.svg){kind=icon}
Viera Mihálová
Patentovanie a pohľad na prácu patentového experta Úradu priemyselného vlastníctva Slovenskej republiky
Patenting and an Insight into a Patent Examiner Work at the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic
Duševné vlastníctvo, Volume 25, Number 1/2021, pages 41 - 48
URL: https://www.indprop.gov.sk/?viera-mihalova-1-2021-en
FULL ARTICLE AVAILABLE (PDF, 770,6 kB) (.pdf, 752 kB)
Recommended form for quotation of the article:
MIHÁLOVÁ, V. 2021. Patentovanie a pohľad na prácu patentového experta Úradu priemyselného vlastníctva Slovenskej republiky. In Duševné vlastníctvo. [online]. Vol. 25 No. 1, 2021. ISSN 1339-5564, pp. 41 - 48. Available at: https://www.indprop.gov.sk/?viera-mihalova-1-2021-en
Abstract
The article includes basic information about patents, their significance to a patent owner, and about the patentability of an invention. At the same time, it provides a brief view to particular patent proceeding stages in terms of patent examiner work at the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic. Attention is paid especially to the running of the most important stage of the proceeding - “the complete search”, the result of which is crucial for granting a patent or the rejection of a patent application. „The complete search“ includes patent search in international patent databases, office registers, non-patent literature as well as in any publicly available information sources. The subsequent substantive examination comprises the evaluation of the patentability of the invention itself, based on the search results.
Key words
patentability of an invention, patent proceeding stages, patent examiner, the complete search, substantive examination