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Don't pay misleading invoices!

A number of private companies offer, for a fee, to the owners of industrial rights to publish, register or register them in various databases maintained on the Internet.

Examples of misleading invoices:

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Example 2 (Príklad č. 2)
Example 3 (Príklad č. 3)
Example 4 (Príklad č. 4)
Example 5 (Príklad č. 5)

Failure to pay these fees shall not result in the loss of the industrial property right.

In case of doubt, please contact your representative or the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic - email>infocentrum@indprop.gov.sk 

International industrial property offices have published similar warnings on their websites:WIPO PCT, WIPO Madrid , EPO and EUIPO (WIPO PCT, WIPO Madrid ,EPO a EUIPO)


The Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic would like to point out that these activities are in no way related to the activities of the Office and the addressees of the offers are not obliged to pay for such services to entities other than the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic.