of centres and contact and information points by regular sending Slovak patent specifications in paper form and the Official Gazette in electronic form, as well as all information materials and recourses resources made available to the public, publications published by Office, information pamphlets, documents and forms relating to applying for protection of industrial property rights, access to officeï‚¢s office's databases via Internet etc.

Information and Advisory Points for Innovations (InnoInfo)

The mission of InnoInfo centres http://www.upv.sk/?information-and-advisory-points-for-innovation-innoinfo operating in the regions of Slovakia is to orientate especially the small and medium sized entrepreneurs in the field of innovations and industrial property. InnoInfo centres are established in business incubators, regional advisory and information centres, regional chambers of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry and at the Universities of technical orientation.

In 2013 the Office co-operated parti cularly particularly with Incubator Malacky and with University Technological Incubator of the Slovak University of Technology in Brati slavaBratislava, and also with KoÅ¡ice with Košice Regional Chamber of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry. (We have to also point out the co-operation with the SCSTI of SR in Bratislava and the Slovak Scientific Library in KoÅ¡ice in Košice as PATLIB Centres.) The co-operation with the Slovak Library of Forestry and Wood Sciences in Zvolen, with the Technical University in Zvolen and with the Faculty of Industrial Technology in Púchov in Púchov developed in a promising way.

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• Annual Report of the Industrial Property Office of SR 2012, for the third time in electronic version;
• 10 pieces of the Annual Report 2012 were in full colour version for representation of the Office; also web version of the Annual Report 2012 is available on the Office's web site www.upv.sk to public;
• 20 Years of the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic;
• International Trade Marks under the Madrid System;
• The Miscellany from the Conference Intellectual Property Protection at Universities V (CD);
• The Magazine DuÅ¡evné Vlastníctvo Magazine Duševné vlastníctvo (Intellectual Property) 1 - 4/2013, in colour, web version with quarterly delay.

For more information please see the list of publications issued by the Office http://www.upv.sk/?publikacie

WEB SITE OF THE OFFICE - WWW.UPV.SK

The Office also in 2013 continued with updating the web site daily to provide visitors new information on IP, to inform about upcoming conferences and other events and to update information of all relevant sites within the whole web site.

Except the updating the Office also focused on revitalisation of the web site content in 2013 resulting in easier access to searched information and better orientation of a user on the web site. The Office also started to work on new concept and structure of www.upv.sk as one of its strategic goals within the Strategic Plan of the Office for 2012 - 2016.

There were 135,828 visitors of the web site recorded in 2013; the average number of users was 445 during working days and 163 during weekends. Trade Marks, Patents, Registers and Databases, Utility Models and Contacts were the most visited sites. 66 % of visits were from Slovakia, 5.5 % from Czech Republic and the rest 28.5 % from abroad.

WWW.PATENTOVAT.SK

The Industrial Property Office of SR created the new internet portal - www.patentovat.sk - available to increase the awareness of IP and its protection in the beginning of April. It is an update of the informative multi -medial DVD Intellectual Property - the Unique Deserves Protection! issued by the Office in 2007. The portal reflects new trends in promotion of IP protection and information technologies and is linked to the official web site of the Office www.upv.sk and also the social network
facebookFacebook. The portal www.patentovat.sk focuses on public to popularise IP and to provide information on possibilities of IP protection and related services and products of the Office.

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In 2013 3 specialised seminars took place within the internatinal international co-operation. The Industrial Property Office of SR in co-operation with the Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information organised the seminar IP Protection in EU - services of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (trade marks and designs) for Businessmen in Bratislava on September 24, 2013. The seminar with the same name was also organised in co-operation with the KoÅ¡ice the Košice Regional Chamber of SCCI in KoÅ¡ice in Košice on September 26, 2013. In November 2013 the 5th year of the international conference IP Protection at Universities took place in Zvolen in co-operation with the WIPO and Technical University in Zvolen. The conference focused on national and international designs protection, since the Office co-operates intensively with the Department of Furniture Design and Wood Products, the Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Technical University Zvolen.

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In 2013 the Office continued successfully with implementation of the project of eduation education about intellectual property for pupils of elementary and high schools. During 2013 the Office organised 13 excursions with the lecture about IP protection for elementary and high schools and 17 seminars.

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• Furniture and Living in Nitra;
• International Engineering Fair in Nitra;
• Agrokomplex in Nitra;
• ELO SYS in TrenčínTrenčín;
• CONECO in Bratislava.

The Office also participated in 65th International Trade Fair Ideas - Inventions - New Products iENA 2013 in German Nuremberg in the common stand of European patent offices Internationales Patentinformationszentrum.

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• Exhibition of historical toys of the private collection of Å tefan Å korupa Štefan Škorupa from Mýto Mýto pod ÄŽumbieromĎumbierom;
• Exhibition of counterfeit toys seized by customs officers;
• Inventions - scientific toy.

The Office participated in the 9th year of the European festival of science - Researchers´ Researchers' Night. The Office had its expositions in the Avion Shopping Park, Bratislava, Europa Shopping Centre, Banská  Banská Bystrica and in the Shopping Centre Optima, KoÅ¡iceKošice.

Other activities

WWW.NEFEJKUJ.SK

Information campaign Intellectual Property: Education, Awareness, Enforcement.
IPO SR under the guidance of the World Intellectual Property Organization launched in May 2013 information campaign "Intellectual Property: Education, Awareness, Enforcement". The fi rst first stage www.nefejkuj.sk is aimed at children in the age 10 - 15 years. The campaign´s campaign's objective is to increase the awareness of young people about IP, its protection and methods of infringing IP rights. The children learn to think, why an original product is better and more moral than a fake and to point out fakes and piracy as the problem of the whole society. Also a questionnaire survey focusing on the knowledge level of young people between 10 - 15 years about IP and forums for discussions at 5 elementary schools in SR were realised within the campaign.

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