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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 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 full text CD-ROMs.
Official Gazette "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 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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- 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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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 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 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 particularly with Incubator Malacky and with University Technological Incubator of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, and also 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 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 developed in a promising way.
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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.
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